Bring out the best in every shot with powerfully simple one-click adjustments and a full range of cutting-edge advanced controls. Craft elegant photo books and effortlessly share your best shots on social networks, in web galleries, and more.

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software lets you perfect your images, organize all of your photographs, and share your vision —all with one fast, intuitive application.

• Get everything you need beyond the camera—Organize, perfect, and share—Lightroom combines all your digital photography tools in one fast, efficient application. Use powerful yet simple automatic adjustments or take detailed control of every feature, from editing to sharing.
• Get the best from every image—Get the highest possible quality from every pixel in your images, whether you shot them with a pro DSLR camera or a camera phone. Lightroom includes a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art tools for tone, contrast, color, noise reduction, and much more.
• Share effortlessly—Craft elegant photo books and easily share your photographs on social networks or in web galleries, slide shows, prints, and more. Lightroom includes efficient tools to showcase your work for friends, family, and clients.

Capture anything on a screen with the ultimate screen capture tool.  Snagit gives users all the tools they need to create engaging images and videos that grab attention and keep it. Snag any image and enhance it with effects or create a quick video of a computer screen. Then share the content instantly with the class.

Snag images from the Web and insert them directly into presentations or handouts. Add transparency, callouts and other effects to turn a simple screenshot into a powerful teaching aid. Record quick videos to show students how they can improve their homework. Or just snap a quick capture and fire it off in an email.

With Snagit, it doesn't take much to explain a concept or an idea – the visuals do all the talking.

UPGRADE POLICY

• MINOR upgrades to all releases are free. (For example, a customer who purchases Snagit 11.0, would receive versions 11.1 for free, but would have to pay for an upgrade to a MAJOR release.)
• Any customer who purchased on or after 28 January 2012 is entitled to a free upgrade
• Customers with maintenance agreements receive the upgrade for free

Now is the time to put Snagit on all of your customers' computers!

Create complex and natural 3D landscapes simply. Use software with a unique blend of ease-of-use and sophistication. Animate terrains with an unlimited level of detail and animate all atmospheric elements. And these are just some of the things that users can do with the full range of products that Douglas Stewart EDU now offers from e-on software.

This includes the popular Vue 10 line of digital landscape, nature and atmosphere creation and animation engines covering all education and commercial versions throughout the UK and Europe.

The leading developer of quality solutions for the creation, rendering and integration of natural 3D environments, e-on software products are:

• Easy to use with a fast learning curve
• Intuitive and sophisticated
• Loaded with hundreds of presets for a quick start
• Have a classic interface which allows a smooth transition towards other 3D software
• The perfect program to explore and visualize natural phenomena in 3D
• Used in professional production houses around the world
• Inexpensive

To see for yourself, you can view their YouTube channel

Reduce the input needed to take better, more comprehensive notes. Have the freedom to focus on the task at hand without getting distracted. Enable users of any ability to use and engage with audio recordings of meetings, interviews, lectures, performances or group discussions. With Audio Notetaker, students can use audio, text and images/presentation slides all together in a visual and creative way.

Audio Notetaker for the Mac is almost identical to its Windows counterpart, which has over 18,000 users.

• Fully native Mac application
• Supports M4A, MP3, WAV, MP4 and WMA* audio formats
• Complete cross-compatibility with Audio Notetaker V2.6 for Windows
• Import PowerPoint**, PDF and image files
• Includes an audio-based tutorial

Protect school workstations, servers and email with a modern, easy-to-use, web browser-based user interface. Provide the most important figures to get an immediate status of all connected NovaBACKUP installations. Apply a backup policy to a single NovaBACKUP client or to a group of them. Backup and protect your important files from one location without any technical expertise. With NovaBACKUP 12.5 Central Management Console, ICT coordinators and teachers can manage all student installations wherever they have internet access using a standard web browser.

REMEMBER you will also make up to 25% margin on every NovaBACKUP sale so start buying now!

Purchase one of our special Echo Smartpen kit SKUs – 2GB, 4GB, 8GB or 8GB Echo Pro Pack, and you will receive all of the following products ABSOLUTELY FREE!*

• FREE MyScript from Livescribe – application that converts handwritten notes to digital text
• FREE Notebook Paper – 4-Pack A4 Notebooks – each single-subject notebook has 80 perforated, three-hole punched sheets. Storage pockets help keep you organised for your classes.

IMPORTANT

• This promotion is for education customers only and not available for commercial end-users.
• In order to take advantage of this education bundle, all orders placed MUST use the specific promotion kit SKUs which appear in your pricelist.
• Orders placed without using the promotion kit SKUs will not have the free items included.
• Act now to take advantage of this special offer and save £40!

Purchase Sibelius 7 and take advantage of these EXCLUSIVE bundles that pass great savings onto your education customers directly.

• Sibelius 7 with Pro Tools 10 OR Media Composer 6 – £307.50 (Save £60)
• Sibelius 7 with Pro Tools 10 AND Media Composer 6 – £432.50 (save £140)

This product must be drop-shipped by Douglas Stewart EDU to your end-user so you will need to provide end-user details when ordering.

Please also be aware that ALL Avid products go through post-sale validation. For more information, click here.

If you have not made the move to the Adobe Partner Connection Reseller Program, are you aware that you will no longer be able to sell CLP licensing after 1 April 2012?

• Access to volume licensing with Cumulative Licensing Program (CLP)
• Access to Education CLP for certified resellers
• Support from the Adobe and Douglas Stewart EDU sales team to convert bigger deals
• Deal registration program and promotions
• Publication of your reseller profile and specialisation on the Adobe website
• Adobe software for demonstration purposes
• Access to sales leads direct from Adobe
• Take free training to become specialists in selling Adobe Education

Grace period end

Adobe's 180 day grace period will end on 1 April 2012 – meaning that the official deadline for certification is 1 April 2012. After this date, you will not have access to many of the benefits of the Adobe Partner Connection Reseller Program – including CLP, deal registration and much more.

Discover more and register before it is too late!

In order to purchase Inspiration Software products, you must place your order with Douglas Stewart EDU. These changes came into effect on 1 December 2011.

Inspiration has standardised product configurations and pricing across their desktop products, making it easier for you and your customers to price and budget for an Inspiration Software purchase.

We are dedicated to working with all of our education resellers to develop profitable business solutions so ensure that you take advantage of our partnership with this popular vendor partner today.

YouTube has recently launched "YouTube in Schools" which is an education friendly version of the YouTube web site in response to the following question:

Do you allow it because of the masses of educational material or do you block it because there is a similar amount of questionable/distracting/inappropriate videos that you do not want in the classroom?

In order for schools to use it, they need a proxy server, which is why CensorNet now support this feature. For any teachers or ICT coordinators that wish to make YouTube a safe learning environment they just need to install CensorNet Professional.

In order to use YouTube In Schools, your proxy server (or network filter) needs to inject a special header into web requests made to YouTube which tells the service that access to the site is coming from a school and to deliver the education version along with the schools' own content and settings.

For those who are not tech-minded, this is not a problem as CensorNet does all the work for you!

Meet with Douglas Stewart EDU representatives at the foremost meeting place for the musical-instrument industry for over 25 years.

Musikmesse is the world's biggest and most important exhibition for the musical-instrument sector so mark your calendar to attend the 21-24 March 2012 in Frankfurt.

Musikmesse – the world's leading fair for music instruments and live music!

OCR Software Guide recently tested the main OCR software products on the market and considered ABBYY FineReader 11 to be the best product overall for the value it represents. Some key deciding factors over other software were:

• User interface design
• Page layout reconstruction capabilities
• Extensive language support
• Engine stability when processing large files
• Availability and quality of technical support

Any user is eligible to receive a free upgrade to Pro Tools 10 or Pro Tools HD 10 if they have purchased and registered Pro Tools 9 or Pro Tools HD 9 software on or after 1 October, 2011 (register your purchase).

Please also be aware that Pro Tools EDU products go through post-sale validation in the same way that Sibelius Academic does. For more information, click here.

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