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Free Light Friday 3-20-09
Neil March 20th, 2009
70 new textures, backgrounds and creative goodness sponsored by the Beautiful Blurs Set
Here’s the soundtrack:
Here’s your free download:
5000 pixel longest side high resolution texture file download, moody image enhancement
Epic Styler contest winners and download
Neil February 16th, 2009
The entries are in and have been collected into a single download available in the Create Cart:
Congratulations to the winners – I think we’ll be doing this again soon!
- First place was awarded to Tasha Schalk with her Rock Concert actions – she’s excited to try out her Lightspeed Package!
- Phill Price’s monochrome lightroom preset for a moody pink tone captured the third place prize
THE PRIZES:
- 1ST PLACE: LIGHTSPEED WORKFLOW PACKAGE
Valued at $290, this prize includes a Nostromo n52 left-hand keypad, “ONE” Lightroom/ACR preset, “ONE” Photoshop Action, and tutorials. This is an awesome package! This winner will also receive a $39 credit to use toward any additional items from Neil. - 2ND PLACE: PHOTOSHOP LIGHT REAL VIRTUAL COURSE
Valued at $250, this prize includes the “ONE ACTION” workflow scripts plus a 4 hour training course covering the workflow scripts and working in LAB color space. This winner will also receive a $39 credit to use toward any additional items from Neil. - 3RD PLACE: ONE ACTION AND GOLDEN TOUCH PACKAGES
Valued at $79 and $49, respectively, this prize includes the “ONE ACTION” scripts and presets for Photoshop and Lightroom, plus extra training materials along with additional Photoshop actions and 30 textures.
Wafaring Stranger: Jamie Woon
Neil February 13th, 2009
I am a wayfaring stranger too
Download a free texture this friday – to match that moody feel:
Spring discounts
Neil January 26th, 2009
Everybody’s whining about the economy, but you have the ability to create your future
Don’t drop you cash on software upgrades, upgrade your brain power to produce better work!!
I’ll help motivate you with a few discounts!
Bleautiful Blur Overlays – Volume 2 – save $30 until March 31st
The beautiful blurs can do a lot for your images! Read any of the online tutorials to get ideas:
The Beautiful blurs add to the creativity of any designer or photographer:
- Page Backgrounds
- Contrast modifying overlays for single photographs
- Color adding overlays for designs or photographs
- Website background images
Free Light Friday – Beautiful Blurs Volume 2 sample
Neil January 9th, 2009
Beautiful Blurs Volume 2 is out today…70 new textures, backgrounds and creative goodness
Bleautiful Blur Overlays – Volume 2
Bleautiful Blur Overlays – Volume 2 The beautiful blurs can do a lot for your images! Read any of the online tutorials to get ideas. And here friends is a preview of all 70 of the abstractly beautiful pieces.
And now to the free download!
Beautiful Blurs Disk 2 – free sample
Free Light Friday posted 09-26-08 Download free texture file after checkout process.
Get $19 in photo products as a FaceBook Fan!
Neil January 8th, 2009
fan MakeLightReal.comAdd yourself as a Fan of the Make Light Real experience and on January 15th you’ll receive a $19 gift certificate for photo products from the Create Cart – a resource for open minded photographers.
Act quickly as only the fans active as of January 15th 2009 will receive the discount code – if you become a fan later there will continue to be perks.
What will $19 get me?
Do you want the golden touch? Extended High Definition video tutorial to add inspiration, understanding, tips, and tools to your mental arsenal! 60min of inspiration and training…
Have you ever applied a texture to your image(s)? Have you no idea where to start or how? Then this set is designed for you You will find these…
Vintage Postcards – Set of 5
Vintage Postcard Textures – Set of 5 back-side files If you’re not sure what to put on the back of your client’s postcards but you would like…
1on1 Virtual Photoshop Training
1on1 Personalized Training with Neil Cowley the 1 hour computer to computer training using screen sharing software covers whatever topic is of interest to you…it’s $50/hr but you can get your first hour for 1/2 price.
The dark grungy effects, ready for you to apply to your images
A set of 20 dark, moody and grungy texture files and overlay images to artfully impact your images. Available for immediate download
And $19 off any of the other products in the Create Cart
PROJECT: Open Source Action project
Neil January 7th, 2009
PROJECT: Action and Preset Extravaganza by the Epic Edits weblog
THE REQUIREMENTS
If you’re planning on participating and having a chance at some of the awesome prizes, be sure to read the following requirements very carefully. I’ve provided some useful links to appropriate resources, so don’t overlook them!
- CREATE AN ACTION OR PRESET
The first important part of the project is actually creating the action or preset. The choice of software is up to you — whatever you happen to use. The action(s) and/or preset(s) that you choose to create and share are also totally up to you — they could be workflow timesavers, creative tweaks, or whatever else you can dream up. If you’re not familiar with creating these things, you can read up on creating Photoshop actions and Lightroom presets. And the creations must be your own — no swiping somebody else’s work! - MAKE YOUR FILE ACCESSIBLE
This is the hard part, but we’ve got some options for you. You’ll need to upload your action/preset file to the web so others can download it. If you have your own blog or website, this is no problem and you can host the file yourself. Some forums also allow files to be attached to posts. But sites like Flickr don’t allow this, while they do allow you to link to external files. To accommodate those of you with fewer options, Neil has offered to host your project files on his site. You can email him at action@makelightreal.com with your file. He’ll upload it to his server and send you the URL so you can link to it in step 3. - WRITE ABOUT YOUR CREATION
Once you’ve created your tool and made it accessible to others, you’ll have to write about it. There are many forms of self-publication, so don’t be intimidated. You should tell us what the action/preset does, how it works, and any special instructions for using it. You should also link out to your file from step 2 so others (including me) can download it and use it. - SUBMIT YOUR LINK AT EPIC EDITS
When your written post is complete (with the link to your action/preset), fill out the form at this link. Just plug in your name, the location of your write-up from step 3, and your email address so I can contact you if needed.
THE PRIZES:
- 1ST PLACE: LIGHTSPEED WORKFLOW PACKAGE
Valued at $290, this prize includes a Nostromo n52 left-hand keypad, “ONE” Lightroom/ACR preset, “ONE” Photoshop Action, and tutorials. This is an awesome package! This winner will also receive a $39 credit to use toward any additional items from Neil. - 2ND PLACE: PHOTOSHOP LIGHT REAL VIRTUAL COURSE
Valued at $250, this prize includes the “ONE ACTION” workflow scripts plus a 4 hour training course covering the workflow scripts and working in LAB color space. This winner will also receive a $39 credit to use toward any additional items from Neil. - 3RD PLACE: ONE ACTION AND GOLDEN TOUCH PACKAGES
Valued at $79 and $49, respectively, this prize includes the “ONE ACTION” scripts and presets for Photoshop and Lightroom, plus extra training materials along with additional Photoshop actions and 30 textures. This winner will also receive a $39 credit to use toward any additional items from Neil. - 1ST AND 2ND RUNNER UP: $39 CREDIT
The two “honorary mentions” will each receive a $39 credit toward the purchase of any item from Neil’s offerings. - 5 RANDOM WINNERS: $39 CREDIT
Just to shake things up a bit, we’ll select another 5 random winners to receive the $39 credit toward any item of their choice. So anybody could be a winner, you just have to participate!
So… basically we’re looking at over $1000 in prizes given out to 10 different winners. Not bad!
DEADLINE: JANUARY 12, 2009
