Category: Blog

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 ...

TKO Knockout/Cutout Services Update

TKO Knockout/Cutout services have a ceiling on the size of the images that can be processed in both image size and file size. Image Size should be 24 MP or below. Measured in Megapixels (MP), this is the resolution or the pixel dimensions of your images. The image size is set in your camera with ...

Drive-Thru Picture Days Are Upon Us!

As we watch the school year start the next few weeks, we know we will have a mix of in person and digital learning schooling methods provided across the country. We want to be able to cater to both kinds of schooling by offering Picture Day alternatives to both groups. Please download the "Principal Letter" ...

DID YOU KNOW…You Can Book Schools With The Safe Procedures You Offer?

We have created a new series of "DID YOU KNOW" emails with language about social distancing, safe sessions, virtual celebrations, etc. There are a wide variety to choose from for different reasons: high schools, grads, youth, yearbooks, and more! We added one that focuses on SAFE SESSIONS, and one for VIRTUAL CELEBRATIONS too. You can ...