Archive for October, 2009
Mobile photography
Friday, October 30th, 2009
I saw this lovely piece in the Metro this morning on iPhone photography - or “iPhoneography” as it’s called. iPhone users snapping away on their phones to create beautiful photographs
This one was created by Valerie Ardini
Here’s some of the iPhone apps she uses to enhance her photos: TiltShift, CameraBag & FocalLab
And here’s a Flickr group we’ve found dedicated to mobile phone photography
Happy snapping
Gordon Brown makes a Touchnote appearance
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
It seems that we have Touchnote customers that are friends with the PM … look who turned up on a Touchnote card…
PM on a TN we call it 
We’re helping websites make money
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
So, you have a website that hosts photos and other images - wouldn’t it be great to let people coming to your website send any of those pics as a real printed postcard .. to anywhere in the world?
Well now you can. You add a tiny piece of code to your website and a little “send as a postcard” button appears next to the pictures you choose.
If you’re feeling creative, then you can design your own button, like some of our partners:
Now the making money part. For every postcard that’s made using one of your images, we give you a royalty payment. Yes, that’s for every card - so if someone decides to use a single picture from your site on 50 cards, we’ll give you a payment for each of those 50 cards. We think it’s only fair.
We’re also being extra generous - offering a payment of 30% for the next six months. But please sign up before 30th November 2009.
Interested? Here’s some more info about the programme and here’s where you sign-up
Now how about seeing some cards in action…
(as reviewed on the Radio 2 Chris Evans drive time show)
Want to find out more: http://www.touchnote.com/image_api
Touchnote at Photofair in Spitalfields
Monday, October 12th, 2009
So Touchnote made a little trip down to the Photofair in Spitalfields market this weekend - some great photography exhibitions and photo-related services (I’m definitely going to try out the Shoot Experience treasure hunt at some point)
What were your best moments of the fair?
Want to be a rock star?
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Create your own album cover.
1 - Go to “Wikipedia”
and hit Random Article or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to “flickr”
and explore the last seven days or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop or MS Paint (or MS Powerpoint in my case) or similar to put it all together
Now, upload that jpeg to Touchnote and turn it into a card!
Here’s one I created earlier…
Rock on.
