Aaduki Multimedia Insurance

Aaduki Multimedia Insurance offers cover for business equipment and images, Public and Products Liability, Employers Liability, Professional Indemnity, Business Interruption, Money, Personal Accident and Sickness as well as Buildings and Contents! With policies designed from everyone from amateur enthusiasts through to professional photographers, journalists, videographers and film makers we really do have a policy that is right for you..

ACS

ACS specialise in repairing all makes of camera and optical equipment. Whatever the problem, from just simply cleaning the CCD to a major repair, you can rely on us.
FREE camera check at the show see the side bar.

T: 01953 889 324

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Colorworld Imaging

Colorworld’s quality combined with a wide range of packages and our School Preview Service ensures comprehensive value for money for University, School, Play Group and In-Store photographers. Our award winning software StudioPartner™ for Schools allows you to upload your digital files to us across the internet and we also accept images on both 35mm and 120 film and digital files on CDs.

At Colorworld, we pride ourselves in enhancing your business by developing bespoke products just for you. We have a number of standard products that are ideal for those just starting out, or for those who want to keep things simple. However, should you require a proofing system that displays your logo and your corporate style, then our design team can help you create the perfect product. Single print, multi print or even a proofing booklet can be customised to meet requirements free of charge.

Eizo

Eizo Nanao Corporation is now firmly established as the world’s leading specialist in high-quality visual display systems. With the market showing rapid growth in both size and diversity, we continue to consolidate our position with products that integrate excellence in technology with new, cutting-edge software applications. Such integration inevitably transcends the traditional boundaries of development, design and production, and is taking EIZO forward into exciting and challenging new areas of business. Supported by an active commitment to the environment, EIZO quality is increasingly recognized for offering the best available combinations of performance, reliability, comfort and service. For major corporations, research institutes, financial and medical institutions, as well as professionals in many other fields, EIZO display systems define the current industry standards.

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Framing Mentor

Framing Mentor provides online training courses and offline consultancy services to picture framers worldwide. We're here to help you make your framing business more profitable and more enjoyable. We cater for framers of all levels; whether you're an old hand or a complete newbie. Use our online training courses to learn framing and business skills in your own time and at your own speed.

We also work to keep you up to date with news and insight from the picture framing industry. Visit our blog for articles and advice, or connect and communicate with other framers and suppliers in our forums. Framing Mentor is a community, and we want you to get involved.

Framing Mentor is run by Jim Anderson, picture framer and serial entrepreneur since 1985. Jim is passionate about both the craft of framing and the business of it. He works with experts from across the industry to build resources designed to help you.

Consultancy Services 

When you run a small business, you are expected to deal with a huge array of issues. It's unlikely that any one person could have the skill set to do them all justice; but neglecting them can mean that your business will suffer. 

Often, juggling all these issues can make it hard to see the wood from the trees. That's where I come in. By taking a fresh view of your business I can quickly help you to pinpoint areas that could be drastically improved and help you to do so.

Graphistudio

A New Concept
Convert your wedding album and shape your dreams into a time capsule of happy memories. The latest innovation from Graphistudio encapsulates memories and keeps them preserved and protected in a timeless, stylish, new and totally unique form of presentation. Totally new - totally different - Graphistudio again lead's the field with its brilliant innovations and now sets yet higher standards of design quality with a brand new form of display presentation. Simple yet stylish, this unique new way to display memories is yet another example of Graphistudio's ability to set a trend and forge ahead with great new ideas.

Just

CLEANING & PROTECTIVE PRODUCTS FOR CAMERAS AND ALL OPTICAL EQUIPMENT

Dust is the bane of every photographer’s life. Whether it is dust on the lens, dust on the sensor, the scanner or on transparencies and negatives. Dust can degrade optical equipment, ruin an image, add to retouching costs and damage valuable equipment. Whichever way you look at it, dust costs – period.

At Just we are dedicated to providing solutions to dust problems. We don’t promise to eliminate dust from your life, but we do strive to make it a manageable problem by providing cost effective solutions for a wide variety of imaging situations.

For digital SLR photographers we have safe, guaranteed products to help keep the imaging sensor clean. We also provide guidance, tutorials, product videos and telephone support to help you achieve success when cleaning the sensor.

With some companies charging up to £150 to clean the sensor in a digital SLR, it makes sound economic sense to manage this issue yourself.

We can show you how!

You may also find our frequently asked question page helpful.

Light Blue Software

Award-winning business management software for photographers
Designed for all types of photographers, from one-person businesses to studios with several staff, Light Blue is a flexible business management system that lets you keep on top of shoots, orders and contacts. It's bursting with clever things to help you to run a busy and successful business, and Light Blue also makes it easy to manage your image files, publish them on the web and profit from them.

Download a fully functioning copy today for a 30-day trial to see how Light Blue can help make running your photography business easy.

How can Light Blue help you?

Track enquiries, bookings and shoots: Know exactly what's happening when, and publish information to iCal or Google Calendar.

Be personal: Easily create mail-merge letters and emails to add that individual touch to your communications.

Handle your finances with ease: Add new orders, track payments, find outstanding debts, record expenditure and get an overview of your current position.

Publish your pictures online and profit from them: Effortlessly create attractive web galleries from sets of pictures, linked to PayPal's shopping cart.

Do it your way: Update your logos and templates yourself, with no extra fees.

Enjoy running your business: Light Blue is intutitive and pleasing to the eye, putting a little bit of joy back into the soulless world of admin.

Find out more about how Light Blue can help you.

Loxley Colour

Loxley Colour is your ideal choice for everything you need from professional photographic printing to wedding album manufacture. Our range of products and services reflects our commitment to providing you with the most technologically advanced workflow solutions available in today’s market.

Creating the Perfect Wedding Memories
Welcome to the world of Bellissimo, a stimulating range of stylish book bound albums offered by Loxley Colour.
The Bellissimo Range is manufactured at our extensive production facility meaning you will receive the full support you have come to expect from the UK’s leading professional laboratory.

Memento Photo Frames

Your personal message will be engraved into the surface of the Memento Photo Frames in almost any language.

Your customers special moment captured by you in a photograph, after which we can personalise the frame by engraving a message onto a black photo glass frame in any text. All we need are the customer’s instructions from you. This is then engraved and hand crafted by our skilled craftsman into the glass and will look stunning in any environment. The frame can be wall mounted or used in a fitted stand.

MPA

Established in 1952 and with over 2000 members, the Master Photographers Association is the United Kingdom's only organisation for full time, qualified and professional photographers.

The MPA offers members a variety of membership benefits, including education qualifications, informative regional meetings, national seminars, business building promotions and marketing support. 

Photo Training 4U

Learn the day-to-day photography techniques of top portrait & wedding photographers as well as the author of ” Portrait Photography - The Secrets of Posing & Lighting” “Taking Great Family Portraits” ” Wedding Photography”, ” The Complete Guide to Lighting” and ” Photoshop in a Weekend”

PhotoTraining4U is the answer to all your photo-training needs in genuinely affordable, short photography videos that you can easily fit into daily coffee breaks.

To Instruct & Inspire you is our goal, your skill level doesn’t matter, you can be a keen amateur photographer or a seasoned Pro – you just choose the subject that fits what you want to learn today, whether to “Instruct” you in a technique or to “Inspire” you with ideas, there is a video in the knowledge bank to watch. 

Workshops can cost you thousands during a year but this meticulously planned photographer training website can instruct you or inspire you every day. Developed by Mark Cleghorn, one of the best known and most respected professional photographers, PhotoTraining4U will transform the way you work and the profits you make – and for less than the price of a coffee and a sandwich each week!

With over 800 films already on line and with at least three new films added every week, can you afford not to be a member of this life changing photographer training programme.

Photostorie

Photostorie are the leading suppliers of both Digital and Traditional wedding albums and Photo books.
All prospective customers are offered full size free sample albums which may be updated from time to time.

With over thirty five years in the Professional Photographic business we appreciate the challenges which face Photographers on a daily basis and are therefore better prepared to provide the answers you need.

Our quality is outstanding in all respects and to reinforce this we offer a lifetime guarantee on all our products. This quality assurance provides peace of mind to all our customers and yours..

Sim2000

Sim 2000 Imaging offers professional photographers a one-stop shop for all their printing and binding needs. We will produce high quality digital albums and parent books, portrait books, coffee table books and proof books, as well as a full range of marketing materials so that you can promote your business in the best possible way. We are delighted to also introduce a new range of wall hanging solutions, which include box frames, block mounts and layered acrylics, with more types of frames to be introduced shortly. You can design any of our products using our free 'SimWare' software, easily downloadable from our website. All our products are handmade in our factory at Elstree, ensuring you receive the highest quality products at the most competitive prices, with the best possible customer service. 

SWPP

When there is such a choice of representative membership organisations, forums, web listings and advice out there it is easy to get caught and misdirected with your hard earned cash. Built on 20 year’s of experience and with a combined membership of over 6500 worldwide members one organisation offers a complete package that will give you the return for a very reasonable investment. Best known as the SWPP & BPPA (The Society of Wedding and Portrait photographers and British professional Photographs Assoc) the world’s largest independent organisation has launched five new additional partner ‘Societies’ representing Sports, Travel, Wildlife, Press and Commercial photographers.

If you enjoy entering image competitions, debating on a Forum, attending seminars, getting referrals, saving on insurance, gaining distinctions, having feedback on your work and much more – then the ‘Societies’ are here to help you.

The Image File

Theimagefile is a constantly updated web strategy for the photographer. Take a trial account and build a great business grabbing website and be selling your images worldwide in three currencies two hours later. Or quickly update your web site by adding some of our fabulous pages like the flipping album, contract page, or special contact page.

Uploading your images is easy and selecting your sales, options from the collections is super simple. Have your customer orders go directly to your choice of partner lab, they will send back to your customer under your branding, saving double postage and your time.

Slideshows, your watermarking and re-sizing is all done for you. All this with fast and friendly telephone support.

If you are looking for a way to improve your web site, get more business or just sell more this summer take a trial with theimagefile and relax knowing it is all sorted. Even better, just use the Promo code summer11 before the end of June for an additional month for just £1.00.

Telephone enquiries welcome – 0845 118 0030

Towergate Camerasure

Insurance to protect photographers’ tools of trade. We can offer specialist cover for the photographic industry including laboratories and picture libraries, as well as professional photographers.

• Photographic laboratories insurance
• Picture libraries insurance
• Professional Indemnity insurance
• Professional photographers insurance