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Research vets Ed Lee, David Haueter form Rise Above Research Market research News 

Research vets Ed Lee, David Haueter form Rise Above Research

Ed Lee and David Haueter, market research veterans in the digital imaging and printing industries, have partnered to create Rise Above Research, LLC, a new market research and consultancy firm focusing on the digital imaging and photographic printing markets. The two have more than 40 years of combined industry experience working with leading industry analyst and market research firms in... Read More
Instaz app enhances photos with a swipe News 

Instaz app enhances photos with a swipe

Moscow’s Whatever Apps released Instaz, a “swipe only” photo editor for iOS devices. The app’s built-in artificial intelligence analyzes each photo and automatically performs complex edits. Whatever Apps claims Instaz improves colors, composition, and adds popular Instagram effects, such as frames, collages, dust, stickers, and many others, by swiping to perform creative edits. “Like Tinder has changed the industry of... Read More
Dury’s, a Nashville camera store institution since 1882, closes News 

Dury’s, a Nashville camera store institution since 1882, closes

Dury’s, the legendary long-time Nashville-area camera store, has closed permanently. Founded in 1882, the store was one of eight original Kodak film and camera dealers appointed by George Eastman. The store has been at its current Murfreesboro Pike location since 2016, moving there from downtown Nashville. The company made its announcement on its Facebook page: After very careful consideration, I... Read More
Dead Pixels Society podcast: The importance of photo memories and metadata standards, with Vivid-Pix and FamilySearch News Podcasts 

Dead Pixels Society podcast: The importance of photo memories and metadata standards, with Vivid-Pix and FamilySearch

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix, about the value of restoring and reliving family memories in this week’s The Dead Pixels Society podcast. Vivid-Pix is the publisher of Vivid-Pix Land&Sea SCUBA and Vivid-Pix RESTORE image-enhancement software products. We are also joined by Gordon Clarke, strategic solution manager, of FamilySearch International, the world’s largest genealogy organization. FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization... Read More
Printful records more than $100 million in revenue for 2019 Earnings reports News 

Printful records more than $100 million in revenue for 2019

Privately held Printfulannounced, in 2019, it reached $116-million in revenue, compared to $77.4 million in 2018. The company opened an office in Spain and expanded its fulfillment centers in the United States and Latvia. Printful has now grown to a team of more than 800 people, the company said, including production specialists, sales and marketing experts, customer support specialists, developers,... Read More
GotPhoto establishes COVID-19 task force for volume photography News 

GotPhoto establishes COVID-19 task force for volume photography

GotPhoto Inc., the leader in workflow platforms for volume school photographers, announced a task force to plan for the future of contactless school/sports photography as COVID-19 continues to reshape the industry. The goal is to develop concrete concepts, with the advice of the task force, to be launched as the GotPhoto Summer Camps training series in July. For more information... Read More
Taopix adds Mayaprin’s photo-gift business, Fotolli, to customer base News 

Taopix adds Mayaprin’s photo-gift business, Fotolli, to customer base

Taopix announced Mayaprin, a commercial printer with more than 37 years’ industry experience in Guatemala City, Guatemala, has launched a photo-gift business called Fotolli using Taopix. “At Mayaprin we have over 100 employees and a fleet of print and finishing equipment in our production facilities. We started creating products for resale on Amazon in 2017,” says Natalia Melgar, Brand Manager for... Read More
Adorama announces #CreateNoMatterWhat creative challenge series News 

Adorama announces #CreateNoMatterWhat creative challenge series

Adorama announced today the “Create No Matter What: Perspective Challenge” photography contest. Revealed by travel, outdoor and adventure photographer Nathan Lee Allen, the Perspective Challenge asks photographers to show how they create a different perspective of their art, for a chance to win a Canon EOS RP camera prize package worth more than $3,000. “With more than 50 million impressions and even more... Read More
GoPro debuts versatile Zeus Mini mini light News 

GoPro debuts versatile Zeus Mini mini light

GoPro has launched a magnetic multipurpose rechargeable waterproof light, Zeus Mini, available at GoPro.com for $69.99. The Zeus Mini is compatible with GoPro’s line of camera mounts.” Zeus Mini combines the illumination power of GoPro’s Light Mod with the versatility of its Magnetic Swivel Clip to deliver an insanely convenient and capable, compact, hands-free LED lighting solution. Zeus Mini brings to lighting what the HERO camera brings... Read More
MailPix recognized by CNET for easy online ordering of photo products News 

MailPix recognized by CNET for easy online ordering of photo products

MailPix, the photo-printing, canvas and gifting site, was listed on a recent CNET roundup as a leader in ease-of-use. In a round-up of eight leading online photo services, writer Shelby Brown singled out MailPix for “Best for Fast Checkout.” “There are dozens of top-shelf photo sites on the market,” says Fred H. Lerner, founder and CEO, MailPix. “For our small... Read More
Dead Pixels Society podcast: Photo organization with David Vaskevitch of Mylio News Podcasts 

Dead Pixels Society podcast: Photo organization with David Vaskevitch of Mylio

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks the David Vaskevitch, the founder of peer-to-peer media-organization tool provider Mylio about the challenges of selling subscriptions in the age of “free,” competing against Adobe and Google, and partnering with Seagate. In this hour-long interview, Vaskevitch discusses his career at Microsoft, his love of photography and the value of pictures. Listen below: Read More
APTech hosting free leadership webinar News 

APTech hosting free leadership webinar

The Association for Print Technologies (APTech) is hosting a free 60-minute webinar, “An Introduction to Managing Transformation in the Printing Industry,” on May 21, 2020 at 1 p.m. EST. This event is being presented by George Mason University School of Business professors as part of a collaboration between APTech and the University. The Advanced Leadership program will arm executives with... Read More