Let’s face it; pricing your photography is tough. You don’t want them to think you are too expensive, but you also don’t want to undercharge.

Our friend Sarah Petty and her team have cooked up an amazing event: Pain-Free Pricing! She’ll be interviewing 9 profitable photographers to uncover the strategy behind their prices and the products they sell. This event breaks down pricing for wedding, families, seniors, children, and more.

So if you’re spinning your wheels wondering how to price your images, you better grab your FREE seat here!

Get ready for some AMAZING education on May 22 & 23. What are you waiting for?

Singela is a lively and good-humored handwritten typeface, hand crafted by Erica Jung and Ricardo Marcin, type designers and graphic artists from Brazil.

Perfect for giving your site a whimsical look, Singela offers a nonchalant spontaneity with a feeling of childlike delight. It displays a variable and cheerfully random effect through the mixing of its upper and lower case letters.

Singela is now available for all of PhotoBiz’s HTML5 products.

Golden Cape in Croatia is a narrow beach composed mostly of white pebble rock that visibly shifts with the tidal movement, creating a unique sight. Our latest HTML5 Portfolio Site, Golden Cape, is a traditional design perfect for showing off your images. There is a generous area for your logo above the frame, and each corner of the frame features a circle which is reminiscent of the pebbles found on Golden Cape. Another subtle design element is the two thin vertical lines flanking the framed content area. The menu bar below the frame is simple and straightforward for ease of navigation.

Our amazing color-shifting technology works especially well with the Golden Cape design where the page background, frame, and lines will color-shift to coordinate beautifully with a highlighted color. The thick frame as well as the thin accent lines have a tinted overlay to appear slightly darker than the page background color. When complemented with a transparent PNG as shown in the Golden Cape design sample, the infinite possibilities to personalize your site become abundantly clear.

On gallery pages color-shifting applies to the thumbnail images, specifically to the bold thumbnail image frames and navigation arrows for a visually appealing affect. You will also notice, the color-shift applies to the selected menu item’s background color. The thumbnail images stacked on the right are elegantly balanced with the vertically stacked social media icons on the left. Together they are visually reinforced by the vertical lines alongside the thick frame.

On Information pages the website background is displayed behind the text. Vertical images work best for these pages.

Is this elegant design a good choice for you? Check out our sample site for Golden Cape or previewing it for your own site to find out!

Special thanks to Kalen Henderson of Studio K in Mount Pleasant, IA for sharing her images for the sample of PhotoBiz’s Golden Cape HTML5 Portfolio Site design!

View Golden Cape HTML5 Portfolio Site Sample

This Throwback Thursday we’re helping you bring a retro look and feel to your website with the release of our latest background tiles! These are now available in your PhotoBiz Control Panel, and can be used with all of our HTML5 products.

The Rhythm and Hues Tile is based on a 70’s era wallpaper design. The beige and baby blue color scheme was a big hit back in the day, and it’s neutral color palette will allow your images to take center stage. 

You can give your site an entirely different retro look with the Funkytown Transparent background. Remember ‘Op Art’? The psychedelic white pattern on this background has transparent sections that allow it to be used over any background color to truly personalize your site. Try it with our industry leading color-shifting technology; the color will change for each image to fully customize your background.

We’ve had a lot of fun this Throwback Thursday with these retro background tiles and hope you will too!

I got to spend the week at Texas School in Dallas and had a blast talking to current customers and signing up new ones. There are lots of people who went home with some very nice bright blue PhotoBiz Loves Me t-shirts as a result of signing up to be a PhotoBizzer!

It was an educational and fun filled week. Classes bonded as they learned how to improve their photography businesses, let loose and danced the night away at a local Cowboys Red River Dance Hall, and let their inner superhero come out to play at a costume party.  Everyone also got to shop in the “Country Store” tradeshow, where we had a booth.

We had so many fantastic customers come by our booth to say hello, and share how much they appreciate our Passionate Support team. Take a look for yourself.

Vance M. from our Passionate Support team joined me for one day of Texas School and so you will see him in many of the pictures as well. We had visits from Lori Nordstrom, Dan Frievalt, Jen Hillenga, Mike Fulton, Cody Clinton, Greg Daniels, Mary Fisk-Taylor, Jamie Hayes, William Branson III, Hiram Trillo, Ron Nichols, Richard Sturdevant, and Carl Caylor.

If you’ve never been to Texas School, you should definitely put it on your list of events to consider for 2014!