Are any you guys have or know anyone who have experience in runing a photoshop in Thailand?

I would like to open a 1 hour (digital) photo shop somewhere in Thailand, I don't know if there is a market for this business or is it too expensive for most Thais.

any comments are welcome.

I have seen many shops like this. In bangkok a lot, on samui a few.

I make a lot of digital pictures and have my own printer that has a good quality (canoni9100) but i print most of my pictures at one of those shop because the price of 4 baht per picture (sometimes 3 baht) for a 4x6 is unbeatable. Although this is not always a one hour service it looks like it is the most used one. I don't know about the profit you can make on that but i think it is very little.

On the bigger prints there is still a profit margin but i don't think the market is big enough and again lots of competition. Maybe with value added like framing or put digital pictures on t-shirt, caps, clocks might add some profit.

Thank you Khun Jean.

Bonviveur

There's no way you'll manage to compete with the regular Thai shops at the low-end and middle end of the market- at best, you'd be investing in a Thai-run business (and unless you have some special reason to trust your Thai partner, that will end in tears).

However, there is a bit of room at the UPPER end of the market- i.e., for people who want things done correctly, well, and with a bit of care, with the top quality equipment and chemicals- and don't mind paying extra for it. A friend of mine who is a semi-professional photographer is always grumbling about the dearth of places who can simply develop his film in a decent way. A warning, though- the place he found most acceptable and had been using for a year or so suddenly went out of business recently. There are some signs that digital photography is destroying the film consumer base.

Good luck, whatever happens.

"Steven"

Thank you for the Input Ijustwannateach, maybe I should start looking at opening a convenience store with a digital kiosque, I guess digital is the way to go now.

Bonviveur