- Former Jen Bekman intern Jane Tam is selling inexpensive prints of her photos to finance her senior show. Such a simple, brilliant plan. Jane writes,
"I am currently a senior at Syracuse University, preparing for my BFA Solo Thesis Show on May 3rd. Like many college students, I am immensely in debt from the costs of film, processing, developing, and printing. Frames cost money. Mounting costs money. The space I rented cost money. This is all for a solo show featuring my photographic series on my family. I do not ask my family for money as they are a working class family who struggle enough to put me through a private university. So, any little bit will help me. Thank you! For those who donate $15 or more will receive a 5x7 print in the mail."
I love Jane's Can I Come Home With You? series. In it she sketches families from found family photographs into images from her own home life. Two great ones from this series are available among the prints in her store.
- I should admit, I do not know how to use Photoshop. It was only after I started shooting regularly on assignment that I figured out how to resize and rename my images before I turned them in to editors. I'm not proud of this. Since then I've been intrigued, but not hooked, each time someone shows me a free, quick-fix type tool. I've played with Picnik, etc., but I still have pages of steps bookmarked for the boring batch operations I must often perform. Last night I signed up to try Photoshop Express, Adobe's new free online version of Photoshop. The flash-based interface is easy to use, and there's even an Auto Correct option and some organizing options. A few minutes of playing with it didn't teach me how to do anything, exactly, but I'm willing to give it a try. Although, if you want to give me a cheap Photoshop tutorial, I'm up for that too.
- Rob Haggart, A Photo Editor, writes about an exciting new opportunity for free promotion:
"I've wanted to do this for awhile and my thinking on the future of photography and photo contests and other things I'm cooking up has gotten me inspired to offer everyone the chance to promote your best work for free by submitting a couple images for a slide show. There's plenty of photo editors and art buyers who are readers and I know they will find it extremely beneficial to view a quick slide show with hundreds of different photographers featuring their best work and I can't think of any other examples where this exists, so here we go.
There will be a bar for entry and I will edit out any photographs that are a waste of time for potential buyers to look at. I know there are a lot of top shooters who may be wary of submitting their photographs so I'm going to make sure all the work displayed is top notch. You can also remove your images at any time if you don't think I've done a good enough job.
The purpose of this is to connect photographers with buyers for FREE. That's it. No bullshit. If that doesn't happen to anyone then the project has failed."
Rob has a good eye, and from this, it seems, a good heart. A no-bullshit approach to connecting shooters and editors seems generous on all fronts. Visit his site for details about how to participate in this Flickr-based image pool.
- Spring '06 Hot Shot Casey Kelbaugh founded Slideluck Potshow, a slide show and potluck gathering for artists in New York (that has since branched out to other cities too). The next New York event is tomorrow night, Saturday, March 29, at the Chelsea Art Museum. The theme is patterns. Artists of all sorts each get five minutes to show slides of their work while everyone eats and chats.


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I think the free version does not provide with all the options as the paid version does.I agree Photoshop is an amazing software ,I have worked a lot on this software.
Watch out with Photoshop Express; somebody just sent me a link to Wired where they're questioning the Terms and Conditions of use of the online program. Looks like as they read now, the program's a big fat rights grab. Adobe says they're amending the Terms and Conditions, though... Link at: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/03/photoshop-expre.html