Big commanding full page slider as LibreOffice’s home landing page A new trend that is picking up steam is the use of full page backgound images and responsive full-page slides. As sliders become ever more accomplished and compression of images improve, fullpage mages abound – see Newsweek for some great examples. So instead of special event, […]
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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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There are now at least two major camera-phones coming to market where a camera-phone is a smartphone with a serious point+click camera attached – or vice versa. Two vendors, Nokia and Samsung, are testing the theory that a top of the line compact camera equivalent or better can help sell a premium priced smartphone. The first
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Remember the Flip video camera from 5 years ago? Simple and easy to use and able to feed the growing use of video on the Web. Cisco bought Flip for nearly $600M in March 2009. But two years later Cisco shutdown its Flip division as video came on board not only point+shoot as well as
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Great slideshows for great images has been a problem long addressed by photographers. As a member of the Calgary and Toronto camera clubs the slideshow command performances were a show in themselves with dual projector setups, music [or narration] and fantastic slide transitions. So it is not surprising to find some great Web slideshow apps.
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This blog has argued before that Samsung has a superior product development cycle that allows it to deliver better cameras, smartphone and other electronic devices on a timely basis. The whole idea is to draw from Agile software development – and quickly produce designs that meet consumer feature needs through live products every 6-12
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This summer, two smartphone manufacturers have issued very different but challenging visions to their competitors [and each other] of what a smartphone camera should be able to do. Hold on to your money and reins and take a look what will be coming likely this Fall. Samsung’s Galaxy NX – a full state of the
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For the next few months, thePhotoFinishes will be featuring some of the best,often free, photo display software and sliders in our Slider Series of reviews. The Animated Responsive Image Grid is another Codrops production which features Responsive slider, grid layout, links on each grid image and full screen operation. This is another solution to the
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