We've discussed the very cool Moo cards and notecards before. Now they've stepped up their game and are now producing stickers. While stickers are very cool and I can come up with several cool uses for them what I really want Moo to start making are post cards. I'd love to take some of my shots and turn them into nice, solid post cards. Is that on the agenda Moo people?
Moo Stickers
July 20, 2007
Think Moo Mini-Cards Are Cool? Now They've Got NoteCards Too
April 19, 2007
Flickr partner Moo has just launched a new product, NoteCards.
NoteCards - square prints made from your own photos or designs. They have a magic flap on the side, to make them stand up proudly on your mantel, bookshelf or window sill, and are perfect for mailing to friends.
I love sending and receiving real mail. Can't wait to design some of these and integrate them into my stationery rotation. 16 cards cost $24.99 US.
via Laughing Squid
Tags: photography, Moo, Flickr
Give Your Photos the Rubik's Cube Treatment
January 24, 2007
Sometimes a framed family picture is just too simple. When you really want to mix it up have a personalized Rubik's cube made from your photos.
This authentic version of the popular Rubik's Cube displays up to six of your photos, one for each side. Each photo is divided into nine 3/4" individual squares. Comes imprinted with the official Rubik's logo. Black, six-sided, plastic cube measures 2 1/4" sq.
Photo Coasters
October 29, 2006
Photo Coasters? I know, sounds lame. They're neater than they sound though, well they're an interersting way to display family photos at the least. Actually I think these, filled with grandkid and family photos, would make a pretty cool holiday gift for family members.
Snow Globe Frame from Urban Outfitters
October 25, 2006
Always excellent fototiller points out a very cool frame for winter (yes winter is on it's way, it was 30F when I walked my dog this morning) from Urban Outfitters.
Forget those boring snowy scenes in regular snow globes. This snow globe is totally DIY - ready for you to create whatever winter wonderland you want. You simply unscrew the bottom and put your own pictures inside (of your friends, your mom, your dog, your records... whatever you want). Close it back up, shake it like crazy and watch the glittery snow start swirling! Imported. Wipe clean.
Too Cool for School Photo Lunchboxes
October 16, 2006
Lunchboxes cost $35, ship within a week and for an extra $10 you can have pictures on both sides of the box.
Goodbye Plain Walls, Hello Plexi-Glass Photo Display
October 5, 2006
This simple but very good project from Anh-Minh gives you a very large, very impressive photo display for any wall. Materials include double sided tape, photos, screws, a drill, wall anchors, two people and um specially cut pieces of plexi-glass. OK maybe it's a tiny bit complex but still very cool for the adventurous DIY-ers among us.
Learn from Experts: MyPublisher Introduces Photographer's Showcase
September 29, 2006
Custom photo book publisher MyPublisher recently launched Photographer's Showcase an audio/visual show and tell from accomplished photographers about the books they've created with MyPublisher.
The first three photographers in the showcase are an impressive lot and their books look fantastic. Each of them raves about the quality of the books they received from MyPublisher. I was underwhelmed when I used MyPublisher a few years ago but these testimonials make me think I should give it another shot for a project that I'm working on this fall and winter.
The three photographers are:
Rick Smolan: Time, Life and National Geographic photographer. Creator of "America 24/7" and "The Day in the Life" book series.
Terry Gruber: celebrity wedding photographer (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, Billy Joel, etc.). Gruber is using his book as a ready-to-travel portfolio that he can give to wedding planners.
James Danziger: Photo Editor The London Sunday Times, Features Editor, Director of Photography for Vanity Fair
Tags: photography, MyPublisher
Photojojo Helps Your Turn Tin Cans into Frames
September 25, 2006
Beautiful! Simple! Cylindrical! All the qualities you look for in the finest photo frames, now available in the CanFrame — a simple DIY photo frame project from Photojojo.Our tutorial will step you through an insanely simple way to show off your photos for the price of a 79 cent can of beans. All you need is the aforementioned can, some glue, a photo, and 15 minutes!
The DIY CanFrame: Transform a Tin Can into a Simple Photo Frame in 15 Minutes at Photojojo
Tags: photography, photojojo, diy photography
Personalize the Monopoly Board with Photo-opoly
September 20, 2006
Photo-opoly allows you to DIY your way to a very personalized Monopoly like (they don't actually reference Monopoly, trademark issues and all) game. 22 spots on the board are just waiting for your photos. You supply the photos and Photo-opoly gives you all the other supplies you need to put it all together.
Hockneyizer: Create a simulated collage from a single photograph
Another great tool from fd's Flickr Toys is the new Hockneyizer. It takes a single photo and turns it into a David Hockney inspired collage.
Tags: photo sharing, photography, Flickr
Free Flickr Mini Cards for Pro Users
September 19, 2006
New printing startup MOO is offerning 10 free mini cards to Flickr Pro members as a way of introduction to their new service.
MOO has joined forces with Flickr, the world’s largest online photo sharing community, to offer members a new way to share their Flickr information and photos offline. Hooray!Flickr MiniCards use MOO’s revolutionary multipack technology to produce sets of small, customised calling cards: each card featuring a different photo from the last.
Tags: photo sharing, moo, photography, Flickr
myCards: Personal Photos Cards
September 2, 2006
Do something different with your images. Make personal photo cards with as many as 25 of your images. They are a fun and inexpensive way to show off your images. Available single- or double-sided, with the capability to add images as well as text.
This is a tool I'm excited about. I love the idea of personal calling cards and for photographers this is a great way to show off your stuff. QOOP is integrated with Flickr, Photobucket and other popular photo services so it's super simple to grab your images.
Tags: photo sharing, QOOP, photography, Flickr
Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love
August 31, 2006
Got boxes of old photos you want to give new life to or maybe a hard drive full of images you'd like to bring into the 3D world? Photocraft is the book to help you do those things. Filled with ideas and how to's for making things like clocks, tote bags, shower curtains, cool displays, pins, wallpaper and a ton of other stuff.
The DIY Digital Photo Frame
August 9, 2006
Popular Science's cool How2.0 feature has instructions for turning an old laptop into a digital frame that automatically pulls images from your Flickr feed. It's a bit too hardware intensive for me to ever consider doing the project but for the more brave amongst us it will be an excellent DIY photography project. As the article notes if you're not geeky enough to build the digital frame yourself you can always buy one from ThinkGeek.
Tags: flickr, photogrpahy, diy photogrpahy
The Simple, Fast Way to Get Flickr Slideshows on Your Site
Flickrshow creates simple javascript slideshows of your Flickr sets. Simply put in the id number for the set (found at the end of the set's url), choose a couple of details and flickrshow spits out the necessary code and tells you were to put it within your site's html. Very simple, very cool and very useful.
Tags: flickr, photogrpahy, slideshow, flickrshow
MyBiggerPicture.com
July 17, 2006
This site puts your photos on just about anything you can image. mybiggerpicture.com/
Create Your Own Kodak Commercial
May 12, 2006
In the pointless yet entertaining category you can insert your photos into the Kodak museum commercial. It's not as impressive as you might hope but the last shot is pretty cool with your "most dramatic image."
Bust out of the Frame: Cool Alternatives for Displaying Photography
May 5, 2006
I know you've pushed your CF cards to the limit. I know you've maxed out your Flickr uploads on at least one occasion and I know that you'd have a couple shoeboxes full of prints under the bed if you were still shooting film. Are all of these photos not ready for prime time? Or have you just run out of wall space or gotten tired of frames? Either way it's time to try out some new display techniques and tools that that will give your photography new life, not to mention adding seriously to your house's style-fu.
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Blurb Books; iPhoto and MyPublisher Alternative
For Christmas a couple years ago I used MyPublisher to make a book of family photographs for my grandmother. She was overwhelmed by it, even if I wasn't. The layout was fine, the quality of the pages and the cover was fine. It was all just fine. Not really great or spectacular but fine. Fine wasn't really what I want in a book of my photography so I've never printed another book with MyPublisher. I've checked out the Flickr option through Qoop but it seems a bit limiting (though the mini books look tasty) so I haven't actually spent money trying it. And since I don't have iPhoto, book publishing for me has been on the back burner.
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