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My Xmas Presents For My Readers

Posted by photonovice on 23rd December 2008

Update: Today I’ve closed the comment possibility of this post and I announce the winners of the presents offered Uprinting.com:

Congratulations to the winners!

by biewoef on sxc.huI would like to offer some presents to my most loyal readers in cooperation with Uprinting.com.

In order that I can give you more valuable and interesting content next year I would like to get some feedback from you on which posts you enjoyed the most on Photonovice.net and what photography related topics you’d be happy to read more about in the coming year.

All you need to do is writing a comment below mentioning your favourite topics and you will automatically participate in a completely random drawing of three winners.

The prizes are:

(3 winners total) from Uprinting.com.

Winners in the United States and Canada qualify for free shipping. Shipping fees will apply to winners outside these areas.

So, make your comment and win!

Posted in blogging, portrait, printing | 3 Comments »

To Blurb, or not to Blurb, that is the question

Posted by photonovice on 25th September 2008

I’m sure every Flickr user has noticed the Blurb ad on the Flickr starting page that can be seen after login. But I’m not sure that everyone checked it out. Blurb is a printing service: prints user made photo books on demand and delivers it to you at a relatively reasonable price. I write about my experiences with it.

Before actually trying it I was reading quite a lot about complaints regarding the printing quality and color cast some users experienced. However, since my parents birthday was approaching I took the risk and gave it a try and made a book with photos of my sons (I have three now). To be honest the risk was not that high and I mitigated it further with doing the same thing with a local (Hungarian) provider as well.

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Posted in photography, printing | 2 Comments »