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Giveaway Item details:

1. A brand new Black FUJIFILM X-T3 Camera that comes with an interchangeable 18-55mm lens – $1899 (£1699) value.

Description:

FUJIFILM X-T3

• New back-illuminated 26MP X-Trans CMOS 4 APS-C sensor
• New X-Processor 4 image processing engine
• 4K/60P 4:2:0 10bit internal SD card recording
• Full HD 1080/120p slow motion recording
• Dramatically improved AF performance (1.5x faster)
• ISO160-12800 (extendable from ISO 80 to 51200)
• Features Fujifilm’s Colour Chrome Effect found in the GFX50S
• 30 fps continuous shooting electronic shutter; 11 fps mechanical shutter (without grip)
• 3.69-million-dot high resolution EVF (100% coverage)
• 3.0″ 1.04 million dot 3-directional tilting touch screen LCD monitor (100% coverage)
• New Sports Finder mode and New Pre-Shoot function
• Dual SD card slots

FUJINON XF18-55MM F2.8-4 R LM OIS

• • 18-55mm focal length
  • 135 equivalent: 27-84mm
  • F2.8-F22 aperture

2. A brand new Lensbaby Velvet 56 Lens – $449 (£359) value.

Description:

Create miniature macro worlds, rich landscapes, otherworldly street scenes, and more with our versatile Velvet 56 art lens. Compose scenes that are lit from within, emanating glow at wide apertures. Shoot at darker apertures to give your photos a sharp, vintage look – with a subtle fall-off on the edges. Focus close to discover an entirely new, larger-than-life miniature world.

3. A brand new Holdfast Streetwise Bag – $450 (£359) value.

Description:

The Streetwise is a stand alone shoulder bag or can be worn on the MoneyMaker, like our other Explorer Pouches. And the Explorer Wallet rides perfectly in one of the outside pockets. The beautiful Sheepskin interior, known to provide the best organic padding available, is naturally water-resistant and flame-retardant. Combine that with the waxed canvas exterior, and you have a wonderful weather resistant bag that can travel the world.

4. SLR Lounge “Complete Wedding Photography Training System” – $599 (£478) value.

Description: 

• $1K+ Worth of HD Video Content
• 70+ Hours of HD Video Content
• The Best Wedding Photography Education
• 3 Years in the Making, Back by 10 years of Experience
• Proven Framework for Increasing Your Business 10x

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All of the album design functionality you already know and love is now optimized for studio magazines. With new features like character and line spacing for text along with modern circular images and color blocks, it’s time to leave InDesign and Photoshop templates behind for good.

New Magazine Designs

Our new studio magazine designs have been professionally created right here in Portland, Oregon by top graphic designers. And we have individual designs for weddings, boudoir, portrait, grad and newborns. We know these will be a game changer for your business.

Easy Design

Just apply one of the design sets and drag and drop your photos in. The text has been pre-written by a professional writer – so all you have to do is change it up a bit to make it yours.

Print or Share

Once you are done designing, just click the export button to order in Fundy Direct. Or, if you want to share your magazine over email or post it on your website, you can export your magazine as PDFs in just a click.

Matching Marketing Cards

And it doesn’t stop with magazines. We’ve also designed matching marketing and pricing card designs for you. With new marketing cards, you’ll be able to hand out product and pricing information for clients to take with them.

Studio Management Integration

These magazines and cards are going to increase your print orders so much, keeping it all organized will be a challenge. But, Fundy Designer’s new studio management integration will solve that problem.

After setting up a client order in Fundy, you’ll be able to click the export button and choose “studio management file.” Next, log into your studio management service and under your client menu, choose “Import Fundy Designer file,” and choose the XML file generated from Fundy Designer.

What services will be ready? At launch in January, you’ll be able to use: Táve, Studio Ninja, Iris Works, ShootQ, Light Blue, Pixifi and 17 Hats.

IPS Tools Update

Our number one request at trade shows for IPS was the ability to compare more than one photo at a time in our Image Browser. Well, we’ve made that not only possible, but easier than ever.

Select more than one photo in the compare view and you’ll see them all.

Then just click the X icon to remove the ones you don’t want or tag the photo as a favorite (f key) or with stars (1-5 key).

The Fine Print

If you currently own the Fundy Designer Pro or Album suite, the ability to design and order studio magazines is a free update. Studio magazine design is not be available for Lite Suite users as one edge exceeds the 10×10″ limit. Card design is already available in the Fundy Suite. The updates to the IPS tools are free for all v7 and Fundy Suite users.

For the pre-designed, pre-written studio magazines and product marketing cards, you’ll need to be enrolled in Pro Enhancements. The studio management XML export will also require Pro Enhancements. At $179/year, the Pro Enhancements features include unlimited online proofing, over $5000 in a la carte designs, Perfectly Clear skin retouching, license free music for slideshow export, and more.

If you are unsure of your license or subscription or would like to add Pro Enhancements, click here. If you purchase or upgrade to the suite, which you can do here, you receive a free 3 month trial of Pro Enhancements.

When is this awesome update?

This update has launched as of 1/3/19. We wanted to push the update first thing in 2019 because we know how important it is to update your studio collateral at the beginning of the year.

We are excited to keep making Fundy Designer the most valuable part of your photography business. For any questions or concerns, please contact our support team here.

Photos in this post © Elan Studio, Shawn Lee, Two Mann Studios, The Harris Company, Studio 22 Photography

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Own v7 and Want to Know More About Pro Enhancements?

We understand, change can be confusing. The good news is that if you don’t want to change anything, you don’t have to. Just keep using Fundy Designer v7 as is – nothing will change.

But, you have a chance to get a free gift from us.

Because you are a v7 owner we’re giving you a chance to opt in to our Pro Enhancements and get a year absolutely free. With Pro Enhancements, you’ll get the online Design Proofer, one-click skin retouching from Perfectly Clear, and free upgrades to Fundy Designer as they come out. After one year it will cost just $179 a year (equivalent of $15 a month).

This offer of one year free is for a limited time, and once it’s gone, you’ll need to pay when you sign up instead.

What if I Already Have Design Proofer?

If you already have Design Proofer, you have two choices:

• Take no action and keep paying for Design Proofer as is.
• Opt in to the free year of Pro Enhancements, and get Design Proofer plus one-click skin retouching from Perfectly Clear and all the updates coming this year for free. After signing up, contact support and they will credit your account with the remaining balance on your Design Proofer account. Please note, the old Design Proofer service will not be offered on its own going forward, so once you make the move to Pro Enhancements, you won’t be able to go back. That said, we know you’ll love having so much more with the Pro Enhancements.

We know these are some big changes. But we’re really excited for these tools that will help you design better and do more. These changes allow us to bring more functionality to the Fundy Suite without having to ask you to keep buying modules or for upgrades. And you’ve seen the pace of our development, so with the new Pro Enhancements, we’ll be able to keep moving faster and faster.

Still have questions?

Contact Support

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2016 was a year of success – both for Fundy customers and for our company – that outpaced even my wildest dreams. In the beginning of the year, we focused on maximizing the speed of album design in Fundy Designer. With the new auto design, the enhanced Quick Design Picker®, and the ability to storyboard your album, it’s incredible how you can create quality designs in minutes.

In the fall, we released an update that is already changing the industry. With this update, we provided professional photographers the easiest platform to present to clients – whether in-person or remotely – and build orders on the spot. The extra revenue photographers are generating by selling more wall art and upselling albums is incredible. I’d like to share some of their success with you because it’s what drives us every day to continually innovate to bring you software to speed up your workflow and grow your business.

Hours Upon Hours Saved

Since I founded Fundy Software in 2008, one of our core focuses has been to save professional photographers time, while also still providing a tool for quality designs that can stand the test of time. The faster (and easier) we can complete designs for our clients, the more profitable we become, and the more time we have getting back to spending with our families, friends and the things we love. Here are some recent stories from real customers:

“With Fundy I can easily design a full album in 5-7 minutes.” ~ Jen Rozenbaum

“I designed 38 albums in 10 days.” ~Cricket Pickens

“I designed an album in 7 minutes and my client approved it as is, no changes.” ~ Hiram Trillo

Financial Success

For every minute we save creating our designs, we make more money. But what about the actual bottom line? I’ve been traveling the country, and the world recently, both speaking about the power of print and listening to the world’s experts on getting printing product into our businesses and our client’s homes. And when we focus on this, the amount that our clients reward us is amazing. Here are just a few stories from the last three months:

• Christine Yodsukar contacted some previous wedding clients asking if they had printed any photos for their home. For one 2014 client when the answer was no, Christine pre-designed some rooms for her and walked her through them via Skype resulting in a $6,600 sale.

• Bobbie Rose attended my IPS workshop at Visual Nation this year and was brand new to selling product to clients. She recently told me she had a $3,000 sale her very first attempt at presenting to her clients in person.

• Ben Hartley recently shot a wedding and designed a huge album telling the complete wedding story. The bride and groom were so thrilled they rewarded him for the main and parent albums in a $10,000 sale.

• Robert J Hill has worldwide clientele and conducted three albums design consultations via Skype, for a combined for $10,000 extra added to his bottom line.

What This Means

The fact that we are helping photographers be successful, not only with their workflow, but also with providing for their loved ones means everything to our team. Every day when we wake up and see a new success story come in, the entire team is energized to keep working to make the best product and experience possible.

We have another surprise update coming in the first quarter of 2017 with some new free features that will help speed up your workflow even more. We want to add as much value as possible to your business, and your life.

Here’s to another great year. If you haven’t joined the more than 90,000 people who’ve downloaded Fundy Designer, maybe now is the time. And I hope 2017 is the year where you do more than you could have ever imagined.

All the best,

Andrew “Fundy” Funderburg
Founder of Fundy Software

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From printed products to gear to software, it’s all in our Ultimate Black Friday Guide. Note: you’ll need to open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat for full functionality.

GET THE DEALS

Don’t have Fundy Designer yet? Don’t miss our biggest sale of the year happening 11/24-11/28! Click here to purchase.

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Download our Holiday Deadlines PDF for those last-minute deadlines. Note: you’ll need to open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat for full functionality.

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The idea for QT was born in 2007 out of a need to provide best possible product for my wedding clients. Back then I couldn’t find anything that even remotely meet my demands for quality and style so I started learning bookbinding, experimenting with new techniques and looking for the most exciting materials. All this happened in my own apartment.

Ten years later we are a small, focused team which supports amazing photographers around the world by creating timeless keepsakes for their clients. Our love is driven towards fine art photography plus we love what we do. Since we are a small company we are always aiming for handcraft over the machine produced books – we love using unique ingredients to create exceptional products.

We are so happy to see more and more amazing photographers interested in what we do. We’d love to see your as a part of our community and future.

To see more about QT Albums, please visit their website.

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H&H Color Lab is a full service photography lab serving professional photographers. They have been creating high quality products for 46 years! H&H takes pride in offering an extensive line of high quality albums, beautifully printed press products, photo jewelry, innovative metals, specialty products and much more.

Their Gallery Lay-flat albums feature one of the most narrow splits in the industry. With many cover and paper options, these albums truly are handcrafted works of art. From traditional to contemporary, the diverse collection of Gallery Lay-Flat album styles will set you apart from your competition and provide options for every client. H&H Color Lab’s quality craftsmanship, attention to detail, and competitive pricing will make this your go-to album for weddings, families, seniors and more!

“The 10×10 and 12×12 Gallery Lay-Flat Albums with Metal Covers are a favorite for weddings! These covers can be printed in the aluminessence metal finish so the brushed metal shines through the image. H&H thinks of just about everything when creating a photographic heirloom, which is why each corner of the metal cover is wrapped with stitched leather, which protects and frames each cover perfectly. All these elements come together with thick photographic pages and legendary print quality to form a true luxury album.” -Photos Edge

Gallery wraps allow you to expand your work. Gallery wraps are custom built to your specifications in even measurement sizes. They are printed on your choice of canvas inkjet paper or beautiful pearl photographic paper that provides a glossy depth of image that will take your breath away! They are completely finished on the back with black paper, bumpers and a tooth hanger that allows the print to hang flat against the wall. The quality of the print and the construction of this product will sell itself!

“Gallery wraps are a photographic print made on either canvas inkjet paper or for an image that pops – Pearl photographic paper that is then stretched around a solid frame. H&H uses solid wood to build their frames. I know because I have seen these amazing frames assembled right in their photo lab. The product is then finished with black paper on the back, bumpers and saw-tooth hanger. The wraps can be ordered in any size in one inch multiples up to 24×36 for pearl paper and 33×41 for canvas. The final result is a piece of art – literally. H&H Color Lab has become family. Not only are their products awesome – their people are the best there is – period.” -William Innes Photography

In addition to their popular canvas gallery wraps and award-winning albums, H&H is pleased to announce a beautiful new framing option for their popular torn edge prints. They recently revealed the Classic Modern Frames for torn edge prints. Give your customers something fresh with their Classic Modern 13×13 frames for 7×7 torn edge prints. Your image is printed on beautiful watercolor paper and is then given hand-torn edges for a fine art look. Mounted in an extra deep, white on white mat, with no glass, your image truly is the focal point! Comes complete with black backer paper and hanger. Frame choices include Black, Hickory and White.

“I’ve used several labs over the years and finally made H&H my exclusive lab the beginning of last year. I love the products, the quality is consistently fabulous, and the customer service is always top notch!” -Sharon Bidinger

To see more of what H&H Color Lab offers, visit their website.

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All albums from the Pearl Collection are hand-bound true flush mount albums using traditional binding techniques. The Pearl Collection offers five different cover options, ranging from the traditional leather bound to a modern full photo wrap and acrylic cover.

The collection boasts nine different album sizes ranging from an 8×8 and up to an 11×14.  All images are printed on FUJI photographic paper and have a UV protective coating applied, which are then mounted on an acid free board.

All albums begin with 15 spreads (30 sides) and can be made using up to 30 spreads (60 sides). An 8×8 album with 15 spreads (30 sides) start at $210. All Fundy users receive free shipping and 40% OFF all orders. Contact Albums Remembered for your special promo code.

To learn more about Albums Remembered, visit their website or follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Every moment I spend with my family and every time I pick up a camera, I’m reminded of the importance of print. I’d like to invite you on a personal journey to bring the power of print back full circle. Next week, I’ll be traveling to the South of France with a photograph that is more than 100 years old of my great-great uncle taken during World War I.

In order to bring the importance of this photo full circle for my family and our photographic community, I’ll be recreating this portrait in the actual studio where the original was taken – Photographie d’Art Ernest – (yes, it is still in business). I encourage you to follow me on our Facebook page and Instagram feed as we’ll be posting updates from this journey throughout the week.

Andrew Funderburg
Founder, Fundy Software

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