10 Great Things about dotPhoto
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1. dotPhoto Calendars can start in any month, so, if you order a calendar in January, you can set it up for February through January. Also, with the 30% promo code below, dotPhoto calendars are only $10.49 this month.

2. Club Members get free shipping. That calendar is only $10.49 including economy shipping when shipped to U.S. destinations including military APO addresses.

3. The dotPhoto Frame Shop offers more professional options than any framing service on the web — and you can see how your framed print will look before you order it. Click here to learn more.

4. Procedural Help  dotPhoto provides step-by-step help for everything we do. Click here to search our help data.

5. dotphotobook.com Our book quality is the best on the web, and you can even ask a human to help design your book. dotPhoto books are available in every conceivable size and shape. Click here to learn more.

6. Editing features  You can edit virtually every attribute of your photos on dotPhoto. Just click the pencil icon next to your photo. Click here to learn more.

7. 3×5 and 4xD prints  In addition to traditional 4x6s, dotPhoto prints 3x5s, which are great for scrap-booking, and 4xDs, which have the perfect ratio for most digital cameras, so you don’t have to crop.

8. Bulk Buys  Club Members can buy bulk printing credits for even less, and can use them over the course of a year. To purchase bulk buys, sign in and go to your MyAccount section.

9. Share to Facebook — or virtually anywhere. It’s easy to save, edit and print your photos on dotPhoto — and then to share them anywhere. Click here to learn more.

10. Buy your photos on SD cards.You can always download albums of your photos in the Organize tab, but dotPhoto can also back up thousands of photos to an SD card.Click here to learn more.

This month’s coupon code:  2015

Use coupon code 2015 to save 30% on any order of $20.15 or more. Expires Feb 1, 2015. Economy shipping is free for dotPhoto Club Members. Code 2015also saves 30%  on dotPhotobook.com

Code 2015 for 30% off orders over $20.15

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Imaging technology has improved so radically that our customers’ biggest problem is keeping track of thousands of photos. And customers have asked us for years if we could enable group sharing on dotPhoto. (Yes, you can establish album preferences that enable friends to upload to a single album so you can make books together.)

fotella.com is our project to make photos self-organizing and self-sharing. When you take a photo on your camera phone, fotella groups all the photos from an event by time and GPS data. and shares the photos with other people at the event.

Because fotella organizes by time and space, there is no extra effort on your part: no hash tags, no captions, no friends list, no invitations. Just take a photo and it’s organized and shared.

Oh, and one more thing: there’s no app to install. Just go to fotella.com on your smart phone and tap the camera icon to take a photo from your browser.

fotella doesn’t print yet, but we’ll add an API that enables dotPhoto and perhaps other output sites to print fotella collections.

Feel free to play with fotella.com on your camera phone. We’d love to hear what you think.

dotPhoto offers three types of posters plus a custom frame store with unlimited, sophisticated framing options:

1. Standard Posters: our most economical large-size prints  A 16×20 poster is only $9.99.
2. Rolled Posters: rolled, laminated, enhanced matte paper plus panoramic sizes like the 10 x 25 and 24 x 60 sizes
3. Framed Posters: Inkjet enhanced matted paper, laminated and mounted to masonite, and framed in a wooden box frame. Includes a hanging kit.
4. Custom Framing Store: the most sophisticated custom framing service on the Internet. More info on Custom Framing

Here’s an updated, step-by-step process for ordering dotPhoto posters.

We are pleased to announce that we have rolled out a custom online framing shop.

We couldn’t be more excited: it’s the best online custom photo-framing solution in existence.  Expect to get framed prints that are every bit as high quality as you would expect to buy at your local frame shop.  They are hand made with sealed paper backs, just like local custom frames.

But you will find that our prices are on the average about half what you would pay in a local store.

Club members get free shipping, which is a significant expense on these.

Overall Features:

• You can crop your framed photos any way you’d like.  There is no requirement that you adhere to 8 x 10″, 11 x 14″, etc.  You can frame, say a 5.3″ x 40.72″ photo if your heart desires.
• There are several dozen choices of frames.
• You can select up to three layered mats, in your choice of 28 colors (mats are only available on images up to 24″ on their long side).
• You can specify the exact type of glass to be used.  Specify glass (standard, nonglare, or museum — which blocks 99% of incoming UV), or Plexiglas (standard or nonglare).

Framed images can be up to 42″ on the long side.

This is an easy way to frame panoramics or any other photo where you want it how you want it, and not according to some standardized format.  And the pricing is spectacular.  Consider giving one of these a whirl — could be addictive!

To buy a framed print:

1. Select an image, and click on the Cart button
2. In the Quick Order Form, click on Choose cards, frames, posters, mugs & more  button
3. Select Framed Prints

… and you’re off to the races.

For a detailed ordering procedure, click here.

We would love to hear any feedback you’d care to share with us.

You can link virtually any page or photo element in your dotPhoto account to your blog, discussion board or web site. You can also use these links in an email.

You can link:

• Your main album page
• Any specific album
• Any specific photo
• Any album beginning with any specific photo

For instance, here is a link to a sample album: http://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=test&AID=6672239

This dotPhoto FAQ provides illustrated procedures for each type of link:

http://support.dotphoto.com/solution/articles/4000025213-how-do-i-link-my-web-site-or-blog-to-my-dotphoto-account-or-to-a-specific

You can now pick up your dotPhoto print order at over 22,000 retailers nationwide.  

You’ll notice a new button (“Order Prints for Local Pickup”) in our shopping cart.  This works well when there’s simply not time to wait for mail-order. Limitations: 1. For the moment, you can only order prints and posters for local pickup.  Other photo merchandise such as framed prints, puzzles, cards, mugs etc. must still be purchased in the normal fashion.

2. The price is likely to be higher than via e-commerce.  We do not control local merchants’ pricing – that is up to them.  That being said, when you get to the store, the price may be lower than you saw on dotPhoto, since local stores very often run print specials.  Those specials do not always pass through to become visible on the system.

Cutouts are baaaack!

 

We’re reintroducing our wildly popular photo-cutouts. 

They’re ridiculously fun, and can work as place-settings at parties, decorations in the young sports hero’s room, or whatever you may want to use them for.  They really are superb, funky, impeccably crafted things.

A photo-cutout is mounted on an acrylic background, cut out by hand (the art of the thing is getting it just exactly right, and machines simply don’t cut the mustard!) and mounted on a base that will stand vertically. Photo cutouts make excellent gifts.  

There’s an instruction box in our ordering system to specify exactly what you want (e.g., “Just give me the boy and his ball!”).

For a FAQ on ordering photo cutouts, please go here.

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dotPhoto has just increased the single image upload from 12 MB to 16 MB for Club Members.

How big is that? The highest resolution for most printers is 300 dots per inch, so, if every single pixel were different, you could print a perfect 300 by 300 pixel-per-inch photo at 11 inches by 16 inches. This would be about 15.8 million pixels.

However, all pixels are NOT different: there are whole regions of sky and skin that have the same attributes, so most JPG files shrink significantly. In addition, large format printing devices (24″ to 60″) usually print at 72 to 100 dpi, so your 16MB upload can print the largest posters offered by dotPhoto.

One rule of thumb is that a each MegaPixel (MP) translates into roughly a half a MegaByte (MB), so a 32 megapixel camera will create roughly a 16 MB JPG file.

The Time to Upload Problem

Of course, very large images take longer to upload, so you might want to consider if you’re ever going to print more than a 4″ x 6″ print. Here are optimal image sizes in pixels for guidance in choosing image or print sizes:

Print in Inches	Pixels
Wallet	Less than 480 x 640
4 x 6 (Minimum)	480 x 640
4 x 6 (Best)	768 x 1024
5 x 7	864 x 1152
8 x 10	1200 x 1600
11 x 14	1600 x 2000
16 x 20	1600 x 2000
20 x 30	1600 x 2000
24  x 36	1600 x 2400
30 x 40	2000 x 3000

We have added an easy Re-Arrange feature puts photos in order to tell a visual story.

Choose Sort Album from the Organize bar, and then drag photos between other photos or to a different page.

Click here for a step-by-step re-arrange procedure.

We’ve made it easier than ever for dotPhoto Club Members to download all the photos in an album.

Here’s a visual and a complete step-by-step procedure in our Help system:

http://support.dotphoto.com/solution/articles/91392

Expedited Album Downloading is another special Club Feature.

To become a dotPhoto Club Member, click here. Get downloading, free merchandise shipping, phone support and more.

Gorgeous Holiday Cards at Prices You Won’t Find Anywhere

Our exclusive 2014 designs start at just 25¢ a card.

Each and every gorgeous 4×8 holiday card includes a mailing envelope and costs as little as 25¢; 5×7 folding cards with envelopes are as low as 99¢. Forget Black Friday discounts — compare dotPhoto to Shutterfly, Snapfish, and others, and you’ll find our price and quality can’t be beat — any day of the year.

Pick yours out today — dotphoto.com/StoreCards.asp

CLUB MEMBERS: your shipping is free on all card orders!

“Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own.” Brooks Jensen

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Ansel Adams

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Photography helps people to see.” Berenice Abbott

“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” Ansel Adams

“Good photos are like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it isn’t that good.” Anonymous

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” Dorothea Lange

“The negative is the score; the print is the performance.” Ansel Adams

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” Imogen Cunningham

“When people ask what equipment I use, I tell them my eyes.” Anonymous

“The most important part of a camera is the twelve inches behind the viewfinder.” Ansel Adams

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” Alfred Stieglitz

“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light. I just take pictures.” Vernon Trent

“There are no rules for good photographs; there are only good photographs.” Ansel Adams

“Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar” Helmut Newton

“If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture.” Eddie Adams

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” Ansel Adams