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Make Business YOUR Business!

Many photographers are making money on Business Portraits, and we want you to add that to your mix! We have created several pieces to help you market to local businesses in your area including business offices, realtors, and much more! Just think if you get into a Realtor's office to take their professional business portraits, ...

USPS and FedEx shipping changes

The USPS has announced rate increases for commercial pieces starting on October 18th. As a result, many of the shipments sent to consumers from CCS will see a postage increase that started in October. CCS utilizes a FedEx service called Smart Post to ship many items over 1lb to consumers. Historically, the turn around time ...

NEW Backgrounds for Holiday Portraits

Holiday themed backgrounds are now available in CORE and can be downloaded from Developments here.

Virtual School ID & Yearbook Programs

With many schools & students still virtual, you may need to provide some out-of-the-box solutions for your school clients. You can use the registration tool in CORE to collect images & data for your school to use for student IDs and/or yearbook images.  For more ideas on working with schools going virtual, visit this webinar ...

The Holidays Are Just Around the Corner!

Now is the time to start adding and touting Holiday Cards to your retail customers! We have both SLIMLINE and PREMIUM Card Lines available. There is a large variety of designs, papers and titles available for each card line. We have created these flyers to help you promote card options to your customers!You can download ...

Dynamic Cutout Images Can Now Be Used for Yearbook Poses & Exports

Beginning Tuesday, October 27th, you no longer have to pre-render chroma-key/TKO images in order to use them for yearbook images.  You can now allow a dynamic cutout image to be selected as the yearbook pose.   This also means you can export your yearbook files without rendering.  You’ll enter the background you’d like the exports to ...

Tablet Hoods for the Surface Go

This tablet hood will help shield your tablet when shooting outside and make it easier to see the screen. Order the 8.6" size for the Go tablet on Amazon here. Because the hood sticks out from the tablet, it will need to be positioned more to the side of the tripod or on a stand so ...

CCS October Update

Date: October 19, 2020 To: CCS Customers From: Jack Counts, Jr. Happily, there has been an upturn in business recently and some things have become clear. While “events” are still not common, school pictures & school sports are being photographed. Our customers who are making sales calls are booking business – including new schools and leagues. Sadly, our customers who ...

Fall Themed 3 Day Sale

New designs are now available for a fall themed 3 Day sale! The emails can be found in the October Consolidate Campaign. Reminder to create a discount code: SAVE15Matching pop-up and banner can be found here: Pop-Up Link and Banner Link to download

TKO Tips

Best-practices when photographing for TKO. Backgrounds Recommended - Unlit White Westcott Fleece - 5x10 or 9x20Avoid Black Backgrounds - Some of the background will not cutout Lighting Light the subject & not the background so the white turns to a light gray Props Handheld props such as basketballs, soccer balls, etc. will typically cutout correctlyProps ...