Just four day ago this site’s featured review was The Image Format WebP Has Arrived. The review explained how it has taken 10 years for the Google backed WebP image format to gain traction in the Web Graphics marketplace despite the pressing need for better image compression plus support for animation and other advanced image […]
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Here are two stats that will be of interest to Designers and Photo Finishers. WordPress currently is used on 27.3% of all the World’s websites well ahead of Drupal at 2.2% and Joomla at 3.4% while Weebly, Wix and SquareSpace barely have 0.5% presence worldwide. the second stat is that images alone [ excluding Flash and
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There are many images on the Web that are just good. This small tutorial will show how easy it is to go from good to better using a free Photoshop-like Image editor. However this could also be done online with anyone of 8 free online image editors. In the spirit of demo-ing how practical the
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Ten years ago it used to be true that when one needed to fixup an image or make a quick drawing live online, users were out of luck if they were on a smartphone, at the library’s computers or using a tablet. Those days have gone by. Just 3 years ago thePhotoFinishes looked at the wealth
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Over on my sister publications, PixofToronto.com and PicsofCanada.com I am doing a story about graffiti mural artists in Toronto. One analysis is to see if there is a color motif or fingerprint for the various artists and their works. For example, here is the Marina Wall graffiti found down in the Queen and Spadina and
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Ever since Adobe transitioned to a profit maximizing for itself plan of annual charges for Photoshop and its suite of products, this reviewer has been looking for alternatives to Adobe’s offerings. The reasons are simple: 1)the hefty price increases based on my 4-6 year upgrade cycle; 2)Adobe’s overweaning prescription of how files and resources are
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The PhotoFinishes links to some of the best online color tools for photographers and designers. Thus we are constantly on the lookout for new and more innovative tools. Here are some of the latest: Pictaculous Pictaculous analyzes your uploaded image for its palette then goes to Adobe Kuler and Colourlovers to get 5 suggested palettes
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Aviary provides a web and mobile app based photo-editor which illustrates a base line of what features to expect in a decent photo editor for both platforms. Now with demise of Picnik , thePhotoFishes has already looked into web-based photo-editors but not photo-editors for mobile apps. So lets take a look at what Aviary has to
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