Free Brushes of Branches for spring

Free Branches Photoshop Brushes

BrushPortfolio.com has just released a new set of free Photoshop brushes titled Branches.

There are 16 brushes in the set featuring leaves, branches and buds in the spirit of Spring. The design elements are perfect for scrap booking and card making. Each brush was made using Adobe Illustrator and exported to Photoshop at 300 dpi. Happy Creating!

POSTCARD CONTEST 2009

POSTCARD CONTEST 2009: Win one of up to 45 prices by sending a postcard to us
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The Postcard Contest 2009 asks you to write a postcard and send it to us. The postcard can be purchased or created by yourself. The 20 best participants can win prizes consisting of a total of 57 software products and 5 books worth more than USD $3500. The contest runs until August 31, 2009.

Here is a list of the prizes:

Photo Tools 2: http://www.ononesoftware.com/
Exposure, Bokeh : http://www.alienskin.com/
nik Viveza: http://www.niksoftware.com/viveza/
IPX Paint Engine: http://fantasticmachines.com/
Curl Pro + Puzzle Pro: http://www.avbros.com/
DFT Light, Ozone and Power Stroke: http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/
PhotoMagic, PhotoZoom Pro 2, PhotoArtist: http://www.benvista.com/
FilterForge Standard: http://www.filterforge.com/
ContrastMaster, Plugin Galaxy: http://www.thepluginsite.com/
Fantastic Frames, Borders & Frames CDs: http://www.photoshopgraphics.co.uk/
Quasar, MetaGrad, Refiner and Conditioner: http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/
Neat Image Pro: http://www.neatimage.com/
Namesuppressed Plugins: http://www.namesuppressed.com/
DOF PRO: http://www.dofpro.com/
Fractalius: http://www.redfieldplugins.com/
FilterMeister: http://www.filtermeister.com/
SF Maskerade + SF ColorMixer Pro: http://www.simpelfilter.de/en/
recolorST: http://foksmarx.com/
Andrews Plugins, Custom Shapes & Patterns Collection: http://www.graphicxtras.com/
Photo Purify: http://www.photopurify.com/ O'Reilly Books: http://oreilly.com/

For more details on the contest see
http://www.thepluginsite.com/gallery/postcard/

New $199 Netbook (Very) Personal Computer Coming in March

New $199 Netbook (Very) Personal Computer Coming in March

Fidelity Electronics Introduces The Fidelity Netbook VPC (Very Personal Computer)

Very Portable, Very Functional, Very Affordable

TORONTO, CANADA (February 16, 2009) – Fidelity Electronics this week announced the launch of the VPC - Very Personal Computer: a fully preloaded, Wifi portable netbook computer at a very affordable price.

The VPC weighs only 1.5lbs and measures just 8.4” x 5.5” x 1”

Very functional: The VPC has both wifi and ethernet connections and a full function keyboard to connect, work and play

Very affordable: All programs and applications are preloaded and ready to use.

“At a $199 SRP, the VPC is perfect for students and people on the go,” says Richard Kizner, Director of Marketing for Fidelity Electronics. “Preloaded programs include internet browser, spreadsheet, word processor, a media player for movies, music and pictures, e-book reader, dictionary, calendar, PDF reader, email, chat, calculator, file manager and much more.

VPC comes with a full function keyboard, touchpad, 7” TFT display with 800 x 480 WVGA resolution, 802.11g Wifi, 100 MHz internet browser, 2 GB internal storage, 3 hour rechargeable battery, microphone and a headphone jack. It has onboard USB, SD and Ethernet ports that make the VPC an incredibly affordable yet versatile device,” he adds.

The VPC is expected to retail at $199.99 USD

For details go to the Fedelity Electronics website.

BOOK REVIEW-the Wedding Season

BOOK REVIEW
Get ready for wedding photography

In this all-new book review shootout, we put three books to the test.
Read on to learn how
100 Techniques for Professional Wedding Photographers by Bill Hurter,
Power Marketing, Selling, and Pricing: A Business Guide for Wedding and Portrait Photographers by Mitche Graf, and
Step-by-Step Wedding Photography: Techniques for Professional Photographers by Damon Tucci

stand up to our editorial review.

To read the full article, click here.

Free Fonts

Font Bros Site Offers A Beautiful Selection Of Amazing Free Fonts

The Font Bros Site has just great looking fonts for sale at great prices, but if you like your fonts to be free, you'll also find an amazing assortment of top fonts right there for the taking.

Just go to the front page and look at the menu on top — and the third item in from the left is a Free Fonts button. Click and go wild! These are really nice free fonts so browse and download. Here are a few samples from the Font Bros Free Fonts Collection.

WARNING

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If a company called USA SEO Pro’s calls you with a great offer to optimize your web site, DON’T DO IT!! One of the PPSV members agreed to have them optimize their photography web site and what was put online instead was a link to a cheesy site that was thrown together with very little effort and also contained links to porn!

It used the member’s company name which was on the first page of many search engine searches, but linked to this awful page which if anything would have lost business!

After disputing the charge on the credit card, there were many threats and a small claims suit filed by the member, which ended up being settled, but at a cost to the member of $1400!

This company is a sham and takes advantage of small businesses promising the world and providing nothing good. It is not known where this member’s telephone number was obtained, but you could also be on their call list.

If USA SEO Pros (also called Business Development Institute) calls you, don’t fall for it! USA SEO Pros is an unethical, fraudulent business!!

A Little Behind

Ok, so I am a little on the tardy side getting to my blog. Sorry. I will try to get to it more often. I have been concentrating on making sure my orders were filled. Customers always come FIRST!!!