School Portraits

Why use Butler Studio for your school portraits?

1. Quality Service Items: We offer all the service items that the "big" companies can offer, often faster and with higher quality.

ID Badges

Wearing an ID badge helps to ensure safety and security on the school campus. Students can borrow library books and pay for printing from a school printer. ID badges can also allow students to gain event access to school functions.

Admin Downloads for Power Schools and more!

Images for the school administration are an essential service item that we provide. We offer many different types of school administration software exports. All Alabama public schools use PowerSchools. Our organized system allows you to move your images into PowerSchools or any other software with just a few clicks!

School Directory

The school directory is 8.5x11, comb-bound, with a laminated color front cover, card stock pages, and a heavy black back cover. This book is durable for the administration to keep for quick reference and a printed log for each school year.

“We made the switch this year to Butler Studios for all of our school pictures and yearbooks at New Bethel Elementary School. From the very first day of dealing with them, they have been extremely professional. They have worked wonderfully with our faculty, staff, students, and parents. Butler Studios has done exactly what they promised to do exactly when they promised to do it

That kind of service can be hard to find these days. We highly recommend them.”

-Nathan Fuller, Principal at New Bethel Elementary School

2. Fewer Headaches: Our studio phone number goes on all fliers and packages, which means you get fewer calls from parents. Issues and questions come straight to us.

3. Local Investment: We are local. Your students' dollars stay in our area.

4. Local Support: You know who you are calling:
Owners: Scott and Kimberly Butler and office managers: Addie and Emily

"Thank you all for such an awesome job today!! I had lots of teachers approach me and tell me how great their picture experience was. They also bragged about the efficiency, speed, and professionalism of your staff. We are looking forward to all of our future sessions with your company.

Thanks for making this a painless transition."

-Ashley M Greer, Principal PreK-5th Grade at Itawamba Attendance Center

5 Star Rated Company

5. Reputation: We have a great reputation in this area. We will do what it takes to maintain our studio brand. We can't promise perfection, but we can promise a small margin of error, and a quick response for solutions.

I want to say that this was the quickest and smoothest picture day I have been a part of in my 28 years of teaching! Thank you so much!

-Ginger Jones, Yearbook Sponsor at Moulton Elementary School

Digital Solutions

6. We offer proof, prepay, and online ordering, in addition to an array of products and digital backgrounds.

Image Organization and Ease of Use

7. Our studio’s use of the Professional School Photographers of America (PSPA) format is designed specifically to make yearbook advisors’ jobs dramatically easier and more efficient. When you receive your portraits from us, all images are already organized by student name, grade, and teacher—ready to import directly into your yearbook program. With just a few clicks, your portrait pages are laid out automatically, with no manual data entry or sorting required. This means:

No hours spent renaming files or matching photos to students.
No risk of mislabeling students or missing portraits.
No stress over deadlines caused by tedious, repetitive tasks.
More time for creative work and student engagement.

In contrast, our closest competitor’s process forces the yearbook advisor to download a single, unorganized album of images—often with no individual student data attached. The advisor must then manually sort and name every photo, matching each student to their teacher and class. This is not only extremely time-consuming and frustrating, but it also increases the risk of mistakes and can delay the entire yearbook production process.

The difference isn’t just convenience—it’s a matter of professionalism, accuracy, and respect for your time. Our approach is the industry standard, endorsed by yearbook publishers and designed for seamless integration and quality results. Your yearbook advisor can focus on what matters: creating a memorable, beautiful book for your school community—not doing hours of clerical work.

Student Security

8. But just as important as convenience is the security of your students’ images. Each student receives their own password-protected web gallery for viewing and ordering photos. This means only authorized families can access their child’s images, ensuring privacy and reducing the risk of unauthorized sharing or data breaches—a growing concern in schools today.

In stark contrast, our local competitor uses a highly unprofessional—and potentially unsafe—method by uploading all student images to a single online album (such as SmugMug), often protected by just one password for the entire school. This exposes every student’s images to anyone with the link, with no individual privacy controls and no data organization.

Yearbooks

9. Make data processing even easier! When you choose Butler Studio as both your portrait photographer and yearbook provider, your portrait pages are automatically created and ready to go as soon as you log in. Simply pick your theme and add your candid photos—no data entry, no manual sorting, and no hassle. Our yearbook design software and printing options are user-friendly, fully integrated, and competitively priced, saving you time and ensuring your yearbook looks polished and professional from the very first step.

9. High Quality: Last, but certainly not least, we always provide top-quality portraits for your parents that only a truly professional studio can offer.

Each parent can choose the background that matches their child's personality the best!

So what's next? Contact Butler Studio for a meeting so we can get started creating a program that is just right for your school! Call 256.768.1751 or email kimberly@butlerstudio.net

We can't wait to work with you!
But don't wait! We are only adding a few schools each year, and we don't want you to lose your spot!

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