2 Lil Owls -- Textures, Templates, Brushes Retirement sale going on now. Retiring Sale!! Texture Sets - ONLY $8!

I love their textures!!

2 Lil Owls -- Textures, Templates, Brushes Retirement sale going on now. Retiring Sale!! Texture Sets - ONLY $8!

2 Lil Owls -- Textures, Templates, Brushes 

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Retiring collections

This week only  - these retiring collections are going for only $8 per set! Grab them before they are gone for good. Sale ends May 2nd on these and then they are being pulled from the server!

Check out these fantastic textures HERE 2 Lil Owls -- Textures, Templates, Brushes -- Click here to visit 2 Lil Owls Studio ***Buy 2 items and take 20% off your purchase – Discount code: take 20 or Buy 3 or more items and take 30% off your entire purchase!!  Discount code:  take30  -- Enter this code when you check out.

Lisa Cuchara's Work Wins Awards at Connecticut Professional Photographers of America (CTPPA) Annual Convention

Lisa Cuchara's Work Wins Awards at Connecticut Professional Photographers of America (CTPPA) Annual Convention


Six prints created by Lisa Cuchara of BREA Photos in Hamden have recently been awarded Blue ribbons (Award of Expert) at the Connecticut Professional Photographers of America's 2016 Annual Print Competition. Lisa's work was on display at the Sheraton Hartford South, March 18-20 2018, in Rocky Hill, CT. This exhibition was held in conjunction with the CTPPA convention, an annual convention of professional photographers and photographic associations. Lisa's portrait website can be viewed at www.BREAphotos.com and her creativity and teaching website can be viewed at www.photographybylisaandtom.com.

Lisa also won CTPPA Photographer of the Year in the ART/EI category (based on the total accumulated points) from all four quarterly competitions and CTPPA Photographer of the Year in the Creative category (based on the total accumulated points) from all four quarterly competitions. This is the third year in a row that Lisa has won CTPPA Photographer of the Year in those two categories.

A panel of five eminent jurors selected the top images from all of the submitted entries. Judged against a standard of excellence, Lisa's images were selected for awards — the best of the best. Lisa's photographs entitled "Frog on Calla Lily" (highest scoring print of the 2016 convention), "Veiled chameleon", "Prison tough", "Barn with star trails and first light", "Disoriented at the Insane Asylum" and "Left behind" all earned Award of Expert Blue ribbons. Lisa also won a Judge's Choice award for one of her photographs and the Kodak award for another one of her photographs. Her photograph "Frog on Cala Lily" was the highest scoring image at the annual print competition. The total of the her six photographs earned Lisa the 2016 CTPPA Treskunoff Award (for the highest total point score for the 6 prints entered at the CTPPA convention).

 

About Professional Photographers of America (PPA)
Established in 1880, PPA is an international non-profit association for professional photographers. PPA exists to assist its 22,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic and fraternal goals; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history.

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Tom Cuchara's Work Wins Awards at Connecticut Professional Photographers of America (CTPPA) Annual Convention

Tom Cuchara's Work Wins Awards at Connecticut Professional Photographers of America (CTPPA) Annual Convention

Tom Cuchara's Work Wins Awards at Connecticut Professional Photographers of America (CTPPA) Annual Convention

Six photographs created by Tom Cuchara of BREA Photos in Hamden have been awarded ribbons at the Connecticut Professional Photographers of America's 2016 Annual Print Competition. Tom's work was on display at the Sheraton Hartford South, March 18-20 2018, in Rocky Hill, CT. This exhibition was held in conjunction with the CTPPA convention, an annual convention of professional photographers and photographic associations.

 

guide images for the above composite image.

A panel of five eminent jurors selected the top images from all of the submitted entries. Judged against a standard of excellence, all six of Tom's images were all selected for awards. Tom also won a Judge's choice for one of his photographs.

About Professional Photographers of America (PPA)
Established in 1880, PPA is an international non-profit association for professional photographers. PPA exists to assist its 22,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic and fraternal goals; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history.

Topaz Texture Effects is on sale

Topaz Texture Effects is on sale through January 31st for only $49.99 ($20 off). Enter this coupon code at checkout: EASYTEXTURE.

Barbara Vietzke's Images are on display until January 15th

Barbara Vietzke's Images are on display until January 15th, come in for a visual treat!

11 TED Talks on Photography Worth Watching

http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/01/11-ted-talks-on-photography-worth-watching/

sale ends 12/31 Topaz plugins

Most of you know that I just love, love, love the Topaz products! Tom and I use the Topaz plugins on the majority of our photographs. We use Clarity and Adjust regularly, and Glow and Impression selectively. Topaz also has the new awesome Texture plugin, if you have not tried this then you must check it out. You can purchase the entire Topaz suite, or just one particular plugin, or upgrade from one or more plugins to the suite for a discounted price.

I hope you are enjoying the holiday season! Topaz wants to spread a little cheer with a sale on ALL Topaz products. From December 17th through December 31st, Topaz is offering 35% off of the ENTIRE Topaz store. Click here Topaz and use coupon code 'TOPAZ2015

Topaz Sale !! Get these awesome plugins for 35% off

Most of you know that I just love, love, love the Topaz products! Tom and I use the Topaz plugins on the majority of our photographs. We use Clarity and Adjust regularly, and Glow and Impression selectively. Topaz also has the new awesome Texture plugin, if you have not tried this then you must check it out. You can purchase the entire Topaz suite, or just one particular plugin, or upgrade from one or more plugins to the suite for a discounted price.

I hope you are enjoying the holiday season! Topaz wants to spread a little cheer with a sale on ALL Topaz products. From December 17th through December 31st, Topaz is offering 35% off of the ENTIRE Topaz store. Click here Topaz and use coupon code 'TOPAZ2015

Barbara Vietzke's Images are on display until January 15th

Barbara Vietzke's Images are on display until January 15th, come in for a visual treat!

Join Barbara Vietzke Monday night for a visual treat at her latest awesome exhibition

Join Barbara Vietzke Monday night for a visual treat at her latest awesome exhibition

Join Barbara Vietzke Monday night for a visual treat at her latest awesome exhibition

Join Barbara Vietzke Monday night for a visual treat at her latest awesome exhibition

Topaz sale collection 50% off

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I use topaz plugins ALL the time
I love clarity and adjust, use impression and glow and now texture effects quite often
Their Denoise is the best noise reduction software out there

It's that time of year again! Sale ends 11-30-15 Topaz is offering 50% off of the full Topaz Photography Collection. Whether you want to achieve stunning photo enhancements or apply artistic effects, this unique collection has you covered.

With the recent addition of Topaz Texture Effects, the Photography Collection now includes 17 products for only $499.99. With the 50% discount, new users can purchase the entire collection for ONLY $249.99! The savings aren’t just for new collection purchases either

Owners of the older Topaz Collections can take advantage of the savings as well! They will just need to log in to their accounts to see their unique Collection upgrade price, then apply the code for 50% additional savings!

Use the coupon code 'BLACKFRIDAY2015' To save 
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Topaz Texture Effects

You all know that I just love, love, love the Topaz plugin products. I use Clarity and/or Adjust on the majority of my images. And I also love Textures. I teach a lot of texture workshops, well I used to, lol. Now Texture Effects! has made it so powerful and so simple that everyone can have fun with textures now. The Topaz Texture Effects! program even provides previews, taking the artistic guesswork out of applying textures in Photoshop. Check out Texture Effects!

$49.99 until 11/20! Coupon: TEXTUREFX -- Check out Texture Effects!





Here are some sample images (from Topaz, not mine)

Topaz Texture Effects! -- Only $49.99 until 11/20!

Below are some Texture Effects resources:

• Check out this Quick Intro Guide to see some of the notable features we are most excited about:https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhx3phiyv51mysw/Quick_Intro.pdf?dl=0
• Watch these short Texture Effects Tips (under 2 minutes each) videos highlighting how to use the most important areas in Texture Effects:

Browse and Download Effects: https://youtu.be/AyMxRry-74c
Creating Custom Effects: https://youtu.be/eOwcrg1tsrI
Importing Your Own Assets: https://youtu.be/TmMOpSNpsB0
Save & Share: https://youtu.be/19mUGQyWzEg