October 27, 2010

3

contest, lightroom

Suggest Seim Effects to your FB friends & get a $10 coupon

Updated 04/11. Note. FB no longer allows you to “Suggest To Friends”. In absence of this feature you can use the “Share” link and suggest the page by posting it on your wall.

Many of you are already fans over on the Seim Effects Facebook page, but if you’re not check it out because you’ll find news and updates, tips and various cool freebies.

Anyways I have a special deal for you FB friends. If you think I’ve earned a little word of mouth and are willing to help out I’d like you to tell your friends. In return I’m giving back a special thank you gift. Suggest the Seim Effects page to friends and get a $10 coupon good towards anything on the site. No strings. You simply have to suggest the page your Facebook photo friends by using the “Share” link (as pictured).

Here’s how to do it…

  • Go to facebook.com/seimeffects (make sure you you’ve +Like’d the page).
  • Click the “Share” link on the button left of the page. A window will popup.
  • Post the page to your wall. You’re welcome to add a personal recommendation.
  • Alternately click the link in the same window to email the suggestion to specific photo friends (at least 15).
  • Finally, email me (effects@seimstudios.com). Let me know you posted to wall or suggested to at least 15 friends.
  • I’ll send a special one time coupon ASAP that’s good for $10.

This is an honor system, so as my habit is I’m trusting you to be fair. When you send me that email I’m trusting you’ve really followed through. If using the email method, there’s no need to suggest t0 friends who are not interested in photography, but you must suggest to at least 15 friends.

This coupon is a flat $10 discount good on any Seim Effects goodies, including the new Power Workflow 3. It’s my thank you for being a customer and helping spread the word about a better way to edit photos. Let me know if you have questions… Gav

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April 15, 2010

0

presets, tips

FolderMaze: The Disorganized Photographer

OK it’s Time for some fun. Since Seim Effects started we’ve been saving so much time editing that I say we need to kick back for a few minutes, relax, get some free Lightroom presets, perhaps win a prize, get some tips, laughs and best of all have a good time. You’ll find all this inside our Seim Effects Disorganized Photographer FolderMaze so lets do it.

Many of you are probably asking, what the heck is a FolderMaze. Well as photographer I think we’ve all experienced the hunt for files we placed somewhere on our computer like a needle in a haystack. FolderMaze is a reminder of why it’s good to stay organized and lots of fun as well. It’s an idea I came up with recently (though I’m sure I’m not the first) where you take a bunch of folder and search for the Golden Trophy in the folders. As a side note, I even registered the domain name foldermaze.com in case I find an idea that takes off.

But why are you still reading? Download the maze below, unzip and follow the instructions inside. Then go for the Gold. If you get there soon you can win a FREE Seim Effects editing pack of your choice. Good luck… Gav

– Download The FolderMaze ZIP –

Some Windows users experience file problems due to the large structure of folders. If you are having issues unzipping you can try one of these alternate packages.

You may need to download 7Zip (win) Or ZIPEG (Win/Mac) to unpack the alternate packages. These are free Zip utilities.

UPDATE (Windows Users): NOTE: This information if only regadirng this Game. All our effects packs are still wornking fine on Win and Mac – The maze seems to work great on Mac, but it seems Win does not allow folder paths longer than 255 character total length. I’ve tried to find a solution, but the Win OS cannot handle the depth of the folder structures in the maze and it causes problems. Using one of the alt packages, some Win users are able to get the maze to unpack and use it, but they may experience issues where windows does not allow them to delete the files when finished (again due to the path limitation in Win). To delete, users may need to go into the maze and delete blocks of folders from the inside to shrink the path length until the main folder can be deleted.

I know it sounds crazy that this would be a problem and I’m as frustrated as you, but it’s a limitation of the Win operating system. Win users are still welcome to try the maze, and while it should do no damage to your computer, you may have a few hassles getting it to unpack, delete ect. In the future I’ll see if it’s possible to build mazes that have shorter overall paths, but it may make them too basic to be a real challenge. Other than that we can only hope that Microsoft fixes that issue. Sorry to exclude some of you, but I had no idea Win would have a problem with this as the entire folder maze concept is very simple. I’ll see what I can do as I learn more.

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