Photography

Imagine believes an on-site studio is an essential component in providing the most dynamic and adaptive services to our visual content and marketing clients. We provide a wide variety of services ranging from studio product and fashion photography to fine art reproduction. We are also equipped to work on location and have 360-degree technology photography providing virtual experience imagery.

Since our photographers are on staff, they work closely with the rest of our production team as your visual content is moved into its next creative stage, thus providing a time saving advantage to your project.

Camera RAW Workflows

We have experience with one-off, hands-on custom conversions bound for Giclee prints or high-end offset print. No strangers to large volume projects, our team has developed automated processes to prep and convert your visual content to meet your particular requirements and goals.

Scanning

Imagine believes strongly in supporting your design approach no matter the medium. Scanning is one of the pillars of digitizing your creative vision. Whether transparencies, color negatives, or original art, scanning continues to be a complimentry asset to all your projects.

Color Management

Ensuring your color is accurate from moment of capture to its final viewing is paramount in the success of any visual campaign. Imagine is adept in comprehensive color management throughout a campaign and across all lines of business, ensuring brand and vision consistency. We manage all our RGB spaces and devices as well as support multiple printing formats such as newsprint, SWOP3, GRACoL, FOGRA, and ISO print standards.

Custom Conversions

Imagine will seamlessly drop into your creative workflow at any stage to move or convert your assets into their next phase. Leveraging our wide-ranging creative experience, we will customize and tailor the handling of your original visual content to best support your creative and targeted vision.

Image manipulation

Good photography starts you on the road to your final visual destination. Image manipulation and retouching brings you home.

Imagine's team of image editors have worked as a dynamic group since 2004. We have pooled our vast professional and creative experiences to bring your vision to fruition successfully again and again. Working in RGB, CMYK or continuous tone spot colors, no request is too big or too small or too difficult because we know that each one serves to support your message. The depth of experience and reputation of our retouch staff in both fashion and commercial image manipulation is nationally recognized and appreciated for its ability to adapt to the requirements of your project.

Color Analysts & Account Managers

Our Color Analysts are recognized among their peers, vendors and clients as the Dream Team in their field. They are adept at assisting you during the color mark up and approval phase of your project either in our color controlled environment in Seattle or on-site. Having also built good relationships with many large printers, our Color Analyst team travels domestically and overseas as needed on press to ensure your color prints well.

No matter the complexity or variety of your job, Imagine's account managers are going to make sure it's a smooth process. They are known for bringing their exceptional organization and planning skills to each job. They liaise with your printers or other vendors to ensure that all digital preparations and materials are in line for optimal delivery and completion of your job. Being readily available, knowledgeable and an excellent component in your project all comes second nature to the people on this team.

Page Layout, Assembly & HTML

Our Documents & Formatting team is adept and creative when it comes to assisting in the design and architecture of your final visual product. We can assist you at any level of layout or page assembly for print as well as eCom and mCom campaigns.

We work hard to stay ahead and up to date in the latest layout applications, able to assist you with complicated multi color, multi page or packaging print projects.

The Documents & Formatting team will work to streamline your visual marketing projects seamlessly from print catalog, to eCatalog, then finally onto your mobile apps. By leveraging our consolidated and timely workflow, we can get your campaign to market faster.

Contract / Soft proofing content

When taking your vision to press, we offer multi tiered content approval options to support all levels of contract proofing. Imagine works to balance convenience, cost and accuracy. We offer Fuji Final Proofs, Epsons as well as the Kodak InSite web-based system.

InSite

In addition to the Prinegry workflow system, the InSite web portal connects you and your project in real-time. As pages enter our workflow they are enabled for use over the web. You can view, annotate, and approve work in progress without the need for physical proofs and time delays. Teams can also work together and share comments that are tracked and organized to ensure clear communication regarding changes and approval.

Large Format

If a large format piece is your end goal, we can complete it right here at Imagine Visual Service. IVS uses the most up to date equipment and technology in digital printing. We can produce retail, POP, banners, trade show and event graphics, and fleet projects. IVS staff is made up of experts in kitting, fulfillment and nation wide installation.

At Imagine, we are committed to be a leader in providing our clients with ecologically sustainable materials and processes.

We will continue to bring new ideas to our clients, including materials that are recyclable and biodegradable or contain post consumer content. Imagine also focuses on using vendors that incorporate renewable energy and PVC-free solutions in the manufacturing processes.

Material manufacturers are continuing to develop and market new ecologically sustainable materials for the large format printing industry. If you are interested in learning more about sustainable materials, please give us a call. We would be happy to recommend the latest materials that would fit with your particular project.

Press Checks

Though our expertise in color should lay to rest any concerns you have about putting ink on paper, we can provide you with the support of a color analyst on press to make any subtle changes you might deem necessary. With so many years of experience maximizing color spaces on printed projects, we'd be happy to go on press with your project to make certain that you're getting exactly what you are expecting in your final printed product.

Calibration

Working hand in hand with your printer we can calibrate our content approval systems to match to many industry standards throughout the US and overseas. We're able to prepare files to SWOP, GRACol and FOGRA standards. Once we're coordinating our efforts directly with the printer, your job is in excellent hands.

Quality Control

We back up our contract proofing systems with a seasoned and critical quality control team verifying your final content with a multi-layered and redundant approach working to save you money by avoiding costly oversights. Adept in complicated multi signature design requirements as well as packaging and mailing standards, we can help take your project through to its in-hand functional completion by providing you with mock-ups and folding dummies to size.

Multi-purposing Imagery

We take great care to give your web imagery the same attention and emphasis as all your other visual projects. We'll help you to repurpose, reuse and reinvigorate, any visual asset so it remains flexible and dynamic to assist in feeding all your online and mobile projects. Stretching your pixels farther and in more directions by leveraging richer color ways, fabric wrapping, zoom imagery and 360 degree technology provides a virtual experience of your products. Buy designing a custom workflow, we can meet all your online visual goals.

Marketing Support

If you need to spend your time tending to other things, offload your email blasts to us! We'll run with your campaign and email lists.

Our team can also repurpose your assets and messages in direct mail pieces. We can take your ideas from production through distribution.

By using our tools including HTML rich email and personal URLs, we can give you back vital metrics regarding your direct mail promotions and newsletters.

ePublications

We're going to help you look at your e-catalog in a whole new light! Wait. You don't currently have an e-catalog? What are you waiting for?

Imagine is skilled at making your e-catalog a great way to deliver your brand message using embedded video, interactive features and custom content. When you use one of our e-catalog solutions, we're going to be able to supply you with valuable metrics that will help you plan future e-catalogs and campaigns.

Imagine is known industry wide for the care and quality we put into print catalogs. We think you're going to be amazed by what we can do next.

Smartphone Applications

We've discovered some great ways to keep customers engaged with your brand through Smartphone applications. We're prepared to help you develop your app and to maintain your content updates and delivery.

Social Networking

Sure, everyone is doing it, but do you have the time? Are you getting the message across that you want your current and potential customers to respond to? We can help keep your Facebook page vital, fresh and rich with imagery. We can Twitter all your latest news. As with all of Imagine Media Service new offerings, we'll be delivering stats and metrics to you to let you know the efficacy of your new media initiatives and where we can forge ahead together next!

Digital Asset Management

Imag-A-Tron is Imagine's digital asset management system, storing and distributing your digital files, conveniently accessible through a web browser. Designers and marketing teams can preview, convert, size and download high and low res images, saving your team network space and increasing accessibility to your valuable assets.

Imag-A-Tron's integrated, time saving FPO feature, allows for the download of FPO images via drag-and-drop directly from a web browser to most page layout applications. Thus eliminating the need for simultaneous image download and placement tasks speeding up any catalog or collateral production time.

As individual images are located in Imag-A-Tron, they can be placed directly into your layout. Your client login page is accessible through IMAGINE's website.

Some of Imag-A-Tron's many features:

• Handles virtually any professional still image, document or video format.

• Easily add assets and metadata, locally or remotely-using the Imag-A-Tron Uploader application.

• Full support for user and group permissions, a wide range of permissions can be applied to restrict use and access.

• One-click collection of files for download in high-resolution or low-resolution formats.

• Drag-and-drop functionality, transferring images from web browser to layouts.

• On-demand custom images: cropped, scaled and reformatted.

• Batching image conversion of all or selected files, automatic generation of previews-viewable to all users, including those without installed versions of page layout applications.

• Previews 80+ image file formats including camera RAW format files.

Hosting & Archiving

Imagine hosts all your assets on its own servers ensuring the safety and control of your data. All active production servers are backed up to tape and housed off site daily, offering further protection.

* Imag-A-Tron is included in Imagine's complete service package, at no extra charge. The creation of large asset repositories, customization and advanced setup and support of metadata is available upon request.