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New York, NY, September 9, 2009 – Fast and affordable online service for image editing and photo design – PhotoHand.com is quickly turning into one of the most valuable online resources for small/SOHO business, entrepreneurs and professionals looking to boost their images.

Traditionally limited by modest marketing budgets and now influenced by the current recession, professionals and small businesses are reconciled with the fact that their promotional images can’t rival those of corporations. PhotoHand.com is changing this perception by bringing Madison-Avenue quality image editing and photo design to Main Street folks.

The strictly online mode of operation might not fit the processes of large companies but it is perfect for Actors, Models, Consultants, Dentists, Indie Designers, Small Manufacturers, Beauty Professionals, Tattoo Artists, E-shop Owners… the list goes on.

Just upload your photos through PhotoHand.com website, supply your directions in plain language (what you want or what you don’t like in the photos) and in three business days you have the images that will make you or your business stand out – all without breaking the bank.

PhotoHand’s fees start at $3.50 per photo for complete cosmetic retouching. For $11.95 your product photo will be altered into an ad worthy of glossy magazines. Online proofing and changes are free.

Unlike many photographers, PhotoHand works under the “work-for-hire” clause and thus does not claim copyright over retouched photos or photo designs. This means PhotoHand’s clients have the full ownership of their images and can take them to any printing company of choice.

PhotoHand.com works with amateur photos as well as with professionally shot images. The company realizes that many business owners or professionals take one shot at a time when they are ready with a new sample and paying $75-150 an hour for one-two photos is excessive. Most of them have long figured out how to use powerful digital cameras and how to set up the lights for a shoot.

Naturally, such DIY photos need some editing help but so do professional shots, as PhotoHand can attest. With a little bit of post-production TLC, PhotoHand makes such photos shine.

After all, it’s 60% how you look, 35% what you sound like, and 5% what you say.

“Reaching out to their community, Canvas On Demand deals in a different kind of canvas by donating a boxing canvas to the non-profit organization LAMiTCA that provides mentoring outreach and education to underprivileged children in Selma, North Carolina.”

For Immediate Release

August 29, 2009 – Raleigh, NC – Canvas on Demand recently donated a 18′x18′ boxing canvas to the non-profit organization “LAMiTCA” that provides mentoring outreach, education and after-school programs to the underprivileged and at-risk children and teens of the Selma, North Carlina area. Darryl and Deatha Kirkland, founders and leaders of LAMiTCA, reached out to Canvas On Demand and found a willing community-building partner.

Explaining LAMiTCA further, Death says “Our resource center includes information ranging from job search to environmental awareness, and our classes include English as a second language, boxing, ballet and modern dance, tutoring, and GED instruction.”

Upon learning of the initiative taken by the Kirklands, and their need, Joe Schmidt and Tom Lotrecchiano were excited to be a part of their efforts. Says Tom, “Once we learned how this couple is empowering kids in their local community, we wanted to support them. Since our canvas prints are not meant for this sort of application, Joe and I decided to order what they needed from Everlast. We are delighted to partner with LAMiTCA by making this donation. We want others to know about the fine work that Darryl and Deatha are doing in Selma. Their efforts are aimed at bringing about positive change in our world and sets a terrific example for others.”

Construction of the new LAMiTCA boxing ring and more information about the two organizations involved is available in a video chronicling the joint effort.

About Canvas On Demand

Are you looking to create a canvas print from one of your photos? As featured in the Wall Street Journal and Better Homes and Garden, Canvas On Demand can help you create a beautiful, personalized photo on canvas. With over five thousand satisfied customers worldwide, you are sure to be satisfied.

Like someone once said, “it is weird that photographers spend years or even a lifetime trying to capture moments which, added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.” But when these moments make for the most wonderful memories in someone’s life, this time is very well spent. Wedding photographs are the best way to immortalize all the beautiful moments on that very special day and create irreplaceable memories.

Hojsan & Porawska’s Chicago wedding and portrait photography studio will help you immortalize these special moments and put together a unique wedding album that will give you the opportunity to reminisce about that wonderful day when you officially began your life together.

Everyone who is interested in finding a Chicago wedding photographer can visualize their portfolio online in order to better understand the quality and value of the services provided by Hojsan & Porawska’s wedding photography studio.

Every event that is some way special to you is also special to these experienced and talented wedding photographers in Chicago. Regardless of the type of event, they will be able to cease the moment in such a wonderful way that you will not be sorry you have chosen to invest in memories to come.

An important step that Hojsan & Porawska’s wedding and portrait photography studio has taken was to achieve a well defined identity. Together with this new identity, the studio is also proud to present their brand new website, www.picture4ever.com, a nice and neat presentation of what they wish to offer to everyone looking for event photography in Chicago.

This wedding photography studio has been in business for quite some time now and has gained enough experience to be able to provide customers with a wonderful wedding album that will speak of your love with more intensity than you will ever be able to. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. A beautifully created wedding album will tell what words can never express with the same intensity: your love, your wedding day, your joy, your smiles and tears of happiness, the butterflies in your stomach and so on. One look in your wedding album will bring back this whole range of intense feelings that you will experience on your very special wedding day. Hojsan & Porawska’s Chicago wedding photography studio will be there to immortalize those moments.

99 Main Street Stowe,
VT 91122
Phone Number: 800-253 3624 2544
Email : grojanfabiola@yahoo.com
Website: www.picture4ever.com

PhotoHand.com offers $3.50 per photograph professional photo retouching to the masses. In these tough economic times, we are all looking for money-saving deals whether it is for personal or professional needs. To help customers, PhotoHand.com is providing high-end, magazine quality photo retouching, effects and photo books. This means customers can now experience a complete photo retouching- just like the celebrities – at a price they can afford. PhotoHand.com is a real find for actors and models looking to get their images retouched for headshots, model cards and online portfolios.

PhotoHand.com Photo Retouching Model

At low rate of $3.50 per photo, you get complete cosmetic retouching that will eliminate all specified flaws. Whether we want to lose 30 pounds instantly, see what botox would do for us or turn a frown upside down, PhotoHand’s team of designers are able to assist. The company is accustomed to working with actors and models, as well as professional photographers. PhotoHand.com aims to bring what was once thought of as an extravagant option to turn ordinary photos into extraordinary ones within today’s budget.

Turnaround on the order is within three business days and the online ordering system is quick, simple and easy. Upload flawed photos and let PhotoHand know what you want done to “glam” up the photograph. There are 100’s of before and after samples on http://www.PhotoHand.com to check out for ideas. Specify if the photo is intended for a headshot or a modeling portfolio. This will tell the professional artists assigned to the photograph if they should give the photo a “natural” look or a touch of glamour.

Elena Alexseeva, CEO of PhotoHand says: “Let the PhotoHand.com team take your toughest photo problems on … you will receive the personal attention and follow-up that no other retouching company offers.”

PhotoHand.com works with the most highly creative professional artists to bring out the best in special memories. PhotoHand designers work with each customer to achieve the look, style and feel that is aimed for. For models, PhotoHand has a packaged modeling card offer. The bonus of having eye catching COMP/ZED cards is to stand out among competition at open calls, where the demand for talent is great. The $19.95 per comp card package includes professional photo retouching of all photos that are included in the card and comp card design. The online order form reminds the customer to provide all the information that the PhotoHand designer needs to know. Printing can be arranged.

There are hundreds of before and after photo retouching and restoration samples on http://www.PhotoHand.com

ABOUT PHOTOHAND.COM

PhotoHand is an innovative digital image design company with a wide range of services including: photo retouching, image editing, print design, comp cards for model portfolios, photo books, online banners, Flash slide shows, web design and many other unique and custom design services. Portfolio of 100’s of Before and After Samples at http://www.PhotoHand.com

Media Contact-

Heather Joy Roth / PhotoHand Media Relations

800-515-3411

Heather@PhotoHand.com

http://www.PhotoHand.com

Miami – December 12, 2008 – The Cintas Foundation and the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University today announced the start of the annual competition for the 2009 Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition administered by the foundation and the Cintas Fellowship Program at The Frost.

Established in 2006, this fellowship is generously endowed by Brandon Fradd of NewYork City.  Managing director of Apollo Medical Partners, Fradd, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, grew up in Miami among Cuban friends from whom he learned Spanish and developed an interest in Cuban music.

The only one of its kind in the nation, the program has honored some of the world’s most talented Cuban musicians. Past music fellows include Armando Bayolo, Sergio Barroso, Mario Bauza (known as the father of Afro-Cuban jazz), José Bernardo Aldo Rafael Forte, Julián Orbon, Tania León and Orlando Jacinto Garcia. Last year, the first William B. Warren Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Bebo Valdes. The Cintas Foundation awards fellowships annually to creative artists of Cuban lineage who are currently residing outside of Cuba. Winners will be announced in May 2009.

“Endowing a specific fellowship for music composition is a visionary gesture which supports the rich heritage of Cuban music for the enjoyment of all. The music community is indebted to Brandon Fradd for his generosity,” said Hortensia E. Sampedro, president of the Cintas Foundation.

Applicants for the music fellowship must submit original musical compositions and recordings of their work by January 30, 2009.  Cintas fellows are awarded $15,000 and the opportunity to pursue an art project outlined in their applications. Since it was established in 1963, the Cintas Fellowship Program has honored more than 300 artists. FIU and the Cintas Foundation Board have been administering the awards program since 2005.

The Cintas Fellowship Program encourages creative development in architecture, literature, music composition and the visual arts, and awards annual fellowships in creative writing and visual arts as well. The foundation was established with funds from the estate of Oscar B. Cintas (1887-1957), former Cuban ambassador to the United States, a prominent industrialist and patron of the arts.

Application forms and competition requirements are available online at www.cintasfoundation.org or by contacting Stephanie Guasp at the Frost Art Museum at sguasp@gmail.com.

Miami – December 12, 2008 – The Cintas Foundation and the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University today announced the start of the annual competition for the Emilio Sánchez Award [http://cintasfoundation.org/capital1.htm] in the  Visual Arts administered by the foundation and the Cintas Fellowship Program at The Frost.  This award is funded through the generous support of the Emilio Sánchez Foundation to recognize the achievements of the winner of the Cintas Fellowship in the Visual Arts. Based in New York City, the foundation is a nonprofit organization that preserves and promotes the legacy of the Cuban-born American artist Emilio Sánchez (1921–1999) through research, exhibitions and publications.

The only one of its kind in the nation, the program has honored some of the world’s most talented Cuban artists. Past visual arts fellows include Ernesto Oroza, Carlos Alfonzo, Teresita Fernández, Anthony Goicolea, Ernesto Oroza, photographers Andres Serrano and María Martínez-Caíñas, sculptor Maria Elena González and filmmaker Mari Rodríguez-Ichaso. The Cintas Foundation awards fellowships annually to creative artists of Cuban lineage who are currently residing outside of Cuba. Winners will be announced in May at the annual exhibition of work by the finalists.

“This is the fifth year in which the Emilio Sánchez Foundation has generously funded this prestigious award, enabling us to support emerging Cuban talent in a very competitive field,” said Hortensia E. Sampedro, president of the Cintas Foundation.

Applicants must submit original images or film projects by Jan. 30, 2009. Cintas fellows are awarded $15,000 and the opportunity to pursue an art project outlined in their applications. Since it was established in 1963, the Cintas Fellowship Program has honored more than 300 artists. FIU and the Cintas Foundation Board have been administering the awards program since 2005.

The Cintas Fellowship Program encourages creative development in architecture, literature, music composition and the visual arts, and awards annual fellowships in creative writing and visual arts as well. The foundation was established with funds from the estate of Oscar B. Cintas (1887-1957), former Cuban ambassador to the United States, a prominent industrialist and patron of the arts.

Application forms and competition requirements are available online at www.cintasfoundation.org or by contacting Stephanie Guasp at the Frost Art Museum at (305) 348-2890.

Work wins several Graphis Gold Awards and is slated for feature in Print Magazine

Bend, Oregon, July 17, 2008 — tbd, a full-service advertising agency, today announced that it has won several Graphis Gold Awards for its work for clients Deschutes Brewery, BendFilm and Odell Brewing .

Specific recognition includes:
Graphis Poster Annual 2008/2009: This publication features more than 200 of the year’s best posters by the world’s top designers.
-Gold award for the 2007 BendFilm Festival Poster

Graphis Advertising Annual 2009: This publication is a collection of the year’s most outstanding advertisements from around the globe, carefully selected and categorized, thoroughly indexed and beautifully reproduced.
-Gold award for the Deschutes Brewery Neighborhood Hops Traveling Beer Festival Campaign
-Gold award for BendFilm Festival Campaign

Graphis Design Annual 2009: An annual publication that features the year’s best design work from around the globe, representing 30-plus design categories.
Four Gold Awards
- Packaging for Deschutes Brewery 2007 Jubleable
- Delivery Truck for Deschutes Brewery
- Big Barrel Traveling Pub for Deschutes Brewery
- Packaging Design for Odell Brewing Company IPA

Graphis Logo Design 7: Features a comprehensive collection of the latest work by more than 300 designers from around the globe.
-Gold award for Odell Brewing Company logo

In addition, 2008 Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual: The only comprehensive profile of design in the United States.
- Deschutes Brewery Big Barrel Traveling Pub will be featured.

About tbd
Advertising agency tbd doesn’t set much store in preconceived notions. In this firm, “to be determined” means just that—they constantly question the status quo and provide a passionate, unbounded approach to each project. tbd’s advertising campaigns address issues with a twist that captures the essence of their clients’ messages while providing quantitative, bottom-line results.

The firm’s thought-provoking advertising and marketing pieces have won several awards, including recognition in Communication Arts Design Annual, HOW International Design Competition and Graphis publications. Communicating key messages in an imaginative way, through traditional and non-traditional marketing channels, is what tbd does best. This full-service advertising agency has been getting its clients the attention they want for the last 10 years. For more information please call 541-388-7558 or visit www.tbdagency.com.

About Graphis
Since1944, Graphis has been a beacon for outstanding work in the visual arts. Graphis has upheld its reputation as the premier publication covering graphic communications worldwide and has been revered for its artistic presentation, impeccable design, and exemplary production qualities. Global in scope, Graphis is a compelling record of the most significant and influential communication work being produced today. In visually driven articles, Graphis beautifully presents the best work produced internationally in graphic design, advertising, illustration, and photography.
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Contact:
Charlotte Gilbride
tbd
Bend, Oregon
541-410-1447
charlotte@tbdagency.com
http://www.tbdagency.com