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Here’s another great deal just in time for the holiday gift-buying season.

Whether the holidays bring out your “Humbug!” or your “Ho, ho, ho!” there’s one thing you must admit: it’s the most colorful season of the year. Except maybe for spring. And autumn. Anyway, all seasonal colors are just begging to be zoomed, blurred and pleasantly smeared. Smartphone users: you can play too.

Uploading images to social media is fast and easy, but not really the best primary way to share them, especially during the hectic holiday season. Emailing your favorite shots to friends and family members is an option, but that method has some uncertainty, too. And how many recipients save them after they see them? An image that exists only as a digital file has a fragile lifespan.

America's largest consumer expo for home entertainment and imaging
offers three days to explore and demo the finest consumer electronics
products—under one roof in NYC.

The Home
Entertainment Show (HE2004), the largest and most comprehensive
showcase of consumer electronics and imaging products in America,
returns to New York City May 20–23, 2004 at the Hilton New York
Hotel—the site of two popular HE Shows held in 2001 and 2002.
Over 15,000 attendees are expected to visit the NY Hilton, optimized
for the ultimate user experience. Unlike typical trade shows, HE2004
provides visitors with the opportunity of seeing and hearing the
finest products in upscale hotel rooms, creating the best-sounding
environments for demonstrating high-performance gear.

Sometimes all it takes to lift your photo from the ordinary to the extraordinary
is a striking edge or border. Would a soft-edged vignette or a unique pattern
border take your image to the next level of dramatic impact? While there are
myriad software programs and plug-ins designed to add special effect edges,
borders and frames, you probably already have quite an array of possibilities
built into your current image-editing software. To get you started, here are
some effects that I created with Adobe Photoshop. You can use Elements for these,
as well. Earlier versions of these as well as other image-editing programs offer
many of the same effects. Now let's give some photos a new leading edge...

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Hoodman adds a smart hot shoe mount for using the HoodLoupe 3.0 during DSLR Video Capture.
The new mount is called HoodCrane. HoodCrane is available with the Cinema Kit Pro
which includes HoodLoupe 3.0, HoodMAG- a new magnifying video eyecup for your Hood-
Loupe 3.0--and the HoodCrane. If you already have the HoodLoupe 3.0 you can pick up the
HoodCrane and HoodMAG separately.

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