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Here’s one of my entries in the APPOS iPhone Awards & Photo Contest.

Vote, comment, and submit your photos here.

Here’s more about the contest.

The APPOS iPhone Awards & Photo Contest
There’s only one week left to enter.
It closes 7 pm PST Feb 16.
Enter now, enter tomorrow, enter as often as you like – it’s free.
Vote for your favorite images and Apps.
Eligibility
Images must be taken and processed with iPhones and iPhone Apps only.

Prizes
1    $1000 Adorama Gift Certificate
10  Wacom Tablets
15  Canon Wireless Printers
30  $100 Adorama Gift Certificates
25  $50 Apple App Store Gift Cards

Judges
Scott Kelby, Joe McNally, Eric Meola Moose Peterson, Syl Arena, Boomer & Carton

Vote
You can vote for and comment on entries.
You can even vote for your favorite photo App.

Find out more about the contest and see the entries here.

Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Adorama, apps, Boomer & Carton, Canon, contest, Eric Meola Moose Peterson, iPhone, Joe McNally, photo apps, scott kelby, syl arena, wacom

Simple sane advice collected from some of today’s most successful creatives.

What are the 8 Secrets?
Passion
Work
Good
Focus
Push
Serve
Ideas
Persist

Find out more by watching this 3:33 minute video.

Category: Video
Tags: 8 Secrets of Success, Richard St. John, TED

Chromoscope shows you the night sky in multiple wavelengths online.
Watch the tour of features above.
Find more information/images at Chromoscope.

I love this kind of photography. It reminds me that what I see and record is only a very limited slice from a single perspective and moment in time of a much richer world. Technology and community both help me see more diverse perspectives, enlarging my own. You share, I grow. Hopefully it works the other way around too.

Category: Video, photography
Tags: astronomy, chromoscope, electromagnetic spectrum

Find out what colors people associate with words.
For instance, a majority of voters associated the word God with white.
Choose a color for a word, then find out how other people voted.
Explore it here.

Check out my Color Psychology posts.

Learn more in my DVDs and Power of Color Workshop.

Category: Color
Tags: Color, color psychology, Cymbolism

What does color reveal about your personality?
Find out here.

Take the Luscher Color Test and compare.

Check out my Color Psychology posts.

Learn more in my DVDs and Power of Color Workshop.

Category: Color
Tags: Color, color psychology, lushcer color test, personality, testcolor

Chip and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick is must read material for any communicator – artist, businessperson, social advocate, politician, partner, parent … well, anyone really. Made To Stick will give you a proven formula for making any message more memorable and effective.

SUCCESs their simple formula.

Simple
Unexpected
Concrete
Credible
Emotional
Stories

That’s the key take-away from the book but it’s richly elaborated with hundreds of great stories about how SUCCESs is put into practice.

I give this book my highest recommendation.

Find the book here.
Find out more about the book and free online resources here.

Category: Reading
Tags: Books, Chip and Dan Heath, communication, Made to Stick

Experience four days packed full of learning and inspiration at the Nik Summit May 13-16, 2010 in San Diego, California.

Get a quick overview on Vincent Versace’s blog here.

Get all the details here.

Get the vibe by reading Tony Corbell’s invitation … Read more

Category: Event
Tags: Corbell, mcnally, NIK, Nik Summit, Sweet, versace

Don’t get me wrong, I’m very excited about Apple’s new iPad.

But this is hilarious!

Category: Video
Tags: apple, hitler, ipad

Amazing this was 10 years ago.

What would people 50 years ago think?

What will we say a few decades from now?

Category: Video
Tags: 3D, animatronics, special effects, Video, walking with dinosaurs

In this interview I discuss one of my favorite subjects – Color!

Check out my seminar at WPPI Las Vegas March 10.

Check out my workshop the Power of Color.

Learn more with my DVDs.

Learn more in my free Lessons.

Category: Color, Seminar
Tags: black and white, Color, wppi

Interesting free Photoshop brushes.

“This free pack is filled with awesome paint splatters, drips, sprays, and more! You have two high resolution options to download them as: 2500px Photoshop Brushes or 3000px PNG images with transparent backgrounds. As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!”

Get them here.

Learn more painting techniques in my free Lessons.

Category: Software
Tags: brushes, Drips & Spray Paint Pack, MediaMilitia, Photoshop

A pictures worth a thousand words. Find over a dozen pictures of the iPad, including Apps (like Maps) being displayed on it.

View the iPad gallery here.

Category: Equipment
Tags: apple, gallery, ipad

“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” The Wall Street Journal

Steve Jobs lead the Apple’s Special Event (yesterday) announced the iPad, designed to fill the gap between a laptop and a smartphone.

He also offered interesting perspective in the first few minutes of his presentation.

“Apple is a mobile devices company. That’s what we do … Apple is the largest mobile devices company in the world now.”

250,000,000 iPods sold to date

284 retail stores with 50,000,000 visitors last quarter.

App Store offers 140,000 applications, 3 billion downloads in 18 months.

$15.6 billion revenue.

iPods, iPhones, Macs.

Watch the 1.5 hour long video here.
Job’s unveils iPad 9 minutes in (after the overview, before the iPad demos).

Category: Equipment
Tags: apple, ipad, Steve Jobs

9.7″ touch sensitive LED display. .5″ thin. 1.5 pounds.
Look at photos, read ebooks, navigate maps, watch video, play music, surf the web, use over 140,000 apps (it’s iPhone app compatible), look at photos.

It’ll be a revolution in so many ways.

I’m particularly looking forward to what it will do for electronic books. Is this the iPod for the book publishing world? It’s way beyond Kindle. The big question I want to know is will it allow split screen function to be able to run two products or kinds of media side-by-side? The context of two pages presented side-by-side is extremely powerful and one of the things I like most about the form of the book.

Watch the video here.

Category: Equipment
Tags: apple, eBooks, ipad, iPhone, ipod

Upgrade to the new PhotoFrame 4.5 Pro today and save $30 off the regular upgrade price. Or, save $200 by upgrading to the Plug-In Suite 5 which includes PhotoFrame 4.5 Pro and five additional award-winning plug-ins. Plus, you’ll get 30-day access to Photoshop Training Videos from Kelby Training.

This offer expires tomorrow -  Jan 28, 2010.

Check out the video to see what’s new in the latest versions.

Category: Software
Tags: discounts, OnOne, PhotoFrame, Plug-In Suite

Get over 140 free Camera Raw or Lightroom presets designed by Photoshop guru Jack Davis.

•    Over 140 free Presets to simply and speed up your workflow.
•    Quickly correct color and tone.
•    Easily add creative effects.
•    Save time by streamlining your workflow.
PhotoPresets for ACR and Lightroom now includes two dynamite collections of development presets. The first collection, PhotoPresets with One-Click WOW! includes 85 presets for quick and easy image optimization such as color and tonal correction.

The second collection, PhotoPresets WOW Effects (released in Feb ‘09), includes 55 additional presets for adding special effects to your images, taking advantage of the new features in the latest versions of ACR and Lightroom.

The best part is the price – you can download all of these presets for free!

Get the Adobe Camera Raw Presets here.
Get the Adobe Lightroom Presets here.

Category: Software
Tags: adobe camera raw, adobe lightroom, jack davis, OnOne, presets

When did you first know you wanted to be a photographer?

A lot of times the answer goes way back and that inspiring moment follows us for a lifetime.

Here’s what Vincent Versace shared in a recent interview with Scott Wyden.

“When I knew I wanted to be a photographer, I mean new it in my core, was when I was 15 years old and out to the smoky mountains with my other uncle CJ Elfont. I shot my first “smokey water” waterfall. I watched how the world stopped for him when he shot and the look on his face after he made an exposure with his view camera. I had the “buzz” when I captured my water shot. That was when I knew.”

Read more with Vincent Versace here.
Find more about Vincent Versace here.

Category: Creativity, Photographers
Tags: firsts, versace, wyden

My Fine Art Digital Printing DVD offers many simple solutions to common problems. Here’s one …

Problem
I’m getting spots or streaks of ink on my print(s).

Solution
Clean the print heads, the rollers, and the inside of the printer.

Sometimes excess ink accumulates from previous printing sessions and gets smeared on the next print. This usually only happens when previous print errors have printed off the paper causing problems for the next print, even if it’s printed correctly.

Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.

Category: Printing, Technique
Tags: cleaning, contamination, digital printing, drips, Epson, ink, smearing, smudges

My Fine Art Digital Printing DVD offers many simple solutions to common problems. Here’s one …

Problem
My prints looks slightly granular and dark with lost detail in deep shadows.

Solution
My prints looks slightly granular and dark with lost detail in deep shadows.Make sure the Media Type is specified correctly.

Then reduce the ink limit with the Advanced Media Control Color Density slider.

This happens most frequently with third party papers, where the ink limit needs to be adjusted from another manufacturers defaults. Start with the nearest paper type for the Media Setting and then use Advanced Media Control to reduce the Color Density or increase the Drying Time or both.

Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.

Category: Printing, Technique
Tags: advanced media controls, color density, digital printers, dot gain, drying time, Epson, ink limit, ink pooling, ink spattering, media setting, media type, overinking

My Fine Art Digital Printing DVD offers many simple solutions to common problems. Here’s one …

Problem
My printer won’t print because the maintenance tank is full.

Solution
Replace the maintenance tank.

Maintenance tanks catch excess ink during printing. Always have an extra maintenance tank on hand. It takes a lot of printing to fill up a maintenance tank, but when it’s full the printer won’t print. If you don’t have one on hand you’ll have to go get one or wait for delivery. If you do have one on hand you can simply replace it and keep printing.

Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.

Category: Printing, Technique
Tags: Epson, ink waste, maintenance tank

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