PSReye Focus Final Call 50% Off Sale

I wrote about the morning sale, there is another and final 50% off sale on the PSReye Focus Magazine. The following is from the MagCloud Web site:

Final Flash Sale–7pm Tonight! (PDT) 20 Jul 2010

Last chance for 50% off production costs on all full-price magazines. Final “flash sale” starts at 7 pm (PDT) until 9 pm.

(Remember the Pacific time in the sale notice.)

PSRI Magazine Sale – Very limited time

MagCloud, the printer of the PSReye Focus Magazine is running very limited time sales with 50% off the production cost. The next one will start in less than 15 minutes and will run for 2 hours. To be exact, the 50% off sale will be between 7 am – 9 am Pacific time (10 am – 12 pm Eastern time) on July 20, 2010. The magazine is now available with perfect binding rather than saddle stitched; it will look more like Popular Photography or other magazines that has a spine. If you were waiting for a sale to get your copy, this is the time. I understand that after this sale there may be (may be) other 2-hour sale periods. If you miss this one just visit MagCloud.com and see if there is another one coming. I believe today is the last day of the sale.

Visit PSReye Focus Magazine to view and to purchase on sale. Regular price $16, on sale under $10.

Expo 2010 – Canon Wonder Camera

New PSRI Membership System

I am pleased to announce that PSRI has a new membership registration and dues payment system. With this system in place, we will be able to give every member a login ID to the Web site and provide information accessible only by dues paying PSRI members. It is a straight forward process and you will find the details under the Membership menu option. Here is the summary:

1. The firs step is “Registration” without which you will not be able to login to see the dues payment page
2. The second step is to login
3. The third step (optional but we would very much like you to do it) is to update your profile
4. The fourth step is to visit the “Pay Dues” page which is only visible after logging in to the site
5. There, you can purchase the type of membership you want
6. For family membership, both members may register but only one needs to pay. We will manually adjust the second member’s record to give full access to the site
7. Memberships are valid for one year FROM THE DATE OF PAYMENT

There may be small snags, difficulties, or error messages. Please review the process and make sure you are following it accurately. Write to me if you need help.

PSReye Focus Magazine on Sale

In case anyone interested, Magclud is running a sale for fathers’ day and the price of the PSReye Focus Magazine becomes $12.20 instead of $15 with the discount. This does not include shipping but still $2.80 savings. If you want to buy one, remember to use the code DADGRAD on the checkout screen. Here is the direct link to the magazine.

Lightroom 3 Resources

In case you did not get a chance to explore the available resources elsewhere, here is a short list that will give you a kick-start with the new release of Lightroom.

Kelby | TV offers many interesting photo related programming

Lightroom 3 Training Center from the knowledgeable guys as NAPP

Julieanne Kost on Lightroom also check out her other programs

Lightroom Killer Tips by Mat Klowskowski

Learning Lightroom, various resources provided by Adobe

In addition to plenty of information on Lightroom, you will also find information on Photoshop and other Adobe products at most of the Web sites above.

Photoshop Lightroom 3 is Out

Adobe has released Lightroom 3 which is a major upgrade over version 2. It brings the same highly tuned RAW processing engine, a very capable noise reduction, the same lens correction filter that is in Photoshop CS5, and many more new features. Learn more about Lightroom 3 and download a 30 day free trial to see it first hand.

Upon start, Lightroom 3 wants to upgrade your older catalog. This may be a bit nerve wracking, but the program seems to make a copy of the LR 2 catalog leaving the old one intact. That said, I will suggest making a backup of your old catalog and previews if you want to be on the safe side.

O’Reilly Media joins PSRI Sponsors

O’Reilly Media joins the growing list of sponsors who offer discounts for PSRI members.  A leading book publisher of technical subjects, including computers, software use, programming, math, science, and photography (still and video), O’Reilly Media leads the field in offereing E-books versions of many of the titles in print.  The PSRI discount is 35% off print books and 45% off e-books.  Just add the titles you are interested in into your “shopping cart” and enter the discount code when you check out.  the discout applies to all their books — and videos, too.  PSRI members will receive the discout code by the weekly email  notices.  A link to O’Reilly Media will be added soon to the PSRI website; in the meantime you can find it here.

O’Reilly Media also provide a number of photography titles to use as door prizes at our Annual Awards Banquet.

HUNT’s Annual Digital Days Sale

Hunt’s Photo and Video is having its big weekend sale 7-8 May 2010, but prices are good until 3 PM on Monday 9 May.  If you can’t make it to one of their stores, the sale prices also apply to mail orders, and for this weekend shipping is free.  A special phone number is set up for phone orders, 1-800-336-3841.   Or, you can call the Providence store at 401-751-5190.    There is a sale page on Hunt’s website detailing some of the savings.

PSRI Lost a Friend

It is with great sadness I remind you of the death of Shing Tak Doo, Mary Doo’s husband, a kind and gentle man, a good man, a talented man. He will surely be missed. I send condolences to Mary, Jen and their family as well as to the entire PSRI community. Arrangement details are available in Providence Journal.

On this occasion, I would like to share with you the words of a Turkish poet, Cemal Sureyya, which seems very fitting to Shing and his untimely death.

I’m dying O Lord
That’s happening too
I know, all deaths are
Early deaths
But, this life
You have just taken
Has been a good one
Keep the change

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