2009 PhotoPlus Expo
October 22-24, 2009 - New York City

October 22 - 24, 2009: The PDN PhotoPlus Expo tradeshow bills itself as “the most important event in the photo industry.” That might be overstating things a bit, but it is the largest and most important consumer photo tradeshow in North America. Every fall, photographers gather at the Javits Center in New York City where they get to take a closer look at new digital cameras, lenses, tripods, camera bags, software, studio lighting and more. There are also more than 100 photography workshops, covering everything from marketing your photography to improving all kinds of photography skills and techniques.
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Adobe announced Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone application that provides digital-imaging technology to users on the go. Photoshop.com Mobile allows users to edit photos, apply effects and share images instantly with friends with the drag your finger. It also features free 2GB Photoshop.com accounts for online photo storage, photo sharing and data back-up. Read the rest of this entry �

Fujifilm has announced that their FinePix Real 3D system will become available in the U.S. today. The FinePix Real 3D system, that consists of the FinePix Real 3D W1 3D digital camera, the FinePix Real 3D V1 3D digital viewer, and 3D prints, is the first three dimensional digital imaging system that captures realistic 3D still photographs and movies. It also provides 3D images that users can enjoy without special 3D glasses. Read the rest of this entry �

Canon USA has confirmed the surprising news that they will not be attending the 2010 Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show in Anaheim, California.

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The 2009 Retail Imaging Show will take place on Friday, September 25th, 2009 at the London Marriott on Grosvenor Square from 10:00am - 4:00pm. This exclusive, one day show is ideal for photo/minilabs, consumer electronics, computer/software and AV retailers and gives dealers a fantastic opportunity to arrange the best deals for the right products. Read the rest of this entry �

Canon announced Studio Solution, a new software for professional photographic studio owners.

The software features Canon’s core image processing, which provides automatic color management, image resizing and minor image re-touching for stunning prints with minimal labor. Studio Solutions offers a fully automatic workflow to simplify studio operations while maintaining the highest degree of image quality. Read the rest of this entry �

Selling Your Products Online? Learn How to Shoot Products that Sell Themselves

Bogen Imaging will host a free webinar titled “Selling Your Products Online? Learn How to Shoot Products that Sell Themselves” about how to shoot better product images for selling online, which is a great course for the growing crowd of Ebay users. It will be held on October 3rd from 2-3 PM EDT.

Selling products online is much different then physically interacting with your customer to produce a sale. So, shooting professional online images plays a critical role to sell your online products. It is not a case of taking your camera and just ‘point and shoot’, reflections, shadows and control of light need to be accurate.
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Party with Think Tank Photo at photokina!

If you are a photographer, you are eligible to enter Think Tank Photo’s drawing for free round-trip airfare, hotel, spending money, and exhibition passes to photokina, the world’s leading photo and imaging trade fair. Join over 160,000 visitors from 156 countries in exploring 1,600 exhibitors of cutting edge imaging products from almost 50 countries. And, you get to hang around Cologne with the gang from Think Tank Photo (what could be better!). Open to all photographers, worldwide September 22-27, 2008 Cologne, Germany.

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Bogen to Host Free Introductory Lighting Webinar

Ramsey, N.J. (May 30, 2008)– Bogen Imaging, a leading distributor of top quality photographic support products and accessories in North America, is proud to announce a free, introductory lighting webinar titled “How to Overcome 5 Common Problems When Shooting Outdoors.” Held from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on June 6, 2008, this introductory course on the basics of lighting is a surefire way to get up to speed on how to capture the best images when shooting in the field.

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onOne Software Announces Availability of Essentials 2 Imaging Software for iPhoto
iPhoto version features four easy-to-use tools for color correction, creative image blurring, frame and border effects and resizing for high quality large prints

Portland, OR - May 12, 2008 - onOne Software, Inc., announces today the availability of Essentials 2 software for iPhoto users. Essentials 2 for iPhoto is a collection of four easy-to-use software tools to help correct color, creatively blur a photo for dramatic visual impact, add creative borders and resize digital images for high quality large prints. The software tools included within Essentials 2 for iPhoto are based on technology used in the professional level onOne Software Photoshop plug-ins PhotoTune 2.2, FocalPoint 1.0, PhotoFrame 3.1 and Genuine Fractals 5.

The Essentials 2 for iPhoto software suite provides users of the popular iPhoto image editing and organizing software with four important plug-in solutions to solve common digital imaging problems. With Essentials for iPhoto, users can easily correct the color of their photos using technology from PhotoTune, simulate the effect of selective focus or tilt-shift lenses, helping photographers selectively blur and/or vignette an image to focus the viewers attention using technology from FocalPoint 1.0, add unique borders and edges around their photos using technology from PhotoFrame and increase the size and resolution of their photos to get larger print sizes by using technology from Genuine Fractals, the industry standard for resizing digital photos.

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Apple Releases Aperture 2.1 with Powerful Image Editing Plug-In Architecture

CUPERTINO, California—March 28, 2008— Apple today released Aperture 2.1, which introduces an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy for photographers to use specialized third party imaging software right from within Aperture. Available today as a free software update, Aperture 2.1 includes the Apple-developed plug-in, Dodge & Burn, which adds brush-based tools for dodge (lighten), burn (darken), contrast, saturation, sharpen and blur. Over the coming months, third party software developers will deliver image editing plug-ins for localized editing, filters and effects, noise analysis and reduction, fisheye lens correction and more.

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