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Today, InkjetART is initiating a free "Pixel Advertising" page for its customers. This page gives you a small graphic "banner," text description about your Web site, and two links to your site -- a link from the graphic, and another text link from a highly ranked page. Many other Pixel Advertising sites are selling, for $1.00 per pixel, what we are giving away. We're giving you a 2500 pixel (a 50 x 50 pixels) graphic space to advertise (driving traffic to your site), plus a text link (on a page with a Google PageRank of "5"), which should help improve your site's ranking on Google search results.
What is Pixel Advertising? This concept was developed by a 21 year old debt-ridden college student, Alex Tew. His site, "The Million Dollar Home Page," was first registered August 23, 2005, and has since created well over one million dollars for him. The home page started out with a 1000 x 1000 pixel grid (one million pixels) that sold for $1.00 per pixel. Alex sold a minimum of 100 pixels (10 x 10 pixels) at a time. He sold the last 1,000 pixels earlier this year via an auction on Ebay, with the winning bid at over $38,000 (that's over $38 per pixel). You can see Alex's home page here:
Alex guaranteed his clients that the Web page and their links will stay online for a minimum of five years (read his "FAQ" for more information and the interesting background information about how Alex came up with the idea). Due to Alex's success, hundreds of copy-cats have created similar Web sites. A search via Google on "pixel advertising" currently results in over 21 million related pages. Although this fad will probably soon fade away, several SEO consultants still suggest that webmasters invest some of their Web site promotional dollars in pixel advertising with the most reputable pixel advertising site(s) that have not already filled up.
400 FREE SPACES AVAILABLE: InkjetART's new million pixel advertising page is also divided into 10,000 grids of 100 pixels each, but we're allowing each InkjetART customer to have 25 of these grids (a 5 x 5 grid, or 50 x 50 pixels). Your graphic, link, descriptive text and additional text link will stay up for 60 days. You will be notified automatically via email five (14) days before your ad is removed, and allowed to click through to renew your pixel advertisement for another 60 days. You will receive this opportunity to renew every 60 days. If you miss the fourteen-day window, your ad will automatically be removed, giving another InkjetART customer the chance to place an ad. We will also occasionally monitor to see if you are still purchasing from us - if you are not a regular customer (at least four times a year), we reserve the right to remove your ad. There are only 400 spaces available on a first-come basis:
You must have made an online purchase with InkjetART within the last 90 days to qualify for a free 2,500 pixels ad from our site (if you haven't made a purchase within the last 90 days, make one just before you place your ad).
Design your ad graphic to be exactly 50 x 50 pixels and save it as a .GIF, .JPG or .PNG.
Go to the above Web address and click on "Get Pixels."
Select a 5x5 grid area where you want your ad graphic to appear.
Enter the URL of your Web site. InkjetART reserves the right to remove any ad and link to a Web site that we feel is offensive. Only one ad per InkjetART customer.
Enter the "Title for Your [graphic] Pixels." (This is also the description that shows up next to your pixel ad graphic whenever a mouse cursor passes over or points to your ad.) The title or description text will be listed on our "Pixel List" page, and will also link to your Web site. (This list is also duplicate periodically on our popular "Weights and Sizes of Papers" page, which has a high Google PageRank, and this will help to improve your ranking with Google, because no reciprocal link to us is required - although it's always appreciated =). For more information on Google PageRank, and its importance, refer to this Internet marketing page from our July 5, 2005 newsletter, and scroll to "Page Rank."
Enter an "Alt [alternate] Tag Value for Your Pixels" -- this is the description that shows up if ever your pixel ad graphic fails to load onto the page (this text is also picked up and indexed by many search engines, so be sure to use keywords that are meaningful and relevant).
You will be asked for your email address -- this also becomes your user name (no password is required). This will need to be the same email address that you have used to place an ONLINE order - if we can't match it to anyone in our order database, your ad will be deleted.
Our Webmaster will verify your status as an active InkjetART customer using your email address and the suitability of your ad and Web site. If we find a match, your ad will be activated.
Until your ad is activated, only a gray box will appear in the space you have reserved. Once activated, the ad and links will appear for 60 days, after which you'll have another 14-day window to keep your ad active.
Our spotlight on David lyons is the first in a series of InkjetART customers that we'd like to feature from time-to-time in our newsletter, and offer one of their printed works on our Web site for purchase.
David Lyons is a regional airline pilot for Delta, who also has a passion for panoramas, using digital photography and post production with Photoshop CS2. His Web site, eXacteXposure.com, highlights some of his work, shows cockpits of the various planes he flies (see "Aviation"), and tells about him, his equipment, and his approach to digital photography. While David shoots many of his images in NEF (Nikon's raw format), he only uses NEF as a backup. Most of his final images are processed and printed right from the JPEG files, because he takes the time to determine what he feels is the "exact exposure" for each picture-taking situation -- hence the name of his web site: "eXacteXposure.com":
David Lyons is known for being very passionate about a location -- driving all night and going back every day, 4-5 times in a row if necessary to get the shot. David told us in one interview, "There is a location in Moab, Utah I want, but it MUST have clouds and I keep going back, but no luck. I will have a 12 hrs shift at work, get off at 8pm, pack the car, get a short nap (10pm - 1am) and drive from 1:30am to 5:30am and be in position to take a sunrise... because you never know when the sunrise you sleep in for is the one you always wanted!"
Mr. Lyons claims to have no photographic "experience", i.e. classes, training -- he just reads magazines and books and goes out and shoots. He now feels that he's at a point where a "mentor" or someone with lots of experience could be a benefit to him (especially in Photoshop). Right now, if he has 3-5 days between piloting, he's off taking photos somewhere or editing the ones he already has. He claims that he learns most from his mistakes: "My mistakes teach me far more than the successful photos or a lecture ever could."
David uses a Nikon D2X in full manual mode, and a Really Right Stuff Panorama setup, although he has been known to hand hold many of his panoramas if it is bright enough. When shooting panoramas, David takes several overlapping views and "stitches" them together with Photoshop CS2. Since his favorite light for landscapes occurs at sunset or sunrise, he has to work fast, so he rarely uses a cable release (except when exposures are 1/8 second or longer).
"I usually just keep taking panoramas one after another as the light changes ...2 minutes can make a big difference in light. After taking the shots, I download them to my laptop. I make the initial stitch or two on my laptop to see if I need to try a different technique (if I will be in the same location next day). Once home, I let my "real" computer... with lots of RAM, etc. do the stitching. Sometimes it will take 8 hours (no kidding) just to stitch all the images from a 3 day trip. Then I simply view them quickly, after the fact, to see which catches my eye. I would say I delete well over half of any images I have taken. Not that I am just shooting away and hoping to get something, ...but that the light and setting change sooooo fast. After I like [an] image I simply adjust it in Photoshop CS2 and then save.
"I use this method of panoramas because I can be very creative... [If I] simply want a "small" 2-shot panorama... no problem. If you understand how to rotate your camera around the "nodal" point you can even hand hold many shots. I have found that the 3 shot panorama is the most consistent. [However], with more than 4 shots and even with 2 gigs of memory my computer can't stitch the files, so I have to trick the computer and stitch 2 here, [and] then 3 there..."
FEATURED PANORAMA: Our featured panorama of Monument Valley required just this kind of computer trickery, because this final panorama comes from six (6) portrait (vertical) shots -- making the quality of this image so fine that it can easily be enlarged to about 16" x 60" if desired. All clouds and structures are real. There is no editing other than stitching in PS CS2 and some touch up of the seams. David attests, "I think I even used 'autolevels' and adjusted colors slightly via selective color. The glowing reds of the mesas are accurate." The staff at InkjetART like this image so much, we purchased a print for our lobby. You can do the same by going to our Web site and placing an online order for this stunning image. We'll then forward the order to David, who will make your print and ship it to you in approximately three weeks:
We'd like to get to know you and your artistry better. For over seven years, InkjetART has been doing business with some of the top artists (photographers, watercolorist and oil painters), who use our products for both commercial and fine art reproductions of their images.
Some of you, we recognize when your orders come through, because your fame proceeds you. Others, occasionally mention their Web sites in passing, and we check out your work because we're interested in what you do. We'd like more of you to introduce yourself. This will also help us find new artists to feature in our newsletters.
INTRODUCE YOURSELF: If you have a Web site, or images on any Web page, please point us to that URL(s), and introduce yourself with a few comments about your work:
Buy an Epson Stylus Pro 4800 or 4800 Professional Edition between June 6, 2006 and August 31, 2006 together with any combination of qualifying Epson paper and you can receive $300 back by mail! View and print out the coupon with qualifying details (PDF) at this URL:
Last month we reviewed the 17" wide Canon imagePROGRAF iPF5000. By September, Canon should be rolling out their new 60" wide iPF9000. This printer will have exactly the same technology (12 inks) as the 17" iPF5000. This means that any one owning the 17" model will be able to had their images files over to some who owns the 60" iPF9000, and get exactly the same results (only larger), when printed on the same media. Do you see the potential in this printer for servicing the many owners of the iPF5000, let alone the opportunities for anyone who needs a superior photo-quality 60" wide print? We expect this printer to sell for about $15K.
InkjetART expects the new HP Photosmart Pro B9180 Photo Printers to be available sometime in late July or August. The 9180 is a 13-inch wide inkjet printer that uses eight (8) individual, high-capacity ink (pigment) cartridges. These cartridges have about twice the ink capacity of the cartridges that are used in the Epson R2400 (or 2200 or R1800) printers.
HP is claiming the following additional features for this new printer:
Photo gallery-quality performance on a broad array of media
Prints that resist fading for more than 200 years
Media handling up to 1.5-mm thick (including canvas, photo rag)
Fast printing speeds - print 13"x19" photos as fast as 1.5 minutes
Print 4 x 6-inch photos as fast as 10 seconds
HP plug-in for Adobe Photoshop - auto synchronizes color management
Closed loop calibration system keeps photo color consistent
Auto alert, detection & compensation system for clogged nozzles
4800-optimized dpi
Estimated U.S. street price of $699 (about $200 less than the Epson R2400)
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