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Our partnerships provide you with a complete resource center for whatever your business needs, please email us at partners@brandblast.com for partnership suggestions.

• Color Management
• Scanning
• Image Viewing/Management
• Image Editing
• Image Protection
• Web Design
• Java
• Flash
• DHTML
• Perl/CGI
• PHP/MySQL
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Printing
• Fonts/Typography
• Ergonomics
• Paper Sources
• Computers/Supplies
• Screen Savers
• Slide Shows

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Color Management - Creating Profiles

• AIM - Accurate Manipulation for Desktop Publishing - How to calibrate your monitor. Free.
• Color.com - Excellent resources on color theory, color perception, and color vision
• MatchLock - Color management/calibration software by Horses.
• Monaco EZ color - One of the best programs available for creating ICC profiles for all your devices.
• Precision CPS Learn - A brief tutorial of the 4 stages of color management.
• Test Your Monitor - Test your monitors online for exact colors.
• The Basics of Color Systems & Color Management - A must read for all Mac users.
• Verifi - A one-time 4-step process that helps adjust your monitor to display color accurately.

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Scanning

• Imaging Resource - Digital camera and scanner reviews. Tips.
• Scanning Tips
• SilverFast - SilverFast is a high-end scan and imaging software from LaserSoft.

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Image Viewing & Management

• ACD See - Digital image viewing and management.
• Agave Stock Photography Solution - Excellent stock photography management & labeling system.
• Digital Pro - Moose Peterson & David Cardinal's excellent digital management software program.
• fotoBiz - Complete business management software for freelance photographers from Cradoc. This new software program comes with the newest version of fotoQuote.
• FotoStation - Keep track of your digital images. A great visual tool.
• CompuPic Pro - Advanced digital content manager.
• NCSC Pro - Boyd Norton's slide management database and labeling system.
• PhotoRescue - PhotoRescue by DataRescue is an indispensable Windows based software program which will recover corrupt pictures from any Compact Flash, SmartMedia or Memory Stick. This program is indeed a lifesaver and a must have for your software library.

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Image Editing

• PhotoShop 7.0 - The premier image editing software.
• The Ultimate Compendium of PhotoShop Sites
• Paint Shop Pro - Very nice photo editing software.
• Genuine Fractals Print Pro - A great PhotoShop plug-in that enables you to generate any size output while remaining small enough to edit in real time.
• PhotoShopClub - Good links and tutorials.
• Eyeball Site - PhotoShop Tutorials
• Flash Zone - Flash tutorials.
• Dan Tutorials - PhotoShop, Illustrator & Freehand tutorials.
• Xara Webstyle - A set of excellent tools including

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Image Protection

• Protec by Invisitec - This our my pick for a slick CGI image protection solution.
• ServeSafe - Image Hosting Service, resonably priced.
• CopySafe PBV - ArtistScope's Server Hosts your encrypted images and shields against screen capture.

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PhotoShop Plug-Ins

• Dreamsuite - Auto FX Software has many unique PhotoShop plug-ins to choose from.
• Extensis Products Group - These folks have some of the best plug-ins for PhotoShop including Intellihance Pro, Mask Pro & PhotoTools.
• Nik Sharpener Pro - Comprehensive set of features for image sharpening.
• Quantum Mechanic Pro - Camera Bits plug-in to reduce digital camera noise and artifacts.
• Test Strip - Vidid Details plug-in for color correction.

• Copywriting - One of the most important aspects to any Website is the content. In order for people to find your site, the search engines must index it. Learning how to write good copy makes all the difference. This online course is excellent.
• Creating a Web Site - A resource for people wanting to know about Web Design. It is a step-by-step guide to creating a Web Site, from registering a Domain Name, HTML, style sheets, usability, design principles, creating graphics, using Dreamweaver and submitting to search engines. This guide provides all the steps needed to undertake to set up a web site. It's aimed at the non-technical person, who wants to learn how to do all the basics, and perhaps more.
• Digital Media Designer - Lots of excellent tutorials and reviews.
• HTML Tidy - Cleans up your HTML code. Also contains some great links.
• Mastering Dreamweaver 3-Site Setup - Brief tutorial. Great site with great articles.
• PageTutor - HTML tutorials. Online courses available for download.
• Production Graphics - Working solutions for graphics professionals.
• ScreamDesign - Everything you need to build, enhance, and promote a Web Site!
• Tips, Tricks, How-to & Beyond - This Site helps you Design "a better Web Page".
• W3 Schools Online - This is the place to go for tutorials!
• Web Monkey - A developers resource.
• WebDeveloper.com - Learn how to build Web Sites.
• Web Review - Excellent online magazine for Web Designers.
• Web Page Design for Designers - Learn how to Design Web Sites, with an emphasis on Graphic Design and content rather than on technology.
• Web Reference - Website Design and tutorials.
• WebToolCentral - Providing the best Web tools for everyone great tools like a site submit service, and a business card generator, all absolutely free to use, very cool articles and tutorials are available too. Great resource!
• Web Trends - Sophisticated analysis and reporting solutions for web sites of all sizes.
• Wordtracker - Wordtracker helps you find all keyword combinations that bear any relation to your business or service. This is a great way to help improve your rankings in the search engines.

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Java

• A1 JavaScripts - Enhance your website. Provides free JavaScripts.
• AnfyTeam - Great "slide show" Java applets for showing off your images.
• BrainJar - An excellent site with information and tutorials on HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Java & ASP.
• Essential JavaScripts - About.com's collection of commonly used JavaScripts.
• Gamelan - aka JARS, The number one Java review service.
• IMint - Java solutions for website navigation.
• JavaScript FAQ - IRT lists several ready to use JavaScripts. Excellent resource!
• JavaScript Mall - Free Beginning JavaScript Course / Tutorial.
• JavaScript Pop-Up Window - Design and test your pop-up window and then grab the code.
• JavaScript Source - Great drop-down menu generator.
• LiquidCool Research - A great collection of Java applets.
• Nebulus Designs - Roller is a JavaScript coder that you can use to generate the JavaScript and HTML code for your page.
• OpenCube - Java applet developer. Nice menu applets available.
• PopUpMaster Pro 2.0 - top JavaScript popup generator! - Makes adding a pop-up window very easy.
• Website Extraction - Free JavaScripts and tutorials.
• The WebSource - Free JavaScript Snippets.

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Flash

• Flash Kit - The best Flash site for developers.
• Programming Art - Free Flash tutorials
• Were-Here - Great Flash site.
• Help4Flash.com - More Flash tutorials.
• The Flash Academy - Examples and tutorials.
• Future Web Sonics - Royalty free music for your Flash movie.
• Web Tones - Music for your web site.
• Killer Sound - Music and sound design.

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DHTML

• DHTML Shock - Great source for some nice, free DHTML scripts to spice up your web pages.
• Dynamic Drive - DHTML scripts and components to enhance your web site.
• DHTML Central - Another great source for DHTML scripts.

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• The CGI Resource Index - The ultimate CGI resource.
• perl.com - A beginners guide to Perl eXtropia - Free web applications using technologies such as client and server-side Java, CGI, SSI, SSL, JavaScript, ASP, DHTML, Servlets, and SQL.
• OnlyScripts - Perl, Java & PHP scripts.
• Envirolyzer - Great tool which automatically analyzes your server and client environments including paths to perl, send mail and qmail and returns an easy-to-read report in your web browser.
• AdminPro - A must have tool for any developer who needs to perform CGI testing and remote file management tasks. What makes this script so nice is that you can do all of your editing from your web browser on any platform or any operating system.

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• PHP - The source for PHP.
• Hot Scripts - Great assortment of PHP scripts.
• PHP Builder - Learn PHP from the experts.
• PHPMyAdmin - Tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases. Nice!!!
• PHP Wizard - Building dynamic sites with PHP.
• MySQL - Source code & reference for MySQL open source database.
• PHP Freaks - Provides you with information to use while learning or developing PHP and MySQL. This is a community website where folks assist others by sharing their knowledge about PHP and MySQL. Great resource.
• SitePoint - Kevin Yank's very informative site. Covers PHP, MySQL and more.

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• Epson Inkjet Mailing List - Highly recommended mailing list. Great resource links!
• ContinuousInking Systems - An alternative to Epson's inks.
• Lyson - Digital inks for inkjet printers.

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• Counterspace - A nicely designed site on typography and its history.
• FontFont - Free fonts. Fonthead Design - Source for unusual fonts and a few freeware fonts as well.
• Makambo - Complete listing of Type Foundries & Designers.
• Ulead WebUtilities Free Fonts

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Ergonomics

• Relax the Back
• Back Be Nimble
• ErgoRest - I love their forearm support with mouse platform!

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Paper Sources

• Pictorico - Premium ink jet paper. I especially like their hi-gloss while film (paper).
• Red River Paper - Professional series inkjet paper. One of the best premium matte papers available.
• Hawk Mountain Art Papers - Quality archival fine art digital inkjet paper.

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Computers & Supplies

• Dell Home Systems - I highly recommend Dell computers. I've used Dell computers for several years without any problems.
• Iomega Drives and Disks - Great CD-R drives and the best ZIP drives. Batteries.com - Good prices on batteries.
• Office Depot - Office supplies

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Create Your Own Screen Saver

• FX Saver - Create and market your own screen savers! Excellent Tool!!
• GraFX Saver is very similar to FX Saver in features and easy of use.
• WallMaster Pro - A great program for managing your photo wallpaper collections!

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Slide Shows

• SmoothShow - Written for photographers, SmoothShow stands apart from the rest with smooth transitions and the ability to sync your slides to music.

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