Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Q. Spring 2015 you may be asking yourself, why should I choose fotosaurus?

A. It will be easy and fun!

At fotosaurus we are investing a lot into getting our Online Designer just right for you!  Previously technology did not lend its self well to photo personalisation based entirely online. With advancements of technologies such as HTML5, we believe this has changed things for the better.

In the mean time we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!


Tuesday, 23 December 2014

What is Fotosaurus talking about?




Here's a sneak preview of some of the (still draft) text from our web-site, coming Spring 2015.  It will be a post-Christmas cracker (groan).


Personalised Photo Books

Bring your memories back to life with a fantastic fotosaurus photobook! Our photo books make perfect presents at any time of year, for any occasion, be it birthday, wedding, new baby, anniversary, year book or holiday.  What about other ideas? Why not show off those special photos of your pet?  Maybe you’d like a record of that DIY or home project? How about the work you did on your garden? You could make a recipe book and show off your cooking!  And what about all those snaps you’ve been taking of your sport, club or hobby?

So don’t leave those photos on your camera memory card, Facebook, PC or smartphone. Show them off in the way they deserve, in print, in a fabulous fotosaurus photobook. Our top quality books are guaranteed to delight surprise and impress. 

Please don’t forget to join us on your favourite social media channel.  We’re on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ Blog, and Pinterest.  We hope you enjoy our informative fun content, and perhaps we’ll even be able to point you to some inspiration.

What we don’t do is show you inflated prices and then publicise never ending sales or offer massive discounts.  We won’t hurry you to make your decision.  We offer excellent value and competitive prices 365 days of the year.  Made in the UK too.

Personalised Photo Gifts

Bring your memories back to life and share them as a fabulous personalised photo gift from fotosaurus. Our range of gifts is expanding so bookmark us now to keep up to date. We’re sure to bring you the premium products you are looking for and at sensible prices. You’ll find personalised photo-frames, custom coasters, individual mouse mats, smart phone covers and glorious poster size enlargements.  We’ve been printing since 1977 and continue to make your satisfaction our number one priority.

You’ll find fotosaurus on Pinterest (perhaps our favourite visual social media platform), Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Blog and YouTube so we hope you’ll join us there.  We share all sorts of content that we hope you will find inspiring, informative and above all fun


Take your time with fotosaurus. We don’t run short lived “ending today” sales or inflate our prices so we can be seen to discount them. Trust our prices to remain competitive and our UK made products to delight. 



Thursday, 18 December 2014

Before you start check out my hints an tips

Come Spring 20145 you’ll be keen to get started on your photobook or photo gift, but before you do, please check out these tips which will help you get the most fun out of your project.

Time
Whilst you could make your item very quickly, with photo books in particular you may prefer not to “auto-fill” and instead invest time to make most use of our free creative tools, add captions and free scrapbook art or carefully position, mask, frame, align and crop every individual photograph. This process can take anything from 2-4 hours.  Or longer if you wish, so you can always save your project and return to polish it to perfection.  That’s where the fun is. The more time you invest the happier you are likely to be with your masterpiece.  

Don’t forget to preview your book or gift before you complete your order.  It’s good practice to “check twice and order once!”
   
Photographs
You may have your digital photographs in numerous different places so please do get them together before you login. This will make the creative Fotosaurus process much easier, faster and fun.


Unless you are highly organised – hats off to you if you are -  most of us tend to have photographs in more than one place. They are likely to be on digital cameras, smart phones, IPads and tablets, memory cards, USB sticks, computer hard drives,  CDRs and external storage hard drives.  Have I missed anywhere?  If you invest time collating the specific pictures you want to feature before uploading them, the process will not only become much quicker but also much more enjoyable once you get into Fotosaurus.  Have fun and enjoy!

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

In Spring 2015 you will have 16 reasons to ...

 ...   let Fotosaurus bring your special memories back to life

  1. Impress friends and family with our premium products offered at competitive prices
  2. Enjoy Free UK Postage!
  3. Take your time, create and save your project, return wherever you like
  4. Upload photo’s form your PC, digital camera, smart phone, tablet, memory card, flash drive/hard drive or Facebook
  5. Quickly auto-fill or carefully build a photobook photo by photo,  page by page
  6. Adore our unique range of specially selected background colours, textures and  patterns
  7. Use free scrapbook art
  8. Add captions and text
  9. Personalise photobooks with frames, masks and effects
  10. Preview before you order
  11. Buy through our secure payment gateway
  12. Share your creation on-line with friends and loved ones all over the world
  13. Relax , there’s no pressure from misleading, crazy discounts or short term offers
  14. Trust us, our products are finished by hand with love and care in the UK
  15. No software to download, your projects are made and saved in the cloud
  16. Have confidence in Fotosaurus.  ISO9001, 27001 and 14001 guarantee  quality, our environmental credentials and ability to keep data secure


Friday, 12 December 2014

Fotosaurus is coming in the new year

Bring your memories back to life with a fantastic fotosaurus photobook! Our photo books make perfect presents at any time of year, for any occasion, be it birthday, wedding, new baby, anniversary, year book or holiday.  What about other ideas? Why not show off those special photos of your pet?  Maybe you’d like a record of that DIY or home project? How about the work you did on your garden? You could make a recipe book and show off your cooking!  And what about all those snaps you’ve been taking of your sport, club or hobby?
So don’t leave those photos on your camera memory card, Facebook, PC or smartphone. Show them off in the way they deserve, in print, in a fabulous fotosaurus photobook. Our top quality books are guaranteed to delight surprise and impress.
Please don’t forget to join us on your favourite social media channel.  We’re on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ Blog, Pinterest and YouTube.  We hope you enjoy our informative fun content, and perhaps we’ll even be able to point you to some inspiration.
What we don’t do is show you inflated prices and then publicise never ending sales or offer massive discounts.  We won’t hurry you to make your decision.  We offer excellent value and competitive prices 365 days of the year.  Made in the UK too.

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Getting married next year? Here's a ready made 12 month wedding plan!



12 months to go...

  • Have the budget conversation with your fiancé and your parents
  • Fix a date and time
  • Decide on guest numbers
  • Visit reception venues and book one as soon as possible
  • Buy wedding insurance



Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

All the gear and no idea? Are you capturing the wow factor in your photographs?


See this terrific article from Picture Correct

It was the first paragraph that grabbed my attention 

"With cameras and digital formats and gizmos being “smarter,” are we all now professionals behind the fancy new digital cameras? The truth of the matter is that just because we have a fancy camera does n’t mean we can shoot like the professionals. Yes, more and more cameras are getting smarter. And yes, more people are shooting more images, and a lot are going into post-processing software with some pretty amazing results. However ..." 

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Photography Network Reaches 50,000 Members

The photographs you take today

are the photographs you will look young in tomorrow

Bring your memories back to life with Fotosaurus.

from a transparency taken in the early 60's, kept in a box for 50 years and printed, in a special photo book, for the first time in 2013

Monday, 27 October 2014

Building a new platform to bring you the best experience available - Autumn 2014

October is almost over and our new photo-gifts web site is close to being ready for launch. 

Branding - check
Launch products defined and specified - check
Inner packaging -  check
Outer packaging - check
Configuration and site-set up - last phase of production testing is under-way as I type
Web-site copy-writing - 60% complete
Social media - up and running
Customer review functionality - essential for credibility - options short-listed for implementation January 2015  
Competitor analysis - check (that was where we started and we continue daily) 

Phase II products - a growing list

Stay close












Monday, 20 October 2014

Fotosaurus - brand new personalised photo gifts web site arrives in November 2014

A real alternative to the established brands, our launch products will include top-quality hard-backed photo-books, glorious posters and a selection of high-quality photo-gifts. You saw it here first.

Expect a friendly, fun, quality experience with great value.



We are a Xerox Premier Partner 

We are certified with:
ISO 9001:2008 - quality assurance
ISO 14001:2004 - environmental
ISO 27001: 2005 - data security 

Driven by a desire to delight and to exceed your expectations




Become more instinctive with your portrait photographs

The main challenge with portrait photography is, without a doubt, producing a portrait that does not leave the subject looking rigid, anxious, or just simply uncomfortable.


Thursday, 25 September 2014

Shop Online for Infants, Toddlers, New Moms and Newborns - Clothing, Safety Equipment, Nursery Decor | BabyNMumsBest.co.uk

Shop Online for Infants, Toddlers, New Moms and Newborns - Clothing, Safety Equipment, Nursery Decor | BabyNMumsBest.co.uk

Pinterest is a waste of time - as is all Social Media

Of course, it isn't

By joining Pinterest you'll be able to fine tune your searches, find content relevant to your interests and build up a collection of boards that specifically interest you. Its wonderfully visual.

By  following my Fotosaurus Pinterest boards you'll discover all sorts of interesting and relevant content especially if you are considering getting married, maybe have a family and enjoy photography.  I am selling nothing here - in fact I am not selling anything anywhere - just sharing.  After all, this is Outbound Marketing.



High quality royalty-free and rights managed photography


Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Unite union strike action: changes to train services from Sunday 28 Sep until Saturday 04 October | Information | East Midlands Trains

Helping you to plan ahead and avoid east Midlands Trains strike delays



Unite union strike action: changes to train services from Sunday 28 Sep until Saturday 04 October | Information | East Midlands Trains

The Top 15 Most Popular Blogs - September 2014

10 Ways to Annoy a Photographer




1. Tell him how professional his DSLR looks, even if he’s using the cheapest piece of equipment on the market.

2. Remark that his old and trusted film camera (even if it is a classic) looks like a toy!

3. Pose and put on a cheesy grin as soon as she tries to take a candid photo of you. Especially for a photojournalist, this is the ultimate frustration!

4. Compare your smartphone’s megapixels or its ability to shoot 4K with the features on his pro DSLR.

5. Suggest that because his prime lens can’t zoom, it is n’t professional enough!

6. Invite your photographer friend to your event—with his camera.
“Would you like to come to my wedding? Just bring your camera and take photos… a few snapshots here and there.”

7. Fiddle with his camera whenever you get the opportunity.

8. Leave greasy fingerprints and stains on his camera lenses and LCD. 

9. Photobomb your friend’s artistic landscape compositions.

10. To top it all, instead of admiring his work, tell him,


“You must have a really good camera.” - I have had had that one!

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Why fear free blog post tricks?

There's no reason at all to fear clicking a link to a  Fotosaurus blog post. 

As of 23 September 2014 Fotosaurus has no physical product to offer you - just social media links to content that we hope photographers, anyone with a camera or camera phone in fact, might find useful.

We're sharing now in the hope that if you do ever need to find a quality photo-gift ... one day you will come back.  yes, you will come back .. but until then ... 







Coming soon; Upload, Fixing, Sharing






What is a photobook?

According to Wikipedia, after all there's no point re-inventing the wheel ... 

"photo-book or photobook is a book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content. A photo-book is related to and also often used as a coffee table book."

 And there's more ...

Personalised photo-books

Storing digital images in traditional photo albums means printed copies are inserted in the pages of an album. Fotosaurus allows users to create personalized photo-books. The resulting book is printed on digital colour printers and case bound.
Professional printing and binding services offer easy creation of photo-books with professional layouts and individual layout capabilities. Because of the integrated design and order workflow, hardcover bound books with customized pictures and text can be produced very cost-effectively.
Coming soon.

Master your camera now!


Tuesday, 16 September 2014

For everyone who enjoys taking and sharing photographs


Why not click and subscribe?  All sorts of interesting content. 


7 Tips For Great Digital Photographs


Click Dino to read the full article

Tip #1: Buy a camera you’re comfortable with!

Tip #2: Keep the camera steady.

Tip #3: Bring your photos to life.

 Tip #4: Know when to use your flash.

Tip #5: Turn your camera sideways!

Tip #6: Be creative!

Tip #7: Preserve your memories.

Friday, 5 September 2014

Pinterest is a waste of time

                                                             if nothing interests you, so



and click to see more