About Us

Brigitte Hyde - Company Director
Brigitte Hyde - Manager. Brigitte is a director of Famous Friends and manages all of the operations of the business.

Victoria Wale - Photo Technician
After graduating at Royal Holloway, University of London with a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies Victoria went into publishing. She moved on to work with a Japanese micronics company and through a position in Marketing there was able to develop her skills to become a freelance web and graphic designer along with photographer and other freelance publicity and marketing jobs.

Matthew Newton - IT Manager
Matt has 11 years, experience in the IT field from various roles in technical support, development, sales and management. He enjoys coding and support the most, and renders computer-generated artificial landscapes as a hobby. He is 34 years old.

Stephen Hyde - Company Director
Stephen, who is a director of Famous Friends, is a Chartered Accountant who has spent most of his career in consumer businesses, notably 13 years at Tesco, where he held several senior positions. He is 51 years old.

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What We Do

Firstly we use special software to merge the head from your photo into the gallery photo that you have chosen. In doing this, our technicians adjust lighting, colour, size, angles etc in order to make the picture look just right.
We then have the photo printed by one of the best specialist printers in the country. In order to obtain pinpoint sharpness and to avoid fading, they use superb quality paper and inks.
The print is then mounted in a purpose-made frame of your choice (see below)

Black/White
inc. presentation box
Frame: Black Ash
Outer mount: White
Inner mount: Black

No Frame
No frame to be supplied

We use double mounts to enhance the appearance of the final product and high-quality Whitecore mount card.
The framed picture is then placed in a unique Famous Friends presentation box.
We then wrap the box in bubble-wrap, pack it in a special package and despatch it by courier to the delivery address. We use the tracking facilities of our courier to monitor all stages of the delivery.
Finally on payment security, famousfriends.co.uk never see your credit or debit card details. Card numbers are not held in clear text on any web site. We use WORLDPAY, wholly owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group - RBSG, Europe's 2nd largest banking group, to handle your payment transaction with secure encryption. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology for our checkout pages which means that you can order online in complete confidence. You will see a locked padlock symbol at the foot of your browser to confirm that all the checkout pages are secured. This payment facility is 100% safe and has been checked and approved by all the major banks and credit card providers.
For more information about WorldPay security, please go to this page on their website: https://support.worldpay.com/shopper/