COMPACT FLASH - ALMOST FREE!

ALMOST FREE!

2 GB Reg. $32.95 One week only $2.95 after $30 mail-in rebate+ FREE shipping

4 GB Reg. $44.95 One week only $4.95 after $40 mail-in rebate+ FREE shipping

8 GB Reg. $89.95 One week only $9.95 after $80 mail-in rebate+ FREE shipping

They're speed rated at 133x, which means a minimum sustained write speed of - fasten your seatbelt - 20MB/second.

And they're loaded with image recovery and browsing software too.

We're talking the amazing Lexar 133x Pro Compact Flash here, and it's a dream for photographer's workflow, and just what you need in a pro DSLR. N

ow priced at 'virtually free' thanks to Lexar rebates that are truly INSANE, not to mention FREE shipping.

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AKVIS MAGNIFIER

AKVIS has announced the release of AKVIS Magnifier v.2.0, an efficient tool to increase image resolution.

Featuring advanced photo resizing algorithms, AKVIS Magnifier enlarges digital pictures to super-high resolution producing stunning enlargements and poster-size prints.
Featuring advanced enlargement algorithms, Magnifier enlarges digital pictures to super-high resolution for producing stunning poster-size prints. The algorithm keeps edges smooth, sharp and clearly defined, while improving image appearance by removing unwanted noise and compression artifacts.

Whether creating poster-size images or adding resolution for printing an enlargement, AKVIS Magnifier will make your prints look sharper and better defined. For a free trial, AKVIS offers 10 days of fully functional use. http://akvis.com/en/magnifier/index.php
AKVIS Magnifier Home License (plug-in or standalone) sells for $129 USD or 99 Euro, downloadable from http://www.akvis.com/.

Free Brushes

250 Hi Res Splatter, Spray, & Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

Don’t have the time to buy the right materials and create your own traditional-style-painting Photoshop Brushes? Maybe you just don’t know where to start? No worries - we’ve found nearly 250 of the best Splatter, Paint, Spray, and Watercolor brushes that we think you’ll love!

Check this one out for a sample

Hi-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes

Download 9 Hi-Resolution Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes, hand splattered by Dominik Lenk for the entire design community.

Have fun... Enjoy

PPC Announces Travel Site

PPC ANNOUNCES LATEST MEMBER BENEFIT!

The Professional Photographers of California have done it again!!! PPC has partnered with one of the world's largest travel agencies, YTB Travel, to assist you with your travel reservations. This is a win-win partnership with you and PPC.

Everytime you book your travel through TravelPPC, PPC will be allocated 60% of the commission generated through the reservations engine. There is NO additional cost to you! The cost will be the same as if you booked with any of the other agencies such as Travelocity, Orbitz etc. Somone gets commission wherever you book, so why not PPC? Making online reservations through www.travelppc.com is as easy as any other online travel agency. So. when you need to make travel resaervations, help yourself and PPC at the same time and use www.travelppc.com .

Tell your friends, family and clients, they can all use our site as this is not just for PPC members, it is open to the public. But you are the first to know. Check it out.

GigaPan

Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot

ROBOTS already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras.

A new, inexpensive robotic device from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University attaches snugly to almost any standard digital camera, tilting and panning it to fashion highly detailed panoramic vistas -- whether of the Grand Canyon, a rain forest or a backyard Easter egg hunt.

The robot is called GigaPan, named "giga" for the billion or more pixels it can marshal for a typical panorama. It creates the huge, high-resolution vista by extending its robotic finger and repeatedly clicking the camera shutter, taking tens, hundreds or even thousands of overlapping images, each at a slightly different angle, that are then stitched together by software to create one gigapixel shot.

Read more here

Distressed and Vintage photo effects

From Jonathan Penney: I feel like digital images are often too perfect, too sterile, devoid of the "character" that was inherent to the look of the early photographic processes.

I also like the idea of reaching back through the history of photography to find inspiration for the craft.

Most of these border effects are scanned from actual vintage images from my own personal collection of glass plates, daguerreotypes, tintypes, etc.

Click here to see his tutorial part I

Free Painter Tutorial from Karen Sperling

Artistry Tips and Tricks is a monthly e-zine available through the Artistry Online web site

Each issue is 30-40 pages long and contains information for painting from photos in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop.

Check out this excerpt from the July 2008 issue, where Karen Sperling explains how she painted from a photo by Phillip Stewart Charis.

See it here