Our young friend, Patrick, who we think is really amazing, wrote us another letter to let us know that the Discovery Channel/3M Young Scientist Challenge is complete. He had a great time, learned a lot and thanked Digimarc for our support of his project.
Our pleasure, Patrick. Good luck in the future!
And here's an interview of Patrick with a shout out to Digimarc (yes, sorry, the volume is quite low...):
Photoshop World 2012 arrived with a flurry of techy inside jokes, loads of live demos and dozens of workshops led by industry experts. Your very own Digimarc for Images team landed in booth 235 armed with exclusive discounts on our Basic, Professional and Enterprise subscriptions, a Travel Photographer of the Year photo book prize and digitally watermarked tees. Our very own Seth Wood on the Marketing team hand-crafted the image.
These are no ordinary tee shirts however. They not only look fantastic, but they are watermarked and utilize Digimarc Discover, our Print-to-Mobile technology. The team had a wonderful opportunity to not only tout our online image safeguard solution Digimarc for Images, but also explain how Digimarc Discover worked as well. For a thorough explanation, check out Don’s previous blog post.
Thank you to all who attended Photoshop World. We had a blast signing up new DFI customers, renewing current ones and chatting with attendees from all around the world!
Hey there folks! I want to share a news report video about online photo piracy. The segment features our dear friend Ben Bounketh. He's shy, so I've taken the liberty of posting the video for him! It's a very relevant story about the concerns people have (or should have) when posting digital pix to the web, something Digimarc for Images can help with.
Our young friend, Patrick, who you may have read about with his science fair success here or here, has recently contacted Digimarc with more good news!
He s has been selected as one of ten national finalists for the 3M/Discovery Young Scientist Challenge. Patrick has been working hard on his project all summer, expanding on using our digital watermark technology to help prevent errors using over-the-counter medicine.
Patrick was even featured in the Illinois State Journal Register, although he's quick to add that his brother Darren was not a semi-finalist, and it was Digimarc that actually created the mobile phone application (that's okay, we'll share credit, Patrick.)
Another big round of congratulations to Patrick and his ingenuity!
This is our first in-app browser version of Digimarc Discover! Now you can enjoy all that digital content in magazines like Seventeen, House Beautiful and Redbook right from the comfort of our app!
In-app Browser
Sharing Enhancements
Note that this version requires iOS 5.0 or higher to install on your iOS device.
Digimarc for Images is the proud sponsor of The Emancipated Artist, an online community that strives to foster creativity in all art forms. The Emancipated Artist (EA) exemplifies Digimarc’s mission of generating technology that is utilized as a tool to not only simplify but enhance everyday life. Staying true to this artistic spirit, and inspired by the iconic words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” The Emancipated Artist has decided to hold their first ever Wanderlust Photo contest! The premise of the competition is simple, they want you to sieve through your original images to find the picture you feel best showcases the travels you’ve embarked on. The contest will be running through August 31st, 2012 - so get searching!
How do I enter?
1. Visit their contest page and upload your image. In order to be eligible for the competition you must be an EA member. If you’re not already a member, it’s easy to become one! A portal of creative stimuli is just one free sign-up away.
2. From here, The Emancipated Artist will transfer your picture to the Wanderlust Photo Contest album on the Emancipated Artist Facebook page. All participants should encourage their friends, family, and fellow photo enthusiasts to view the album and show their support. The photographer whose image gets the most likes and comments will be the winner of the competition!
The grand prize is this year's edition of the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) Journey Four Book! This glossy album is a gateway to all sorts of heavens that photographers have managed to artfully capture. So on behalf of the EA, artists; you’re now officially emancipated - go forth and spread the beauty you’ve captured to the rest of the world!
(Thank you to Nidhi George, for this guest blog post.)
A while back I posted about an 8th grader who won first place at a regional science fair. Patrick's project incorporated digital watemarking as a means to help deliver dosage information for OTC drugs. If you missed it, you can read it here. Well, that young man was invited to the state science fair and I'm very happy to say that he got 1st place again. Even better, he received an award for the "Best in Category" for Behavior Science which included over 200 projects.
Congratulations young man! Digimarc is very proud of your acomplishments. He's now entered his science fair project in the 3M/Discover Channel contest. Best of luck! A future entrepreneur or scientist is certainly among us.
He told us that the judges asked him why it's not happening today... We agree! Someone get a move on it!
One of the really creative things you can do with watermarking is to place multiple digital watermarks within a single image. This creates multiple "hot spots" that your readers can explore within a single interactive item.
Creating multiple hot-spots requires only a good layout application, a Digimarc Discover account to create the web services and watermarks; Photoshop can be used as well. You can find YouTube videos for creating hot-spots with InDesign here or using Photoshop here. Or to see a video of how this unique functionality can be well appled, watch here.
While the image embedded to the left only features a single watermark that you can scan with your smartphone, if you download the PDF with multiple watermarks you can see this same image with 6 watermarks. Each of these watermarks has a pop-up text overlay to tell you where it links to, the vest, the jewelry, etc. and tapping on the screen will take you to that product. In a way the printed page responds to a smartphone with a reader app like a website and mouse-ing over links.
Can you imagine this same image with 6 QR Codes on top of each product to create the same affect? Not something an advertiser would want to see. The really nice thing about multiple watermarks within an image is that you don’t need a quiet zone like a QR code; they can be placed next to each other. If anything you will want to make sure not to put too many watermarks within a small area which may confuse the reader. While watermarks can go down to a 1” x 1” area we recommend keeping the watermarked areas at least 2” x 2” for ease of use.
A few months ago a sharp 8th grade student named Patrick reached out to me, inquiring about the use of digital watermarks on over-the-counter (OTC) drugs to deliver dose information. He believes this would help reduce the number of dosage error found in pharmacies nationwide. Always willing to help out a budding technologist, Digimarc gladly supported this project. I'm happy to say he received first place in his regionals and is off to the State Science Fair at the University of Illinois very shortly. Nice job, Patrick!
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If you read Matthew's previous post describing our technology in the 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, you're well aware of what's going on. Digimarc Discover was used to essentially bring the models to life. Readers can get videos of each of the models' shoots delivered right to their smartphone device.
Our local KOIN 6 news also caught on and did a great piece on the technology and how it wass used. View the clip below to get a good overview of what we are doing with digital watermarks:
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