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Seen in the most recent e-newsletter from Wooden Horse Magazines Database:
CREATING KEEPSAKES SCRAPBOOK has lost a special projects senior
Editor, Vanessa Hoy... She will pursue a freelance career. A replacement has not yet been named...
May is National Photo Month. Photo Marketing Association members can access exclusive marketing tools on the association website.
PMA members can log on to the association website or contact PMA Business Resources for more information.
On 3/30/08, SBIN posted about Adobe's Launch of Photoshop Express Beta. Since then, various bloggers have commented on the "generous" use clause outlined in the Express Terms of Service:
8. Use of Your Content.
- Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
Adobe blogger John Nack noticed this statement, and emailed Adobe for clarification. The Photoshop Express team responded:
...We reviewed the terms in context of your comments - and we agree that it currently implies things we would never do with the content. Therefore, our legal team is making it a priority to post revised terms that are more appropriate for Photoshop Express users...
This response is also posted on the Photoshop Express Forums.
Users should be aware that similar terms appear to apply to all Adobe cyber-real estate, as stated in the Adobe.com "Misc" Terms of Use:
...By posting or otherwise submitting Images, you grant to Adobe and all other users of this Site permission to use your Images in connection with their use permitted by these Terms of Use (including making prints and gift items incorporating such Images), including an unrestricted, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully paid up license under all Intellectual Property Rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate, transmit and reformat your Images, with or without having your name attached to such Images, in any manner or form and for any purpose, with full rights to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of distribution. You will receive no compensation with respect to the use of your Images.
Free Online Software Brings Photoshop Technology to Anyone Taking Digital Photos
SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 27, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook.
“Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known,” said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. “Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road.”
Adobe Photoshop Express beta is available now for free via any Web browser at http://www.photoshop.com/express (In its early phases, Photoshop Express is available to US residents-only in English. Users may experience slow performance if accessed outside of the US. Future plans include availability in other languages and countries.)
Continue reading "Adobe Launches Photoshop Express Beta Online" »
Troy, OH - March 27, 2008 – Digital Scrapbook Place earned a Rudy Award for its new and exciting Digital Scrapbooking Curriculum introduced at the Photo Marketing Association Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada in January 2008. Digital Scrapbooking Curriculum is the first scrapbooking product to win a Rudy award.
The Rudy award, named in honor of Rudolf Maschke, who along with Ed Wagner founded Photo Industry Reporter, the Rudy Awards are bestowed to products exhibited at the Photo Marketing Association trade show that [their] writers judge to be ingenious, fascinating or possessing a certain undefinable off-the-wall quality.
The Digital Scrapbooking Curriculum will demonstrate store owners or instructors how to teach digital scrapbooking classes to customers and students. Instructors will learn about the software and digital scrapbooking quickly and easily with step by step instructions and guidance. Inside there are tools to hold classes, demonstrations, events, crops, tutoring sessions, and assist customers. This curriculum teaches the popular Adobe ® Photoshop® Elements software. The $150 introductory price tag includes the Curriculum as well as 20 student CDs with software trial, graphics, and tutorials. Additional student CDs can be purchased separately.
Digital Scrapbook Place knows that education is a great way to increase sales for photo and scrapbook retailers. Digital Scrapbook Place’s full range of digital products, including this new curriculum, will keep customers coming back for more.
About Digital Scrapbook Place
Digital Scrapbook Place was founded in 2004 by two women with a passion for digital scrapbooking. The company is dedicated to helping people use digital technologies to capture their memories, create scrapbook pages, and captivate their loved ones for generations.
News recently received from Simple Scrapbooks/Digital Scrapbooking Editor-in-Chief Jennafer Martin:
Simple Scrapbooks magazine is celebrating their Founding Editor, Stacy Julian. As an author, editor, teacher, speaker, and business owner, Stacy has motivated scrapbookers everywhere to enjoy the process of scrapbooking for over a decade. Her latest efforts in this area have led to national media opportunities - likely the first of many opportunities for Stacy to become not just a pioneer in, but an ambassador for the passionate hobby of scrapbooking.
In order to make time for all of these new adventures, Stacy’s participation in the day-to-day running of Simple Scrapbooks will lighten a bit beginning spring 2008. She’ll still contribute articles and pages, but after the September-October 08 issue, she’ll no longer contribute regular columns or editor’s notes. Simple Scrapbooks will remain dedicated to Stacy’s vision in each issue, providing simple solutions for scrapbooking to its readers.
To kick off Stacy’s new adventures, Simple Scrapbooks has declared the week of March 24-28, 2008, “Stacy Julian Appreciation Week.” If you’ve worked with Stacy or been inspired by her, you are invited to celebrate this week by letting her know. Leave a message at 888/HUG-STACY (within the next 30 days) or by leaving a comment on the Simple blog.
Posted today on Monster.com:
[The Making Memories] Product Design team is seeking a Product Designer to complement our current initiatives and goals in the design and development of new products related to scrapbooking. As a Product Designer, you will also have an opportunity to participate in various promotional opportunities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conceptualizes, plans and executes design projects as assigned by Product Design Team
- Responsible for generating product layouts, creating die lines, and adjusting color for various scrapbooking products
- Updating and editing various designs, patterns, artwork, and/or ideas
- Conceptualizing 3D design and apply in a 2D format
- Prepping illustrator and Photoshop files to be sent to press
- Brainstorming, developing and designing paper crafting products with the product design team
This position is in the Centerville, UT home office.
Announced recently on Claudine Hellmuth's MyCraftivity blog, as well as her Blogspot blog: Claudine Hellmuth Studio product line announced.
I am super excited to announce that I am going to have a product line with Ranger Industries.
The line will be called Claudine Hellmuth Studio and will be unveiled this summer at the CHA Summer Show in Chicago! That's all I can reveal at this point so I'll have to keep you in suspense a little longer what it is all about.
It is incredibly thrilling to be working side by side with Ranger's chemists to create the products just how I want them to be! I can't wait to share more with you as it gets closer to the CHA Summer Show!
Founded and edited by scrapbooking pioneer Angie Pedersen, Scrapbooking Industry News (SBIN) is a clearinghouse of information related to the scrapbooking industry. It features press releases on product releases, manufacturer news, business acquisitions, personnel changes, and more. Online since 2003, SBIN compiles information from over 50 newsrooms and resources, filtering out the fluff, presenting only the juiciest tidbits. Whether you’re a scrapbooking beginner, an addict, a professional designer, a retailer, a manufacturer, or something in-between, you’ll find something of interest here. Scrapbooking Industry News…all the news that’s fit to scrap!
SBIN promotes information from manufacturers and business owners of companies related to scrapbooking (paper and digital), paper crafting, rubber-stamping, collage/altered arts, photography, personal keepsakes, and genealogy.
"You can't sneeze in this industry without Angie Pedersen knowing and blogging about it."
-- Molly Newman, Associate Editor, Digital Scrapbooking Magazine
"...[Angie Pedersen] knows more dirt about companies than anyone has a right to know..."
-- Anonymous
MyFonts.com recently featured scrapbooking font designer Ronna Penner in their e-newsletter, Creative Characters March 2008.
The article features an interview with Penner, discussing such topics as her path to becoming an internationally known (and award-winning) font designer, her digital scrapbooking work, and where she finds design inspiration.
