Best Top 10 Free Antivirus software-2013

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The list of best 10 anti-virus software 2012-13 has got all the types of popular anti virus software programs you are looking for your computer system. All the anti virus programs listed here are used for home editions/versions and you can download top best free antivirus with their latest paid, free or trial versions.

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This list of antivirus software is for around the world global users -For any country, or language . And most importantly, the list of top 10 antivirus and best free antivirus software 2013 has been prepared by keeping in mind various reviews, ratings, analysis and lot of online research. This list of top 10 best anti virus software 2013 has been posted to provide you only an honest idea about what are the best antivirus software, what is used and preferred by most, which one is more popular and used anti virus, in terms of total number of users, expert reviews and rankings by the most of online tech websites about antivirus software products .

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In this best list of antivirus software 2013 you will find :

1. Top 10 best antiviruses for Microsoft Windows users
2. List of Top 5 software for Apple Mac OS X

    Best Antivirus software Programs for PC, Mac and Windows, Linux  

These best free antivirus software 2013 are widely used all over the world for PC, Mac, Notebooks, laptops devices and for Windows Xp, Windows7, Windows 8, Vista, Linux and many other operating systems.(Though, most probably you don't need an antivirus software if you are running a Linux operating system as there have rarely been found viruses targeted on Linux compared to Windows and the latter ,in fact, is the softest target for virus and malware attacks )  

This top 10 antivirus list comprises of only those top 10 best antivirus products that are available free of cost and offer you antivirus programs with full version.Though they also offer paid and premium services to those seeking full online antivirus program support.

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List of Best Antivirus Software 2012-13

Here you go-Below mentioned are top 10 best free anti-virus software programs for online as well as offline security of your computer system (home, office, business systems)

#1-Microsoft Security Essentials 2013

(Most used antivirus software for WindowsXp, Vista, Windows8 operating system)

Microsoft Security Essentials is the best and No.1 free antivirus software program for Windows xp, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and off-course Windows8. Microsoft Security Essentials is an award winning best free antivirus software around the Internet world for 2013 (even for the year 2011-12) for PC and Windows operating system enabled computer systems. Microsoft Security Essentials is a top anti-virus program, in terms of security, ease of use, lightness, updates and online support, and above all it’s exclusively made for Windows. Microsoft Security essentials - as the name suggests - comes from Microsoft itself and is probably one of the best antivirus for your PC, if your computer system is running on Windows operating system. You can free download it from Microsoft’s official website and the best thing about it is that it gets automatically updated on a daily basis as whenever there are new advancements in the over all features of this antivirus software. You should keep your firewall security on to get the maximum security benefits from Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus software. To download and install it for free your system must be using Genuine Windows otherwise you can't install it on your system. Check here to test if your system has a genuine windows copy.

Free Download Microsoft Security Essentials 2013 Free Version 4.2.223.0 

#2 Avast Free antivirus 2013

Avast free antivirus software is my #2 pick in the list of top 10 best free antivirus software for 2013, and have got reasons to say this. Avast Free Antiviris has got very sound and strong security features and have gained a lot of faith and trust from a vast range of the internet connected computer system users. Avast offers several astounding security features, such as :-
Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
Real-time anti-rootkit protection
Boot-time scanner
Avast! SafeZone™
Auto Sandbox
Avast! Real-time Shields like, Mail Shield, Web Shield Behaviour Shield (unique feature) , Network Shield, etc.
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#3 Avira Free Antivirus

Avira AntiVir Personal is very popular and its undoubtedly one of the best rated, reviewed antivirus software, and it belongs to 'top 5 best antivirus software programs on the internet' spot. Avira Antivir Personal is available for free downloading and installing for personal use, though you may try even it’s paid/premium version for 30 days trial period.
Avira free antivirus software offers great security features, such as Anti Phishing, Anti Vir Pro Activ (detects unknown threats by their behaviour patterns), Web Guard protection (protection from malicious websites), Anti Drive (protection against downloading viruses when surfing online), Mail Guard (for email protection ) , and many more other online security features. Avira stands to be a very strong anti-virus software program for internet connected computer systems as well as for off-line systems.

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  #4 Panda Cloud Antivirus : Free download Cloud antivirus online security - latest version for 2013

Panda Cloud Antivirus is, no doubt, one among the best top 5 free antivirus software programs available for personal use. Panda scan is light, soft and it gets updated automatically through its 'çloud technique', so you are least bothered about updating it and Panda Cloud keeps providing online internet security to your system without you even noticing it. But, Panda Antivirus has this feature of the automatic quarantine which makes it a little troublesome. Over all, Panda Cloud antivirus is appreciated for its seleral online computer security features, including lightness and 'Çloud scanning’ techniques. In fact, Panda Cloud is popular, widely used, very strong, and protectively very effective free anti-virus program. Panda Cloud Antivirus program is ranked 4th by PC World magazine.

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#5 PC Tools iAntivirus

 

PC tools iAntivirus is specifically built for Mac, though it can be used on PC as well. PC Tools iAntivirus is very popular, and strongly protective; and it is easy to use and simple to scan your computer system. It has very effective security features that make it desirable for your Mac/Pc system security. PC Tools iAntivirus is one among the top and best rated, ranked and reviewed antivirus software. It provides real-time system protection and comprehensive system scanning to ensure your Mac remains safe, secure, healthy and free of all online, offline malware threats. PC Tools iAntivirus is available in Free as well as in paid version. 

Free Download Free version of PC Tools iAntivirus 2013

#6 Comodo Free Antivirus Download 2013

Comodo Antivirus software is a widely used popular antivirus software for PC; and this free antivirus software program is rated highly by most of the PC computer system users across the world for its free,paid ,and full version. Comodo has the award winning Firewall application and it provides very strong and efficient protection to your PC against all types of online threats including spamming, phishing, viruses, malwares,Trojans and hacking attempts. Comodo provides defense for email, browsing & shopping, IM, external devices, downloads, gaming, etc and keeps your system free of all types infections. In brief, Comodo is one among top 10 best free antivirus and also popularly ranked 5th by PC World

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#7 BitDefender Full Version Free Download 2013

Bitdefender is a very capable and popular top best antivirus software when it comes to providing online/offline security to your PC, Mac against all types virus and malware threats.Bitdefender has been around for a long time now and has gained faith and trust of a large online user community. It provides Virus Scanning & Removal facility in gaming mode and provides schedule and quarantine facility. You can download Bitdefender’s full version freely.

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#8 AVG Free Antivirus Download 2013

AVG antivirus 2011 is highly ranked, rewarded, and rated antivirus software for free download for your PC or Mac system. It has many security oriented features that make it one of the most desirable anti virus. PC world and Cnet provide excellent reviews for AVG antivirus. It has many features including,:Powerful protection behind the background, light for your system, Identity protection that protects and secures all your personal data. You can download the full version that comes for free.

Except the fact that it might show some false positives, it has very good overall rating. You can start using it without trouble and notice your own experience with this according to your system type.

Free Download Full and Free AVG anti-virus Version 2013 2013.0.3267 

#9 Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware Full and free download 2013

Its true that Malwarebytes’ anti-malware software program is improving in performance with each passing day and more users are appreciating its very simple yet strong protective features. Though, its mainly more popular for machine level system protection and anti virus features than an online/real time system protection against many types infections. You can keep it with other anti virus software, specially for system root level problems and threats. Because of it’s simple yet intense security services against malwares and its popularity for certain reasons, and for the much better reviews it received from advanced users,i have included Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware software among top 10 best and free anti virus software for 2013.

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#10  Spyware Doctor With Antivirus-Free and Full download 2013

Spyware Doctor with antivirus was awarded as ”” Product of the Year from PC Mag.com in the year 2009 for its excellent performance and features. Spyware Doctor is a composition of two well efficient engines, namely Antivirus (protects against malicious PC threats) and Antispyware Guards against information and identity theft.).

Spyware Doctor uses proactive,reactive and automatic anti spyware antivirus software to protect your system from various infections and threats.

Spyware Doctor Detects, removes and blocks all types of viruses, spyware, adware, Trojans, worms, key loggers and other online threats.

Free Download Full free edition of Spyware Doctor for 2013 Version

List of free antivirus software for Apple Mac Operating System - best antivirus software for your Mac OS X

Though, most of the Apple Mac users have this thing in their mind : " My Mac OS X is so secure and strong that it doesn't require any software in the name of antivirus".  To some extent they are  right, but when i ask them is their Apple Mac 100 % secure against all the threats the Internet connection might impose on it? They feel insecure answering this ! Over all, everyone will agree to the conclusion : "every computer system that is connected to Internet or using external programs is valnurable to malware, spies, worms, trojans, and virus threats ! " To be on a safer side, it's always advisable to use a secure, reliable, genuine, and sober antivirus software even if you use Mac systems or working on Linux !!

Here is this quick list of some good antivirus software for your Apple Mac computer system for a quick reference. You can check the detailed information on the antivirus company's main website. Antiviruses listed here for Mac are available in free version and you can download their latest full versions for free.

List of Top 5 antivirus software for Mac OS X 

1. Download 1 Year Free Avast antivirus for Mac system 
2. ClamXav 2.3.6 - an open source free anti-virus for Mac
3. VirusBarrier Express - a free version antivirus for Mac users -1.1.6 version by Intego
4. Free download Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac
5. COMODO free antivirus software for Mac systems

Top 10 Free Anti-virus list 2013

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This top 10 list of the best antivirus software 2013 is not an authoritative item in terms of research and analysis and this article doesn’t claim to be accurate in terms of ratings and it’s not serving as an endorsment to any product or company.All the views and ratings reflect the personal views of the author.]

"Which is the Best Free Antivirus?"

Though, i have included all the top free best antivirus software programs in the above list of free best antivirus-reviews for year 2013 , but still it's difficult to establish any of the antivirus programs as "the best antivirus software" globally/universally with a single opinion, as it depends on type of the computer system , level of system usage, and it's a matter of subjective view, apart from the quality of the antivirus software programs in question. So, what is your opinion, which antivirus software you consider as the best one among all?
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Your opinion is really very important for this article to remain as open, relevant, and updated. So, please feel absolutely free to put your comments and views about any antivirus software in the market!

2013 Global Market Share and Usages for top 10 Antivirus software programs around the World

Screenwriters: The Truth About Unsolicited Material

Unsolicited Material – Don't Do It



You're watching a movie or a TV show and suddenly get a great idea for a plot line. Maybe the lead character should hook up with that mysterious blonde. Maybe the team should fight government corruption.



Whatever it is, you think “Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I sent my idea to the producers? Maybe they'll use it and I can get a job as a writer.”

So you type up a script/idea/your brilliant insight with a nice note inside. You get the mailing address, put the materials in an envelope and get ready to set out for the local post office or nearest mailbox.



Hold everything!!! You're about to send something that is a total waste of time & just happens to be a huge pet peeve among entertainment professionals (especially for the in-house legal department): unsolicited material.



What is Unsolicited Material?



Unsolicited material is the idea/script/logline, anything you send to someone that they didn't ask you to send. Most companies (including One Way or Another Productions LLC) have a clearly stated policy that says “we do not accept unsolicited material.”



Unsolicited material can also be sent in other ways such as sending an e-mail link to your fan fiction site or sending a new networking contact from a company your materials when the person never asked to see it or consented in some way to getting it such as belonging to the same writer's group as you.



Why is Sending Unsolicited Material a Bad Thing?



I could write a tome on this topic but sending unsolicited material is a bad thing to do for both legal and professional reasons. I will get to the legal reasons shortly but for now, let's talk about the professional reasons.



First off, professionals are EXTREMELY busy. They get bombarded constantly with requests for things. If you do not work in the entertainment business, let me ask you how you feel about people asking you for free work or giving special favors like plumbing services, legal services, medical services, computer help, etc. Those of you who are constantly asked for such things should know where I'm going with this. Producers, directors, executives, etc. don't appreciate it any more than you appreciate being asked to fix the neighbor's computer for the fifth time this month for free.



Second, when you send unsolicited material against a policy stating that it will not be accepted, you have just proven that you can't or won't follow directions. What that says to us or another company is either “I'm illiterate, so whatever I've written will stink to high heaven,” or “I'm superior to your rules and I don't have to listen to you.” Not the sort of person ANY professional company wants to work with.



Third, you are engaging in a form of extortion and entrapment. Smart companies know this and will never read anything sent by an unsolicited party for fear of being sued for even having had access to an idea even remotely similar to what was sent. People have filed such lawsuits over time with mixed results.



Because of these types of lawsuits, all people sending unsolicited material are seen as nefarious opportunists looking for a big payday. After all, the company has no way of knowing if you are a kindhearted (though misguided) person or someone trying to set them up for a future lawsuit. Guess what a company thinks of nefarious opportunists? Suing a company is another great way to get yourself permanently blacklisted.



The Legal Ramifications



When you write fan fiction or use someone else's characters for an idea, you are creating what is known in U.S. Copyright law as a “derivative work.” This means exactly what it says: your work is derivative of someone else's. The owner of a derivative work is the person/firm who owns the copyright.



Guess what? It's not you, author of the fan fiction. That would be the person or company who owns the show/movie/what have you. All you are doing is writing scripts/contributing ideas for the people who should be doing it to start with. Stop stealing work from the writers & development teams! Make them earn their paychecks.



I really find fan fiction a waste of time and from a legal standpoint, it is. If you want to write, how about coming up with your own ideas and creating your own characters? That way, YOU own the copyright and if you've registered your work with the U.S. Copyright Office, you could have a case for copyright infringement if someone steals your idea. You have no case at all if a show's producers turn your fan fiction into a script on the show. They will owe you nothing & if you try to sue to get anything, you will lose. Read up on the law concerning derivative works.



Conclusion



“But how do I get noticed in the business?” you may ask. “How do I get my materials to people?” Do what people have been doing in this business since the dawn of time: network. Get to know people. Make yourself distinct. Be respectful of people's time and have the confidence to say “Here I am & this is what I do. If you like it, great. If you don't, that's your prerogative.”



Then, back off. Let them come to you. If they don't, don't sweat it. Keep looking for other opportunities. The industry is partly a waiting game and if you want to work with the elites, you're going to have to prove yourself worthy of the task.



Just like anything else in life, the entertainment industry requires hard work and has protocols.



- Monica



Contact Monica for legal advice/representation at Monica@1wayoranother.net



Follow Monica's personal blog HERE.

Follow Monica on Twitter HERE.



(Monica C. Trombley is the in-house counsel/production exec at One Way or Another Productions. She is a licensed attorney in both NY and CT.)

Muddy Faces

By Jesper Ejsing







The other day I was creating another wallpaper for my screen. I try to shift the image each month choosing the latest drawing that I was happy with. Since I use the computer a lot, the wallpaper is a constant reminder of what is my best art so far. It reminds me what is good and helps me to sharpen that. To be perfectly honest I do not always know what I am doing. But focusing on the lucky ones, and staring at them each day, convinces me that I might be able to do it again.



That day I chose a wallpaper that was a zoomed in head shot of a Persian fantasy princes. It was one of those where I think I got the facial expression just right. When the face filled out my whole screen I could suddenly see all the brushstrokes and small twisted lines of transparent paint that altogether, when seen from afar or zoomed out, blends into a nicely clean face. But in the zoomed version it looked dirty and ragged.



So without thinking anymore or deeper than that about it, I skipped through a bunch of covers and plucked out all the faces, zoomed in and put them nicely together.



I am not sure what to learn from this, other than for me it felt quite good. Noticing the rough brushstrokes in the blown up versions made me feel a great deal more like an artist, and a little less like an illustrator.

Creative Commons Images Royalty Free Photos

How and where to find Royalty free (rf),Creative Commons, Public Domain photos, Images without violating copyright laws

 The 5 best places to get Royalty free photos,Creative Commons images, and stock picture photos for your blog or website are listed here with all the instructions and image licenses to free download royalty free,creative commons,stock photos. The free stock photo websites in this list are the best place to find and free download royalty free images and stock pictures with these image attributions: free, royalty free ( RF), Creative Commons (CC), share alike, and public domain free photos.
The free stock photo websites in the list allow to download free royalty free photos with the type of attributions that says that you can use those royalty free photos and pictures for your personal use and can also use them on your websites. You can use and share these photos on Facebook as well, but you need to read copyright laws carefully for any type of free photos that comes under the attribution of "royalty free photos", "creative commons images", or "free stock photos" before using them on your blog or anywhere else.
You will find the three types of free stock photos websites listed here . And all the free images come under these 3 labels:

1. Royalty Free Photos or Images.
2. Creative Commons Attributive Free Photos.
3. Public Domain free Photos.

But Before rushing to these free stock photos or royalty free photos sites you need to learn about below described 3 types of main copyright licenses involved while using these ‘intellectual properties'  or ‘creative works’ shared by the license holder. It won’t take you more than 5 minutes to grasp the concept. And it’s worth it !

Find below given best websites for downloading professional-looking photos for free use on your blog or website !

Understanding the copyright laws for downloading images for your blog, website

If you are a blogger, writer, or online publisher, then you must have heard about copyright laws involved in downloading royalty free photos,stock pictures, creative commons photo images offered by others, since these images come under certain copyright law/license and you need to abide by the copyright laws and rules defined by the author/publisher/photographer. Some novice bloggers just take away images from any other websites on the internet being unaware by the copyright laws involved in the creative works.You should always avoid this malpractice.  You need to give full credit to the publisher/author in order to use it for your own blog or website writing works.


Stock photo websites offer photos, images, or graphics downloading under following types/categories

1. Paid Images-You need to pay some amount to buy these stock photos for your blog or website.Paid images come under Stock Photo License (SPL)
2. Royalty Free(RF) –You pay one time for buying these types of royalty free photos and you are not charged any royalty and are free to use/reuse it for multiple times in future.
3. Free Royalty Free Images (RF)-If i buy a royalty free image and give it to you for free, then its said,” Free Royalty Free Images”. Make sure that the license you bought provides you the right to resell it or give it others for free .
4. Creative Commons (CC) Free Images-This license has become very popular and most of the content on the internet is shared under this attribution. You can use the images/any work on your blogs for free if the works are available under this Creative Commons license. More on this later…
5. Free Images- Absolutely free in every sense.No strings attached. No license required.
6. Public Domain--Those images that fall in this category are “unlicensed/delicensed ” and you can take them free of cost and can use on your blog sites. These are free for public use. No license required. No credit or link back required.

Types of Creative Commons Photos

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization and it facilitates and governs the creative work shared under CC license by authors and license holders in order to share their published creative work with others. The other people who build upon this shared work need to follow Creative Commons license . Creative Commons license protects the CC works and comes under following categories-

• Attribution (CC BY)
• Attribution Share Alike (CC BY-SA)
• Attribution No Derivatives (CC BY--ND)
• Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)
• Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY--NC-ND)

Using Creative-Commons creative-works on your blog-

• If you are going to free download an image for your blog or website, first of all read the Creative Commons license properly and attribute accordingly
• Always give full credit to the Creative Commons license holder. Attribute the Creative Commons license work as specified by the author/photographer.
• Creative Commons license doesn’t need a permission and you don’t need to inform the author or photographer in writing, but you can do so. You are getting the images free of cost and if you leave a comment in appreciation of the work then it would make the author happy.You are also giving something in return !
• For e.g, the above image logo is a property of Creative Commons Organization, but its available for use under CC license and i have provided the link back to the original website-http://creativecommons.org/ as was explained in CC Attribution license.

Where to get Free Photos-5 Best Places

Bloggers need free royalty free photos for their blogs everyday. And, there could be some posts where you need lots of royalty free photos.So, the real question is, where to get these royalty free photos for your blog site? What are the best places to find the royalty free images?

Nowadays due to a high demand for free photos for blog posts many photo stock websites have started providing “free royalty free” photos with high resolution, best quality, and content. These photos fall under creative commons attribute and you need to give proper credit in the form of a link back to the original website of the photographer or photo stock websites as required in the terms and conditions policies for use.

#1 Royalty Free Photos

What is Royalty free images? This “royalty free or RF” term is applied to give the right/permission to use any copyrighted material without the requirement to pay the royalty for each or multiple use for some period of time.
Royalty free images are of the two types-

1. Free royalty free images: you get the royalty free images free of cost. You are free to use for personal, corporate, or project work (still its better to check the license).
2. Royalty free images: you have to pay one time small charge for buying royalty free photos and you can repeatedly use it for without paying a royalty for any secondary or multiple use.

The websites listed below are a few of the best stock photo websites for downloading royalty free images. You just need to give full credit to the photographer/author by linking back to the original site of the author, or as mentioned in the website.

Open Photo.net : An Open Place to get Royalty Free Photos

Open Photo.net is a very big site for royalty free images and stock photos. All the royalty free images and pictures on this website are of high resolution and good quality. You can free download royalty free photos from this site for personal or commercial use only by giving a link back to the author/owner of the selected picture as explained in the site. Find your favorite royalty free photos on Open Photo.net

Free Digital Photos : A big Hub for loads of royalty free, Creative Commons and stock photo 

Free Digital Photos Offers an outstanding collection of stock photos for royalty free and creative commons images. To get  royalty free images for your website or blog from this one of the 5 best stock photo websites, all you need to do is give a link back to the author’s Home page URL which is provided at the time of downloading royalty free photos.'Free Digital Photos'  really has a cool royalty free photos resources for bloggers, website owners.Royalty free photos found on this site are of very high resolution and outstanding quality..Download Royalty Free Photos for your own blog

To find more such royalty free images websites check my other post : Top 10 best royalty free web sites-2011

#2 Free Images With Creative Commons Photo Attribution

As explained above Creative Commons license permits you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work. And you can even use it commercially. You need to take care of one thing that you provide full credit to the Creative License Holder in the form of a link back to the holder’s specified page.
There are so many websites that provide free images or photos under CC license, i have mentioned only the one very famous website for such type of images. That is Flickr ! Flickr is the best website for getting free images under Creative Commons license. Just find your favorite photos and check for CC license.

Flickr :The Best Website to find Creative Commons Images 

   

Flickr is the world’s #1 website or community for online photo uploading, sharing, and downloading.You can find millions photos listed on Flickr. You can free download any type of image to use for your blog. You just have to be aware about all the above mentioned 6 categories of the Creative Commons work. And you need to give credit to the author accordingly. For eg, the simplest and most welcoming CC license is “Attribution”.In this you just need to give a link back to the author. And if someone else uses it from you, then by linking back to the original author will do the work !Find Creative Commons Photos on Flickr.

#3 Public Domain: Free Photos and Graphics

Photos found under the term- “Public Domain” are absolutely free for any type of use. You are free to download any picture or image, can use it anywhere. No strings attached! Free for all purpose!! No attribution required !!!

Pixabay:All free Photos

Public Domain Free Images

 All photos on Pixabay are very high quality and uploaded mostly by professional photographers. Free for all purpose photos! You don’t need to register to get free photos images from this site. You can also upload your own photos on Pixabay.Pixabay is really a very good website for free downloading of any type of photos.Pixabay has pictures for every occasion , mood , and use! No attribution required.Its Really a very famous site for getting free images for your blog or website. Find free photos on Pixabay

Public Domain Photos: Free Photos in every sense 

Public Domain Stock Photos

 All stock photos listed on Public Domain Photos are free for use, re-use and these images and clip arts are free for commercial use as well. You can find more than 5000 free photos and 8000 clip arts on this public domain pictures site. Everyday more and more quality pictures are being uploaded on this public domain site. You can get every type of picture that are uploaded by photographers and picture lovers.Great website to find free images for your blog or site! Get free images for your blog

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Printing your work

-By Dan dos Santos

Getting a good quality print of your work can be really difficult, especially when you are not there to personally oversee the printing process. I struggled with this for years, as achieving a good print seemed to be some sort of alchemy... consisting of an elusive combination of scanning, color-adjusting and file formats.



In this post, I would like to focus on some of the technical aspects of preparing your art for print. Photographing/Scanning your work will be addressed in a separate post very soon.



Whether you are preparing your scan for web display or print, the biggest culprit seems to be the same... Gamma.



Gamma correction is quite involved, consisting of differing encoding and decoding rates (which you can read all about here)... but you don't really need to know all of that. The important part for illustrators is this: A typical PC monitor works at a native gamma of 2.2, and until very recently, a Mac works at 1.8. This means that any given image will display slightly brighter on a Mac.



This extra brightness is great when you are working digitally, because it allows you to see more details in the shadow areas than you would be able to see on a PC. The downside is that the rest of the world, including your Printer, is seeing it darker. The result is that an image which looks well balanced on a Mac will typically print dark.



Now here is the good news...

If you have a newer Macintosh operating system (after 2009), this difference is no longer an issue. Apple finally gave in to peer pressure, for once, and now uses a native gamma of 2.2 as well. The operating system, Snow Leopard, is the first to support this change and has adapted all of the graphics to accommodate the change. However, if you have an older OSX, you can still make due. There are three simple solutions to the problem:



1. Go into your 'color calibrater' and change the gamma of your display to 2.2. Viola, your monitor will look dark and shitty like the rest of the world.



2. Save a special display calibration setting just for print proofing, and toggle between it only when necessary.



3. Adjust your print file to compensate for the difference.



Now, adjusting a print file is not just a matter of lightening an image. Even though a higher gamma will result in a darker image, the darkness is not consistent over the entire value range. That is, the whites are not any less intense. Likewise, the blacks are not any darker. It's the midtones that are truly affected. So if you just lighten your print file, you will blow out the highlights in your print and lose a ton of detail (not to mention chalky color).



What you need to do is adjust the levels of your print via Photoshop. Go to you toolbar up top, and select Image > Adjustments > Levels. Here you will see a box that looks like this:

The middle slider is the midtone slider. This controls how wide the range of your midtones are. For instance, if you push the slider to the right (towards white), you are narrowing the value range between those two sliders. That means you're decreasing the range of light midtones, and are increasing the range of the dark midtones. This creates a darker image overall.



Conversely, if you slide the midtone slider to the left, you are narrowing the range of your dark midtones, and expanding the range of values between middle grey and white. This results in a lighter image overall.

The great thing about adjusting the midtones, is that it does not affect your true white and blacks. Your white will not get any brighter or darker, just the middle tones surrounding it. Ultimately, this is what gamma does to your display. So to emulate what a file will look like on a display with a 2.2 gamma, all you need to do is adjust the midtones. Personally, I have found that moving the slider 0.12 points to the left (for a value of 1.12) seems to be just about a perfect level of compensation.



Utilizing this method, I always prepare two files. One is for my personal use, and is calibrated for my display. The other, is a file saved especially for print with the necessary adjustments. I label these accordingly so as not to confuse them. ie. "warbreaker_hi_display.jpg" and "warbreaker_hi_print.jpg"



Now, as I stated, if you work on a newer model Mac, or a PC, this shouldn't be so much of an issue. What you see on your screen is pretty much what you'll get. However, there is always going to be some print discrepancy since your monitor is illuminated, and thusly produces much richer color and vibrancy... vibrancy that may not always make it to print. So how do you know what your piece will print like before sending it to your client? Three words... Instant. Picture. Maker.

Just about every Wal-Mart or pharmacy near you will have a Fuji or Kodak instant picture maker. These prints aren't perfect and shouldn't be used as color proofs, but they are a really close approximation to what your file will print like on an offset machine. So if you have major monitor problems, this is great way to find out about it! The really great thing about these machines, is that they read images in an RGB format. So you don't need to worry about converting to CMYK and preemptively (and possibly unnecessarily) killing your colors. Just bring your file on a flash drive, and for just $4, you can rest easy knowing that your print file is pretty close.



Typically, you are told to convert your file to CMYK before printing. This is not always necessary, and I rarely do it. Many short-run printers these days are digital, and are actually designed to work off RGB files. Further more, it's important to remember that the CMYK color proofing in Photoshop is an approximation of what an off-set printer is capable of. This means you are literally removing colors from your print file, with the expectation that those colors can't be printed using a traditional CMYK process. But what happens if you are printing a vinyl banner for a convention, and your Printer is using a high-end Canon which works on 9 different inks? Well, you just took out way more color than you needed to!



My feeling is this, your Art Director and Printer know what they need better than you. A good Printer is intimately familiar with his machine, and knows exactly how it's going to react. Your AD prints dozens of covers a year, and invests as much love into their design as you did your painting. Give them an RGB file, and let them convert it if they need to.



The last issue to address is Color Profiles. Color profiles (also known as ICC profiles) are data that tells a computer how to display a certain image. If you do not add a color profile, you image will be displayed in the default setting for any particular computer, often to horrifying affect.



If you are dealing with a client that is gang printing your work, and they specifically request a CMYK file, then I suggest using the profile: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2. (unless they state otherwise). To convert an RGB file to CMYK, do not just change the image mode. Instead, go to: Image> Mode> Convert to Profile. Select the appropriate color profile. For best results, be sure to select your 'intent' as 'Relative Colorimetric', and turn ON 'Black Point Compensation'. There are of course situations where you would use Perceptual intent, but 90% of the time, Relative Colorimetric reaps better results for me, especially when dealing with difficult reds.

Balancing your image for digital display is an equally imperfect science, but quite a bit more cut-and-dry. Ultimately, you can't control what is going to show up on someone else's screen. As I mentioned above, you don't know what gamma any particular person is viewing things at, so all you can do is balance your file with the masses in mind, and hope for the best.



For professional prepress work, Adobe RGB 1998 is the standard profile for your workspace. This is also the color profile I use when I send a print file to a client. The profile has a very wide gamut, and can achieve some very intense colors. The downside is that those colors are not only outside the range of most home printers, but often outside the range of a web-browser!



Every web-browser has a different list of color-profiles they support, though most support none at all. If your particular color profile is not supported (almost always the case), the browser displays the image using it's default setting, which can alter the saturation of colors drastically. As the recommended color space for the Internet, sRGB should be always used for all images intended for publication to the World Wide Web. When preparing a file intended for an ebook or my website, I simply take my Adobe RGB 1998 print file, open a duplicate canvas, adjust it's size for web-display, and reassign the color profile as: sRGB IEC61966-2.1



These color profiles remains tagged to an image, regardless of the ability to read that tag. So even if someone drags an image from a web browser to their desktop, when they then open it up in Photoshop it will still be displayed correctly.



For more information on color balancing digital images, check out this article.

The Truth About Taped Auditions

Stuart Aikins is a Vancouver-based casting director with 35 years of experience casting across Canada, including Vancouver casting for the hugely popular "Twilight" series (New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn). He is the recipient of an Emmy Nomination and a Casting Society of America (CSA) Award for Best Mini-Series Casting. In July 2011 he sat down with students at Biz Studio's Summer Intensive.







Q: How do taped auditions work for you?



A: Nothing beats being in the room, most directors/producers cast straight from the tape, directors don't know how you do what you do and most talk in results, most directors don't want to give direction in the room, actors are lazy they only learn the lines they don't prep the rest.



Q: What about self tapes?



A: Self tapes are fine, it has to be good work because you'll get frank feedback, the importance of having a good relationship with your agent so you can get honest feedback.



Q: So it's good to talk to your agent? Which you should do once a year?



A: You should talk to your agent at least every week or two so they know what to submit you for appropriately. If you self-tape then I'll notice. You have to take your career in your hands, agent or no.