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Customers visiting MyMemory this Thursday 19th June 2008 will be treated to a 20% discount on all Kingston products - including their entire range of USB Flash Drives, digital camera memory, mobile phone memory, and ValueRAM. Use the link below with the associated offer code.

My Memory is a fast growing Digital Memory Card retailer. Based in Jersey they are already widely known as the first choice for professional photographers and the amateur snapper. Their location enables them to be able to offer considerable savings unavailable elsewhere.

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PhotoSavings has already reported on Doug Boutwell’s Totally Rad Actions, well now there is a freshly launched update called Totally Rad Actions 2.

Totally Rad Actions 2 (TRA2) is the cutting-edge new action set from the creators of the beloved Totally Rad Action Mix. TRA2 is a completely new set of actions for Adobe Photoshop that work together as a system, giving you an unprecedented blend of convenience and flexibility. This action set will unlock countless possibilities for making your photos shine, from dramatic black and whites, to vintage color effects, to everyday utilities to enhance your images. TRA2 is also the perfect compliment to the original Totally Rad Action Mix, adding powerful tools to your arsenal, while working seamlessly with the tools you already know and love.

TRA2 also improves on the things that made the Totally Rad Action Mix great. By keeping even more of the actions steps in separate layers, control freaks can now tweak the look of their images even further. And the experience and feedback we’ve received on the first set has been put to good use, creating actions that are more intelligent, and that work well across an even broader range of images.

There are 57 brand, spanking-new actions in the set, and they’re available right now for $159.00 USD.

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Ok this website is not only about great services and useful advice it’s also about great offers.

This week I’m highlighting a really great deal on a Canon EOS 40D kit that includes the 40D + EF-S 17-85 + 70-300 lenses - link at bottom of post. It’s aleady at a great price plus there is also a cashback deal still running. Here’s what you get:
Canon EOS 40D (SRP inc VAT £800)

Power and versatility in one supremely equipped tool for the discerning photographer. Step up to the challenge of 6.5fps, 10.1 Megapixels and a host of features designed to help you raise your game. Designed for enthusiasts and semi-pros it’s the successor to the EOS 30D, and continues Canon’s 18 month cycle for this product line. The 40D boasts 10.1 Megapixels, improved viewfinder, anti-dust spot features, 6.5fps continuous shooting, AF system and weatherproofing. The camera’s RAW files are now specified at 14-bits, there is a bigger 3inch LCD monitor with Live View facilities. The Canon EOS 40D has ISO sensitivity settings of between 100 and 1600 with a Hi option in the menu to go up to 3200 ISO.
Features
10.1 MP APS-C CMOS sensor 6.5fps, 75 JPEG image burst High precision wide area AF 3.0″ LCD with Live View mode DIGIC III processor EOS Integrated Cleaning System Picture Style Magnesium alloy body Compatible with all EF/EF-S lenses and EX Speedlites

EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM (SRP inc VAT £530)

Another one of Canon’s EF-S lenses designed exclusively for the 400D, 450D 30D and now 40D. This 17-85mm model is aimed at advanced amateur photographers as an extended standard zoom lens. Real freedom of framing in a lightweight, compact and fast-focusing lens. The Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM is an excellent all-purpose lens for EF-S mount EOS cameras. Excellent resolution holds up throughout the focal range and the IS system helps a lot in low light.
Features
Exceptional zoom range for all EF-S mount bodies Superb image quality Lightweight and compact Image Stabilizer - up to 3 stops compensation Fast near-silent USM AF Super Spectra coatings Circular aperture Optional exclusive lens hood

EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM (SRP inc VAT £470 )

The Canon EF 70-300/4-5.6 IS USM is the replacement for the EF75-300/4-5.6 IS USM. The new lens uses a low dispersion optical element for better image quality, digitally optimized coatings to lower flare. This lens also now has faster autofocus. The advanced 3-stop Image Stabilizer (IS) technology of the EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens makes it the ideal telephoto zoom when shooting in lowlight and at slow shutter speeds.
Features
Affordable and powerful 3-stop Image Stabilizer UD lens element improves image quality Super Spectra coatings suppress flare and ghosting Circular aperture provides pleasing background blur Fast, quiet auto-focus

The manufacturer’s suggested retail price for all three bought separately is £1,800 inc VAT. Today’s offer via 7dayshop is £1,139.00 inc VAT, what’s more is a cashback offer of £140 is available on the package if purchased before June 30th 2008. Here is the link to 7dayshop:

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Many photographers are unaware that simply publishing pictures to a portfolio website does not form a strong enough online business strategy. Attention has to be paid to an effective internet marketing (IM) plan - without it you’ll go virtually unnoticed.

Here I’ll give you some top tips on increasing your chances of getting noticed through the e-clamor by the right people online - art directors, ad agencies, art buyers - the ultimate goal in building a successful online presence for your photography business.

First in this series is a quick ‘how to’ on Search Engine Marketing - subscribe to the PhotoSavings feed so you don’t miss the upcoming Social Media Marketing and Blog Marketing articles.
SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING (SEM)

SEM is the promotion of your website by increasing is visibility (pagerank) on popular search engines. This is achieved through the use of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) strategies. These SEO strategies include:

• Use of meta tag ‘keyword’ - choose good keywords to describe your site and more specifically your specialities. The keyword ‘photography’ is far too broad = 376,000,000 references on Google! Try thinking about your strengths, be more niche e.g ‘abstract photography’ = a mere 171,000 references, ‘abstract tree photography’ = 7. Try the free tools at SEOBook or KeyWordDiscovery for more keyword help.
• Avoid ’splash pages’ or ‘click to enter’ as the top level page on your site, also avoid website designs based round HTML frames. Splash pages are a main entry page with either a large graphic image and a link instructing visitors to “enter” a Web site; or a Flash animation with a link to skip the animation, and a redirect to a new Web page after the animation is completed. You really want your top level page to act as a table of contents for the rest of the site. Splash pages lack keyword rich text and anchor text apart from maybe ’skip intro’. Most search engines ignore redirects, splash pages are generally based on redirects.
• Do not publish a website that says it is ‘under construction’, you might find it gets indexed in this state and it will not get re-indexed when the real content appears
• Most photographers have little or no copy whatsoever on their pages. Write and design your site using the words your target audience types into search queries - keep your portfolio and gallery sections away from the top level pages, as good as search engines are they can not tell what type of photographer you are from your images.
• Avoid Flash for the same reasons mentioned above, although you may have typed loads about yourself in your 100% flash based site, the search engines won’t be able to see a single word of it. It’s a movie, search engines can’t retrieve words from movies either.
• Keep a check on your linked referrers - a link from another page to your own website should contain keywords in with the anchor text of the link. Google weights its Search Engine Results pages towards the anchor text of links to a page.
• Tag your gallery/portfolio images with keywords - this will help search engines that have image search features pick up your images - after all your images are your product, make sure they get indexed too.
• Submit your URL to the search engines - you can either do this manually, use a free submitter service such as Submit Express or use a paid service like the one provided by NamesCo (clicking this link supports photosavings)
• Improve your page rank through link exchange with other bloggers and websites in your specialist area of photography. Google favours anchor text when indexing websites, so the more websites your URL appears on the better your Google PageRank.

Where do I go for more information? The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) is a non profit industry organization for search engine marketing. SEMPO’s mission is primarily one of education – to demystify the various aspects of search marketing, to drive awareness of its incredible efficiency and marketing potential, and to help members and nonmembers to grow as professionals.

Finally give the SEO Page Tester Tool below a try, enter your URL and the keyword to test and see how your website performs.

Is your web page optimized? Test it now: URL: (Example: www.domain.com) Keyword: Web site promotion tools

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Sara at Tocco has forwarded me the latest trade price lists for their range of professional Canvases & Acrylic prints. Please click the links at bottom of this post. If you are ordering please quote the follow ID number 144502.

Tocco Canvases Trade Price List
Tocco Acrylics Trade Price List

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