It’s on! People’s Choice Voting has begun and we – and all those amazingly creative 2010 Photography Book Now books – want your vote. So, grab your libation of choice (coffee, tea, stronger stuff?) and have fun perusing some of the most innovative, inspirational, and just plain great photography books around. Just one email address per vote, please. We want to keep this fair. Thanks all and stay tuned for more PBN news coming your way soon.
Woohoo! Miracles happen. On July 29 (that’s tomorrow, folks!), the Impossible Project, those Polaroid whiz kids who resurrected and recreated the beloved Polaroid instant film, will release the First Flush Edition of their new color instant film.
PX 70 Color Shade harkens back to the original Polaroid Time Zero film with its ability to render pastel tones and great detail. You’ll be able to buy it online at the Impossible shop in a 2+1 Starter Pack (includes one free pack of film) as of July 29.
Tomorrow the Impossible team will showcase a gallery of sample images using the film on their site. Stop by and take a look. If you’re interested in becoming an official test user of Impossible Project’s upcoming color film versions, submit your image, using the fantastic PX 70 Color Shade of course, to the All About Color Shade site . Again, like the film and the gallery, this site goes live tomorrow, July 29.
Great news for all of us lovers of cool analog. By the way, we noticed more Polaroid photography book submissions to our 2010 Photography Book Now competition, so, by all accounts, we’re thinking this is good news for many of you too.
Who doesn’t love a shortcut? The good people at Phototut have rounded up 100 of their favorite free Photoshop actions, handy shortcuts that reduce post-processing time by eliminating repetitive tasks. They’ve also included a quick primer on how to create your own Photoshop actions. Take a look, have fun, and remember, a little bit of Photoshop can go a long way.
Check out this engadget post about the Canon Wonder Camera Concept, which was unveiled at Shanghai’s Expo 2010. Part video/part still/part wizardry, the Wonder Camera enables you to capture video stills and create incredible images – in perfect focus. Image stabilization. Crazy macro to zoom capabilities. And all with one lens.
Does this mean you should say bye-bye to your lens collection? Not for a good long time. The Wonder Camera won’t hit the streets for a couple more decades. Will it be able to do all it promises? We kind of wonder.
Remember bookplates? Those beautiful sticky labels you’d proudly affix to the inside cover of your books to ensure their safe passage home? Take a look at this amazing collection. You’ll find bookplates that run the gamut. Ornate, simple, and yes, even some customized beauties belonging to the very famous of long ago – Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Bing Cosby, Greta Garbo, Jack Dempsey….
If you’re moved to make a bookplate of your very own, head over to Design*Sponge where our friends have rounded up some vintage bookplate graphics that you can download and print out to keep your precious books from straying too far.
Each and every book we publish has a story behind it. We’re starting to highlight some of those stories and are happy to announce the debut of the first in our series. Our “Remember Me” video features Lesley Graham and the incredible book she made to preserve the memory of her grandfather.
Take a look and stay tuned. We’ll send word as this series continues. Enjoy the weekend, folks.
So many people (we’re talking thousands!) signed up for our July 21 Webinar, Photography 101 and Blurb Books, led by Dan Milnor, that we’ve scheduled a third session. So if you sign on and find that you can’t log in to the original session you’ve signed up for, it means that it’s full. Here is the link to register for our additional session at 3 p.m. EDT.
We apologize for any inconvenience. We had no idea that Dan Milnor was such a superstar (just kidding, Dan, we know you are). Dan promises to have lots of great information to share with you on photography and Blurb, so fingers crossed that everyone can make the webinar and pick up some great tips.
By the way, we have lots of great webinars planned in the coming months so stay tuned. If there are any subjects you’d liked to see covered in future webinars, let us know. We’re open to suggestions.
Again, sorry for any hassles. We’re working on creating a bigger “digital space” so you can all fit in for all the webinars down the line.
