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PSKiss has announced a new package of Pixel Bender professional image editing filters named Pixel Gear Suite. The first set of Pixel Gear filters include Skin Gear - a unique skin retouching filter - and S/H Tone Gear for tone and contrast manipulations. “The algorithms of those filters would have taken ages to run on the CPU”, says Max Penson, Co-owner of PSKiss and chief of product development. “Thanks to Pixel Bender Technology, we are able to run our original cutting edge algorithms, straight on the GPU, shortening processing time to a blink on an eye”. Pixel Gear Filters are now offered with a limited time special discount of 25% at the website below.

Website: Pixel Gear Suite

PSKiss Press Release

The Future Is Here!
The First Ever Image Editing Filters Using Pixel Bender Technology For Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 and CS5 Launched by PSKiss.

Tel Aviv, Nov. 15, 2010 – PSKiss announces a new package of Pixel Bender professional image editing filters named Pixel Gear Suite. Each filter utilizes Pixel Bender technology for running Cutting Edge algorithms straight on the display card using full GPU acceleration, creating exceptional image quality in a blink of an eye precessing time*.

Each filter is shipped with a free Adobe Photoshop Panel, for fast and easy worfklow. “With our Pixel Gear Panels, users can easily launch Pixel Gear Filters with preset settings, creating the best Pixel Bender workflow tool”, says Tal Ninio, CEO at PSKiss and chief of product management.

The first set of Pixel Gear filters include: Skin Gear - a unique skin retouching filter, S/H Tone Gear - the best way for tone and contrast manipulations, both in Standard and Pro versions and Edge Gear - the most effective edge enhancement tool and.

“The algorithms of those filters would have taken ages to run on the CPU”, says Max Penson, Co-owner of PSKiss and chief of product development. “Thanks to Pixel Bender Technology, we are able to run our original cutting edge algorithms, straight on the GPU, shortening processing time to a blink on an eye*”.

Pixel Gear Filters are now offered with a limited time special discount of 25%.

To learn more about PSKiss Pixel Gear Suite,
visit http://pskiss.com/pskiss-pixel-gear-suite/

About PSKiss
PSKiss was founded by Tal Ninio and Max Penson.
Tal Ninio is an Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert with more then 16 years of experience in image editing, digital pre-press and digital photography. Founder and former owner of Mentor College in Tel Aviv, author of 10 Photoshop visual guide books and 2 Photoshop step-by-step instructions books
Max Penson is an Image Quality Expert at Zoran Corporation. Former Application Specialist at LEAF, Kodak. Owner of d-spot.co.il, Israel’s leading digital photography website.

*Performance may vary depending on graphic card’s capabilities.

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How to Promote your Photography using Facebook

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A Guest Post by Saurabh Jain.

Being an amateur photographer, promoting my photography from commercial stand?point was difficult. I started my own website (burning a good amount of cash) whose promotion took me endless mailers and sharing on social networks, resulting in a page?loads exceeding my expectations however, generating almost no business. I had a feedback mechanism which never saw light of more than a couple of dozen comments. Upon investigating I concluded that reaching out to mass audience is possible via mail but to remain fresh in their memory is not possible and eventually you are branded as a virtual terrorist disguising under email bombing!

Therefore, I decided to give Flickr a try, I received considerable amount of comments and small business. No doubt Flickr is a great photo?sharing and networking tool but nothing beats Facebook, though it doesn?t provide you with great photography tools like Flickr, when it comes to promoting your commercial interests or otherwise.

Flickr enables you to connect to a large photographer community which may not really boost your business since most of them do what you are also looking at. However, through Facebook you really reach out to the audience who would be interested in hiring your services or buying your prints (if they like your work that is).

Best way to promote your photography is to start your Fan page (best naming option would be ?(your name) photography? or name of your studio).

Starting a Fan page is easy but you should take care of certain things right from the onset to ensure a smooth run:

1. Pheromonise

As butterflies are attracted to beautiful flowers so are humans. People will be attracted to your photos if you can titillate their visual senses and unless your photographs appeal to them they wouldn?t lift that finger to press the like button. Hence, before starting a fan page have a backing of strong photographs which will pheromonise the fan base.

2. Rule of Patience

Having created a Fan page, do not rush to upload all your work at once. Hold on! take a deep breath and control the anxiety to showcase your work. It is a slow rather laborious task which is sure to reap benefits if carried out patiently.

3. Customer is the king

Start with uploading a couple of your best photos. Invite your friends requesting them to join the Fan page. Be polite and thank them once they have joined. You would want to treat others as you?d like to be treated.

4. Respect their ?wall?

Most important thing to do is not to clog your page with more than one photo a day. It will help you get a more focused response from your fan base and will keep them away from blocking your posts appearing on their wall.

Posting a lot of photos at a time may irritate the viewer resulting in a more negative publicity rather than positive. Also, a person loses the patience to sit and comment on all the photos. Having a single photo ensures that you get all the eyeballs you year for!

5. Quality matters

The guru?mantra here is ?Focus on quality rest all will follow? Upload only the shots which make you say out loud ?Wow?. Posting not?so?good photos or just for the sake of posting will only result in a lower brand value. Make sure when you post, you post the best!

6. Touch their hearts

Be proactive and alert! Create content which has a chronological, social or political importance and touches your fan base.For example on Children?s day I posted a photo of a kid in her dad?s arms and gave out a message on female infanticide which got me hits of over 300 people. The photo was shared by a lot of users which helped me gain more user base.

7. Tag people

Don?t shy away from tagging people. It only increases your brand value and fan base. As, a photo once tagged is displayed on the wall of the entire friends list of that person. Moreover, people feel happy if they are being tagged.

8. Be choosy

As getting that one shot may take several agonising hours so does getting users to your fan page. Consider some interesting facts from the most popular fan pages.

Roger Federer?s official page with 5 Million fan base gets only 0.5% response (includes likes and comments)at max per post.

Facebook?s own page which has over 26 Million fans gets roughly between .1 to .3% response.

Therefore, reach out to a set of audience you think could help you with the business. If you are a wedding photographer, it makes little sense to promote your page to someone in Iran when your operational area is limited to India. It will surely increase the number of users but may not lead to commercial benefits.

Personally, I am very choosy of who joins my page and with a fan base of around 450 my photos receive response of somewhere between .8% and 7% with an average of 4.2%.

Being selective has helped me stay close to constructive criticism and has helped me generate constant revenues which otherwise may not have been possible. Initially, it was a little tough but as the good work started spreading, word also spread. My work has taken me to a lot of places across India (all expenses paid).

9.) Ads

Once you have constant revenues, you may opt for Facebook ads which are highly customisable as per age and locational preferences. They work out real cheap!

If you take care of above points it is sure to result in a great fan page with quality fan base. Do you run a fan page? How is your experience from commercial stand?point?

note from the editor: Don’t forget to check out the dPS facebook page here. ‘Like’ us to stay in touch.

Check out more from Saurabh Jain on his… Facebook Page!

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Cosina Ends Production of MF Lenses for K Mount

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Cosina has ceased manufacturing of Carl Zeiss and Voigtl?nder brandedmanual focus lenses for the Pentax K mount.

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Ematic E5 4GB MP4 is both Digital Camera and MP4 Player

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This is the Ematic E5 4GB MP4 and digital camera combo.

It has a 5 Megapixel digital camera, and it allows you to display photos and watch videos on its 2.4 inch color LCD screen. It also features a voice recorder, built-in microphone, e-book reader, and even record FM stations and record them.

It is available only in black, for about $30.

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DPS Giveway! – Trey Ratcliff’s HDR Video Tutorial

Ladies and gentlemen, this is exciting! We are giving away not one, but three free copies of Trey Ratcliff’s downloadable version on his HDR Video Tutorial!

Trey has taught thousands upon thousands of people how to do HDR through workshops, his award winning HDR Tutorial on his site, his book “A World In HDR” and now he has released a video tutorial which is just like going to a workshop! Watch as Trey actually works his way through processing 10 different images from start to finish and follow along each step of the way. This video download normally sells for $99 but we are giving away 3 completely free!

It couldn’t be easier, all you have to do is leave a comment below telling us why you love HDR photography. That’s it! The contest will run 48 hours, and when the timer runs out we will choose 3 random winners.

If you don’t win, no worries! You can still purchase the video tutorial for a special DPS discount of 10% using the coupon code “DPSISREALLYAWESOME” at checkout. Just follow this link to purchase the tutorial.

Note: This coupon code will only be good from now until the end of the year! It is good for all 3 ordering options

Trey is best known for his site, StuckInCustoms.com, which has become the #1 Travel Photography Blog on the internet with around 350,000 visits per month including one from his mom. He’s also on Flickr and SmugMug, where his photos have recently passed over 45 million views. His work first became popular after he had the honor of having the first HDR photo ever to hang in the Smithsonian. After that, he was fortunate enough to be represented by Getty, and has been featured on the BBC, ABC, FOX, CBS, and NBC, and has had numerous showings around the world.

James Brandon is a photographer located in Dallas and a lover of iced tea, Chipotle and his wife Kristin (but not in that order). Be sure to check out his daily photo blog and follow him on twitter at @jamesdbrandon.

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Juxtaposition

There are some neighborhoods that the visitor to New York City will likely never see and residents outside those neighborhoods will likely never visit either. Brownsville, East New York, Bedford Stuyvesant and Bushwick are among them. These places often serve as bragging rights for those who grew up there. Surrounded by these neighborhoods is Broadway Junction.I was literally stopped in my tracks - the tracks of a confluence of trains and a massive, hodgepodge conglomeration of structures with every disparate element imaginable - different colors and materials embellished with chain link fences crowned with barbed razor wire. This is Broadway Junction where East New York Avenue, Broadway, Jamaica Avenue, Fulton Street and Interboro Parkway pass, along with subway stations for the A, C, J, L, Z and the Long Island Railroad.Nearby, at 1520 Herkimer Street, I happened across the Calvary Free Will Baptist Church. A perfect addition to the ultimate juxtaposition ...

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How to Promote your Photography using Facebook

A Guest Post by Saurabh Jain.

Being an amateur photographer, promoting my photography from commercial stand?point was difficult. I started my own website (burning a good amount of cash) whose promotion took me endless mailers and sharing on social networks, resulting in a page?loads exceeding my expectations however, generating almost no business. I had a feedback mechanism which never saw light of more than a couple of dozen comments. Upon investigating I concluded that reaching out to mass audience is possible via mail but to remain fresh in their memory is not possible and eventually you are branded as a virtual terrorist disguising under email bombing!

Therefore, I decided to give Flickr a try, I received considerable amount of comments and small business. No doubt Flickr is a great photo?sharing and networking tool but nothing beats Facebook, though it doesn’t provide you with great photography tools like Flickr, when it comes to promoting your commercial interests or otherwise.

Flickr enables you to connect to a large photographer community which may not really boost your business since most of them do what you are also looking at. However, through Facebook you really reach out to the audience who would be interested in hiring your services or buying your prints (if they like your work that is).

Best way to promote your photography is to start your Fan page (best naming option would be “(your name) photography” or name of your studio).

Starting a Fan page is easy but you should take care of certain things right from the onset to ensure a smooth run:

As butterflies are attracted to beautiful flowers so are humans. People will be attracted to your photos if you can titillate their visual senses and unless your photographs appeal to them they wouldn’t lift that finger to press the like button. Hence, before starting a fan page have a backing of strong photographs which will pheromonise the fan base.

Having created a Fan page, do not rush to upload all your work at once. Hold on! take a deep breath and control the anxiety to showcase your work. It is a slow rather laborious task which is sure to reap benefits if carried out patiently.

Start with uploading a couple of your best photos. Invite your friends requesting them to join the Fan page. Be polite and thank them once they have joined. You would want to treat others as you’d like to be treated.

Most important thing to do is not to clog your page with more than one photo a day. It will help you get a more focused response from your fan base and will keep them away from blocking your posts appearing on their wall.

Posting a lot of photos at a time may irritate the viewer resulting in a more negative publicity rather than positive. Also, a person loses the patience to sit and comment on all the photos. Having a single photo ensures that you get all the eyeballs you year for!

The guru?mantra here is “Focus on quality rest all will follow” Upload only the shots which make you say out loud “Wow”. Posting not?so?good photos or just for the sake of posting will only result in a lower brand value. Make sure when you post, you post the best!

Be proactive and alert! Create content which has a chronological, social or political importance and touches your fan base.For example on Children’s day I posted a photo of a kid in her dad’s arms and gave out a message on female infanticide which got me hits of over 300 people. The photo was shared by a lot of users which helped me gain more user base.

Don’t shy away from tagging people. It only increases your brand value and fan base. As, a photo once tagged is displayed on the wall of the entire friends list of that person. Moreover, people feel happy if they are being tagged.

As getting that one shot may take several agonising hours so does getting users to your fan page. Consider some interesting facts from the most popular fan pages.

Roger Federer’s official page with 5 Million fan base gets only 0.5% response (includes likes and comments)at max per post.

Facebook’s own page which has over 26 Million fans gets roughly between .1 to .3% response.

Therefore, reach out to a set of audience you think could help you with the business. If you are a wedding photographer, it makes little sense to promote your page to someone in Iran when your operational area is limited to India. It will surely increase the number of users but may not lead to commercial benefits.

Personally, I am very choosy of who joins my page and with a fan base of around 450 my photos receive response of somewhere between .8% and 7% with an average of 4.2%.

Being selective has helped me stay close to constructive criticism and has helped me generate constant revenues which otherwise may not have been possible. Initially, it was a little tough but as the good work started spreading, word also spread. My work has taken me to a lot of places across India (all expenses paid).

Once you have constant revenues, you may opt for Facebook ads which are highly customisable as per age and locational preferences. They work out real cheap!

If you take care of above points it is sure to result in a great fan page with quality fan base. Do you run a fan page? How is your experience from commercial stand?point?

note from the editor: Don’t forget to check out the dPS facebook page here. ‘Like’ us to stay in touch.

Check out more from Saurabh Jain on his… Facebook Page!

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