The parent company, now located in Helsinki , Finland, started on the banks of
the Fiskars River in Fiskars, Finland., a
leading global manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer and industrial
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PRESS RELEASE Industry Veteran Says Prints Still Best Way to Save Digital Photos

Then you can scrapbook
it, because with scrapbooking you can tell a story and not just have a
collection of photos.

Rowan also offers this piece of advice: "When making the print decision,
consumers must take care to choose carefully and select the right printer,
printer paper and the ink to ensure long-life.
"AccuPosition solves a core problem introduced by the limitations of
printers and their software drivers," explained Frame My Photos president and
co-founder Ron Fortier.

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"With film cameras, consumers are used to shooting a roll, dropping it off
at the 24-hour pick-up, and saying, 'I'll take one or two prints. This is false. Use photo albums to tell a
story, as opposed to creating ones that just have photos matted down; and
try to add text, so that the person in the photo is 'talking' and the album
itself tells a story.

ZoomAlbums (www. All you need is a PC
and Inkjet color printer . ZoomAlbum supplies everything else (software,
photo sheets, album covers) to create charming and lasting keepsakes.ereleases.

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In addition, Heidi Grace Designs recently
introduced its successful line of Pocket Scraps, which includes cards and
envelopes that coordinate with colorful stickers, rub-ons, acrylic and plastic
embellishments to make it simple to create the perfect personalized effect. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fiskars
Corporation, a Finnish corporation traded on the Helsinki Stock Exchange
(HEX: FIS ).com . You
can even print your own personalized covers. The software is simple
and you can insert text captions, rotate, flip, zoom and crop photos. "To get borderless photo prints, many printers scale
up a photo by 5% or more to eliminate white space in the border.

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About ZoomAlbum, Inc.zoomalbum. Future plans for the Framing Station include branded versions for
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Continues Rowan, "If you want a picture to be around for future
generations: you should print it on archival paper.

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Heidi Grace Kress is a creative young artist whose Washington-based
company features fun and whimsical stickers, papers, and embellishments for
scrapbookers and paper crafters.
To view Fiskars items, visit http://www. The
hardest part is deciding on the 12 images. Worse yet,
consumers have no ability to override this alteration when they print, so
parts of their images get chopped off.
Current users can download the Framing Station v2.

Sales of photo albums, frames, mats, and other accessories.

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The great thing about digital cameras is you can take many more pictures
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Today it remains that the primary
way people share and enjoy photographs is through prints, albums and
scrapbooks. Once framed, images are ideal for display,
presentation, or scrapbooking and can be printed, e-mailed and shared over the
Internet.16 upgrade at no charge at
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"We are very excited about adding these two outstanding companies to our
portfolio as we continue to build the consumable portion of our business,"
says Chad Vincent , President of Fiskars School, Office and Craft Division.
Fiskars, founded in 1649, is one of the oldest companies in the world and
is the largest manufacturer of lightweight stainless steel scissors in the US. Internationally, Fiskars has
manufacturing plants and/or sales offices in 20 countries. But with AccuPosition, you set
horizontal and vertical scaling percentages independently for complete and
accurate coverage of the entire photo paper.com.

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"Simple, time-saving, cutting edge and upscale" are
the words Nancy Martinez and Amy Brinkman, who founded Cloud 9 Design, use to
describe their products.
The original orange-handled scissors design is in the permanent design
collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Fiskars School, Office + Craft Division has expanded far beyond the
original scissors and now makes an extensive line of ergonomically-designed
specialty scissors, scrap booking supplies, embossing tools, paper trimmers,
punches, stencils, protractors, compasses, and several more high-quality
products.' It was
drop-dead simple to make prints that you could instantly share, archive or
organize in a scrapbook or album to look at later," says Doug Rowan, CEO of
ZoomAlbum, Inc, and known throughout the industry as a pioneer and leading
driver of digital imaging and content management through stints as CEO at
Corbis (www."

One way to solve this problem is to provide consumers with an easy way to
scrapbook their digital images in a
printed photo format that:

-- Offers a seamless way to sort, choose and arrange images for easy
printing on photo paper that fits into an Inkjet printer
-- Provides formatted, high-quality glossy photographic prints that can
be folded and fit into an album cover with simple adhesive
-- Uses a protective hard cover to safeguard photos from the damaging
effects of light and the wear and tear of handling.

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They are
well-known for their Themed Paper Collections, Innovative Page Coasters,
WoodStone(TM) Collection, and most recently their innovative Page Coasters and
Photo Banner Collection. Unfortunately, once you get to 500-1,000 digital
images, it gets pretty hard to organize, catalog, and create a "digital
shoebox " to easily and quickly find the pictures you want.com) are an exciting and patented new way to
turn digital images into handmade,
professional-looking albums of twelve glossy photos.

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and for more information on Cloud 9 Design, visit their website at
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Show, As consumers rapidly shift from film cameras to
digital, one of the biggest challenges facing the industry is making it as
easy to get a print from a digital
camera as it is from a film camera.com), Image Solutions Corporation, Impli, Inc.com
or through Broderbund /Riverdeep, the Framing Station retails at $29.

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Fiskars Acquires Cloud 9 Design and Heidi Grace Designs

, Fiskars is delighted to announce two
recent papercrafting acquisitions -- Cloud 9 Design and Heidi Grace Designs.heidigrace.

If you could create a "digital shoe box" you would still face two major problems:

-- How do I find the picture I want?
-- How can I be sure that the digital shoebox will last over time?

Relying on hard disks or CDs or DVDs as the best storage option for the
digital shoebox is risky."
The Framing Station enhances digital images from all sources , including
digital cameras, camcorders, scanned prints, photo CDs, and photos from e-mail
and off the Internet.

About Frame My Photos, LLC
Founded in 2004 by technology and Hollywood studio veterans, Frame My
Photos is a privately held company.

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The user-friendly
digital photo software with 930 professionally illustrated frames has just
been upgraded with the company's AccuPosition technology, allowing anyone to
create perfect borderless prints at home. "There are very few individuals with the time and artistic
talent to create amazing results with typical photo software programs .

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Fiskars will support the design of products from the current headquarters
of both companies , while moving the distribution divisions to Wausau, WI, and
the operations to Fiskars' North American headquarters in Madison, WI. Fiskars, is the world's leading manufacturer of scissors,
gardening tools and cutlery, as well as other consumer products sold under the
brand names including FISKARS (R), Gerber Legendary Blades(R), Royal(R) Floor
Mats, Syroco(R), Home Leisure, Plantera(R), Cool in the Shade(TM), Power
Sentry(R), Newpoint(R), Montana(R), Raadvad, Sankey and Ebert.biz ."
Featuring the company's exclusive Digi-Press rapid response breakthrough,
the Framing Station excels at ease of use.

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Cloud 9 Design, based in Minnesota, features papers that are hand-made and
then reproduced to give a beautiful, three-dimensional appearance.

Fiskars School, Office + Craft is a division of Fiskars Brands, Inc. These high-quality
little albums fit right into the palm of your hand.com ) by Frame My Photos, LLC.
Custom frames are provided in four versatile sizes and layouts and include
all-purpose frames, calendars, sports trading cards, magazine covers, holiday
styles, as well as personalized awards, invitations, greeting cards, thank-you
notes and travel-themed postcards .
"I'm incredibly proud of how Frame My Photos continues to make complex
technologies accessible to the general consumer with basic computer skills,"
said Fortier.

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In sharp contrast to traditional
photo, clip art and digital scrapbooking software, the Framing Station is
easily mastered by those new to computers. Since
professional illustrators created our frames, you don't need to be the artist
when you have the Framing Station.

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Digital, while a superb storage media, also lays
a trap: many consumers believe that digital images will last and stay
unchanged forever.framemyphotos.

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For the safety and protection of their
images, consumers should assume that every hard disk will fail; and that
almost all CD-ROMS or DVDs will have a life of less than ten years. Along with the Framing Station, the
company developed the popular line of Easy Keepsakes, available at value
retailers.framemyphotos.

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If you have further
questions about Heidi Grace Designs, please visit http://www.

ZoomAlbum photo sheets come with easy-to-follow instructions that walk you
through a folding routine that produces , with the help of forgiving
adhesive backing, a booklet of twelve, durable and high-quality photographs ., This summer, all those photos of
getaways, camping trips, barbecues and ballgames can actually make it into
scrapbooks and memory crafts, thanks to the Framing Station
(http://www. Just choose a photo, pick a frame,
add text (if desired), then print, save, or e-mail your instant work of art .framemyphotos. A full-featured "test drive" version of the
Framing Station is also offered for free download at the site, including
twelve sample frames.

Contact:

Ron Fortier
Frame My Photos, LLC
Tel: 714-505-1726
Fax: 714-505-2366
ronf@framemyphotos .