If you’re as big as a Google fan as myself then you should really try out Picasa. Although it just came out of Beta version a few months ago, it seems to be doing well. Not only does it organize your photos, it also edits them! There’s some news regarding this new app:
Today, we’re adding an even higher degree of control — the ability to share only with specific individuals. This is the most restrictive sharing setting, and it requires recipients to have (or sign up for) a Picasa Web Albums account. As such, it’s a bit more work than the well-balanced convenience of unlisted albums, but if you’re looking for exceptionally tight control over exactly who can see specific photo albums in your collection, give this feature a spin.
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For photo-sharing, online-classifieds and other community-driven websites determined to monetise their photo inventory, Pixenate™ offers influential photo-editing tools that foster creativity and stimulate purchases of custom photo products. Pixenate is a self-hosted solution which means it is software you can install on your own webserver. Pixenate is fully customizable so you can change any aspect of Pixenate’s appearance to suit your own website’s unique identity. Pixenate comes with a powerful fully-documented API so you can also change it’s behaviour if you so wish. Pixenate’s appearance can be changed by adapting any one of the many Themes (or skins) which are provided. Pixenate requires no browser plugins or additional downloads for your users so they can quickly get creative with their photos.
Pixenate makes photo-centric websites more helpful by embedding simple photo-editing directly in your website. Pixenate increases repeat visits to your website and makes photo-centric websites stickier. Your users may already use your website for uploading, storing, sharing or printing photos. Adding Pixenate to your website allows your users to edit those photos too. Whether it’s social networking, photo merchandising or online classifieds, people want to show their photos in the best possible light. Pixenate helps non-experts get the most out of their photos by providing powerful but simple-to-use photo-editing tools.
Pixenate is mainly well suited for photo-merchandising websites and offers powerful tools for cropping and overlaying photos on to product templates such as cards, calendars and mugs.
Ability to crop, optimize and save photo or digital images for the web are few things many web design clients want. And it course, in with this, we don’t want to make expensive investment in Photoshop for our digital image editing. There’s an incredibly versatile image editing tool that will allow you to easily do “basic” photo editing and manipulation.
This tool is called ORIENS ENHANCER GOLD. Developed by Bahrur Rahman, it offers basic digital image and photo editing functions needed by amateur web designers. It is an excellent tool in batch processing images or editing large number of pictures automatically. It is capable of creating screen savers and pdf files. It also has a number of useful image filters forexcellent special effects.
Looking for cameras with the best specs and the friendliest prices may serve as a challenge in today’s time. Various companies and businesses are vying for the interest of their many customers through consideration of features, performance, and quality that people will surely love to have and experience. Information presented in online shops may not be sufficient enough to encourage a person in buying a camera that they want, thinking that there may be better units out there. If you are stuck in the confusion of choosing the best camera that would fit your needs, then consulting unbiased and professional DSLR camera reviews would be the best option so that you can save time from going left and right, weighing down information on each camera you see out there.
There are certain things you need to look at so that you can gauge on the user-friendliness and the overall performance of the camera. First is the megapixel count, which determines the quality and detail of the pictures when printed on paper. The bigger the megapixel count is, the better you will print sharper images on larger photo paper. Image quality is the next thing to check since cameras that have larger sensors and enhanced lenses would make the perfect shot. Most DSLR camera reviews also note on the lags and startup times, since neglecting it would sometimes miss a flawless moment to take pictures. Also, do not forget thinking about your pocket since most high-grade cameras are quite expensive.
Your digital camera may carry some basic editing features such as cropping and much more but cropping it on-screen within the camera may leave you with a nasty surprise when you get your picture printed, a photo out of bounds of the developing process.
Cropping pictures is a way of getting only the subjects you want within a particular frame but cropping it plays tricks if you do not set the auto size feature which sets the size automatically leaving you with properly proportioned prints.
Some digital cameras have built in frames for cropping that cuts down pictures without the loss of quality(with this, the higher the amount of pixels the better for less detail is lost). Take time to study/read the camera’s manual so you get optimal settings and better photographs time and time again.
There are many online photo editing sites on the web that offers decent editing abilities without having to spend a buck on software. When digital photography started, people had to buy expensive software or were restricted by software that came with the camera they bought for editing but that has all changed.
Online editing sites such as Picknik, Fotoflexer and many others have allowed people to enjoy digital photography without too much spending. It may take time to upload and download the pictures you edit but that is a cheap price to pay for editing that precious moment you may have shot wrong allowing you perfect pictures each time, every time..
Photoshop express has the same functionality with other photo-sharing sites, you can organize them in a file that may include as many albums as you wish. As you all know, in order for you to have access to the application, you need to pull up your browser, create an account at photoshop.com/express and start uploading those pictures.
Pictures can be uploaded simultaneously, as many as you wanted, but of course the transfer speed of the download depends on the size of the file and the speed of the internet connection. One fine tip, in order for you to select multiple pictures, you need to hold and press the control (ctrl) key.
Having one of the latest and best digital camera’s money can buy, one would surely have the annoying experience of having their pictures cropped, a missing head there, a half body there, why. Well, having the best camera and the latest ones assures that you get more pixels onto each image. The term mega-pixel means millions of pixels per image meaning the number of picture units. Imagine a 1 mega-pixel image to have 1 million dots of colors that makes up the whole image. Going further back, if you have ever been curious of the way your LCD screen or CRT TV works, get a magnifying glass and you get down to the individual pixels that makes up each and every image. the term RGB means the whole color spectrum is represented by red-green-blue, dots, varying their intensity gives you the many colors of the spectrum. All that comes down to millions of pixels or image units, the higher the number the finer the image. Read the rest of this entry » »
Black and white still has a sense of mystery and beauty where the subject and shadows play to make one heck of a picture that can last for years. Life in black in white used to be the norm and the style does have a strong following of staunch supporters. One problem facing this art is that there are almost no more developers who use the age-old method of developing prints, replaced by automated robots that nowadays do the printing. One thing black and white developing had of the old days was longevity, which resisted water and lasted years. Read the rest of this entry » »
7. So, you have no idea when to shoot horizontally and vertically? If you have been practicing with your camera for quite some time now, deciding how to shoot will come naturally. However, if you’re just starting, you have to keep in mind that should the subject’s height be higher than the width, you have to shoot vertically.
8. Are you guilty of saying “cheese!” every time you click your camera? You might want to change your style. Saying “cheese” sometimes forces the people to smile so big that it looks awkward.
9. Look around you. Is there a glass surface at your subject’s back? If you see one, then better shift your position if you plan to use the flash. You wouldn’t want light reflecting back, don’t you?
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