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When: Wednesday June 4th at 6-7pm eastern - 3-4pm pacific

Who is presenting?: OnOne Software is having an e-seminar for MCP Blog readers. Brian Kraft, Vice President of Sales for OnOne Software will bedoing demos of all their products.  So sit back call in and log your computer on. And you will see this software work it’s magic with their entire product line.

Who can attend?: Any of you.  If you signed up on my blog or if you just realized that you can make it.  Anyone is welcome to join in. They will discuss all of their products in depth and allow you to get a first hand look on how the products are used. You will see which products can best help your photography and see how to use them.

The best part is any attendees of the online demo will receive 20% off of their products for a short period of time. ONLY FOR ATTENDEES as this will be announced on the call.

If you cannot make it, the ongoing code is - MCPACTN for a 10% discount.

HOW?: To join this ONLINE e-seminar, go to http://onone.acrobat.com/webinars at 6pm eastern tomorrow (Wednesday June 4th). This will allow you to see their screen step by step.  To hear the audio portion, call 1-877-566-1320.  Enter 8088 when asked for the participant code.

 *** PLEASE PASS THIS INFO ALONG TO OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO MAY WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION AND DISCOUNT ***

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Color Inc Pro Lab is who I use for my printing. I love the way my prints look true to life. And I have received amazing customer service. I contacted them to see if they would be a guest on my blog. They have agreed to do periodic articles teaching you more about printing.

Today’s article will educate you on some basics of Color Management and Color Profiles.

Also read at the bottom for an exclusive code for new customers.

Color Management Basics by Color Inc Pro Lab

Color Management is one of these headache-inducing struggles that early photographers face. How do you ensure that color in a print, will match color on a monitor? Luckily, with the proper tools and a little bit of effort, you can get pretty accurate colors between your images and prints.

The most important part of color management deals with your computer monitor. Invest in a monitor calibration kit, such as an eye-one display 2 (X-Rite) or Spyder 2 (ColorVision). For instance, Color Incorporated sells the eye-one display 2 for just $240.00 These devices hang from your monitor and measure its output, in order to suggest proper monitor settings and color values. They usually create monitor color profiles you can use as well.

Additionally, you can use tools such as Adobe Photoshop to enforce color management. Simply select “Edit-> Color Settings” (see attached screenshot). This will instruct photoshop to display images in sRGB (Working Space), and alert you if you open a non-RGB profiled image.

Getting color managed takes some time and effort. If your busy, or just want someone else to handle the color for you, you can opt for additional service, such as ColorInc’s color correction and artwork services. ColorInc’s Color Corrected Proofs are only 39 cents each.

These tools are important, because color space (such as sRGB) offer different colors. For instance, most cameras take photos in color spaces larger than sRGB (such as Adobe RGB). However, because printers do not print all of the colors that Adobe RGB contains, you can run into color management issues where a photo you have, contains a color that can’t be printed.

Sticking to calibrated equipment and profiles helps alleviate this issue, by only allowing specific colors that are within print range. This should keep your colors matched, and photos looking great!

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Now for the code. If you are new to Color Inc Pro Labs, you can get 50% off your 1st order.

The Promo Code is 058first.

Our website is http://www.colorincprolab.com/

and new customers can sign up at https://secure.colorincprolab.com/account.cfm?newaccount=defined

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OnOne Software has offered to do a unique e-seminar for MCP Blog readers.

Brian Kraft, Vice President of Sales for OnOne Software, has offered to do an e-seminar for us. As long as I get enough commitments for attendees, this will take place on:

*** Wednesday June 4th at 6-7pm eastern - 3-4pm pacific ***

OnOne will host the webinar using remote desktop software and cover their entire product line. They will discuss all of their products in depth and allow you to get a first hand look on how the products are used. You will see which products can best help your photography and see how to use them.

The best part is any attendees of the online demo will receive 20% off of their products for a short period of time. I negotiated an ongoing 10% code - MCPACTN.

20% is even better - but you will need to attend to get this phenomenal discount.

I need to get them a list of people who will attend so that they can get you a confirmation number - and information on how to attend. So if you can attend, please write in the comment section that you will attend and your email address where you wish to be contacted.

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For the longest time people have complained about Canon’s Rebates - that they take too long or even that they turned the correct paperwork but did not “qualify” for odd reasons. Well this time around you get an instant rebate. YAY! Details are below. So far I can only find one place that has the rebates up - B&H Photo. But I am sure more stores will follow this afternoon.

The most notable savings are the Canon 5D - $300 off, the 40D - $200 off ad for lenses $125 off the 70-200 2.8 IS and the 85 1.2 (both amazing lenses). They also have $100 off a number of top lenses. So check these rebates out by clicking or doing your search below.

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MCP Actions has established a relationship with onOne Software to introduce you to some phenomenal products and save you money on these great Photoshop Plug-Ins.

This will be a permanent coupon for MCP Actions - SAVE 10% off any purchase at onOne software. Go to their site by clicking here and use the code: MCPACTN and checkout to save.

Over the upcoming weeks and months, I will show you some before and afters using their products and stay tuned as they have agreed to do a CONTEST soon on the MCP BLOG! This is so exciting. Plus you know that I am a BIG fan of tutorials. They have tutorials and webinars to demo the products and to teach you how to use their plug ins.

I recently got the whole suite of products and really am loving have these extra tools at my fingertips. I am finding ways to incorporate them into my editing using both my MCP Actions and the OnOne Software Products.

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Here is a list of some of their premier products. I will provide more details on each in future blog posts.

Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro

Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro is the industry standard for image resizing. It is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well over 1000% without the loss of sharpness or detail that you would normally expect. Its patented, fractal based interpolation algorithms work like nothing else and the results speak for themselves.

Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro is a must for any photographer who makes large format and poster sized prints. Its also great for journalists, sports and wildlife photographers who may need to take a cropped section of an image and make a high-quality print from it. Genuine Fractals 5 can even work its magic with digital video still frames “up-rezzing” from standard-definition to high-definition video quality.

Graphic designers can end the everyday problem of receiving low resolution images from clients for high resolution print work such as magazine publications or tradeshow and billboard graphics. Learn more about Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro.

PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition

Whether you are new to photography and have never experienced the darkroom or you are an experienced pro who has mastered photography you will appreciate the range of authentic camera, filter and darkroom techniques reproduced with PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition. PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition contains 250 effects by Jack Davis, Kevin Kubota and onOne Software that faithfully reproduce camera filters like neutral density, color correction and polarization as well as darkroom techniques and alternative processes like solarization, cyanotype and more. You can even simulate the look of different films with the a wide range of grain and contrast effects.

The key to PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition is its unique ability to provide full-screen previews of an effect on your image before you choose to apply it. But it isn’t just a single effect, you can stack multiple effects on top of each other just like you would camera filters. You can control the order of each effect and how they blend together for a truly unique look. You can even save your effect stacks so you can repeat them easily and even share them with your friends you have PhotoTools. Learn more about PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition.

Mask Pro 4.1

Mask Pro 4.1 is the Photoshop plug-in recommended by Advanced Photoshop magazine that allows you to cut out a subject from the background by assigning keep and drop colors and simply painting away the background. Mask Pro 4.1 makes it easy to create masks, selections and clipping paths on difficult subjects like hair, glass and fog all in real-time. The built-in tutorials allow you to quickly learn how to mask even the most complex images. Learn more about Mask Pro.

PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition

PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition literally puts you into the digital darkroom. Now it is easy to add realistic film and darkroom edge effects to your images. Why stop at the darkroom? You can add artistic edges like torn paper, brush strokes or even realistic frames and mats you would hang on the wall. Stack multiple edges and frames to create your own unique look. Add the perfect finishing touch to your images with over 4,000 professionally created edge effects, allowing you to create an infinite number of effects. Learn more about PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition.

PhotoTune 2.2

PhotoTune 2.2 is an Adobe® Photoshop plug-in that provides professional level color correction in an easy to use plug-in. PhotoTune 2.2 incorporates ColorTune technology (formerly known as 20/20 Color MD) with its patented color correction process and SkinTune technology, developed after more than two years of in-depth skin color research. PhotoTune 2.2 makes the tedious and time-consuming task of color correction simple and straightforward to improve your post-processing workflow. Learn more about PhotoTune.

FocalPoint 1.0

FocalPoint gives photographers a way to create realistic depth of field control, plane of focus control and selective focus to any image after it is photographed allowing for more control and precision. The focus bug control in FocalPoint has a tangible, hardware feel much like using a lens. It makes it fast for a photographer to define the “sweet spot” either in a round shape or a plane and then control how much and of what kind of blur they would like to add. This has a huge benefit over hardware tools like auxiliary lenses and filters because it allows the photographer to control the focus after the image is taken, giving them more control and requiring fewer shots in camera. Learn more about FocalPoint.

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To make this blog even better for every hobbiest and professional photographer on the internet, I plan build partnerships and incorporate guests into my blog.  If you fit any of these descriptions or know of people I should contact, please leave me a comment or contact me via email.

- Tutorials and Tips - if you have made an excellent tutorial or tip that I can share here.  I will of course give you credit and link to your site.  I would love to include Photography Tips too.  I will be doing lots of videos and screen shot tutorials on Photoshop, but it is always helpful to have items from a different perspective too.

- Contests - if you have a product you want to use as a prize for a contest on my blog.  This will be great exposure for you.  We can figure out details for the actual contest together.

- Discounts - I would love to be able to start posting more discounts for MCP Actions Blog readers.  These need to be for Photography related products, anything from camera equipment to templates and more. 

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 Stay tuned for some exciting news on my first partnership later this week.  I have a major Photoshop software plugin vendor who will be making a permenant discount code for MCP Actions, and will be doing some great contests and giveaways here.  I will announce this later this coming week.  Keep watching!

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Adobe has launched a beta version of Lightroom 2.0.  You can get it free through August if you own LR already.  If you do not, you can try it for 30 days.

 Click here to download it.

Some of the changes listed from Adobe’s Press Release and Site are:

I am personally very curious about the localized corrections as that is my biggest gripe with LR - not being able to make changes to one specific area.  I sure hope it does what I am picturing. 

They do say this should not be used for production just testing.  So I am undecided if I will be installing it this early on.  If I do I will let you know.  And if you do, please come back to this thread and add comments on your thoughts and opinions on this new version.

Thanks - Jodi

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In celebration of WPPI (and I would like to think my new blog too), if you order a jill-e bag over $100.00 you will receive $20.00 off your purchase from Sunday March 16 - Wednesday March 19th, 2008!

At Check out, please use promotion code: jillesfun

LOOK for more codes soon on my blog. Subscribe so you do not miss anything…

And here is a photo of me and a photographer friend Alisha G. Robertson, AGR Photography. We were at a workshop together and both had our large jill-e bags and iPhones, so we just had to get in a picture together. Check out her site. She is a fabulous photographer.

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I started getting emails the past few weeks asking where I have been. I am sorry that I have not been posting regularly lately. I am working on a new website and have been swamped. I just wanted to say hi to everyone.

I came across this add and wanted my readers to know about it. It is for a FREE canvas.

Check it out!

And hopefully I will be able to start posting regularly again soon.

Jodi

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Tracy Joy has a special promo running through the end of December, in case any of you are wanting a new camera bag for the holidays…

All through the month of December, Tracy Joy Inc will be donatating $5 per bag sold to our favorite, and very important, charities.

December 1st through the 14th, when you purchase a Tracy Joy bag, they will give a $5 donation to Childrens Memorial Hospital:
http://www.childrensmemorial.org/friends/overview.asp

December 15th thru 30th, when you purchase a Tracy Joy bag, they will give a $5 donation to The American Cancer Society:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp

See her site for more details by clicking here.