Rub­bing Pix­els now has the fea­ture for Mem­bers where they can refer a friend to the site and if that friend joins they will cur­rently get 20% off their sub­scrip­tion join­ing cost and the mem­ber refer­ring them will also cur­rently get 20% off their Rub­bing Pix­els renewal. The per­cent­age is accu­mu­la­tive as well so if you refer 5 friends in your sub­scrip­tion time you will get to 100% and your renewal is free. These ad boxes are through­out the site and a link with this fea­ture can also be found in the “Your Account” sec­tion of the site which will also tell you how many peo­ple have taken up your offer and also the % you will receive off your renewal.

The sys­tem works by enter­ing in your friends name and email address (none of which is stored or col­lected on our sys­tem) into the refer­ral sec­tion and they are sent an email out­lin­ing deal and also a spe­cial link that does all the hard work, all they have to do is join when they want.

Give it a try and refer some­one it is a pretty cool system.

Even more fan­tas­tic fea­tures and ser­vices are com­ing soon as well.

A few new upgrades have been added to the Rub­bing Pix­els web­site. First is the new noti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem. When going to the site now you will see in yel­low a mes­sage. These mes­sages will be posted from time to time and can be tar­geted to gen­eral site vis­i­tors, logged in guests, mem­bers or all of them.

The idea of the sys­tem is to keep peo­ple imme­di­ately informed of impor­tant infor­ma­tion, new fea­tures, spe­cial offers and deals etc. To remove the mes­sage you just click on the X at the top right and you wont be trou­bled by it again, until a new mes­sage is added. This sys­tem will not tell you when new tuto­ri­als are added to the site. Which brings me to the next update…

The sec­ond update is to let site vis­i­tors (mem­bers or guests) who are logged in know how many new tuto­ri­als have been added to the site since they where last logged in. This fea­ture is seen in the “Your Account box” at the top of the site and if you click on the link it will take you to a page that will list the new tuto­ri­als added.

More new cool fea­tures to come… so stay tuned.

A new update has been added to the Rub­bing Pix­els site allow­ing us to add addi­tional cat­e­gories to the tuto­ri­als sec­tion. To find them you can click on the “Tuto­ri­als” title in the nav­i­ga­tion bar or in the cat­e­gories bar you will now see a cou­ple of orange “»”. Click­ing on these will take you to the “Tuto­ri­als” page as well and it also indi­cates that there are more cat­e­gories avail­able than what is being displayed.

At the moment the new cat­e­gory cre­ated is “Pho­to­shop Ele­ments” where all tuto­ri­als relat­ing to this pro­gram will now live here. New cat­e­gories are com­ing and when added will appear in this area and you will be noti­fied via the news sec­tion of the site.

Since the soft launch of the Rub­bing Pix­els web­site in Feb­ru­ary 2010 we have been grad­u­ally upgrad­ing the web­site with new fea­tures and also stuff behind the scenes that makes the site run smoother prepar­ing it for it’s offi­cial launch in national mag­a­zines that will com­mence in Nov / Dec 2010 and to make it a bet­ter site over­all for those who are already mem­bers and guests.

Over the com­ing months you will see some changes to the site in terms of some lay­out and new features:

1. The intro­duc­tion of “Mem­bers Only” tuto­ri­als that will be rolled out once it is imple­mented. This should be done in a mat­ter of days and you will see the bulk of the tuto­ri­als men­tioned in the July release uploaded this week, for those won­der­ing .. “Where the hell are they” they will be accessed just like any other tuto­r­ial for mem­bers but not avail­able for pur­chase by guests.

2. The site for mem­bers and guests will include noti­fi­ca­tions of new tuto­ri­als that have been added since you last logged in.

3. Spe­cial mem­ber noti­fi­ca­tions when you log in and also for those just vis­it­ing the site as well.

4. Sev­eral new tuto­r­ial category’s will also be created.

Along with some gen­eral behind the scenes changes / upgrades and on site func­tion­al­ity tweaks.

So stay tuned.. sign up for the sites newslet­ter as any spe­cial offers for the site will be adver­tised in here for those will­ing to be part of the site and the Rub­bing Pix­els Com­mu­nity of Land­scape Photographers.

Feel free to send us feed­back through our con­tact page on any fea­tures you would like to see done to make your expe­ri­ence on the site even better.

This month on Rub­bing Pix­els the fol­low­ing video tuto­ri­als and arti­cles will be released.

Video Tuto­ri­als:

1. Detailed loca­tion plan­ning with the Pho­tog­ra­phers Ephemeris.

2. Let flickr.com teach you photography.

3. For­resters Beach Expo­sure Blend. (releas­ing an old favorite now recorded in HD) click to see the image

4. Colour Adjust­ments in Flex­Color before scan­ning with Ima­con Flextight.

5. The effects of scratched ND fil­ters on your images.

Arti­cles:

1. Free stock images… pre­cau­tions you need to take.

All new video tuto­ri­als can be fol­lowed on the home page under Lat­est Tuto­ri­als and via our news feed.

Rub­bing Pix­els mem­ber­ships start at $69 for six months full access or $99 for 12 months access. Tuto­ri­als can be pur­chased indi­vid­u­ally by non mem­bers and viewed through their per­sonal free account.