done, fatto, buon natale anche a te, merry christmas also to you. 

The video is of a make-up advertiser.  It makes sense to show their products may make you look "perfect" (even before the PS retouches).  But then it's not just the make-up products, but professional work.

I think Lanc�me uses an interesting approach, having mature women as their models, not showing miracles but well preserved skin. 

also this campaign uses mature women... i think it's called dove pro-age campaign, but you can google/youtube it, i don't want to spam the board with off-topic things.

all i want to say is that the photoshopping is sometimes too extreme, and has often very bad results in society.

i however don't know how to approach the topic. sorry if i went a bit off-topic.

yeah i think it might be the new server. that coincides quite much with the stopping of emails...
i could change my e-mail address and see what happens. maybe it gets re-registered or something. or maybe my e-mail is listed on the new server as something bad (which i don't hope, but you never know).

simone

150$ is definitely too much. i don't know where you are from, but in the US you can have this for 4-5$ per month or even cheaper if you go quite basic.
I am on an Austrian webhosting, and it costs 4 euros per month.

That's why I said have both. You can try the other one, maybe try a basic version just to see.

To all others: do smugmug and others have their advantages in terms of visibility, i mean do i have to make less advertising for them?

lol....
austrian cookies are much better.

no, i am with the same laptop. i changed to linux, maybe it is that. but i receive notifications from all other kinds of services so...
well i cleared history and cookies, let's see what's coming. maybe the firewall......

thanks!
simone

I want to mention a few words to this topic...

I understand that a certain amount of photoshopping is necessary for us all. but it has somehow become extreme, and now the world cannot live without it, and that's what is a real trouble. to go a bit off topic, young girls and even boys orient according to the images they see in these over life size banners in the street and magazine covers and so on, and it is just a distorted world. it is not good! why do we want to represent the world as it is not? for sure some slight enhancements are ok, even quite much, but what all these fashion people are doing is just absurd.
i don't know however, how this can be regulated - because it is just hard to define a threshold between overphotoshopping aka distorting and refining a picture...

look at this, which describes very very well my personal opinion on this aspect:

dove evolution

:-)

simone

I don't use smugmug but I am tempted to do so. I am in front of the same decision as I want to start such a service, although I have a personal website and all capabilities for selling like shopping cart and so on.
Why not doing both? The webhosting is not that expensive - at least mine...

do you like lightroom 3?
i don't know but i find it slower.... 
especially the import dialog is really a heavy load as it is preloading all the raw photos.....

5c. Finally, if you are a proud owner of a multi-monitor setup on a Windows system, be sure you color management works fine on both monitors. Because if you don't have a separate video card per monitor, most probably it does not. Long story short, make sure you edit and proof images on you main (in windows terms) screen.

actually that's a question I have....without 2 video cards, I can get only one monitor right, isn't it? I am working on two monitors but with one card and have not found a solution for this under Windows (haven't tried any other OS).

simone

Hello,

I don't know why - I don't receive any e-mail notifications anymore - is that normal?
I have already examined my spam folder and all, just to be sure. Someone else having this problem?

Thanks!
Simone

Hello,

is anyone of you guys working on Linux? I switched back a few weeks ago, and I'd like to know what software is good.
I currently run Windows for photo purposes or run it in an emulator, but the emulation is not sooo cool, especially for large bundles of pictures.

Thanks!
Simone 

cooool, you're the best  congratulations!!

right, very slow for me too - and too large for my PDA resolution. (it looked like a normal webpage)