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June/July/August 2009

(ends August 31, 2009)

No purchase necessary to enter or win. See below for details.


SHOWTIME
SHOWTIME Showcase your work like a pro by putting together a well-polished slideshow with ProShow Gold 4.0 from Photodex. This version speeds up the process significantly with more than 50 preconfigured Slide Styles. Simply drag and drop your image in, add a Slide Style, and the rest is done for you. You also can create your own style for a more customized look. A new audio sync tool syncs slides to a soundtrack. Slideshows can be uploaded to YouTube and played back in HD. List Price: $79. Contact: Photodex, (800) 377-4686, www.photodex.com.

PLUG-IN BOX SET
Enhance your images using Plug-In Suite 4.5, which combines full versions of several popular onOne Software plug-ins into one high-powered application. The latest version supports Photoshop CS4. Inside the box are Genuine Fractals 6 for enlarging photos by up to 1,000 percent, PhotoTools 2 for producing customized effects, PhotoFrame 4 for adding cool edges and frames, FocalPoint 1.1 for adding selective focus and vignettes, Mask Pro 4.1 for creating masks and PhotoTune 2.2 for correcting color. List Price: $499. Contact: onOne Software, (888) 968-1468, www.ononesoftware.com.

WIDE-ANGLE LENSBABY
Convert your 50mm Lensbaby lens into a 21mm wide-angle using the 0.42x Super Wide Angle Conversion lens. It attaches to the front of any Lensbaby via a 37mm screw thread and is compatible with the Optic Swap System as well as older models. If you’re not familiar, Lensbaby lenses are selective-focus special-effects lenses that allow you to control depth of field by surrounding a sweet spot of sharp focus by graduated blur. The 0.42x also has macro capability, allowing you to focus as close as 2.75 inches away from the lens. List Price: $79. Contact: Lensbaby, (877) 536-7222, www.lensbaby.com.

DIGITAL EFFECTS
Explore new and quick ways to get creative with your digital photos using Tiffen’s Dfx Essentials software. Featuring 37 specialized filters and effects, the app has hundreds of built-in presets or you can create and save your own custom setups. Essentials is a selective version of Tiffen’s pro Dfx Creative Digital Effects software and comes with an easy-to-follow video tutorial. The intuitive filter palette with thumbnail previews lets you evaluate effects before applying them to an image. The app is compatible with a wide range of file types. List Price: $59. Contact: Tiffen, (800) 645-2522, www.tiffen.com.

HOME, NETWORKED
Store your photos and other files in one central location, and access them anywhere using Western Digital’s My Book World Edition hard drives. Providing automatic and continuous backup for all the computers in your network, the drives offer a lot of room with 1- and 2-terabyte capacities. Additional features include simple recovery of damaged or lost files, a capacitygauge and remote access technology, allowing you to get to your files from anywhere. The drives are compatible with Windows and Mac computers. List Price: $229 (1 TB); $449 (2 TB). Contact: Western Digital, (877) 934-6972, www.westerndigital.com.

LOAD UP
Stash your camera in a backpack designed to fit your equipment and shooting style. The versatile Lowepro Toploader Pro AW has a simple, compact body that can be worn three ways: holster-style with a shoulder strap, with a belt system or with the Topload Chest Harness for hands-free use (sold separately). Shaped to follow the lines of a pro D-SLR for a secure fit, the bag features easy-grip access, meaning the camera sits sideways so you can grab it and shoot quickly. It comes in three sizes and with an All Weather AW Cover. List Price: TBA. Contact: Lowepro, (800) 800-LOWE, www.lowepro.com.

PHOTO FUN
Cut out any number of people or objects from different photos and layer them into new compositions using the Play With Pictures software app from Vertus. An automatic blend tool smoothes over hard edges and provides seamless transitions between background and foreground layers. A slider adjusts the transparency of each cutout. You can add titles, captions or even a speech bubble. The font and text color can be independently adjusted. List Price: $39. Contact: Vertus, (877) 558-3788, www.playwithpictures.com.

PHOTO EDITOR
Improve your photographs using Digital Light & Color’s Picture Window Pro 5.0, a powerful editing app that’s also very affordable. Typical enhancements are done through “transformations.” Every time you apply a transformation, Picture Window creates a new copy of the image so you can compare it with the original file. This major upgrade includes new transformations for improving color vibrancy, a redesigned RAW converter, batch processing, new masking tools, soft print proofing and a new histogram tool. List Price: $89. Contact: Digital Light & Color, (617) 489-8858, www.dl-c.com.

EXPANDABLE BAG
Pack up your equipment in M-Rock’s Yellowstone camera bag, which houses a D-SLR with an attached four-inch lens. The scratch-resistant interior is constructed of dense closed-cell foam and plastic panels for protecting gear without adding too much bulk. Two padded, dual adjustable shoulder straps allow you to carry it as a messenger bag, backpack or waist pouch. A small tripod can be attached using the rubber bungee cables on the bag’s exterior. Attaching any of M-Rock’s five modular bags to either side increases capacity. List Price: $55. Contact: M-Rock, (800) 773-7067, www.m-rock.com

LIGHTEN UP
Optimize your lighting setup with the Flashpoint Cool Light 1 and Cool Light 4 from Adorama. Cool Light 1 consists of an 11-inch reflector with one 30-watt fluorescent bulb, and Cool Light 4 features a 16-inch reflector with four 24-watt fluorescent bulbs. On the latter model, there are two switches, each controlling two lights, so you can use two or four lights depending on what you need. List Price: $34 (Cool Light 1); $99 (Cool Light 4). Contact: Adorama, (800) 223-2500, www.adorama.com

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OFFICIAL RULES
DPmag Win This! Sweepstakes

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

ELIGIBILITY

• Only one entry per person allowed.
• Open Only to Legal Residents OF THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 18 years of age or older.


• Void Where Prohibited.


• Officers, directors, employees and agents of Werner Publishing Corporation (“Sponsor”), and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and Website providers/Web masters (collectively, the “Released Parties”), and their immediate families (parent, child, spouse or sibling) and those living in their same households are not eligible to enter or win.
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• Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws.

TO ENTER

• Between 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on 6/1/09 and 11:59 p.m. ET on 8/31/09 (the “Entry Period”), visit www.dpmag.com and complete and submit the official entry form.
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• All entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET on 8/31/09 to be eligible. Sponsor’s computer is the Official clock for the promotion.


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PRIZE DRAWINGS

• One (1) potential winner will be selected for each prize described below in a random drawing on or about 9/6/09 from all eligible entries received for the applicable drawing.


• Entries from one prize drawing will not be included in other prize drawings.


• Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received for the applicable drawing.
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• If such documents are not returned within the specified time period, any prize/prize notification is returned as undeliverable, or a winner is not in compliance with these rules, prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected.

PRIZES

• See prize details above.
  
  
• Total ARV of all prizes: $1218.99


• All prize details not specified herein are at the sole discretion of Sponsor.


• Winners may not substitute, assign or transfer prizes or redeem prizes for cash, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value.


• Winners are responsible for all federal, state and local taxes, if any, and all other costs and expenses not specified herein as being awarded that are associated with the acceptance and use of prizes.
• Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either expressly stated or implied.


• If a winner cannot accept prize as stated, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected.


• Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) of comparable or greater value, in their sole discretion.

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• In the event of a dispute regarding entries received from multiple users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail account at the time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with these rules. Authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is assigned the e-mail address by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses.


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• Each winner, by acceptance of prize, except where legally prohibited, grants permission for Sponsor and its designees to use his/her name, address (city and state), photograph, voice and/or other likeness and prize information for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without further compensation, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, and on the Internet and World Wide Web, in perpetuity, without notice or review or approval.

WINNERS LIST

• For the names of the winners (available after 9/10/09), send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: PCPhoto WIN THIS! Sweepstakes, 12121 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1200, Los Angeles, CA 90025, for receipt no later than 9/21/09.

SPONSOR

• Werner Publishing Corporation, 12121 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1200, Los Angeles, CA 90025

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