bryan_linden1

<p>Jeff, I am a working pro and am helping (company) launch their product as their artist in residence. I work for (company2) a company owned by the same people that own (company) and I thought the photo.net members would love some free paper. I can't ask the owners of (company) to pay to give out free stuff to your members especially given the current economy so please go ahead and take down the post if you don't want them to receive this free offer. I'm sorry if it is considered spamming by you, there is no intent to spam, only to help photographers with cool products that are otherwise hard to find. The official launch hasn't happened yet and photo.net people would be among the first to have these products. If there are many requests from photo.net members then I can suggest advertising going forward :)</p>

<p>Ok, to all who commented, thank you! We are legit, are not harvesting emails (see our legal notice on the site) and the offer is to help get our products out there so you can see how cool they are :). The reason the offer is good in the US only is one of cost as I'm sure you can imagine shipping free products at our expense to other countries is cost prohibitive.<br>

We do have a limited amount of products that we are shipping free but we still have plenty and the products are available in hard to find 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 as well as 8.5x11, 13x19 and of course roll paper. <br>

Someone above said we don't have matte and that's not true, we have several smooth art surfaces, matte canvas and others and for those who fill out our survey you will get a discount code sent with your sample products. If anyone has a question, please feel free and email.<br>

Comments on the web site are welcome, we are just opening the doors. Although our products are new they are well researched and come from mills that are hundreds of years old and are combined with our new coatings that allow for higher d-max, more consistency among papers and more but the proof's in the pudding, check them out and see for yourself :).</p>

<p>If anyone is looking for some new papers to try, there's a new company with premium papers that is giving away free non-watermarked samples. The offer is limited to US residents and quantities are limited but currently there is plenty available. (Name removed) specializes in cut sheet media in true photo sizes like 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 etc. but they also have a full line of roll paper and print industry sizes.<br /><br /><br>

Have Fun!</p>

Most of you likely haven't heard of or tried Album DS but I highly suggest you do. I just

signed on as VP of Marketing for Album DS but I'm a working pro and frequent contributor

to Professional Photographer magazine. The reason I signed on is I had been looking for a

product like it for my own work (www.lindenphoto.net) for a couple of years. My plan was

to write an article on the best album creation software and how it could save a person time

etc. etc. I looked for 2 years because I couldn't find a mac/pc solution that could do

everything I wanted to be able to do while still remaining user friendly and delivering

easily updateable designs. I don't like to waste people's time by producing articles that tell

a person what not to use and prefer to write on how a business can save time, or/and

make more money by using a particular product. Anyway I finally found and tried Album

DS and after talking to the developer and seeing no US presence I knew I had to bring it

here. We just launched in the US at PhotoPlus a couple weeks ago and have a new demo

that you can produce actual client albums with. The demo has limited templates but a

good overall selection and you can print with no watermarks and kick the tires so to

speak. Album DS produces layered tiff or psd files and works directly w/photoshop cs or

better for mac and pc.

 

The basic version has 560 templates that can be opened at any size/resolution and aspect

ratio and always works from high resolution images. There are video walkthroughs so

please try for yourself. Get it at www.albumds.com.

 

I hope you don't mind the shameless plug but I wouldn't give it if I didn't believe it and I've

tried everything.

 

Cheers,

Bryan