FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS!!!!!

For the next two weeks you can get online, buy ActionRunner 1.0 Suite or ActionRunner 1.0 only and if after READING the User Guide and actually editing a wedding or a large number of images you are not fully satisfied I'll refund your entire purchase price! (But you have to delete it from your harddrive! And you can't steal the idea etc. It's between you, the Law and God at that point!)

Here is what Jeff LaPlante has to say about ActionRunner 1.0

"Sure, you can batch process images in Photoshop/Bridge but you have to do them all one action set at a time. ActionRunner gives you a electric carving knife to cut up the bird vs. using your old dull paring knife. Simply, you can power through 1100 images in an evening unattended and end up with 10 variations on the same images for you to choose from in the morning while you're drinking your latte. THAT is the POWER of ActionRunner. Don't try to bill it as something new and great for manipulating your images. Bill it as a time saving device that saves you from editing the files yourself or paying an assistant to do it."

For real, you could pay a part time employee $10 and hour to help edit images and in two weeks time you'd pay your employee more than the $350 for ActionRunner Suite.

I promise you that if you take the time to learn this tool, use it to it's fullest and customize it to your likings you'll be SOOOOO glad you did. I LOVE this tool!

BUY IT HERE

ActionRunner 1.0 is now available at www.davistools.com

This tool will revolutionize your editing life!!!!

Enjoy,

Jim Davis-Hicks

we are sooooooo close.

hang in there to all of you who have been writing and asking when it will be ready!

for real, we should be live in the next 24-36 hours or so. i'm at the mercy of my web guys but it's sooooooo close. for real, this is the best tool i can imagine. i just edited a family session today in no time using it! it's incredible.

lastly, many of you have wondered can i use my own actions with ActionRunner??? YES! That's the best part is that you can use your own actions, others actions, create actions, add actions etc. all you have to do is add them in. Nobody, I mean nobody is beyond this tool. you might be set in your style and ways or you might be just starting out, ActionRunner is designed to make your life easier and your images better!

off to watch a show with my wife.

God bless.

jim

I just did a sr. portrait last night of this really great guy named Josh.

I took about 170 of my favorite images, put each of the 170 images into 10 different action folders, clicked ActionRunner and went to bed. I woke up to 1700 different images. I put this little slideshow together with Showit Web and some of my favorite pix from the day. You'd never guess these were captured while it was drizzling out!

Enjoy!

"Click Here" to see the show.

Davis Tools ActionRunner is about to go live!

Many of you have been asking "When????" Well we are soooo close. The user guide will be perfected and we should be live in the next 24 hours (or 36 or so, it's really up to the web guys to finalize it all.)

The user guide is really simple but we want it to be very thorough so that technical support is almost never necessary. The QuickStart guide is like 5 lines long, but the detailed deal and instructions on how to fully customize it are what we want to perfect so that even if your not a Photoshop person etc. you can use it to it's fullest ability! (This thing is sooo unbelieveably easy to use but we want it to be completely dummy proof before we release it.)

Be sure to check out www.davistools.com in the next day or so.

Also, please leave a comment. I'd love to track how far the grapevine travels in the early stages of ActionRunner.

To see the slideshow click here.

Jen and Mike,

What a joy and pleasure it was to shoot your wedding!

We had a really great time and I hope you guys really enjoy your wedding pix for years to come!

Remember when you start working on that nephew that your brother spoke about we'll be here for you!

Talk soon, God bless.

Jim and Lara

Davis Tools ActionRunner 1.0 is up and running! It's still a beta version of it and we are working out any of the quarks but it's amazing.

Hopefully at the end of next week it will be completely available for purchase and ready to run.

For real, I edited a wedding yesterday that started out with 3000+ images, narrowed them down to the top 1000 images and edited them all in less than 3.5 hours time in front of the computer. It's so amazing!

If you want to know more or be notified of when it's ready go to www.davistools.com and sign up for the mailing list.

This is a fully automated deal, it's not like other workflows.

I'm working like crazy to finalize this. Testimonies soon to come from the beta version folks.

i just received this from a client from last year. i thought it was well worth sharing about how to treat a client.


this is a bit random, but i just felt the overwhelming need to express how much we enjoyed working with you both, and how wonderfully easy going you were-- i think my appreciation quadrupled this week a whole year in retrospect, and i wish i could figure out how to better articulate it. chris' sister is getting married next week, and they are absolutely traumatized by their photographer. apparently the original price of the contract has now tripled with extras that "they absolutely have to have", and the family is just shocked, because the woman will not back down and refuses to change her agenda. it is as though she knew when they would be the most stressed out, and moved in for the kill. whereas, i still remember meeting you and walking through the contract, with you telling me straight up "what you see is what you get--no hidden costs"--and that was certainly the case. not to mention, we never felt as though you treated us with anything but the utmost respect, regardless of which package we chose or photos we purchased. at any rate, it had been a pleasure working with you from Day 1, but i certainly have a new, enhanced perspective about how fortunate we were!
best,
jen

i think we settled in in record time cause we were putting in like 18 hour days since we were kid free and we had a lot of amazing friends and family helping us with the move and painting etc. i love our new place and i am so excited to have a formal studio that is gonna rock!

anyway, i'm trying to catch up but putting in the 18 hour days made me a ringer for the flu and i caught it! :( i'm almost fully recovered but still feeling a little junky. it's amazing, every time i get sick so many things are exposed for what they really are, stuff. at the end of my life i wont care about most of what i spend my time doing but i'll so wish with all that is within me that i'd known God and my loved one's more. this year i want to really, truly seek to love God with all that I am and seek to love those around me with all I can!

i'll post some pix of the new place soon, lara has done an amazing job of making it look really sweet already! thanks to all of you who helped us and showed us how loved we really are.

i had to share this real quickly. lara and i went out and spent 9 hours picking out fans, lights, paint and more so that we can make our new home look and feel like we want it to (or at least get a start on it.) when i got home i sat down and picked out my favorite images from a wedding i recently shot, put them into my respective actions folders and clicked on my new "run actions" icon and now i am heading to bed!

what does that mean? it means that all i had to do was select the pix i like, drag and drop them into one of my 25 custom action folders and click "run actions" and now i'm heading to bed. while i sleep all 25 actions will be fully automated, any images having multiple actions applied will be renumbered so i don't lose any images and then they will be automatically placed into my almost finished folder. when i wake up in the morning i'll check to confirm that my images look exactly like i want them to, (if i want to adjust any i'll just use my micro actions that are included in the new Davis Tools EZ Editor 1.0 to edit to final perfection,) then i'll renumber and ftp them to Pictage where they'll take care of the rest!

i know i sound like a salesman but this thing is truly unbelievable. it wont be long before i'll have the beta version available online at www.davistools.com

gary at www.robintek.com is so incredible. he's the guy that does all the programming stuff i need for this project. we are working on making it pretty and working out any problems.

i never thought that editing a wedding could be so easy! if your interested in learning more about this product please go to www.davistools.com and sign up for my mailing list at the bottom of the home page.

360 payments more and it's all mine!

Praise the Lord! We've been looking to get this home for 8 months now and after a little patience, a ton of showing our current home and a big leap of faith for a bigger house payment we are going for it!

We'll be moving our home and office this Sat. Sept. 16th from 9:00 til whenever we are done.

I am really trying to tie up any loose ends for business and make sure everything transfers over as seemless as possible but please be patient if I am not quick to return emails and phone calls.

I'm so excited about this house cause it has a bunch of character as a one of a kind built in the 1800's, an incredible yard, we can walk to anywhere in uptown old westerville and it also has an old out building that we will be converting to our studio shooting space!

Keep us in your prayers as things are a bit stressful as we prepare to move!

God bless,

jim, lara, ashton and brayden

p.s. our new address will be 64 S. Vine St. Westerville, OH 43081

Here's my latest family portrait that I recently did with Brynne and Max's family.

You guys did great and I hope you enjoy these pix for years to come. They grow up so fast! I wish we could put a halt on them growing up. :) God bless you guys and your family.

jim and lara

VIEW SLIDESHOW of JEN N MIKE


The other night I went downtown with Jen and Mike and their dog too! (I probably would have scored some points if I could remember his name. Poindexter maybe??) Anyway, we had such a great time. We spent about 3 hours in the Arena District and had fun, shot pix and ate ice cream. What a blast! Enjoy this show guys. I can't wait to shoot your wedding!

God bless,

Jim

VIEW SLIDESHOW


Emma and Tucker enjoy!

I just shot this wedding this past weekend. I've never shot at The Columbus Club or COSI, both were very, very cool! I'd say they are one of my top picks for a wedding that is around 150 folks! Very fun. The florist did a great job and the coordinators too. And of course my favorite video guys at Outsider Entertainment and Rob Mcdowell at Encore Entertainment did amazing too! Love working with these guys!

two rubber bands, 4 pieces of celery, 4 pieces off of a broom.

a whole lot of fun!! I love my little men!

www.davistools.com/yennyethan

Yenny and Ethan enjoy!

If you want to mail the link to the show it www.davistools.com/yennyethan

www.davistools.com/meganjames

Megan and James, enjoy this little slideshow of your awesome day!!

God bless you guys.

http://www.davistools.com/alexmarta

Check out this slideshow of Alex and Marta! This is my first Showit Web show and I love it!!!!!

Congratulations to Alex and Marta! What an incredible wedding to be a part of and to shoot! God bless you guys!

Also, my Outlook is on the blink and I'm not sure why. If you have e-mailed me recently and have not received a response I appologize. I'm not sure how long it will be until this is resolved.

Thanks for understanding.

I clipped this blog entry from my good friend Mike Colon. He is doing a raffle for some really cool products that are priced well above and beyond the price of a $25 donation. Every $25 donated gets you another ticket and you save 5 lives at the same time. How can you go wrong doing this?

I just bought two tickets myself cause I passionately believe that it's good to save a life for only $5 and I really like the cool products that he is offering. Check it out!


Thursday, July 13, 2006

Hey Everyone! Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth for a couple weeks! I've been working hard, shooting, and spending time with my family. Life is good! God is good!I just now opened up my newsletter from Thirst Relief International and read about all of the cool things that are happening. I'm so excited that things are going so well and so many lives are being saved! I'm thinking about doing a photo expedition workshop to Brazil to raise funds for Thirst. It would be very different from your typical posh newport beach Mike Colon workshop. We would be roughing it on a large boat out in the middle of the amazon jungle sleeping on hammocks and fishing for our food. Totally adventurous and not entirely safe, but a guaranteed life-changing experience. 100% of the proceeds would go to Thirst. If you are crazy enough, and seriously interested, contact me at mike@mikecolon.com, for every $25 you donate to Thirst, I will put your name in a drawing to win one of many cool Tamrac and Epson prizes including bags, accessories and an Epson P4000! For example, if you donate $100 to Thirst, you will have 4 tickets entered in the drawing. Just email your donation receipts to thirstrelief@mikecolon.com. The drawing will be held on Tuesday, August 1, 2006. I will be accepting entries starting now through the end of this month.***CLICK HERE TO DONATE NOW AND SAVE LIVES!***