Professional Services in San Diego

The laundry gurus at relaxx Dry Cleaning remove stains and freshen fabrics with eco-friendly Green Earth Cleaning. Opt for free pickup and delivery, and gallant raiment rescuers will swoop in to retrieve soiled duds such as business shirts ($2.10), blouses ($4.45), coats ($7.45), and gravy-stained suits of armor, or whisk away household linens such as duvet covers ($19.95) and comforters ($19.95+) for a restorative trip to the laundry spa. Later, garments reappear on clients’ doorsteps on recyclable hangers, looking bright, smelling fresh, and humming Ethel Merman show tunes. In addition to laundry services, relaxx Dry Cleaning cossets clothes with full tailoring, shoe-repair, and leather-cleaning services.

Since 1987, the technicians at San Diego Audio Video have packaged sights and sounds into sleek digital formats, all while keeping up with the latest technology. Specializing in digitizing analog media, such as film and VHS tapes, the media specialists can also custom-edited DVDs, photo slideshows, and other keepsake mementos or business-meeting montages. Artists and do-it-yourself aficionados can also rent out the recording studio to create music or trademark their signature sneeze with a professional equipment that includes a mixing console and a multi-track recorder.

Every garment that comes into The Cleaners Club goes through a six-step cleaning process the starts with an inspection and ends with custom packaging. The employees behind the process all have a minimum of five years of dry-cleaning experience and underwent a two-month training program before being hired. This dedication to quality service and educated staff has been The Cleaners Club mantra since the company's inception in 1985, and it's helped them develop long-standing partnerships with corporations including Ralphs and Vons. Both locations use nontoxic hydrocarbon solvents designed to cleanse garments and upholstery without perchloroethylene—an environmentally unfriendly chemical used by many dry cleaners and Mother Nature's rebellious nephew.

Lauren Taylor lives in an orbit around the camera. As a teenager, she modeled in front of the lens. She later attended the Institute of Studio and Makeup Design, after which she would collaborate with photographers behind the camera. Lauren eventually gravitated to the camera itself, which she now wields with aplomb in her own photography studio. Here, her life-long experience and education converge in the work of shooting sumptuous and striking images.

Thanks to her time in the sights of the camera eye, Lauren has a particular way of making subjects feel comfortable. She especially enjoys sessions with other women, documenting expectant mothers or capturing sensual boudoir portraits. Otherwise, Lauren's newborn shoots capture babies in their most innocent state, before they learn to talk or knit a ski-mask. Lauren still exercises her eye for fashion, snapping stills for advertisements and industry headshots. She also documents weddings, taking a photojournalistic approach to event photography by capturing candid moments and emotional milestones.

PhotoBin's picture experts help those looking for a unique, easy way to share photos with family and friends to create conversation-starting photo books, while clients call all the shots. Users can choose the type of book they'd like, then add a page count and fill the book with their treasured photos. Users can modify the placement, size, and focus of each picture with the site's online tools. Wedding photos grab houseguests' attention when collected in a hardcover coffee table book, while family vacation slides look all the more appealing when printed in a softcover book or a colorful photo magazines.

PhotoBin protects and showcases customers' photos with scanning services, conversion offers, and customizable, full-color photo books. Customers seeking to preserve cherished or fading photographs can send their physical pictures to PhotoBin's digital transmogrifiers, who take each image, create an electronic copy, and burn them onto a CD, before sending the original shots and the new image disc back to their owners. The site also offers digital conversion services for videos, and scanning services for negatives, and slides.

The Boudoir Divas want to make the "ultimate supermodel experience" accessible to every woman, and the website's testimonial page offers happily tearful proof of that mission's success. For example, client Susan wanted to shed her everyday style for a day of flashbulbs and glamour. She starts her anecdote by describing the consultation she had in the jazzy, girly dressing room, and finishes her story by confessing that when she saw her prints, she cried. Susan described the experience as life-changing, saying, "it was just one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Second to my wedding."

Creating these unforgettable experiences is an all-female staff of photographers, makeup artists, and image editors, who run a 4,500-square-foot studio that houses a dressing room, more than 16 sets, and an area to review subjects' sensuous proofs. Spangled with vanity lights, the crimson dressing room is lined with a wall of shoes, and opposite, a wardrobe rack is strewn with leopard print, tulle, fringe, and lace, offering a variety of mix-and-match outfit choices. Numerous packages are available, and the Divas' portfolio is divided into Romantic, Supermodel Sexy, Fine Art, and Simply Beautiful categories.