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| December 31, 2012
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Start a New Year with Project Life 365

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Introducing Project Life 365, a revolutionary art community like you have never seen before. Won’t you come and join too?

About Project Life 365:

Project Life 365 is an interactive photo a day challenge that helps you develop your visual literacy by guiding you through daily prompts that engage your imagination. Each day, we provide a “daily inspiration” that will stimulate your creative photographic magic. It doesn’t matter if you’re literal, logical, or a free spirit; there are no wrong answers.

Using your preferred mobile app or camera, simply capture and upload your photograph to visually connect with other participants from around the world. Take the Project Life 365 challenge and discover what is personal to you, can become much larger: a dynamic, interactive project without borders.

How You Can Join (and play!):

1. Join us at www.projectlife365.com to sign up for the monthly newsletter (and to receive the free desktop calendar and other sweet swag!) and learn how to get started asap.

2. Shoot an image (via your mobile phone or a camera) that you feel embodies the theme of the day.

3. Share your image or keep it as part of a private journal of reflection. If using a social media tool that allows hashtags, add #projectlife365 as the main hashtag, plus today’s inspiration as the secondary hashtag and upload your image. Easy!

4. Enjoy Project Life 365 by interacting with other participants from around the globe on Project Life’s Facebook page and inspiring daily Blog.

Why You’ll Want the Field Guide:

The Project Life 365 Field Guide will take your mobile photography from average to awesome.  This content-rich guide will help you to see the world around you differently, and understand the importance of stretching yourself each day as you chronicle a year in your life.  With expert knowledge, the Field Guide will help you to maximize your impact using social networks like Instagram, by connecting colleagues, friends & clients in a meaningful and creative and suits your personality and style.  It also shares key tips and tricks for success from the top pros along with their favorite images to inspire you and help take your creativity to the next level.

Whether you are newbie documentarian or a seasoned veteran, you’ll be able to sharpen your artistic eye and be a better artist using the informational tidbits and examples that we’ve packed into this 100+ page field guide just for you. Get inspired and excited about creating art again!

Are you ready to get your photo mojo on fire and be inspired every single day of the year? Then this is the guide for you.

The Best Part: We’re giving three of our loyal readers a copy of the Field Guide to jumpstart your year with Project Life 365.

Enter our sweepstakes for a chance to win the stunning Project Life 100+ Page Artist’s Field Guide for 2013.

Please leave a comment here for each item you complete. You’ll have 3 chances to win!

1. Follow Finao Online, LLC and Project Life 365 on Facebook.

2. Become a member of Project Life 365 (it’s free and you will receive lovely goodies)

3. Register at www.finao.com

4. Share this giveaway on Facebook by clicking a link from the “Sharing is Sexy” menu below. Post the following: “Check out @FinaoOnlineLLC & enter their fantastic @ProjectLife365 launch sweepstakes.”

5. Post a photo of your favorite Finao Album.  On Facebook, type in the status @FinaoOlineLLC and @ProjectLife365, or on Twitter use hashtags #ProjectLife365 and #FinaoAlbums

Hurry! Giveaway ends January 10th. Winners will be announced on January 12th.

 

LEGAL INFO: This promotion is in NO WAY sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook. You will NOT be notified publicly via Facebook if you are a winner. You MUST be 18 to participate. By entering this giveaway, you are providing information to this blog and NOT to Facebook. Prizes do not have cash value. There will be no returns/exchanges on any of the items.

*blog content and photos provided by Project Life 365.

Jamie Westman

Jamie Westman

Jamie is Finao's resident Guidance Guru and Marketing Assistant to the Queen of All Things Finabulous, Christine Perry-burke.

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| November 20, 2012
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IMAGE COVER TEMPLATES

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IMAGE COVER TEMPLATES HAVE BEEN UPDATED THIS YEAR.  MAKE SURE YOU’RE USING THE CORRECT TEMPLATE FOR YOUR COVER IMAGE BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR ORDER.

This is IMPERATIVE to make sure your order is counted as a HOLIDAY ORDER.  All orders expected for holiday delivery MUST be submitted COMPLETE AND CORRECT before the product deadline.  Incorrect cover images will delay your order and could disqualify it from being included as a holiday order.

Not sure which to use? This should help:

Example 1: You’re ordering an 8×8 playBOOK with 12 leaves/24 page-sides and you want a Photo Wrap cover.

Use the playBOOK photo wrap template for an 8×8 playBOOK with 12 leaves (NOT 24 leaves). You select the “LEAF COUNT” at the beginning of the order. So, if you selected “12 leaves/24 sides”, you’ll refer to the template for 12 leaves, NOT 24 (as 24 is the number of page sides).

Go to PRODUCTS > PLAYBOOK > PHOTO WRAP > select “Download playBOOK photo wrap template kit”

The most recent templates at this time are from a .zip file named “finao-playbook-photowrap-10262012.zip”  Please DOUBLE CHECK that this is the correct folder you are pulling your templates from!

The template to use in this example should be named “pb-8×8-10-13lvs“.

Here’s a pic for reference:

Download the playBOOK photo wrap template kit .zip folder and open it, select your size (in this case 8×8) and now select your LEAF count (1/2 the total page-sides).

 

Example 2: You’re ordering a 14×10 horizontal ONE with an Armour metal image cover.

For specialty covers like ICE, Armour, Erotika, Bebbalicious and Canvas Panel that only have an image on the front cover, you do not need to worry about the leaf count as you do for the Canvas Wrap or the photo wraps for the other album lines.  BUT, you do need to use the appropriate template for your album’s size and orientation.  You also must FILL the entire template.

Go to PRODUCTS > Finao ONE > SPECIALTY COVERS (find your cover, in this case it’s Armour) > select “Download ICE/Armour template kit”

The most recent templates at this time are from a .zip file named “finao-ice-armour-09102012.zip”  Please DOUBLE CHECK that this is the correct folder you are pulling your templates from!

The template to use in this example should be named “ia-14×10-horizontal”.

Here’s a pic for reference:

 

Example 3: You’re ordering a 10×15 vertical ONE with a Canvas Wrap cover and 15 leaves/30 page-sides in the medium page style.

Just like example 1, you will choose the appropriate template based on the album size AND the number of LEAVES. BUT, since the ONE offers two page thicknesses, you’ll ALSO need to account for the page style you are choosing, Thick or Medium, as this will affect the thickness of the spine area on the design.

Remember: # of leaves = 1/2 of your total page-sides.  So you will choose the folder of FULL CANVAS (canvas wrap) templates for Medium Pages > then the folder of 10×15 vertical templates with medium pages > and then select the 10×15 Vertical template for 14-20 leaves.

Go to PRODUCTS > Finao ONE > SPECIALTY COVERS (find your cover, in this case Canvas) > select “Download Canvas template kit” (includes both Canvas Wrap and Canvas Panel templates).

The most recent templates at this time are from a .zip file named “finao-canvas-10042012.zip”  Please DOUBLE CHECK that this is the correct folder you are pulling your templates from!

The template to use in this example should be named “10x15v-med_14-20lvs”.

Here’s a pic for reference:

 

Please contact Finao Customer Service with any questions BEFORE placing your order at 888-346-2687 (888-FINAO-US).

Jamie Westman

Jamie Westman

Jamie is Finao's resident Guidance Guru and Marketing Assistant to the Queen of All Things Finabulous, Christine Perry-burke.

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| May 29, 2012
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New Cover Image Templates for Finao’s ICE & Armour

We’ve been doing a lot of spring cleaning and thought it was time to spruce up some of our old templates too!  The ICE acrylic image cover and Armour metal image cover have been updated to help eliminate a little wasted space that fell under the leather spine material.

If you have one of these specialty covers in the works already, no worries, your old template will do the trick too, but if you haven’t finished your design yet or are planning one down the road, please take a second to grab the new version.

  • ICE and Armour cover template kit w/instructions | DOWNLOAD

Jamie Westman

Jamie Westman

Jamie is Finao's resident Guidance Guru and Marketing Assistant to the Queen of All Things Finabulous, Christine Perry-burke.

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