Held here
in Oklahoma City to take full advantage of our training
facilities, the dates are July 29th through July 31st. All
meetings and trainings will take place at Candid Color
Systems and as always, there is no fee to attend. The agenda
is full of opportunities for you to learn and grow your
business.
Starting with the training sessions on Sunday and going
through Tuesday afternoon, more than 22 hours of training
sessions are available from CORE to QP2 to Photo Training. Monday
and Tuesday mornings offer general session presentations
on the Sports Opportunity, Software and Email Marketing
updates, as well as interactive discussions on market specific
topics such as Grads, Races, Groups, Weddings, Party Pics
and PhotoMatch. And by request, you will also notice
that our 18 city traveling seminar “How To
Make More Money In Sports Photography” is Monday
afternoon as another option. Click here to download
the full workshop agenda.
Beyond the trainings and presentations, attendance and
participation at CCS workshops offers other benefits. The
most important, of course, are the networking opportunities
with other CCS customers and CCS staff. Hear ideas
that could impact your business and perhaps why you should
consider growing your business into other market segments. Participate
in one of our lab tours. Meet with your Support Rep.
Send in your registration today – this can be done
via, email, fax or mail. Register online here,
user name and password login required.
CCS is retiring Alchemedia's Clever
Content Image Protection
In February 2000, Candid purchased and implemented a digital image protection
program called Clever Content written by Alchemedia which has been available
for use with QP2. CCS received its last software update from Alchemedia
during May of 2001. Shortly thereafter Alchemedia went out of business.
As you can imagine, operating system and browser
technology have changed significantly over the last seven years. We have
had several customers report problems with current computer systems and the older
Clever Content technology. Due to changes in browser and operating system
functionality some potential security concerns with Clever Content have been
noted. Since we do not have the source code nor is there a company around
supporting and updating the Clever Content application, we feel we must retire
Alchemedia’s Clever Content.
CCS has developed an image copying deterrence system for QPPlus. While
not a perfect system, we feel it offers improvements over Clever Content. Since
Candid has developed this system, we can adjust it as technology changes and
make improvements in house as new browser technology develops. Other than
Adobe’s Flash viewer Candid’s image deterrence system does not require
any custom plug-ins or browser add-ons to function. The Flash viewer is
ubiquitous and comes preinstalled on many new computer systems. Consequently
it is highly unlikely to introduce any system instability. However, like
Clever Content, the system is not “fool proof.”
QPPlus currently supports all markets available in QP2 other than Sports. Consequently,
CCS will be adding the QPPlus image protection option to the Sports market on
QP2. However, it will not be added to other QP2 markets. If
you have other markets with active QP2 events you can migrate your events to
QPPlus, choose to have the images watermarked, or leave them active on QP2 without
any image protection. Please contact Customer
Support for instructions on how to use the watermark features and to discuss
how to get a custom watermark for your company. Our hope is to shut
Alchemedia down by June 25, 2007.
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