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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There are people who refuse to embrace photo editing as one vital aspect of digital photography in coming up with a great photo. Editing has been part of the film photography for the last 150 years. When you send your pictures to a developing lab require much work for the photo technician. He has to adjust exposure or crop out something. Editing gives life to the otherwise raw photos. One important factor in an image is exposure. Correct exposure can either break or make a picture. Underexposure and overexposure is the most common problem you will encounter. Luckily, you can edit exposure through the photo editor’s Histogram Level. Try that out in your photo editing program, may it be the Photoshop or some other editing programs.
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Picnikは強力で頼れる編集機能で簡単にイメージを素敵に編集できます。 納得するまでいじる。 もっとクリエイティブに、もっとプロみたいに。 効果、フォントのバラエティー、異なる形とフレームなどがあります。 楽しくて簡単、そして手早くできます。. 写真の調整もボタンをクリックするだけです。 コントールを見れば、その使いやすさが実感できます。 写真のサイズ変更、クロップ、回転もリアルタイムでできます。 リンク張りにも山ほどの効果が用意されています。 手早くアクセスも簡単で、ブラウザにも馴染みます。 タイピングが必要ないざという時のために、最新のフォントも揃っています。 Mac, Windows、Linuxにて作動します。 そして何よりも素晴らしいのは、ダウンロードしてインストールする必要がありません。
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驚いたことに、今日で素晴らしい写真編集用ソフトというのは、極わずかです。 これらのツールは編集者のニーズに応え、非常に便利なソフトです。 最低限必要な機能を列挙してみたいと思います。
インポート、編集、シェア、整理、サポートとコンフィギアが必要です。 ソフトのパッケージだけで、それがあなたにとってベストなソフトかを判断するのは非常に難しいです。 ソフトを探した後に出来ることは、ソフトを使った時に「感じる」ことです。 いつの時も、それがどれを選ぶかを決める決定打になるでしょう。 写真整理機能の使い心地もチェックしたいかもしれません。 写真整理機能は写真編集ソフトの鍵となる機能です。 写真整理機能はオペレーティングシステムと関連して、干渉せずに作動することでしょう。
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Picnik is an easy to use photo tool to make your images fabulous with powerful editing arsenal. Tweak til you drop. Be creative and be like a pro. Its got loads of effects, variety of fonts, different shapes and frames. It’s fun, easy and fast. It can fix your photos with a click of a button. You can fine tune with the available controls. You can resize and crop and even rotate pictures in real time. Theres tons of special effects available to your liking. It is fast, easy to access, right in the comforts of your browser. Latest fonts are available for your immediate type tool needs. It works on Mac, Windows and Linux. Whats best is, it doesnt require you to download and install anything.
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There are amazingly, just a few number of excellent photo editing softwares available today. These tools offer a great deal of useful tools to meet the editor’s demands. Some of its feature should include at least;
Importing,Editing, Sharing, Organizing, Editing, Support and Configurations. It would be difficult to decipher which of the software packages has the best tools for your use. The only thing too look for next is the your ” feel” when using it. Its almost always the best chance of knowing what to choose. You may want to to check out the organizing capability. Organiztion is the key part of photo editing tools. Organization function that will work hand in hand with your operating system and not conflict with it.
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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.
Part 2 of Photo Ethics
There are still ethics involved in taking pictures especially those of unknown subjects in of different cultures while traveling n another country. You can’t just go shooting at random people with your camera! In this series of posts, I shall attempt in giving a few tips on how to be polite when taking photos.
If you are merely traveling and taking pictures on leisure and not on assignment (hey, you’ll never know!), payment or tipping shouldn’t be an issue. Some photographers do this. If it works for you (like if you have a budget for it), then why not? But if paying people makes you a little uncomfortable, then don’t forget to include sweets and other souvenirs in your travel bag. Children love them! I have to warn you though, give these gifts only after the fact and not as a means to get someone to agree with having his or her picture taken. Do not bribe. Remember – ethics!
This is a cool tutorial on creating a rain effect for your images.
The first thing you need to do is to open your image. Go to the Layers palette and duplicate the image so you wont have to work on the original. Go to the menu bar and click Image. Go to Adjustments then Curves and adjust the settings. Put Input: 150 and Output: 60.
Now add another layer. And set the background to White. Go to the menu bar and then Filter. Choose Noise and Add noise. Click on Gaussian and monochromatic. Set the amount to 110.
Next, go back to the menu bar and click on Filter. Choose Blur then Motion blur. Set the angle to -65 and distance to 40.
Go to menu bar. Click on Image then Adjustments then Levels. Make sure that the Channel is set to RGB. Set the Input levels to 5 _ 0.25 _ 255 and Output levels to 0 _ 255 then Ok.
Go back to the Layers palette and change Mode to Screen.
And voila!
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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