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SmugMug is joining as a Sponsor for our July "Sunrise and Sunset" Competition!

4/30/2016

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SmugMug will be awarding a Free Photo Site to our first place winner!  They are also offering a HUGE sale, Save 25% on any site before 5/9!

If you want a stunning photo website, need a professional portfolio or want a system to sell your prints, click here to save on a pro package if you shop before 5/9. 

Within minutes you’ll have a professional photography website that is ready to sell your work, attract new accounts and let current clients view their shots in a private and secure environment. 
 
If you’re still not sure, they have a free trial. If you decide they’re right for you, as long as you’ve clicked from this email and upgrade to a pro account before 5/9, you’ll still get the 25% off. 

We are an Affiliate of SmugMug do receive compensation for any referrals that result in sales.
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We have added two more awesome Prize Sponsors and Prizes!

4/28/2016

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Sticky Albums will be honoring our April 2016 first place winner with an annual membership and starting in May MyPhotoApp will be  offering a free 6-month basic subscription to the MyPhotoApp to all of our future First Place Winners!
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We’re in a mobile world and there is no better way to boost your word-of-mouth referrals than creating a custom mobile app for each of your clients. StickyAlbums designs & builds beautiful online tools for photographers. Since the birth of their flagship product in 2012 they have been helping photographers around the world provide their photography clients with beautiful mobile web albums.   Over 5,000 professional photographers have chosen to use StickyAlbums to boost referrals and increase sales.
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With MyPhotoApp you can quickly create professional mobile photo albums for your clients which they can easily share with friends and family.   When your clients share their personalized photo album you get to leverage the power of their social connections by having your brand as a photographer shared with every album.  MyPhotoApp integrates beautifully with social media with social sharing buttons. This makes it incredibly easy for people to share their apps, built by you, with their friends and family.
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Allard Prize Photography Competition

4/25/2016

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​Our free photography contest recommendation of the day!
The Allard Prize Committee enthusiastically invites photographers from around the globe to submit entries for the Allard Prize Photography Competition, reflecting themes of courage and leadership in combating corruption, especially through promoting transparency, accountability and the Rule of Law, and of human rights and/or anti-corruption generally. The Allard Prize Committee particularly welcomes images that speak to corruption and human rights in the developed world.
Each winning entry will receive:
  • CDN $1,000
  • photograph featured on the Allard Prize website for six months
  • inclusion of the photographer's name, and brief description of the photograph, on the website
  • inclusion of the photograph in the website archive as a past winner 

The jury for the Allard Prize Photography Competition is currently comprised of members of the Allard Prize Committee and Maxe Fisher, Associate Professor, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media, Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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2016 Guru Awards

4/21/2016

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Our free photography contest recommendation of the day!
The 2016 Guru Awards: Celebrating Creative Excellence 
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The Guru Awards are a special Photoshop contest just for attendees of the Photoshop World design and photography conference, which was created to honor and recognize the design, photography, retouching, and creativity of our attendees. Since their humble beginnings in 1999, the Guru Awards have now become the most prestigious and coveted awards in the international digital imaging industry. 


Photoshop World is now accepting entries for this year's Guru Awards—one of the most prestigious awards in the international digital imaging industry. The winner in each category, as well as the "Best in Show" winner, receive the coveted Guru Awards trophy, an additional special prize from this year's sponsors, and their work is featured in Photoshop User magazine​.

Prizes


Winners in each of the seven categories are presented with Guru Award trophies, and the Guru Awards Official Sponsors present the winners with extremely cool prizes (to be announced) related to creative industries. The Best of Show winner receives a special prize, as well. 
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ON1 SOFTWARE is now HONORing  OUR MONTHLY FIRST PLACE WINNERS with ON1 Photo 10!

4/14/2016

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Try On1 Photo 10 Today!
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The entire collection of apps are included in ON1 Photo 10. Browse, Effects, Resize, Portrait, Enhance, and Layers. Photo 10 works as a plug-in to Adobe® Photoshop® and Lightroom®, and as a standalone application.

Photo editing made simple!

A full-featured photo editor that works as a plug-in to Adobe® Photoshop® and Lightroom®, or as a standalone application. Browse and manage photos wherever you keep them; on your computer, an external drive or cloud service. Photo 10 includes the necessary tools to manage and edit your photos with non-destructive Smart Photo technology. Enhance color and detail, improve portraits, add effects, share, or swap faces and backgrounds easily. Photo 10 is a full featured editor.

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Get the highest quality photo enlargements, which features Genuine Fractals® technology—patented, fractal-based interpolation algorithms—that quickly enlarge your photos without the loss of sharpness or detail.

Browse

Don't wait on a slow catalog or import process. This is a lightning fast photo browser. Quickly sort, cull and edit photos from a shoot. Quickly ditch the bad ones, rate the good ones, add keywords, and much more.

Enhance

Quickly and easily adjust exposure, contrast, white balance, vibrance, detail, or add vignettes. Store all of your settings and adjustments of the enhancements for future use.
  • Color correction
  • Exposure adjustment
  • Highlight & Shadow recovery
  • Retouch brush
  • Erase objects
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PORTRAIT
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Portrait retouching is faster, better, and easier than ever. Our new way of working with facial features makes it easier to retouch the areas you care about.

  • Skin retouching made easy
  • Skin smoothing
  • Blemish reduction
  • Shine removal
  • Advanced color correction technology
  • Get color correct skin tones
  • Brighten eyes
  • Whiten teeth
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Effects
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Everything you need to add any effect to your photos. ON1 Effects includes filters, presets, borders, and textures. With live adjustments, stack effects to create your own look, and save your own custom presets. Hundreds of presets and 23 stackable filters.
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LAYERS
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Create composites by stacking photos or combine and blend photos without having to use Adobe® Photoshop®.Precise masking tools
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  • Swap out boring backgrounds
  • Create your own layouts
  • Includes backgrounds, borders, and edges
  • Create layered files from Lightroom
  • Blend photos together
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4TH INTERNATIONAL VISTULA ART & DESIGN COMPETITION

4/8/2016

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Our free photography contest recommendation of the day!
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The theme of the competition is the PERSPECTIVE, that is a method of space on the surface presentation, but also in a broader sense: social, historical, metaphysical. Let your imagination free and unleash your creativity, show us your perspective.

The competition is addressed to the pupils of all the upper secondary schools in Poland and their equivalents outside the Polish boarders.


Applications are accepted from 10 February to 10 April 2016. The total prize pool competition is 120 thousand. zł. Participants can submit works of photographic art, architectural visualization, and utility projects, for example. Interior design, phone or, for example. Kitchen cutting boards. Good luck!

FIRST PRIZE
  1. educational scholarships of 25,000.00 zł. (Twenty five thousand PLN);
  2. participation in the 7-day artistic workshops (photography, drawing, painting), organized by the Organizer in the month of September 2016 at petioles resort in Masuria region ( www.osrodekogonki.pl )
  3. The prize money in the amount of 700.00 zł. (Seven hundred PLN).
SECOND PRIZE
  1. educational scholarship of 15,000.00 zł. (Fifteen thousand PLN).
  2. participation in the 7-day artistic workshops (photography, drawing, painting), organized by the Organizer in the month of September 2016, in the resortwww.osrodekogonki.pl in Masuria region
  3. The prize money in the amount of 500.00 zł. (Five hundred PLN).
THIRD PRIZE
  1. educational scholarship of 5,000.00 zł. (Five thousand PLN)
  2. participation in the 7-day artistic workshops (photography, drawing, painting), organized by the Organizer in the month of September 2016, in the resortwww.osrodekogonki.pl in Masuria region
  3. The prize money in the amount of 400.00 zł. (Four hundred PLN).
AWARDS
  1. participation in the 7-day artistic workshops (photography, drawing, painting), organized by the Organizer in the month of September 2016 in the resorthttp://www.osrodekogonki.pl/ in Masuria region - for 7 people
  2. discount of 10% of the amount of the tuition for the first period of studies for all persons who qualify for the second stage and pland to study in the academic year 2016/17 a BA or MA degree at Vistula Group of Universities.
  3. OTHER prizes funded by sponsors.

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