Choosing Solutions

Tired of getting the ‘latest, greatest’ app, tool, etc., and finding it’s more frustrating than fruitful? Sheridan Stancliff, owner of SheridanInk, a premier marketing agency and project manager supreme helps us do our due diligence. As we buy new gadgets, take on new clients, adopt new responsibilities and projects, it can sometimes be a daunting …


You Will Want To Bookmark This One

Rob Haggart of www.aphotoeditor.com and Brittain Stone formerly from Wenner Media, and former DOP of US Weekly, just unveiled a useful and much needed resource for photo editors and buyers: www.theagentlist.com, an exhaustively and meticulously researched searchable list of Photo Agents worldwide, with links to sites, social media, tagged by genre. Testing it out, I …


Real-time collaboration with Screen Sharing

New post in Brantlea Newbery’s ongoing series on productivity tools: Building on my previous post about using Skitch to take screenshots to save time in communicating via photos and email, here I’m going to go a step further into real-time screen sharing. When you’re working remotely it’s an invaluable tool that saves time and facilitates …


Fossilized Mammoth Dung?

PACA Tech Advisor Doug Dawirs updates us on PacaSearch: One of my go-to stops after reviewing a new brief is PacaSearch, especially for off-the-grid image needs (say, examples of Nostradamus’ prophecies through out history?) I am guaranteed to get relevant and comprehensive results and often am introduced to sources I had not been aware of. PACA …


A camera for your computer’s screen

by Brantlea Newbery I take a LOT of screenshots. At first, they were just a means to illustrating Photoshop® tutorials and marking up images for retouching; then, in 2008, I stumbled upon Skitch and it was love at first snap. I use Skitch almost daily. It saves me time communicating ideas via email and chat, …