Digimarc at PhotoShop World this Week!
Later this week Digimarc will be setting up their booth at Photoshop World.
We look forward to meeting our customers face to face...
Later this week Digimarc will be setting up their booth at Photoshop World.
We look forward to meeting our customers face to face...
Probably 2-3 times a month I get asked a similar set of questions about images and the web. Someone needs an image for a posting, blog, etc. and they wonder if they can just use an image they found on the web and/or the images they post can be protected. Yes, often the same person who thinks about downloading an image from the web is often the same person worried about posting their own pic to the web.
I just ran across a great blog post about Digimarc for Images, posted by Ed Fritz. Mr. Fritz is a talented photographer, who uses our solution to provide "peace of mind" for protecting his images. We love sharing the news about real-world customers using our product successfully. Thanks, Ed!
Layers Magazine recently did a review of Digimarc for Images. It's good to see such a great magazine include us in their review section. You can read the review here. I must make mention the review was written a little while ago, and states there is no 64bit support. But as many of you may know already, we have a 64bit version available now. You can get it free by going to our downloads section. It's also built into the Adobe Photoshop CS5 release, so no need to update if you have CS5.
For those of you who are users of Adobe products, Layers Magazine, along with the website can be a great resource. They provide videos and tutorials that cover almost everything. Check them out here and sign up for a free digital version of the magazine.
We've had a lot of positive feedback about the Chroma update to Digimarc for Images and the improved customer account site. Thanks to your support, we're going to hit the road this coming September and go to Las Vegas for Photoshop World.
Subscribers should come by and say HI! Those of you sitting on the fence: Let us show you in person how Digimarc for Images could work for you. I'm at the show for classes too, probably like most of you who'll attend, but I'll hang around the booth in hopes of meeting a few of you.
It's a great way to end the summer, so plan on meeting us at Photoshop World.
The Goods:
September 1-3, 2010
Photoshop World (West)
Las Vegas, Nevada
Digimarc Exhibiting
Booth #546
Over here at Digimarc we are always on the lookout for bloggers that comment and provide feedback or reviews of our products and technology. We recently did a promotion with John Batdorff, an award winning landscape and travel photographer. The promotion included a give away of a free Digimarc for Images account as well as discount coupons to all of his readers. You can visit his website and view the promotion by clicking here. Many of his wonderful and amazing images are shared as well.
So for all you photographer bloggers out there, would you like to run a promotion with us too? It's not too hard, just let me know and we can discuss a promotion that is right for you and your readers.
I've mentioned Plagiarism Today previously as a good source for copyright issues. In fact Digimarc hosted a webcast with Jonathan Bailey who writes at Plagiarism Today where he covered a lot of basics about copyright, it's still available if you missed it.
I've also mentioned I prefer an alternative approach to US copyright know as Creative Commons which I think fits contemporary society and internet usage more realistically.
THEN, I heard about a movie being given away, apparently to avoid copyrights and royalties due to the music sound track. Sita Sings the Blues appears to be turning a blind eye to copyright laws, but it's not quite that simple... The creator of the movie, Nina Paley, is an Artist in Residence of http://questioncopyright.org/, which puts forth some interesting ideas about copyright and the way it can restrict access to copyrighted materials and why we should think about changing the system. Sita Sings the Blues was released with only a Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike License to help make the case that the movie is "not for profit" and maybe not subject to copyright infringement.
It's always interesting to try and understand alternative views, and this one is well beyond what I currently understand about copyright. I’m going to have read through and see how I feel about Nina Paley's approach.
As for Sita Sings the Blues; love the style, it's cute, but not really my cup of tea.
I wanted to post a quick blog to let everyone know that Adobe is hosting a launch event for Photoshop CS5 on Monday, April 12th. The event will cover the top 5 new features included with CS5. You can register for the launch event here.
For those of you upgrading to or purchasing CS5, the Digimarc for Images plug-in built into the new release will not need to be updated. Photoshop CS5 already has the latest plug-in, featuring our new "Chroma" watermarking technology (which you may have seen yours truly talk about).
I've found that the topic of copyright makes me squirm. There are so many unanswered questions. If you feel the same way, I encourage you to take the time to view the recent Digimarc-sponsored webcast, with guest speaker Jonathan Bailey, from Plagiarism Today.
The title is "Copyright Basics for Creative Professionals, Media Companies and Content Archives" and the topics covered include:
To view the webcast, please click here.
A few weeks ago I did a customers-only webcast to walk through Digimarc for Images and what's new. It's now available for anyone — customers and curious non-customers alike — to download and view, just go here. A viewing is recommended for anyone new to Digimarc for Images or just wants to learn about what's new and see how it works. Some of the topics covered are:
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