Collagist

It is beginning of a whole new year and the Valentines Day is upon us.  We have just created few unique designs to share with your Valentines.  Please head to the Gallery to review the designs and you may order a Collage of your choice with 4, 5, 6 or 7 pictures by choosing a design and picking a poster of your choice.

Happy Valentines Day.

Tags: promo, valentines day

Comment on this blog or tweet this blog post and we will pick a winner for a $50 collage gift certificate on Dec 22, 2009.

Happy holidays & Good luck!

Tags: certificate, gift, give away

New Collagist web site design released on Dec 11, 2009.  Please visit our website at http://www.collagist.com and check out all the new features and great list of products.  Biggest change is introduction of Collage Packages to suit different customers’ needs and the price.

For the first few days we have 10% OFF promotion on all orders.  Do not forget to look for the special code on the web site.
We will be displaying Featured Products on the home page with this new design.

Featured Products

Please tell us about what you think about the new design.  We hope that the new one page order process is going to make ordering from Collagist so much easier.

Collagist Team

Tags: promotion, sale, web site

We are happy to provide a preview of the new design for the Collagist.com website.  Mention the code “NEWSITE” at the time of your order and get 20% off on your entire order or get FREE shipping (whichever is less).

New Collagist web site design

Hope you like this new design and would like to get your feedback and comments.

We will post about our new design launch on this blog and on twitter.

Tags: design, offer, web site

New Collagist web site design and features.

We are working on a set of new features with a  brand new design for our website.  Some of the features:

• New product lines; Simplified Photo Collage packages with pricing for every budget and occasion.
• Gift Certificates; Order gift certificates and get the certificate delivered within minutes via email or shipped to you.
• Option to pick Gift certificates starting at $25 and going up to $200 or more
• Newly designed order process with shopping cart with one page ordering process
• Newly designed order tracking page with all your order information and options
• One place to see your order, pictures, proofs, and communicate with the Collagist designer

Some of the screen shots of the new website:

Gift Certificate Order Page

Collagist Gift Certificate

Tags: design, features, gift certificates, new

Holidays are fast approaching us. It is time to get thinking about how to gift someone that you love for the holidays in an affordable way.

[Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images]

At Collagist we plan on giving many ideas and tips for gifting during these holidays. Not all the ideas have to cost you a lot of money. If you are planning on doing something special with pictures and your budget is low then think about getting a special gift with pictures using some digital effects. There are many free tools available on the web to do magic with the pictures. Some of the tools and tips are listed here:

• PC World: http://www.pcworld.com/article/157303/how_to_fix_and_find_your_photos.html
  
• PC World: http://www.pcworld.com/article/182188/parlay_your_photos_into_holiday_cards_and_calendars.html
• picnik review
• Consumer Research: Photo Editing Software Reviews

If you do not have time or want to some thing extra special with your pictures then contact us and we can apply special effects to your pictures and prepare extra large photo and canvas posters for your pictures.
Collagist Team

Tags: holidays, reviews

We all take digital pictures; a lot of them.  Ever since we got introduced to the digital cameras it has become so easy to take a lot of pictures and easily get lost with what we took at what time.  Adding to this digital deluge, we now have the cell phone cameras that are taking far superior pictures than before.  It is so easy to get lost in these pictures unless everyone has a clear strategy to store and manage their pictures.  There are so many tools out their to make this job easy; Picasa from Google, various web storage services from Shutterfly, photoworks, etc.  Our neighborhood stores such as Walgreens, CVS, Target etc. now have the photo sharing and printing services that are so easy to use and very convenient to arrange in albums.

Photo: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/

We, at Collagist, want to provide a way to get large photo prints, canvas prints and, of course, create photo collages with multiple pictures at least once every year.  If you have young or school going kids it is quite possible that you have a lot of pictures and a photo collage, once a year, is a great way to get all those great pictures as home decorating piece.

Our large photo posters and canvas prints are of highest quality and our service, quality and price are unmatched to get a photo collage print on photo or canvas poster.  Give it a try and you will not be disappointed.

Subscribe to Collagist newsletter and get all the specials and tips for the upcoming holidays.  Use the following link to subscribe to our newsletter:

Collagist Newsletter Subscription

Collagist

http://www.collagist.com ~ do more with your pictures ~

Personalized Twitter Backgrounds from Collagist

Are you looking to get personalized twitter backgrounds? Then…

• Follow @collagist on twitter
• Send a tweet with text “#collagistbg” and
• We pick and give out free twitter backgrounds to 5 followers every week.

Personalized Twitter background for Collagist

Tags: twitter

We have 22 different and unique custom twitter icons designed for you. The icons are available in two sizes in high quality transparency PNG file format. Browse through them and feel free to use them on your websites or blogs. If you like these twitter birds then send us a tweet and we would like to hear from you.

Collagist Twitter Bird Icons by Shruti Maidam

Tags: twitter

We have been offering Collages on Canvas for quite some time.  I have just realized that there are no special instructions on the Gallery wrapped Canvas on the site and hence updated the “How It Works” section.  Added information about our process on Proofs & Revisions along with Canvas prints.  A document is added to explain how to review the proofs and request changes.
Here is the write-up:

PROOFS & REVISIONS

After we prepare the proofs we want you to be satisfied with the designs. Remember, we take pride in custom designing your collages and would love to work with you to incorporate any changes that you may have with your collage designs.

You may request…

• placement of specific pictures within the design
• changes to the background color
• pictures’ border width, shadow or color
• change to the poster orientation
• change to caption font style or color
• placement of the caption on the collage

Proofs will be clearly marked with the proof number and the pictures in the collage are individually marked with numbers. You may refer to the proof numbers and the picture numbers when requesting any changes. Once we get your response, we prepare the final design within one business day and get it printed after your order is paid in full.

See the Collagist Proof Instructions document for more information.

PHOTO COLLAGE GALLERY PRINTS

The canvas print will be gallery wrapped and can be displayed without a frame. Your canvas will be sealed with our 100+ year protective top coat, then skillfully mounted on thick, heavy-duty 1-1/2″ solid wood stretcher bars. We can use the collage background color on the sides of the gallery wrap to make the canvas look great from any angle. With Standard shipping, the canvas print takes 5-10 business days to reach you in a protective packaging.