Have you ever wanted to enhance your portrait session revenues, but the album design process seems overwhelming? Are you looking for an easy way to enhance your portrait package? Creating an album doesn't need to be a huge undertaking. Of course we love making big, tricked out, all the bells and whistles metal-cover books with a photographers heart poured into every page, but sometimes a nice, simple, inexpensive professional quality book that shows off your photos can help differentiate your portrait packages and increase your profits. We've created a quick video tutorial with how Eric (our c... [More]

Laura Cottril is a portrait photographers in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides clients a complete portrait solution. Learn from her experience how she has been able to grow her business by spending quality time with her clients. Personalized service A big key to Laura’s success has been to go to the client’s home for the initial consultation. This is a great way for Laura to develop the relationship, view the client's style, and provide a high level of customer service. While in their home Laura takes note of the client's current art, furnishings, colors and taste. By doing ... [More]

  The popular translucent flysheet.   The new "flysheet same as endsheet" option. We know most of you and your clients love our translucent flysheets, but occasionally a few customers have told us that you would prefer to have a more traditional flysheet that is the same as the endsheet, or both. Now you have full control over the flysheet. Your flysheet ordering options now include: Translucent flysheet (still the default) Flysheet same as endsheet Double flysheet The "double flysheet" option has the first flysheet to be the same as the endsheet, and a second translucent ... [More]

 We've expanded our popular faux-leather materials to include three new colors in a smooth leather style. The three new colors are a great complement to our well received Ostrich style materials. Our new faux-leathers are available in the following colors: Black Metallic Blue Steel Black has a very similar look and feel of our glove quality leather material used on our leather books. It is an ideal choice for clients that like the traditional leather appearance but would rather not have an animal hide on their book. It also allows you to offer a leather style book at a lower price point... [More]

Due to customer requests we've added a more modern twist to our leather covers! You can now order a non-padded version of our books. The image on the left shows the traditional padded book that we've been supplying for year. The image on the right shows the same glove quality leather with no padding.  Now you can provide an alternative to customers that like the feel of our quality leather and faux-leather books but want a more modern look. Just select "Leather Hardcover Book" when you start your ordering process and you'll be presented with the standard padded and no-padding options for ... [More]

Our goal is to help our customers deliver the highest quality photo books in the industry. We've update our Photoshop templates to make it easier than ever for you to create designs that delight your clients. We introduce Edge Assist layers in our version 3 templates that make it easier than ever to create make great book designs. The Edge Assist layers help you make great page designs.    The "Bleed trim" layer shows you how much of your page will be trimmed off to create full bleed pages.   The Safe Zone is the part of the page where all your major design elements,... [More]

It's that time of year again. Be sure to get your orders to us in time for the holidays! We have ability to take some orders in as late as Sunday, December 18. Contact us at support@sharedink.com or 1.877.944.8920 for details. Go to our 2011 Holiday Ordering Deadline page to get the details. As always, don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Confused about paper specifications? You’re not alone. Common paper specifications for photo books use the terms “cover stock” (also known as “card stock”) and “text stock” when describing how heavy a paper is. In the United States the weight of paper stocks are commonly referenced by the weight of 500 sheets of paper. To confuse things the size of the sheet of paper used for determining the spec depends on the type of paper that is being specified. Pound weight for cover paper is the weight of 500 sheets of a 20” by 26” paper. The pound we... [More]