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I want to get some more extensive vid tutorials made and I think we will need more web space and perhaps a dedicated server, at the moment what we have is acceptable but as d/l's increase I think it would be prudent to investigate and plan for the expansion

As you are all aware the tuts on this site are free, OK they may not be amazing but hey..for free ???

I was thinking of putting up a donations link..maybe paypal ? and may well do that but in the meantime there are a couple of ways you could donate to the site and get something back in return

Quite a while ago i did some work for a company who specialize in the coloring if black and white movies, you may well be aware of their work, a classic they did was to colorize Hitchcocks Psycho.. the result was amazing though there were a lot of screams from the purists who claim these sort of flms should stay as they were..black and white

Well a spin off from their research into the coloring of films was a program called BlackMagic, which basically is designed to color stills ( though you can use it for a variety of tasks such as selective color enhancement)

Instead of waffling on about how BM works it is best simply to point you to my BM site http://www.black-and...te-to-color.com

Download the demo and have a play around, I did the Grace Kelley image after a few hours of learning BM and I was very happy with the result

If you like the prog then a purchse would go into the SFX "kitty" and help to support the site ( BM is just a little earner I have on the side to cover my web costs)

BM comes in 3 flavours and the Home edition is very inexpensive but does lack all the bells and whistles of it's bigger brothers, note the demo is the Pro edition

They also do another handy program called VideoSnaps which basically extracts stills from videos, it is very simple to use but very neat in it's ability to selectively decide on uniqueness of images, give it a spin from the link on the BM site. Very inexpensive and quite handy

I thank you....