‘Tis the season to get cell phone and other digital images printed, enlarged, swapped, framed and produced on a holiday greeting card, 2018 calendar or other gift. PhotoTek makes personalized, thoughtful, creative gift giving simple. 

• On Black Friday, Nov. 23, they will offer 50-percent off on prints 5×7 or larger.  
• On Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m., PhotoTek invites customers to its Christmas open house featuring refreshments, a complimentary photo ornament and the work of local artists Brice Perrin, Susan Hebert and Summer Boudreaux.   

Plant to visit PhotoTek to print photos before holiday gift gatherings and card mailings. Gift certificates are available. 

Start now. Print favorite cell phone camera images. 

“We’re taking more photos than ever before,” said Lynn Broussard, PhotoTek co-owner.  “The quality of photos produced with cell phone cameras is getting better each time a new phone model is released. But fewer prints are being made. The print is the ultimate expression of photography. It stops time and preserves it forever. Putting it on Instagram doesn’t do that.”

PhotoTek makes it easy to order prints. 

“It’s amazing how many customers have admitted they procrastinated about coming in because they didn’t realize how simple it is to have photos printed,” said Paula Stebbins,

“Three Amigos,” photograph by Brice Perrin, at PhotoTek.

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PhotoTek co-owner. “We’re here to help.”

It shouldn’t take a late night visit from a supernatural spirit to help you remember Christmas past or share the gift of joy. That’s what photographs are for. Don’t let another holiday season come and go without printing, organizing, preserving and sharing your favorite images. Services offered at PhotoTek include:

• Print digital images, slides and other images. Photos can be uploaded for printing in the store at 4430 Nelson Road in Lake Charles or via your home computer or mobile device (iOS or Android).  
• Create personalized calendars, greeting cards, invitations, mugs/waterbottles, charms, bracelets, money clip, puzzles, playing cards, mouse pads, eraseable boards, magnets and coasters.
• Purchase work from local artists. Show your own artistry. PhotoTek is a locally owned and operated business that promotes the area’s local artists and makes their work available for purchase. Or, enlarge one of your own great photographs or have a painting reproduced.
• Transfer cellphone video, reel-to-reel, VHS and other images to an easy-to-use and store DVD. Don’t wait. Old movie film deteriorates.
• Get banners, signs and special trade show signage
• Restore photos
• Scan items for printing
• Buy frames and purchase custom framing

Call PhotoTek at (337) 474-2213 or go to phototekdesigncenter.com to find out more. Store hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

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