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CREATIVE PHOTO STUFF & WHAT WE DO Creative Photo Stuff is a Internet Web Site dedicated to providing photo enhancement and photo editing services which are used to create new and exciting digital photos from your own digital camera. These creative photo retouching services can be used you to create photo art, photo enhanced advertising materials, greeting or business cards, and many other useful photo products. Creative Photo Stuff’s ONLY business is digital photo enhancement, however we also provide free templates, free forums and other free services to provide you with a resources to help you use these enhanced photos. Of course, you may avail yourself of many of our free services without purchasing our photo enhancement services, however, in these busy days we can relieve you of the time consuming, and sometimes frustrating experiences with photo editing computer tools. Photo editing and photo gifts by Creative Photo Stuff will provide you with not only editing and gifts but photo restoration as well. PHOTO ENHANCEMENT [CLICK HERE for more information >] Creative Photo Stuff will digitally enhance photos your upload to us using digital photo enhancement techniques which manipulate the individual pixels in the digital photo file that your camera generates. Pixels are tiny portions of a computer file which are individually provided with certain attributes, such as color, intensity, hue etc. There are typically more than 2 million of these pixels. Many cameras today generate more than 5 million of them in each photograph taken. We will perform this photo enhancement service for a flat fee with no hidden charges. You select a service package from a menu of photo enhancing services without having to submit the photo for an estimate as many of our competitors require. You then choose from a menu of options available for that package. We enhance the photo to your specifications and post it in your personal gallery for your viewing on our web site via the internet. When you are satisfied with the picture enhancement results, you then download the resulting “new” digital photo computer file which can be used in any manner you desire. Since the enhanced photo is provided in a universally recognized format, it may be inserted into any word processing, graphics or E-mail program which you have. The digital photo file, provided to you, can also be used as Photo Art for framing, making or submitting advertising directly to many internet sales outlets (such as E-Bay or auto selling sites), for newspaper advertising, or for other forms of media. The resulting edited photo can be also used to create advertising brochures (such as provided by realtors), or used to create your own business cards, greeting cards, Christmas cards, and E-mail thank you notes. The ways to use your enhanced photo are nearly endless. We can enhance photos (taken by your digital camera) or enhance images (which can be scanned from many sources including hard copy photographs) in almost any manner that you want. There are a great many ways that you can use your photo enhancements. In this site we provide you with examples, tutorials, forums and templates to give you opportunity to explore new ways of using the digital photos that you take with your camera. PHOTO EDITING SERVICES [CLICK HERE for more information >] We offer three flat rate priced packages for our photo editing services. These services are grouped into packages called Basic Creat-a-Photo, Artistic Creat-a-Photo, and Premium Creat-a-Photo. Several options are available in each package, you do not have to select all of the listed services in each package, but instead can select from a menu of services available. BASIC CREATE-A-PHOTO $9.95 Click here to Learn More > This package includes the photo editing and photo manipulation of the overall values of the individual pixels in the photo to edit brightness, contrast, and sharpness. Overall photo color is can be adjusted for color, hue, and saturation. In addition, lighting effects can be added to emphasize a portion of the photo, or raise the overall brightness by adding an atmosphere of a different color. This package also allows the addition of text phrases or titles to your photos. You can specify the words to be added, the general placement, choose from a selection from over 200 fonts and select other text properties such as bold, italics, and various font colors. You select these options from an easy to use menu provided, eliminating confusing terminology. In addition to these basic photo editing processes, we can make minor flaw corrections you desire, or crop the picture as you specify. Photo retouching services included in this package allow you to adjust lighting effects to enhance photos. In addition, many minor flaws such as “red eyes”, poor skin tone, acne, and wrinkles can be removed or softened. Other flaws such as a stray hair lock in a portrait, dirt on an automobile, sun glare, and scanner flaws are removed or reduced. Should you wish to crop the picture to eliminate an unwanted portion, or simplify the photo we can crop the photo to your specifications. ARTISTIC CREATE-A-PHOTO $19.95 Click here to Learn More > In addition to all of the features and services and photo manipulations included in the Basic Create-a-Photo package, photo editing by manipulating the individual elements of the photograph are included in this option. Digital Photo Editing techniques allow isolation of one or more portions of the photo. For example, lets say you have a great photo of your car that you want to submit to E-bay.com for potential sales, however, this photo has a distracting background that you would like to remove or diminish in importance. Our techniques can isolate the subject matter that you choose, and either provide you with a new digital photo without any background, or the existing background can be blurred or changed significantly in order to provide image enhancement. Photo editing of this type is especially useful as an aid to real estate and automotive sales. Do you have a great photo of the sunset at the lake, but there is a crummy car or some people in the picture which detracts from the photo. Use our photo retouching service to erase the objects or people and make the photo fantastic. Once the photo is changed, you get a new digital file which you can print on your home printer and frame it for all to enjoy. Some pictures after isolation as discussed above do not look right without some shadows added. Let us add shadows as an option to enhance the photo. Other effects can be also added. As in the Basic Create-a-Photo package, this package also allows the addition of text phrases to your photo. However, in this package, many advanced text options are available, such as curved text, perspective text, and other visual effects. PREMIUM CREATE-A-PHOTO $29.95 Click here to Learn More > This premium service includes ALL of the services included in the Basic and Artistic Create-a-Photo Packages, but also includes many advanced digital photo manipulation services to enhance your photos. With this service you can create a completely new photo by merging two photos. Let us take the results of the isolation of an object, for example an automobile, as discussed in the section on Artistic Create-a-Photo. The automobile can be isolated, enhanced, then we add a new background to really enhance and show off the auto. With this digital photo retouching service we can merge up to three photos to create a new composite photo. Got a great photo of your home that you want to use in a Real Estate advertisement, but there are a bunch of people in front of it or some objects such as a car? We can remove the people or objects and reconstruct the area behind them to match information in another photo that you may have. Want to create the perfect Personalized Christmas Card? Send us the photo of you or your family group, then either select a background from our portfolio or send us your favorite background and let us isolate the subjects and merge them with the selected background. A great Christmas letter, or a Wedding thank you letter, can be constructed using one of our templates and a collage of your enhanced photos. Send us your collection of up to six photos and we will create your letter for you using our templates and provide you with a Microsoft Word file ready for your own words to be added. PHOTO RETOUCHING and PHOTO EDITING [CLICK HERE for more information >] Our photo retouching and photo editing service are really the same thing. These photograph retouching services are performed by photo manipulation of the digital properties of each picture element (called pixels). These picture elements or pixels are stored in a computer file which was automatically named by your camera at the time you took the photo. These are the files which you downloaded from your camera to your home computer. After you downloaded the picture from your camera to your computer, you may have renamed the file. In any case we guide you through the process of selecting the services that you desire then uploading the picture to us via the internet. After sending the photo computer file to us through the internet, we use various programs to photo edit by enhancing, retouching, and modifying the pixels in the photo. The software that we use to edit photo properties will not change your original photo since you retain the original on your computer, we are only using a copy. We perform the services that you select for a flat rate fee, if the result is not what you expected, we at no charge, will digitally edit picture (revise the new photo) until you are satisfied. The resulting image editing by Creative Photo Stuff is saved in your dedicated folder on our computer (not available to internet users) in various versions then finally the resulting new photo is then renamed and downloaded to your computer for your own use. We can accept a wide range of file formats that your camera generates, however, most cameras are standardized to create a file format called JPG. When you transfer the photo to us, the file format is known by the filename extension appended to the picture ( such as filename.JPG). As a safety procedure to edit digital photos we retain the original copy of your file that you transmitted to us in your personal folder in our computer. We normally return the photo to you with the same filename that you submitted with a -1 appended to it in the same format (such as filename-1.JPG). If you need file conversion to use in a specific computer program we can return the photo to you with most common formats if you need the conversion done by us. After you download the edited photo we retain the original and the enhanced photo for a period of 45 days, we then delete the computer file in our computer(s) and remove the photo from your personal gallery. PHOTO RESTORATION SERVICES [CLICK HERE for more information >] In addition to our three photo enhancement services we offer photo restoration services. These picture restorations are useful for genealogy research and documentation, your family albums and wall hangings. We can digitally restore a copy of your original photos from yesteryear that you send to us for photograph restoration. Picture restoration may be required since many older photographs deteriorate over time due to acids in the paper that they have been printed on. Other deterioration may come from tearing, wrinkles due to folding, and other damages. Our picture restoration services cannot fix the original, but we can provide you with a digital photo restoration of the original. Our image restoration service can restore images or restore image of your selection within a photo. We can restore photos that are stained or even torn in half. We can restore photo content that has been lost to the extent that information exists. You do not have to send us the original, therefore you always retain the security of your photo. Instead, to restore old pictures, you either use your home computer’s printer to scan the original photo, assuming that you have a printer that has a scan function. If you do not have such a printer, or do not want to fuss with learning how to scan, just take the photograph to any of your local office supply companies (such as Office Depot or Wal Mart) and have them scan it for you. Then using our tutorial on scanning and uploading the digital computer file thus generated, send us the copy of the original in the same manner as discussed in the section on photo enhancement above. We will then use our digital techniques to improve and restore the photo to the best of our ability. After our processing you view the results in your personal gallery and when you are satisfied, you download the digital photo restoration of your original photo. In addition to our photo restoration service we can make other changes to your original photo. As in modern digital photos that you take with your digital camera, the lighting, exposure and other effects may be problems. We can adjust these effects to further enhance your original photo restoration project by removing various flaws in the original. It may be possible to restore old photos that may have faded by increasing the contrast and reducing the brightness. Sometimes to restore old photo content we increase sharpness and contrast. Image restoration of old photographs is usually dramatic and has surprisingly good results. You must be aware, however, that old photo restoration is limited to the properties of the original and the quality of the scanning.
FREE TEMPLATES, TUTORIALS and FORUMS [CLICK HERE for more information >] Creative Photo Stuff provides more than just Photo Editing Services. We provide you with many free services, such as FREE forums where you can ask questions of others who have experience. These forums will help you use your photos in various useful ways. FREE tutorials with many HOW TO TIPS will guide you through many useful ways that you can use your enhanced photo. If you desire we can send you our Electronic Newsletter, which is published periodically, to your E-Mail address. The newsletter, gives you hints and kinks of how to improve your use of photos by using commonly available software programs on your computer. In addition we offer FREE templates in common Microsoft Word format for you to use to generate letterheads, business cards, greeting cards, and other useful stuff. Some of the FREE features that we offer are;
Templates: Services: PHOTO GIFTS [CLICK HERE for more information >] Creative Photo Stuff has many opportunities for Photo Gift giving. A customized photo gift using a personalized photo is much more exciting than the boring offerings that come in the multitude of catalogues delivered to you weekly. A customized photo can be created by you using our photo enhancement services to make these gifts sparkle. Firstly, Creative Photo Stuff has several direct to you gift ideas, such as Create-a-Photo Gift Certicates, and Create-a-Photo Gift Direct services. Secondly, we can supply you with great graphics and computer files, ready to be submitted to other gift companies (such as custom mug providers etc.). There are many gift companies on the Internet that you can use to create personalized gifts using customized photos. As and example, you may want to put a favorite picture of your fathers or grandfathers car on a coffee mug as a Christmas gift. Just use our services above to create the perfect picture, then download the results and send the resulting file to the coffee mug supplier. There are many other ways to create fantastic digital photo gifts. Some of the ways you can create or give gifts using Creative Photo Stuff are; CREATIVE PHOTO STUFF Gift Certificate Click here to Learn More > This service provides you with a convenient means of giving someone a simple and easy way to enhance their photos in the manner described above. All of our services are available for you to choose from. A 10% discount will be applied your order. We provide you with an E-Mail attachment which you can insert into a gift card or E-Mail to that someone. In turn they can log onto our website, set up an account and get the services that you have pre-paid. Simple instructions are available for them to walk through the process. CREATIVE GIFT DIRECT Click here to Learn More > You can avail yourself of another of our FREE services by not only downloading the photo to your home computer, but you can also E-mail the result as a gift to another person. There is no charge for this additional service, just provide us with the E-mail address of the person and provide us with your personal gift message and we do the rest. SPECIAL OCCASION GIFT PACKAGE Click here to Learn More > Provide your loved ones a wedding, anniversary, birthday or other occasion gift. You can use your pictures (such as wedding pictures) or their photos. Since this service usually involves several to many pictures which will be provided for an album, we give you a volume discount. The gift package that you can send to them (we provide you a Gift Certificate) either by regular or E-mail is in the form of the Creative-Photo-Gift-Certificate as described above. Alternatively, you can submit to us the photos yourself, and then assemble the album after using our services to prepare the photos. You may want to download one of our our FREE album templates. Of course, the volume discount will apply to your purchase as well.
USE AS INPUT TO OTHER COMMERCIAL GIFT PRODUCTS Click here to Learn More > The internet has many opportunities to use custom personalized photos to make a unique photo gift. We only have room to mention a few as examples of a great photo gift idea. To make a great personalized photo gift simply send us your photo and we will enhance it to your specifications. The custom photo gift digital file that you receive can be used directly as the input to a wide variety of digital photo gift products. Internet Sites with typical Photo Products
USE YOUR ENHANCED PHOTO [CLICK HERE for more information >] Since we are providing you with a completely new digital photo file, enhanced to your specifications, and not a hard copy, there are many exciting ways to use your enhanced photo. Once you have approved our work, you will be guided through a download process, which transfers the retouched photo from our computer to yours. Once you have saved the new digital photo file on your computer you may use it in any manner that you like. Listed below are the most common uses, however, what you can do with the digitally enhanced photo is limited only by your imagination. PRINTING ON YOUR HOME COMPUTER The file that you will receive will be returned in the format that you send it to us, unless you specify differently. Normally this is the common JPG format that is generated by most digital cameras. The returned file will have a file name that is generated by us using your original. For example, if you upload a file called yourfile.jpg we will return the enhanced photo with a filename of yourfile-1.jpg . This type of file is readable by most common digital photo software and common printing programs that are installed on your computer. If you need a special format, just let us know, and we can convert the file to most of the common formats. To make high resolution prints, simply open the file in your photo management software, or printing software, and set up the print job. The use of high gloss or matte finish print paper will allow you to have extremely high quality prints economically in your own home. Of course you may make any number of prints. We provide instructions and helpful hints on how to get the best quality. USE YOUR ENHANCED PHOTO IN A WORD PROCESSING or GRAPHICS PROGRAM You may insert the photo into a Word Processing Program that you use on your computer. We provide simple step by step instructions, for Microsoft Word, the most common word processor, to help you make your letters, and documents easily. We provide templates for Microsoft Word that will allow you to make your own personalized photo letter heads, business letters with photo enhanced artwork letter heads, and other documents. If you have your own graphics programs such as Power Point or any of the common drawing programs such as Corel Draw you can insert your completed photo into these programs to add interest and usefulness.
MAKE YOUR PHOTOS USEFUL [CLICK HERE for more information >] Most of us take many photos, the we either print out the results and put them into a shoe box or album, never to be seen again ... or we download them from our camera to our computer, which rapidly collects thousands of picture files, again almost never to be viewed. We make your best photos useful by creating Photo Art Work from them which can be framed for your walls for you and all to enjoy. In addition, we take your photos and create useful products for you to use. For example, your photo can be used as a greeting card, as a business card, as advertising, and in many other useful ways. The following are a quick sample of these ways your photo can be useful. PHOTO ART FOR FRAMING Click here to Learn More > After your photo has been enhanced by our digital photo enhancement process, we deliver, through the internet, a high definition computer file photo file in the format that you select. You can then print this photo on either matte or glossy photo paper on your own printer. Generally, you can print any size up to a maximum 8 1/2 x 11 on home computer printers. Larger prints can be made by taking the file to a commercial print shop or to most of the office supply companies available. This photo can then be matted and framed by yourself or by framing companies. MAKE YOUR OWN ADVERTISING MATERIALS Click here to Learn More > There are so many ways to photo enhance your advertising materials that it is difficult to describe all of them here. An example is shown here to explain how digital photo enhancement, photo retouching, and digital image editing can be used. Have a business? Use your enhanced photo as input to your advertising copy for newspapers, internet sales, or brochures. Photo editing and photo retouching services provided by Creative Photo Stuff can be used to generate photographic input to your own computer programs to make advertising copy. In addition, the photo enhancement created by our processes, may be submitted directly through the internet to sales outlets such as E-bay.com and other media to show off your item for sale. This process is as simple as submitting your photo to us, selecting the service desired, following our simple steps using menus to select the details. After downloading the results, you can use Microsoft Word to create advertising copy, brochures and other materials by inserting the resulting photo. We provide FREE templates and instructions. After formatting the results, you can print your own brochures inexpensively. MAKE YOUR OWN GREETING CARDS Click here to Learn More > You can use our Photo Editing Service to make and personalize your own Greeting Cards. Send us your favorite photo and we will process it to your specifications and return it to you for use in any Greeting Card program that you may have. Alternatively, you can choose one of our FREE Microsoft Word Templates to insert your picture into. In addition to these “do it yourself” methods, we offer a Greeting Card making service that uses your photo as input and we create the greeting card which you download and print as many copies as you wish. To use one of our Greeting Card services just follow the following simple steps. Log onto our web site, and select “Create a Photo Now!” If you have already established an account you will be directed to main services window, if not you will first be shown how to create an account. Choose make a greeting card from the menu of selections. You then choose either “I will make it myself” or “Make a card for me”. We then guide you through the process. You are able to view the resulting photo or card and make revisions. Once you are satisfied with the results you download the resulting photo or Microsoft Word based card and print as many copies as you want. MAKE A GREAT “FAMILY CHRISTMAS LETTER” Click here to Learn More > Many of us use a “family letter” at Christmas time to communicate to our friends what has happened this last year. You can make your own Christmas Letter with enhanced photos, including photo titles and other fancy features. We can make this time consuming letter writing a simple process. Just provide us with the pictures you want enhanced, and we will return them ready to insert into your letter. Use our FREE templates to make your letter writing easier. In addition, we offer a letter making service, just provide us with the pictures and the text, we can make your letter and when you are satisfied, download the resulting Microsoft Word document and print out as many copies as you like. MAKE YOUR OWN BUSINESS CARDS Click here to Learn More > Business cards are expensive to have made commercially. Use our business card service to generate your own business cards with photographic content. It has been said that photos say a thousand words. Let us create the perfect business card with your photo. Send us a picture which describes your business, or a picture of yourself. We will use our photo manipulation and photo retouching services to provide the digital photo editing that will make an image that you can use in any business card program that you may have on your computer. Alternatively, you can download a FREE template from our gallery of Microsoft Word documents and insert the photo. We provide FREE instructions on how to make your own photo business cards. Once you have the cards formatted, you can print the cards, using business card stock available at most stores (such as Office Depot, Wal Mart etc.) In addition, we offer a business card making service, just provide us with the pictures and the text, we will generate the card and when you are satisfied, download the resulting Microsoft Word document and print out as many cards as you like. If addresses, telephone numbers change, you can simply modify the Word document and print more cards.
MAKE CUSTOMIZED E-MAIL Click here to Learn More > Use our Image Enhancement Services to make custom photos that you can use as E-Mail advertisements, E-Mail thank you notes, and other E-Mail documents ... such as replies to requests for more information on a car that you are trying to sell. Just send us the photo, we enhance the image, and then after you have downloaded the results, insert the photo into the E-mail that you want to send. We guide you through the general steps that most E-mail programs use with our on-line tutorials. MAKE FABRIC TRANSFERS FOR TEXTILE PROJECTS Click here to Learn More > Create-a-Photo Fabric Transfers We can provide the art work from your pictures for fabric transfers which can be used for quilt blocks, tee shirts, or any other project you have in mind. You can use our standard photo enhancing processes to enhance the photo or any other image for printing on fabric transfer media on your home printer or we also can send you the finished transfer printed on 200 count white bleached muslin for your project via the US mail system. (See the web page “Special Handling” for details. You can use our services to enhance your photos and then print them onto Fabric Transfers that you can use to embellish T-Shirts, Quilt projects, or make your own fabric Logos and other neat stuff. The standard Basic, Artistic and Premium Services can process the photo to your satisfaction, then you download the file to your computer and open the file in your favorite printing program. Just put the Fabric Transfer medium of your choice into your printer paper tray and print the enhanced photo onto the transfer using one of the common printing programs that came with your computer or camera. Then using the method specified by the transfer manufacturer, transfer the image to your fabric. We provide FREE templates, and FREE tutorials on the subject of fabric transfers and tips on how to get the best results. |