Metallic Heaven: Use Metallic Photo Paper to Make Your Portfolio Pop!
Metallic photo paper is a great option for wall art,, but it can also make an artist's portfolio standout from the crowd to leave a lasting impression.
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Jul 2017
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Sep 2016
2016 Phoenix Networking Signature Event Recap
This Phoenix Networking Signature Event was masterfully organized by the talented Gelie Akhenblit of Networking Phoenix and her staff. Studded with guest speakers, raffles and fun photo-events, the crowd was entertained all evening long while making valuable business connections.
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Apr 2011
From paper prints to digital: Catalog Spree offers a new way to shop through iPad
Padopolis has developed an iPad app called Catalog Spree. The free download offers consumers a brand new way to shop multiple catalogs in one source, much like you would when visiting a traditional brick and mortar mall or flipping through paper prints. The app lets you view product information and order directly from each company's [...]
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Jan 2011
How to price your prints for sale
Pricing your art can be tricky at best. Many of our customers struggle to find their place in the market, and not price themselves out of business before they even get started. Until you are an well known photographer with celebrity clientele, like Peter Lik, commanding and actually selling your work for a hefty price [...]
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Nov 2010
Seven simple rules to integrate your signage into your store environment
With Black Friday upon us many people are poised to do some serious power shopping. The increased traffic is a perfect opportunity for retailers to use in-store signs to their advantage. Signware manufacture, Rose Displays, wrote some great tips on things to consider about your store environment before installing your next campaign. Some of them [...]
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Oct 2010
Designing and effective sign
We love printing big graphics for customers here at Artisan Colour. We also want to make sure that the graphics we produce are effective. If the letters used for the text are too small, created with a font that is not readable, or a color that is hard to differentiate from the background, then the [...]
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Sep 2010
Big brand colors on the web
COLOURlovers recently compared the predominate colors chosen for brand identification out of the top 100 most popular websites. Blue and red with their various shades and hues top the list. Sometimes the color is chosen after many hours of market research, and other times the arbitrary can turn out to be poignant. I didn't know [...]
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Jun 2010
Using photography to help you sell more
Our photography studio is often employed to aid in product shots that are used in catalog or online sales. The perfect image that highlights the product attributes and represents the product accurately is imperative, and part of our specialty at Artisan Colour. How the resulting images are ultimately used in print or website placement can [...]
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Jan 2010
Building brand visibility
You have your mission statement written, and the perfect tag line all picked out. Most people's first step to building your company's visual identity and brand is the selection of your company logo. This important visual image projects to the world what your company represents, and needs to function well in different contexts; website, letterhead, [...]
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Oct 2009
How to copyright your work
Last week the local ASMP chapter had a meeting about how to protect your images under the new copyright laws. The most significant change came with the establishment of the Orphan Works law. This law makes the image public domain if it is difficult or impossible to contact the copyright holder. With the proliferation of [...]