For decades, many schools, in spite of having all the data, their own school photographers and their pictures, relied heavily on outside vendors like professional photographic studios/companies to produce their school picture products.
As a result, most of the schools lost their ownership/copyrights to the soft copies of their own school picture products, because schools were not the authors/creators of the school picture products. Vendors were and are.
According to the copyright laws in many countries. "Creators own the copyrights to their creations".
This led to the vendors dictating high prices even for the hard copies of school picture products. Even a 2nd copy of the same picture costs the same.
Soft copies are out of reach for many schools as they were multiple times costlier than the already high priced hard copies.
Students/Parents were asked to pay the high cost if they wish to own the hard copies or the soft copies!
End result: many students don't even own their school picture products.
Why were/are schools relying on outside vendors?
Simply because
This can be confirmed by doing a simple Google search for "School Pictures Builder"
Composz was created with a singular mission to better the above scenario.
Cost for the school explained with a sample scenario utilizing a vendor:
Cost savings for the school explained with the same sample scenario using Composz
Cost of Professional Photography for Schools
Summary
As you can readily see that the Composz'scost is only 1/20th to 1/10th of the vendors cost
Professional onsite Photography for 3 days to take 1000+ pictures of student, staff, group pictures, etc.
Hard copy printing of 1000 composites on premium photo paper
Composz's aim is, for the schools to secure and own the soft copies first at the lowest price available, print later how many ever times at your own time, convenience, format and budget.
Some of the benefits of Composz:
Important things to note: - yes, professional photography vendors/studios/companies also engage many contract professional photographers, simply because, school pictures industry is seasonal - there are 1000's of professional photographers available to "hire for contract" throughout the year, due to democratization of digital photography and better cameras available in smart phones and are available locally - make sure to engage professional photographers the same way the professional vendors engage them by using "hire for contract" clause wherein they are paid for only taking pictures and that they turn over their copyrights of all pictures taken to the school - as an additional clause, you can ask the professional photographers to crop the pictures and provide you 2 sets, one the original/raw pictures taken and the other the cropped pictures as per your dimensions, saving you a lot of time
$1,000 (average)
$1,000 (max)
$1,000 (average)
$1,000 (max)
You might argue about the missing services and their costs. Rightly so.
To summarize, using Composz
it will only cost $1,150 for the soft copies for 1000 composites without professional photography it will cost additional $1,000 for professional photography it will cost additional $1,000 for hard copy printing
Even if you add all the cost, it will only come to about $3,000 for 1000 composites including hard copy prints for a total cost of about $3 per student.
Above all you own the soft copies for life!
Let's look at the actual cost what the vendors themselves pay and how much it will cost you if Schools acquire those services themselves:
Services
Requirement: 1 page Composite pictures for 1000 students
Vendors services & cost:
Costs: $10,000 - $20,000 for 1000 Composite pictures hard copies (depending on the vendors) $30,000 - $$ for 1000 Composite pictures soft copies (depending on the vendors) [soft copies option only available after purchasing hard copies! from most vendors]
Services: Professional onsite photography Picture composition Hard copy printing Soft copy download / CD
"there does not exist a single tool/app/website for the schools to build their own school picture products!"
"enable every school to build & own their school picture products" thereby "enabling all students to own their soft copy of the school picture products at a very affordable price"
Requirement: 1 page Composite pictures for 1000 students
Composz services & cost:
Services: Picture composition Soft copy download
Costs: $1,150 for 1000 Composite pictures soft copies
to master Composz, you only have to learn to compose a single page
- you can build them all at your own time or build individually for each grade
- faster turn around time, meaning you can generate products for 10's of 100's of students in few minutes and not days
- you can change your designs, unlimited times without limitations and free of cost
- you can have different designs for different classes or even for different students
- you can invite parents to preview, pay and download all within Composz easily
- you can use your own professional cameras / smart phones, etc. to take pictures to upload to Composz
- you can still keep your school photographers for taking professional pictures and upload them to Composz
- you can still keep your "Picture Day" in tact
- you can buy for all students thereby owning the soft copies for life and later distribute to students after adding costs for "Picture Day" shoot
- as the power of Composz comes from generating 10's of 100's of documents from one or more templates, you can create many new products useful for your school utilizing images and texts
- you can edit data during preview of the product directly in Composz saving you a lot of time without having to explain or exchange the changes to the vendor
- you can build as many products as you want due to Composz's lowest cost
- you can start owning soft copies of your school picture products for life at the lowest cost of $1.15 per page
- free to build, enabling you to experiment, "create/preview/demolish" repeat "create/preview/demolish" ...
- no software to install or maintain
- no special skills required, can master Composz in about 1/2 hour to 1 hour
- create or choose from preset templates to build for 1000's of students
- simple and easy to use drag and drop templates editor
- ability to work with your familiar data attributes like students list, class list, staff list etc.
- the only additional work is to add the image filenames to the lists
- you can build according to your own taste, style, theme and customize them according to your school needs