Photo Infos: January 2010

Friday, January 29, 2010

ProPhotoApps Launches the Photography Industry’s First and Only Custom Branded iPhone App for Professional Photographers and their Photography Studios

MILWAUKEE & NASHVILLE (January 10, 2010) – ProPhotoApps, the photography industry’s first and only custom branded iPhone app for professional photographers and their photography studios, today announced the official public launch of their company at the Imaging USA 2010 Conference & Exposition in Nashville, TN.

With an extremely affordable price of just $199 during the Imaging USA 2010 Conference & Exposition (a $50 savings off of the regular $249 price), a photography studio can have their very own custom branded iPhone app with their studio name on it to help build their business and their brand for years to come. Here are just a few of the great benefits:

• MyDailyPic – This is the app’s flagship feature – where a studio can feature their best images by promoting a new image each day for all iPhone app users to see.
• List studio specials and news
• One touch access for iPhone app users to call, email, text, or go right to a photography studio’s website
• Automatically integrated with Facebook & Twitter
• Provide complete info about a photography studio to iPhone app users
• Custom branded – a studio can call the app whatever they want and use their logo – It’s a studio’s very own custom branded iPhone app!
• Built by professional photographers for professional photographers. ProPhotoApps knows professional photography like no one else and the features studios are looking for.
• As a studio owner an iPhone isn’t even needed to maintain and administer the iPhone app. ProPhotoApps has a state of the art web portal for studios to maintain their information and images – ProPhotoApps makes this extremely simple and fast for studios.
• ‘For You’ Feature – Another great feature of a studio’s custom branded app – ProPhotoApps has developed a technology to allow studios to know exactly who has downloaded their app so you can target information, news, images, and specials directly to individuals and groups.

“We are very excited to publicly launch ProPhotoApps at the Imaging USA 2010 Conference & Exposition,” said Tim Vertz, co-founder of ProPhotoApps and vice president of marketing. “We have built a lot of excitement in the photography industry with the industry’s first iPhone app built for professional photography studios to promote and brand their business.”

ProPhotoApps has been in pre-launch mode since mid 2009. The company also worked with many leading photography studios throughout the country to participate in focus groups and product development.

“We have worked very hard to bring about an extremely unique iPhone app that is custom branded for every photography studio,” said Jason Kelley, co-founder and chief technology officer of ProPhotoApps. “Our DailyPic and ‘For You’ features are extremely compelling so photography studios can promote their creativity, uniqueness, and target their client base to grow their photography studios.”

About ProPhotoApps
The founders of ProPhotoApps have a long history of being involved in the photography industry and know what it takes to build a successful photography business.
ProPhotoApps brings together talent from the photography, marketing, and information technology industry with the very first iPhone app geared specifically to help grow photography studios. ProPhotoApps goal is to help photography studios grow their business and promote their creativity. More info can be found at www.ProPhotoApps.com.

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Picapp Integrates in Google Knol to Enable Access to Celeb, Sports, News, Creative Images

Meeting Growing Demand for Premium, Current and Legal Content; Images Will Be Provided at No Cost to Publishers

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - January 25, 2010) - Google Knol publishers searching for photos of newly elected senator Brown, Jennifer Aniston at the Golden Globe Awards, or Peyton Manning, or looking for photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, an image of a human brain or a wildflower, can now use Picapp to add relevant images to their knols.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has integrated Picapp's Partner API into the Knol editor, along with other embeddable object features. The Picapp integration will enable Knol publishers to access fresh, premium and free images. Knol has more than 100,000 articles, and is considered one of the most innovative and fastest growing knowledge base platforms.

Picapp hopes to continue working with Google to integrate with additional products.

Unlike other content syndication products that include intrusive advertising, the Picapp solution uses a subtle and user-friendly approach. Each published image is linked to a photo gallery page, displaying additional related images; the photo gallery page, which is fully customizable and can be white labeled, displays unobtrusive display ads.

Picapp enables publishers to easily search and insert images into posts; it has 20 million images covering entertainment, sports, news, travel, fashion, medical, food, and more, with 10,000 images updated daily. Picapp images come fully tagged with metadata and are indexed by image-search engines.

"Implementing our Partner API with a strong partner such as Google, which stands for innovation and excellence and which is committed to reducing online image piracy, represents a major milestone for Picapp with its mission to bring legal, affordable images to online publishers," said Eyal Gura, CEO, Picapp. "Our image distribution solution is the only one to fully respect and credit the content creators while providing the publishers with added values of content and user engagement."

News and photo agencies licensing images via Picapp include, among others, Getty Images, Corbis, Newscom, Fame Pictures, Admedia Photo, Entertainment Press, Zuma Press, Image Source and Pacific Coast News. Displaying ads on image photo gallery page provides a monetization tool for content owners.

About Picapp
Picapp (www.Picapp.com) offers online publishers and bloggers a single source for millions of premium quality and free images to use legally and enhance their sites. News and photo agencies licensing images to Picapp include, among others, Getty Images, Corbis, Zuma Press, and Newscom with new content partners added frequently to meet its global expansion goals. Picapp has over 20 million images with over 10,000 images updated daily; covering all types of editorial and creative image categories. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has a development and operations center in Herzelia, Israel and is financially backed by Carmel Ventures.

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Microstock Agency PantherMedia introduces New Website with Fresh Ideas

Image buyers and designers can now choose their favorite background design

Munich, January 26, 2010. PantherMedia, the leading and rapidly growing marketplace for Royalty-Free photography with over one million images, illustrations and a vibrant photocommunity, today introduces its new website with innovative design and many new features, creating an
unique shopping experience for image buyers. The innovations are:

• Design:
o An optimized design und harmonized fonts for a higher clearness enabling customers, image buyers and designers to find quickly and easy the images they need.
o New clearly arranged start page showing all price models at a glance.
o Unique in the market: image buyers can now switch between a white-grey and a more dark background design of the website to create their own favored design for their working purposes.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Apple Takes Wraps Off iPad

Rex Crum talks to analyst Ross Rubin of NPD Group about the long-awaited touch-screen tablet computer.

How To Take Cute Baby Pictures

Ready to show the world your pride and joy? Follow these tips to get divine snapshots of your little angel.

Popular Photography Website Launches Free Online Comprehensive Underwater Photography Tutorials

With The Growth in Popularity of Underwater Photography, A Community of Esteemed Professional Photographers Respond By Developing A Series of Free Online Underwater Photography Tutorials to Help The World Learn About Underwater Photography

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 27, 2010 -- In response to the global demand from photographers, scuba divers, surfers and snorkelers around the world, leading underwater photography website DivePhotoGuide.com has launched a highly anticipated free series of comprehensive underwater photography tutorials and guides to help the world learn underwater photography. Never before has there been such a growing interest in underwater photography. Affordable digital cameras have made underwater photography more accessible, and social media has made it easier than ever to share photos with your friends, family and the world.

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Apple Launches iPad

Magical & Revolutionary Device at an Unbelievable Price

SAN FRANCISCO—January 27, 2010—Apple® today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch™ display lets users physically interact with applications and content. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds— thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. iPad will be available in late March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.

“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Techmate: Hands on with the iPad

NLimage Announces Three New Members

In 2010, NLimage has welcomed three new members. Two image libraries and the Dutch collecting society Pictoright.

The two image libraries; Arnd Bronkhorst Fotografie (www.arnd.nl) and Buiten-Beeld (www.buiten-beeld.nl) are a welcome addition to the current members.

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How the proposed Digital Economy Bill could kill parts of the photography business

BAPLA is calling for proposed clause 116B in the Digital Economy Bill, which could mean photographers and image rights holders losing the right to have a say in how their work is used, by whom and at what price, to be scrapped.

UK - BAPLA (The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies) is extremely concerned Extended Licensing schemes will be wholly detrimental to the photography and picture industry as it will enable bodies outside the industry to grant copyright licenses in which copyright is not owned by the body or a person on whose behalf the body acts.

Thousands of companies whose role it is manage and market photography will, under these proposals, see their intellectual property rights as well as their living taken from them.

The Bill is currently going through the House of Lords and these changes are due to be debated imminently. It is imperative that these issues are dealt with in the right way by seeking proper and thorough consultation with the rights holders it will affect and assessing the impact of changes on a system which is already fulfilling the role required in a more efficient way than the new proposals suggest.

The creative industries have been operating against a background of copyright regulations that are growing hopelessly out of date in this new digital era and BAPLA applauds many parts of the Bill that support the longevity of our industry. But we view Clause 116B as economically unviable and would question its ability to work. Linda Royles, senior consultant to BAPLA, commented “There are some instances when photography transactions and relationships should and could be managed between clients and rights holders managed directly.

However, there are 1000’s of instances when photographs must and should not be used due to the associated rights. For example these instances could be determined by the photographer (e.g. not to be sold in the US or in connection with a political ideology), they may be contractually agreed by the person in an image (e.g. all uses of the image of a celebrity must be cleared by their agent) or the object, building or skyline that appears in the image cannot be used without the appropriate permissions being sought (e.g. use of a leading brand logo may be considered an infringement of trade mark and many buildings and landmarks need approval before they may be used in a commercial context). Extended Collective Licensing carelessly assumes that all images can be treated equally.”

Whilst the Bill currently provides for an individual photographer to opt out of a blanket scheme – it doesn’t mean that their work will cease to be used in any extended collective licensing agreement. It just means that when you opt out you lose the right to claim the money that is being collected for the use of your work. This seems hardly fair; if you are against the principle of someone else having control over your work and your business, saying ‘no’ doesn’t mean no.

Many photographers do well from existing schemes that collect revenue, for example when a book is photocopied. So if these schemes are already running and in operation, it is unnecessary to single out one business model in law, in this Bill (116B) if the impact of this may be to the detriment of so many and the financial benefit of so few?

Paul Brown, BAPLA Chairman adds, “This clause could potentially destroy the principle of direct licensing, which is the most efficient means of ensuring that a rights holder is remunerated exactly and properly for the use of their work, and lose creators the right to control their own economic and moral rights. Imagine a photographer losing control of every image they shoot. Imagine not being able to instruct anyone how you want your work marketed or respected. Imagine not being paid directly for an image usage, but having to claim for a random share of an unknown pot of money. This is completely untenable and unacceptable.”

BAPLA also supports calls for changes to clause 116A to find a solution to the licensing of orphan works without prejudicing the copyright of photographers and other rights holders.

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Hasselblad is gearing up for the 2010 Masters Awards competition

26/01/2010 After announcing the 2009 Masters Awards winners last week, Hasselblad is gearing up for the 2010 Masters Awards competition. The prestigious Masters Awards competition, in its tenth year, rewards photographic excellence in the areas of creativity, composition, conceptual strength, and technical skill.

For 2010, Hasselblad has added a new photo specialty category, wildlife. So this year's winners will be chosen in 11 categories, instead of last year's 10 categories - architecture, editorial, fashion/beauty, fine art, general photography, nature/landscape, portrait, product, up and coming, wedding/social - plus wildlife. The up-and-coming photographer category is open to all professional photographers, regardless of length of time in the business or camera format. Submissions for all other categories will be accepted from established professional photographers who use any large-format or medium-format camera.

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Pentax Unfeils Three New Digital Cameras

OPTIO I-10 AND OPTIO H90 KICK-OFF NEW PRODUCT LINES AND AFFORDABLE OPTIO E90 PRICED UNDER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

GOLDEN, CO. (January 25, 2010)…PENTAX Imaging Company announced three new digital cameras with designs so unique that not one can be labeled as “just another silver digital camera.”

Most unique is the slim and stylish PENTAX Optio I-10 with a design inspired by the classic look of film SLR cameras. This head-turning first model in the new Optio I line features a flash unit and speaker in the upper mid-section of the SLR-shaped body while the camera’s front panel is embellished with high quality leatherette texture and the classic PENTAX logo placed front and center. The Optio I-10 features a wide angle, 5X optical zoom lens (28mm-140mm equivalent), a 12.1 megapixel high resolution CCD sensor, a 2.7 inch widescreen LCD, and HD video capture at 720p and 30 FPS. For optimal image capture, the camera features a mechanical sensor shift Shake Reduction system and improved Pixel Track Shake Reduction technology for blur-free images as well as Smile Capture, Blink Detection and improved Face Detection that spots up to 32 faces including dogs and cats. The Optio I-10 is remote control compatible (sold separately) and will ship in February 2010 in a choice of Classic Black and Pearl White for $299.95 USD.

PENTAX also announced the Optio H90 digital camera with a clean, contemporary design that is as in style in a museum of modern art as at a concert or sporting event. Developed with the concept of “functional beauty” in mind, the fashionable and affordable Optio H90 offers a full assortment of features to capture a variety of subjects and scenes. This first model in the new Optio H line features a wide angle 5X optical zoom lens (28mm-140mm equivalent), a 12.1 megapixel high resolution CCD sensor, and widescreen HD video capture at 720p and 30 FPS. Improved Pixel Track Shake Reduction technology captures blur-free images and the Face Detection, Smile Capture, and Blink Detection functions help users create better portraits. The Optio H90 will ship in February 2010 in a choice of Orange-Silver, Matte Black and Ceramic White for $179.95.

Both the PENTAX Optio I-10 and Optio H90 offer Eye-Fi connectivity capability for use with Eye-Fi wireless memory cards.

The latest model in the easy-to-operate, affordable Optio E series is the PENTAX Optio E90. Priced at just $99.95 USD, the Optio E90 features a 10 megapixel CCD, a 3X wide angle zoom (32mm-96mm equivalent) and a large 2.7 inch LCD housed in a luxurious rubber coated body for a sure grip. The Optio E90’s features a travel-friendly design with AA battery compatibility. Auto Picture mode selects the best shooting settings for the scene, and a high 6400 ISO that freezes subject movement in Digital SR (Shake Reduction) mode. The Optio E90 features an intelligent ergonomic design with a sure grip and an easy menu that makes the E series a popular choice. Available in Black and Wine Red, the Optio E90 will ship in February 2010.

Each model is available for pre-order now on the www.pentaxwebstore.com

Complete information including individual product fact sheets is available here: http://www.pentaximaging.com/about-us.aspx?p=press

Product images are available here: http://www.pentaximaging.com/press/pressfiles.html

PENTAX Imaging Company is an innovative leader in the production of a variety of digital cameras including weather resistant digital SLRs and stylish, compact, waterproof cameras, as well as lenses, flash units, binoculars, scopes, and eyepieces. For 90 years, PENTAX has developed durable, reliable products that meet the needs of consumers and businesses. With headquarters in Golden, Colorado, PENTAX Imaging Company is a division of PENTAX of America, Inc.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Tech: Apple tablet's fight

Techmate: Tablets: who needs 'em?

Social Media For Photographers: Photoshelter Releases Free Social Media Guide

A comprehensive guide to help photographers effectively use social media to promote their work, build a following, increase website traffic, and sell more images

New York, NY, January 22, 2010 - PhotoShelter, the leader in photography websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers, today released the latest in their series of free downloadable research reports for photographers. PhotoShelter's Social Media for Photographers, a free 55-page e-book, provides essential internet marketing guidance for serious professionals and aspiring hobbyists looking to grow their photography business online. Available at http://www.photoshelter.com/mkt/research/social-media-for-photographers the guide is designed to share insights with photographers who want to get started or optimize their productive use of social media platforms like blogging, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as part of their overall marketing strategy.

PhotoShelter's Social Media for Photographers includes tips on: the ground rules for social media, choosing where to participate, smart strategies to stand out, generating social sharing and quality links, suggestions for measuring progress, and a listing of tools to save time and make participation more effective. The guide is designed to benefit photographers new to social media as well as those who wish to generate more results from their current efforts. Photographers can immediately start using the guide's actionable strategies and benefit from a healthy dose of real life examples from photographers implementing successful social media strategies across the web. Social Media for Photographers is sponsored by Adorama Camera.

"Many photographers already have a website, photo blog, a Twitter account and a Facebook page, but we don't see many using these tools to effectively market and grow their photography business. By giving photographers the information they need to grow their social media presence, set goals, and measure their efforts, we are providing them with new strategies to promote their work and ultimately generate more revenue from their photography." said PhotoShelter CEO Allen Murabayashi. "When done right, social media enables photographers to build a following, engage in dialogue, and find new opportunities to showcase and share their work."

Beyond offering websites and tools to help photographers succeed online, PhotoShelter consistently delivers photography business insights that help photographers use technology to compete in a quickly changing marketplace. PhotoShelter started releasing free research reports in 2009, and has developed a series of comprehensive resources that make PhotoShelter the go-to source for marketing a photography business online. To date, thousands of photographers have downloaded and benefited from PhotoShelter's previous free reports: Photography Websites: Photo Buyer Survey, the SEO Cookbook for Photographers, and Google Analytics for Photographers. All of PhotoShelter's free reports are available here: http://www.photoshelter.com/mkt/research/.

"With social media, photographers can increase their online presence and multiply the ways their work gets found online. There are instant benefits, as well as ancillary benefits like better SEO," said Murabayashi. "To create this guide, we gathered insights and guidance from some of the world's leading authorities on social media for business marketing and branding. We interviewed successful photographers worldwide to understand who's getting it right and how we can share the secrets of their success with the greater community of photographers."

This guide complements the suite of social media sharing tools that PhotoShelter has developed for photographers who use PhotoShelter websites to display and sell their photography online. Embeddable slideshows for posting images on blogs, seamless sharing on Twitter and Facebook (and hundreds of other social networks) and RSS feeds are all available with all levels of PhotoShelter membership. Photographers can register for a PhotoShelter account at: http://www.photoshelter.com/ PhotoShelter can be found on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/photoshelter) and Facebook (http://bit.ly/PSfacebook).

No technical experience is required to implement the strategies discussed in Social Media for Photographers, and PhotoShelter membership is not necessary.
About PhotoShelter

PhotoShelter is the leader in portfolio websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers.

Over 50,000 photographers worldwide use PhotoShelter to power their success online, with customizable website templates, searchable photo galleries, e-commerce capabilities, and bulletproof image storage. Photographers can create a professional PhotoShelter website in under five minutes, or customize PhotoShelter to power their existing photography website. A true solution designed to make the business of photography easier to manage - PhotoShelter offers image security, global accessibility, and advanced marketing tools so photographers can make their images work harder for them. To join our community, visit www.PhotoShelter.com.

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How to Photoshop Tilt Shift

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Freezing motion in the studio

Even the best studio lights can struggle to capture sharp results on moving subjects. It's got nothing to do with shutter speed and everything to do with flash duration.

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Lens: Canon 24-105L
Aperture: f8
Shutter Speed: 1/200th sec
ISO: 400
File type: RAW
Flash: Canon 580EXII
Flash Mode: E-TTL
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Reading the Histogram (Photography in 90 Seconds)

The histogram is a graph which represents the distribution of light or luminance values in your image. Its horizontal axis ranges from black and dark shadows on the left to bright or pure white on the right. Although there is no 'perfect' distribution for a histogram, a well-exposed image will have luminance values that fall within the histogram's range for your camera, with no pixel's luminance values falling on the extreme left (shadows recorded as black) or on the extreme right (highlights recorded as white), unless you are trying to achieve a particular creative result. Fortunately, all modern digital cameras can display an histogram, which you should check early and often to help ensure that you achieve a good exposure. To view the histogram, preview your image on the LCD screen of your camera, and flick through the options until a graph appears (some cameras only show luminance, while others also show the Red, Green, and Blue channel values). If it shows values on either extreme, you may want to adjust your aperture, shutter speed, or ISO, and then retake the image to regain that lost information.

If the brightness values in the scene fall outside of you Histogram's range (i.e., outside of its dynamic range) even after making appropriate exposure adjustments, then you may want to properly expose for the shadows and highlights in separate images, and then combine or blend those exposures in an image-editing software program like Adobe Photoshop or Photomatix; this technique is also called HDR, or High Dynamic Range photography.

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DSLR Know-How with Tamron: Episode Two

Andre's 1-minute tip this week is about Autofocus: focus points and focus modes.

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Category: Education
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Friday, January 22, 2010

World Tech Update #99

WORLD TECH UPDATE #99, Jan. 21, 2010 In this week's World Tech Update rescue efforts continue in Haiti and technology allows donations to pour in, the European Commission grants Oracle approval to take over Sun, Fujitsu unveils a pocket-sized Windows 7 laptop, Sony's TransferJet finally comes to market, Amazon announces and SDK for its Kindle, Bill Gates joins Twitter, Nokia releases a free mapping application to compete with Google, Sony delays the launch of its PS3 motion controller and the world's fastest texters are crowned. Find out what's coming up on each week's show by following us on Twitter (WorldTechUpdate) or check out our Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/worldtechupdate

How To Take a Family Portrait

Take a family portrait both as a keepsake and as an excuse to get everyone together.

SNTV - Rihanna's sexy cover shoot

Behind the scenes with Rihanna on her sexy photo shoot with W magazine

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Photoshop CS4 Tutorial Facial Retouching

Simple Photoshop CS4 Tutorial Facial Retouching

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Photoshop Tutorial: 5 Methods for Black and White -HD-

In this tutorial, you will learn 5 methods for turning a color image to black and white in Photoshop CS4.

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Replace Color - Photoshop Beginner Tutorial

A quick tutorial showing how to use the replace color tool in Adobe Photoshop CS4

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Proper SLR Camera Lens Cleaning Tutorial (HD)

This video teaches you how to clean the SLR camera lenses to deliver the best image quality as possible. Enjoy!

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The3dStudio.com Offers 750,000 Royalty-Free 2D and 3D Resources

Mesa, AZ—January 19, 2010: The3dStudio.com, Inc. announces their collection has reached a new growth milestone—750,000 royalty-free 2D and 3D resources are now available on the web site, and more are added each day.

The3dStudio.com is a one-stop shop for a wide range of free and priced resources including 3D models, textures, tutorials, plug-ins, software, and stock photos and images. The large collection of 3D models includes vehicles, weapons, architectural elements and much more, for use by architects, game designers, ad agencies, graphic designers, etc. Expert custom work and free file conversion are available.

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AudioMicro Unveils The Platinum Collection - 20,000 New Tracks Added As Its Library Surpasses Two Hundred Thousand Tracks

AudioMicro adds 20,000 production music tracks traditionally only available to high end buyers.

LOS ANGELES, January 19, 2010 - AudioMicro.com, a crowd-sourced marketplace for royalty free music and sound effects licensing, announces that its users can now download more than 20,000 new production music tracks from its online library. AudioMicro users have immediate access to 20,000 fresh tracks spanning a comprehensive range of musical genres and styles. The new offering has been dubbed, “The Platinum Collection”, and features a selection of hand picked, award winning production music.

“When we launched our first high end collection in October, we received overwhelming positive feedback from the community about its unprecedented quality, size, and scope”, said AudioMicro CEO Ryan Born. “We are excited to enhance our archive of premium content with 20,000 new tracks in the Platinum Collection.”

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Monday, January 18, 2010

World Tech Update #98

World Tech Update #98, January 14, 2010, CES Special #2 In this week's World Tech Update we're back at the Consumer Electronics Show where Ford debuts new in car technology that incorporates two popular web applications, MSI shows off two dual screen netbooks that could be on the market this year, Klipsch introduces an LED light with built in wireless speaker, a new type of display boasts good readability in direct sunlight and very low power consumption, Greenpeace gives its highs and lows of the show and celebrities help promote products. Find out what's coming up on each week's show by following us on Twitter (WorldTechUpdate) or check out our Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/worldtechupdate

Saturday, January 16, 2010

How To Choose the Right Frame For a Picture

The perfect frame will make your painting, photograph, or piece of artwork stand out on your wall. Here's how to find an ideal match.

Image Source and PicScout Close Deal to Make New Content Available Through PicScout ImageExchangeTM

World's Leading Independent Producer of Premium Royalty Free Images Soon to Become Available to ImageExchangeTM Users

SILICON VALLEY, CA and LONDON--(Marketwire - January 14, 2010) - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services, enabler of client image monetization activities, and standard for image credit, today announces that they have reached agreement with Image Source, the world's leading producer of premium royalty free stock imagery, to add its entire collection of images to the PicScout platform to be visible and available to ImageExchange™ users.

Image Source is among the most creative and prolific producers of stock photography in the world. Underscoring the company's global reach and influence, its founder Christina Vaughan is the current President of the European Photography Trade organization, CEPIC, and Vice President of PACA, the North American Stock Photography Trade body. Of PicScout ImageExchange, Christina Vaughan says, "We laud and support the PicScout goal to credit every image and enlarge the scope of image recognition and rights across the digital marketplace. Image Source looks forward to bringing our renowned and distinguished stock photography through ImageExchange to reach our loyal clients everywhere."

"PicScout is very pleased to have reached this important agreement with Image Source and add them to the twenty plus leading companies partnered in ImageExchange. Image Source is among our industry's most highly respected companies and continues our momentum as we strive to meet the significant challenge that every image get its credit," said Offir Gutelzon, PicScout founder and CEO. "We look forward to making the Image Source content -- some of the world's finest photography -- available to our growing force of ImageExchange users very soon."

Recently, PicScout made a series of announcements based on a powerful new PicScout enabling platform with wide industry support. PicScout developments for the industry point to a new model and technical standard for image credit. With ownership and licensing clarified in an infrastructure that facilitates image rights and use, a pervasive online image marketplace has emerged. Image ownership is clear, and everyone using the PicScout ImageExchange browser tool can connect and use the images they want when they find them.

About PicScout
Founded in 2002, PicScout™ is the worldwide leader in image tracking, enabler of client image monetization services, and the standard for image credit. Through its proprietary and highly scalable image recognition technology, PicScout created the image copyright protection marketplace through its widely used ImageTracker™ product and is now leading the way for image commerce to become a legitimate Internet economy. A financially independent, privately held company, PicScout has offices in the Silicon Valley and Hertzelia, Israel. The company's products ImageTracker™ and ImageExchange™ utilize the company's Image IRC™ service platform which is based on its proprietary image recognition technology for its index, metadata registry and API connection to provide a wide variety of solutions involving image protection, ownership, identification, commerce, as well as business intelligence. PicScout is a member of PACA www.pacaoffice.org, CEPIC www.cepic.org, and BAPLA www.bapla.org.uk.

About Image Source
Image Source http://www.imagesource.com/ is the world's leading independent producer of royalty free stock imagery. Founded in 1999 by Christina Vaughan, Image Source supplies images and now footage to creative professionals around the world, having pioneered the visual industry's first Cross-Media Pack, containing matched still images and motion content. Headquartered in London, UK, with a regional office in New York, the company also supplies imagery through over 200 partners worldwide. This strong international sales network enabled the company to win the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade Category in 2005. Image Source has also been shortlisted by The Sunday Times Best Employers Guide 2008 as 'One to Watch' and is in The Guardian's 2008 book of Britain's Top Employers. The company is accredited with ISO 9001 and achieved a place on the 2008 Media Momentum Top 50, a list of the fastest growing digital media companies in the UK. Founder & CEO, Christina Vaughan, also recently won Entrepreneur of the Year at the Lloyds TSB sponsored Asian Women of Achievement Awards held in London. Image Source is a member of PACA www.pacaoffice.org, CEPIC www.cepic.org, and BAPLA www.bapla.org.uk.

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Canon U.S.A. Kicks Off Innovative "Story Beyond The Still" Digital Image Contest On Vimeo.Com

Company Works With Vimeo And Grey New York To Launch Collaborative Project Commencing With Interpretive Work By Photographer Vincent Laforet

Lake Success, N.Y., January 15, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the commencement of "The Story Beyond The Still Contest," allowing photographers and videographers to showcase their creativity in a new style of filmmaking that blends still and video images into a continuous cinematic piece begun by Canon Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet. The contest, sponsored by Canon and hosted by Vimeo, the online video sharing site hosting one of the largest collections of HD content on the Web, invites participants to use the HD video capability of their camera to create short, two to four minute videos that tell a story based on the final still frame from Laforet's piece, and then from each successive winning "chapter." Videos can be submitted to and viewed on a dedicated site within the Vimeo online community before they are judged.

The "Story Beyond the Still" contest provides filmmakers with a unique opportunity to showcase their storytelling abilities in a new style of filmmaking utilizing an HD-capable camera to capture moving images while also demonstrating the social appeal of collaborative storytelling. To kick off the contest, Laforet collaborated with Grey New York to bring his interpretation of a still image to life in a short film entitled "The Cabbie," which serves as the first installment of a seven chapter collaborative work in which each participant will be asked to interpret the previous winning photographer/filmmaker's final still image to start their vision for the subsequent chapter.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Fotolia shares the Top Sellers of 2009

NEW YORK, NY, January 12, 2010 – Sales of $1 images continued to generate six-figure incomes for the world’s top photographers in 2009. The three best selling images on Fotolia.com accounted for nearly 10,000 downloads this past year. Images from the top three sellers range from $1 - $20 per download, depending on the size required.

“The best photographers and artists in the world upload their images to Fotolia because they know we aggressively market to buyers in 12 countries around the world,” says CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff. “Fotolia’s growth has been phenomenal, thanks to the quality and affordability of our stock imagery.”

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Tamron Teachable Moments: Take Just One Youtube-Minute Per Week And Get Lots More From Your DSLR Camera!

Weekly Postings of 1-Minute “DSLR Know How with Tamron” Episodes Starts Monday, January 18th on the TamronVids Channel on YouTube

January 11, 2010, Commack, NY – Tamron USA, Inc. has just announced a free new learning program that’s specifically targeted at first-time Digital SLR owners, but also likely to appeal to a broad spectrum of shooters including experienced enthusiasts, and those who simply want to get a better handle on all the exciting features built into their new Digital SLR cameras. Starting on January 18, 2010, and every Monday for 12 weeks, Tamron will release an entertaining and informative one-minute episode of “DSLR Know How with Tamron” on YouTube that’s designed to bring picture-takers up to speed in getting the most out of their equipment.

"In just one minute per week you can learn the basics of successful photography at no cost,” notes John VanSteenberg, Tamron’s Senior Education Manager. “Each of these one-minute demonstrations is designed to overcome uncertainty, inform, and dramatically raise the success rate of photographers, particularly those who consider themselves to be novices or new to digital SLR cameras.”

The lighthearted, fact-filled video episodes, presented by professional photographer and instructor Andre Costantini, cover essential topics, such as Intro to DSLRs, White Balance, Autofocus, Using Scene Modes, RAW vs. JPEG, and much more. All contain a wealth of solid, useful information, compiled by leading experts and presented in straightforward, easy-to-understand language. The goal is to expand the viewers’ knowledge base as quickly as possible while providing a fun learning experience. We believe that followers who watch the entire series will be able to take their creative DSLR skill sets to a whole new level of picture-taking success.

“Once the ‘DSLR 101’ series is posted, we will follow it up with a ‘202’ and ‘303’ series covering more sophisticated techniques, creating, in effect, a unique easy learning center,” says VanSteenberg. “The release schedule of weekly introductions allows viewers to try out the techniques and build a base of knowledge that creates a foundation for success. Tamron is acclaimed as a manufacturer of innovative high-performance camera lenses, but we also want to position ourselves as a leader in photo education. That helps raise the bar for everyone, including, of course, our valued customers."

The Tamron YouTube videos can be found on the TamronVids Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/TamronVids, and there will be weekly links posted on the Tamron website (www.tamron.com) as well as on Facebook and Twitter. To access the series, followers can subscribe to the Tamron YouTube Channel and/or follow it on Twitter and Facebook to find out when the videos are posted. The evolving Tamron Teachable Moments video learning series is ultimately targeted at anyone with a passion for DSLR photography. That includes shooters who feel challenged by the awesome capabilities of their new cameras, old hands who want to take a refresher course, and anyone who wants to enhance their skills and have a more rewarding picture-taking experience. Fortunately this is the Digital Era, so empowerment is only a click away!

About Tamron
Tamron is a leading manufacturer of photographic lenses. Among its many optical and mechanical innovations since the founding of the company in 1950, Tamron's development of mass-produced hybrid aspherical elements paved the way for today’s compact high power zoom all-in-one lenses (Megazooms) when, in 1992, this technology was incorporated into the groundbreaking 28-200mm. Tamron continues to lead in this category of lenses with the new world-wide award-winner 18-270mm — a best in class all-in-one zoom lens boasting an unprecedented 15X zoom range and featuring Tamron's proprietary Vibration Compensation (VC) system for blur-free hand-held shooting of photos in low light and at telephoto settings. Tamron has garnered international acclaim for its extensive line-up of professional and consumer lenses.

Where to Find Us
Website: www.tamron.com
Blog: http://tamrontechstips.typepad.com/tamron_blog/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TamronLensesUSA
Twitter: http://twitter.com/StacieErrera
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TamronVids
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tamron-usa/

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