London: Photobox, the UK’s number one online community for photo printing and personal publishing, has launched, site boasts an attractive new portfolio of products, a brand new publishing suite and sharing experience for Photobox’s millions of members.

New products
There are now more photo gifts and innovative ideas to do more with your photos. For proud parents and grandparents Photobox offers a new Kids Collection with the ability to integrate photos with well known cartoon characters from; Warner Brothers (Bugs Bunny, Tweety and others,) Hit Entertainment (Thomas the Tank Engine and friends,) and Disney. In addition, Photobox now offers a comprehensive range of personalised photo books ranging from the latest site exclusive Minibooks (perfect for handbags) to entirely bespoke hard or soft-cover books in various sizes and with a vast array of different product designs. All products can be tailored using the new online product publishing suite which lets customers effortlessly drag & drop their images, add text and swap and preview from a range of design styles.

The site also integrates the designer-based greeting card service recently launched by Photobox called Greetings by Photobox (http://greetings.photobox.co.uk). Customers can personalise a wide range of creative greeting cards with text and/or photos from their Photobox albums.

New tools
Site essentials such as photo uploads, sharing and product ordering have been made more intuitive. Photo tagging and search ensures less time looking for photos for those with thousands of stored images. Members can now publish and share their album with friends and family on a photo blog as easily as they might by sending an email.

Digital photo junkies can also take advantage of a sophisticated suite of photo editing software completely integrated in the new Photobox service. The new technology (provided by US-based Picnik) offers semi professional online editing software for free and is as easy as child’s play.

New design
The newly designed site has a number of features to make the whole Photobox experience simple and fast. “My Photobox” provides immediate access to all online photo albums, creations or account details for each member. Extensive shop pages display the Photobox product range in great detail.

Mark Chapman, UK MD, said: “The new site is designed to be the best one stop shop for anyone who wants to create exciting products with their digital photos. We wanted to make it easy for all users: whether they’re shutter crazed young families, cyber mad grandparents, amateurs or pros. The new site means they can create, share and get fabulous personalised products shipped to them in record time and of outstanding quality. ”

Go to www.photobox.co.uk to join the digital image online revolution. A raft of new functionality will be appearing as the site develops.

About Photobox
PhotoBox is the leading online photo service in the UK where it pioneered online printing, storing, sharing, community and publishing services for digital photos before extending its range to innovative products such as photo books, calendars, and greeting cards.

The company merged with Photoways, the leading French service, in April 2006 thereby creating the European market leader with over 5 million members and nearly 200 million photo prints in 2007. The group is backed by leading Venture Capital firms Index Ventures, Highland Capital and HarbourVest. Stan Laurent, formerly Chief Operating Officer at AOL Europe, is President and C.E.O. and Mark Chapman, co-founder of PhotoBox, is Managing Director of the UK business.

For more information visit www.photobox.co.uk or contact Custard PR on 020 7494 6595

For further information contact Custard PR on 020 7494 6595

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