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Win 25 000 USD if you order or have ordered a book from Blurb

Posted Jun 25, 2009 by Björn Fant in JAlbum news

 

Psst… The Photo book contest Photography.Book.Now is due July 16!  We all go around thinking about creating a photo book for our best photos. Why not do it now and take the chance to win 25 000 USD? No matter where you live in the world you may submit your contribution.

This is how it works
- Create a photo book using Blurb software
- Order one or more copies of your book
- Submit the order number to Photography.Book.Now (even if you created a book months ago, you may use this books order number)
- Await the praise of the competition jury

Even if you’ve created a self-promotional book with another service you may participate.

The top winners will be invited to attend the awards celebration and meet-up in New York this fall.

Visit pbn.blurb.com

Win a full page about your photography in PDN magazine

Posted Jun 23, 2009 by Björn Fant in JAlbum news

PND self promo

Photo District News is a great resource for professional photographers both online and in print. The offer an array of camera reviews, photography biographies and stock photo galleries, PDNOnline.com is packed with news on everything Photography related.

Now PDN invites all Jalbumers to enter the 2009 PDN Photographers' Self-Promo Awards. Amateurs and professionals are welcome to showcase their online and offline work. Compete for great prices such as digital cameras and the grand prize: a full-page ad in PDN magazine highlighting the winner's photography!

Categories include:
•    Best Overall Campaign
•    Extraordinary Non-Traditional Pieces
•    Digital Self-Promotions
•    Printed Self-Promotions

Be sure to submit your work before July 17, 2009.
Visit www.selfpromoawards.com to read more and add your contribution.
 

People

Posted Jun 18, 2009 by carl in JAlbum news

faces

"Faces" by Iprevost

 

people

"People" by huy

 

People

"People" by yumi-la

 

People From the Far East

Album by amirweiz

 

Underwater Photography

Posted Jun 12, 2009 by carl in JAlbum news

Enjoy the world under water with these great Jalbums:

Underwater Photography

Album by timso

Underwater Portfolio

Album by jamesmallard


Underwater Photos

Album by Palantar


Underwater picture

Album by RBA

Sharm 2009 Underwater

Album by gcolin

Symmetrical compositions

Posted Jun 8, 2009 by Björn Fant in JAlbum news

 

When photographers first learn about compositional guidelines, such as the rule of thirds, they are often subconsciously bound by these parameters. One thing to keep in mind is that if an image is symmetrical, or has a triangular appearance to it, a centered composition often works best. For the above image, if the door was placed on the left or right of the picture space (rule of thirds), the photo would lose much of its strength. Indeed, images that have triangular shapes are often associated with power or authority, and to compose off-center will often weaken the photograph.

The best way to find out for yourself what compositions look best is to take three versions of the same scene; one where the center of interest is to the left, one to the right, and one in the center. It won't take long to be able to know in advance of your picture taking what composition will be the most effective.

Thanks to professional photographer Mark Hemmings (www.markhemmings.com) for writing this photo tip.

Microsoft search engine Bing inspired by Jalbum skin?

Posted Jun 4, 2009 by Björn Fant in JAlbum news

We recently tried the new search engine from Microsoft called Bing.  It has a neat look with a calming background that seem to change from day to day. As photo enthusiasts, we think that is a nice feature. But wait, what happens when we hit the search button; the search result comes up and the background image moves to the upper left corner and gently fades in.

 

Haven’t we seen that before? Yes, in the showcase skin! Dare we suggest that this Jalbum skin, when making the search engine, inspired Microsoft? Probably not, but it’s a funny coincidence.

 

New skin: PhotoBox

Posted Jun 3, 2009 by carl in JAlbum news

PhotoBox skin 

 

PhotoBox is the latest and greatest skin from our code ninja Kristoffer. The skin has a nice feature where image thumbnails zoom and float gracefully when touched by the mouse pointer. It's a great way to preview images before watching the full blown photo. Have a look at this sample album.

PhotoBox works with Jalbum widgets and runs on any site. Thanks to our friends at Mr Green for sponsoring this skin. Download and try it out here. Enjoy!

Take your work offline with Blurb and win 25 000 USD

Posted May 28, 2009 by Björn Fant in JAlbum news

 

Have you submitted your work to the photo book contest Photography.Book.Now by Blurb? It truly is your chance for worldwide recognition and also getting paid for your dedicated work as a photographer. $25,000 is at stake for the one winner with the most impressive work. Also there are several photography related prizes for the runners up and category prizes.

What is interesting about this competition is that it's not necessarily the best photographers that win the prizes. It's the ones creating the most stunning photo books.

Blurb is hosting the Blurb Photography Book Workshop series in June, featuring photographer Dan Milnor, graphic designer Bob Aufuldish, and Lightroom guru Jerry Courvoisier. In these 4-hour workshops you’ll learn about the principals of book design, editing your images in Lightroom for optimum results, and how to use Blurb books to promote your work.
 
You can also participate in a photography book review prior to the workshop. Having your work reviewed is not a requirement to attend the workshops.
 
Photography book reviews begin at 4:00 pm; the workshop kicks off at 6:00 pm (expect it to last until about 10:00 pm). Cost to attend is $49 for the workshop, and $79 including the photography book review.
 
Dates, locations and links to RSVP follow below:
June 16, San Francisco – http://blurbworkshopsf.eventbrite.com
June 18, NYC – http://blurbworkshopnyc.eventbrite.com
June 22, London – http://blurbworkshoplondon.eventbrite.com
June 24, Chicago – http://blurbworkshopchicago.eventbrite.com

Enter before July 16. Go on and create some magic at http://pbn.blurb.com

Jalbum 8.3 "Turbo" loaded with improvements

Posted May 27, 2009 by David Ekholm in JAlbum news

 
Jalbum Turbo  

This release looks pretty much the same on the outside, but don't let the surface fool you. Jalbum 8.3 is packed with improvements under the hood. For instance, twice the speed on smooth image scaling, and a significantly faster and tighter album publishing. We've also made it easier to import settings from previous album projects so you can make a new album with the same settings as another album in a snap. Jalbum 8.3 can now print your images to your own printer. It also has a new “Instant preview” function that lets you generate a rough preview of your album using the selected skin and style settings in a split second! Play with it by browsing through skins and styles, then press F3! For a full list of changes, see the release notes.

 
Jalbum skin  

Candy for skin developers

Skin developers will enjoy the new “Pack as .jaskin” function to quickly zip their skins for distribution.

 

Pionen

Server

 

New storage for your albums

We've seen a fantastic growth of new Jalbum users lately, which is exciting. The massive number of accounts was starting to take its toll on the old hosting server so we initiated a server move to new hosting servers a couple of months back. Now we're running on new physical servers, disks and software. The servers are located 30 meters under ground in a re-built bomb-shelter in Stockholm, originally designed to withstand a close nuclear bomb hit. Check out the album, it's a cool place!

   
 

Lean, mean, publishing machine

The new servers make Jalbum accounts better in many regards:

  • Publishing albums is significantly faster thanks to “zipstreaming” — your albums are compressed into one zip file during publishing and decompressed automatically on the server side. Our forum admins have published typical albums from the U.K, U.S, Australia and Hungary and measure around 3 times faster publishing!
  • Albums can be deleted from the server in a fraction of a second.
 
crushFTP  

I want to extend a thank you to Ben Spink who has written CrushFTP — the server used for publishing and developed these new features that are specific to our needs. I also want to thank our forum admins for helping us testing this new service. Now we eagerly await feedback from you!

Badges? We DO need to show you our stinkin’ blog badges!

Posted May 19, 2009 by Notch in JAlbum news

 

I bet you’ve heard the quote "Badges?... We don't need no... stinkin' badges!" from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, even if you never saw the movie. It’s amazing how a quote, a tune or a photo can awaken something inside all of us that is eternally memorable. To get your amazing photo albums to stick, people need to see them, where you are. That is why we built the Jalbum Blog badge for all of you who run a blog.

We silently launched the Jalbum Blog badge in March and told you about it on this blog. Since then, thousands of people have started using it on their blogs!

The Blog Badge is now publicly available as a link on your profile page. If you haven’t added it to you blog yet do it now, just like these guys did:

http://lescroix.blogspot.com

http://andreabrava.blogspot.com

http://dallasurbanblog.blogspot.com

Help us spread the word
If you are a blogger; send an email to carl@jalbum.net when you added the Jalbum Blog badge to your blog. We will upgrade the first 30 Blog badge users with a Jalbum premium account for one year (Worth €19).

 

jalbum.net/create-badge

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