PHOTOGRAPHY and IMAGE MANIPULATION Pictures - are they worth "a thousand words"? They have a saying in the advertising industry: "Don't tell 'em, show 'em". When you want to get your message across a good picture can be worth more than any amount of fine words. Good photography is a key element in all successful publicity campaigns. For small and medium enterprises, however, picture costs can be disproportionately high. To illustrate a simple four-page brochure, for example, can cost several hundred pounds. Some small businesses are tempted to cut corners and snap their own pictures. Bad idea! Photographs that look 'amateurish' can do more harm than good. The good news is: there's no need to compromise! If you are looking for affordable, professional photography to illustrate a brochure, catalogue, website or CD ROM, you've come to the right place! We offer three affordable solutions. (1) Select images from our Picture Library. (2) Commission us to digitally enhance your own photographs (3) Hire a photographer for a studio or location session You can 'mix and match' from any of those solutions but, no matter which you decide upon, you'll know from the outset how much it will cost - thanks to our transparent pricing policy and no hidden extras! PICTURE LIBRARY Picture Libraries normally charge a base price for each image. On top of that they add a sliding-scale fee based on the number of people likely to see the finished item. For example: they will charge you more for a photograph used in 10,000 sales brochures than they would would for the same image used in 1,000 flyers. Our system is fairer (not to mention a good deal cheaper!) At keithjones.net you pay for a Selection Session, where we assist you in choosing appropriate pictures from our library of 'stock' images. The cost? - a highly affordable £18 per half hour (which includes the one-time use of all pictures selected). DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT Perhaps you already have pictures that, with a little 'tweaking', would be suitable for your purpose? In this case we can optimise your prints, slides or digital images by adjusting colour balance, brightness, contrast and removing unnatural colour casts. We can also eliminate untidy or 'busy' backgrounds, blemishes or other unwanted elements from your pictures. We can make your product 'jump from the page' by blurring or replacing the background. We can combine elements from several different photographs into one and we can restore faded or damaged pictures so they look like new. "Re-purposing" images in this way can save you £££s. If the pictures are for Web, DVD or CD ROM we will optimise them for rapid loading - with no perceptible loss of quality. Take this page for example: it features 10 x JPG photographs, 3 x GIFs and a fair amount of text, yet it loads almost instantly. Unlike 'stock' images, digitally enhanced pictures belong to you - so you can use them over and over again without incurring additional expense. The cost? - £18 per half hour plus £4 for your CD ROM 'archive'. NEW - Video Transfer - your precious home movies transferred to DVD. Click Here for details. PHOTOGRAPHY (studio or location) A two-hour studio or location session will cost £65 which includes a set of 24 pictures + proof sheets. Image-enhancement, editing, prints and travelling expenses at extra cost. Sessions archived onto CD ROM or DVD so you can use them again and again at no additional cost. PHOTOGRAPH RESTORATION If you have a treasured photograph that is torn, creased, discoloured or damaged, help is at hand. Click Here for details.