Digital Photography has become one of the most popular leisure activities. One can literally see its cornucopia like flow on social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Pinterest. For example, Instagram alone gets over 5 million image uploads per day. Web images are key to story telling on diverse sites like NYTimes, Sports Illustrated, […]
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Continuing our Series on Sliders, here is the an innovative Grid Accordion slider that saves display space and works well with action shots. Okay, Grid Accordion is not a really a slider – it shows all your images on one page in grid layout. I have seen grid accordions of anywhere from 2 x 2
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Zooming into images is becoming an alternative to using light boxes which often take a while to initialize. Here is one called powerzoom. Just hover the mouse over the image. Here we compare before and after images. Note the optimized JPEG is 1/3rd the size but does lose some crispness. For the complete story on
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In 2008 thePhotoFinishes did a popular review of the 5 best online Photo Editors. Having just taken a tour of the best online photo editors, some of the 5 best were rediscovered 5 years later. Here are their stories in a field that is frankly over-crowded with great online photo finishing tools. How well do
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Autodesk Pixlr has emerged in the past year as one of the best online Photo Editors. What makesPixlr remarkable is 1)its actually 3 online photo editing apps and 2)it is written in Adobe Flash+Air and 3)it is amazingly fast and 4)it also one of the most feature complete of the online photo apps. It is
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There is a new version 4 of Artweaver available and this is important for a number of reasons. First, as one of the group of free PC photo editors, Artweaver like the others continues to upgrade and improve on a timely basis. Second, Artweaver is a Photoshop clone which provides basic color adjustment, masking+selection and layering
ThePhotoFinishes will be offering a series of free presentations Starting this Fall and featuring key Photo Finishing skills and crafts. The presentations will be available at local libraries or the Studio. The presentations are 50 minute lectures and a ten minute Question and Answer session for issues that did not get resolved during the presentation.
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3 free Photo Editors continue to improve greatly over the past year. They are Artweaver, Photo Filtre and Photoscape. The following slideshow summarizes their features as covered here previously. [gview file=”http://imagenation.theopensourcery.com/freephotoedit2007a.pptx” height=”600px” width=”800px” save=”0″] But here are some newer features that are worthy of consideration. Again, in alphabetical order. Artweaver Artweaver has improved in its
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