Alien Skin Software has announced the release of Exposure 2, the latest version
of its film stock simulator and effects package. Exposure 2 lets digital photographers
and graphic artists enhance any digital photo by simulating the rich, organic
look of film.
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Alien Skin Software has released the Eye Candy Effects Collection, a bundle of
the award-winning Eye Candy, Xenofex, and Snap Art plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop
and other image editors. The Eye Candy Effects Collection includes 54 special
effects filters with over 1000 one-click settings. The Eye Candy Effects Collection
includes full versions of five Alien Skin plug-in titles: Eye Candy 5: Impact,
Eye Candy 5: Nature, Eye Candy 5: Textures, Xenofex 2, and Snap Art. These filters
allow digital artists and graphic designers to create chrome, fire, smoke, lightning,
clouds, comics and dozens of other effects with a single click.



Extensive example images, product reviews, and free, 30 day demos for each title
are available at the Alien Skin Website, www.alienskin.com.



Alien Skin will release Universal versions of all their plug-ins soon. All customers
who purchase the Eye Candy Effects Collection will receive free updates when they
become available.



Pricing and Availability: Purchased separately, these plug-ins are valued at $575.
The Eye Candy Effects Collection sells for an estimated street price of $399.
Online delivery is available at the Alien Skin website: http://www.alienskin.com.
The Eye Candy Effects Collection is also available worldwide through stores, catalogs
and resellers.
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Alien Skin Software has announced the release of Eye Candy 5: Impact, a set
of 10 plug-in filters for Adobe Photoshop and other compatible host programs.
Impact creates chrome, bevels, glass buttons, perspective shadows, and more.
The third of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Impact features three new filters--Backlight,
Brushed Metal and Extrude--and seven reincarnated Eye Candy classics. Graphic
designers, digital photographers, and Web content creators will appreciate Impact's
versatile and beautifully rendered effects.

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Photographer Sebastião Salgado has raised the money to plant 120,000
trees as part of a project to preserve the Brazilian rainforest, with the auction
of an all-titanium Leica model which fetched $107,500--a new world record
for cameras built after 1945. The highest bid at the Viennese camera auction
was made over the telephone by a collector from Thailand. The LEICA M7 with
the special serial number 3,000,000 was awarded to Salgado by Leica Camera AG,
Solms in honor of his extensive photographic work.

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The Freestyle Creative Center for Photography is proud to host a premier showing
of Holga images by Freestyle Advisory Board member Michelle Bates, titled “Toying With Creativity”. Michelle is a champion of the alternative (or "toy")
camera genre, noted especially for her work with the all-plastic Holga camera.
Her award-winning pictures have been featured and published across the nation,
most recently in her new book "Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity,"
considered by many the definitive primer for the world of toy camera photography.
Michelle's images evoke a multitude of emotions, from poignant to whimsical
to ethereal. They are a throwback to days when photography was considered more
of a joyous activity than a specialized craft.

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When Andrew Lu entered the Sigma Corporation of America Scholarship contest, he had two goals: To evoke emotion with his black-and-white imagery and to take home the grand prize. Today, the camera and lens manufacturer announced that Lu has successfully accomplished both of those objectives. The Yorktown Heights, NY, native has been announced as the winner of the second annual Sigma Corporation of America Scholarship Contest, for which he will receive a prize of $5,000 in cash and a $1,000 credit toward Sigma products of his choosing.