Every year, despite global warming, Winter intrudes its cool self into Spring almost to the point of Summer. That is my excuse for not doing thePhotoFinishes.com’s makover for Spring this year and the reason it will be a Spring-Summer makeover. The makeover includes a new header image that emphasize the delicately gaudy Spring pastel colors: […]
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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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Imagify from WP-Media is one of about a half dozen image compression online apps which also have WordPress plugins. This review compares Imagify compression versus the reigning compression champion, Riot.exe. Imagify runs as an app and as a plugin for free up to 50MB of compressions per month then there are a variety of plans to choose
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Photoscape has well earned the title of the Swiss Army Knife of photo editors. Recently, more clients have been asking about a tool that does batch editing of files for resize and quick fixes. Photoscape, a free program available for both Windows and Mac, has one of the most versatile Batch Editors. This tutorial describe how
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Well ye Editor finally shucked off the Winter with a cold shudder and made the change to a Summer New Look for thePhotoFinishes.com. Bah humbug! The new design for the header resulted in two images: A racy design for the very hot days of summer upcoming- and our politicians have guaranteed HOT HOT HOT for July and August And
A Touch of Color works very well in photofinishing. By lowering an image to just hints of the original hues or leaving just traces of the original full colors, graphic artists have attractive design alternatives. This post will look at a range of color hints and touches available to photofinishers. Full Color Traces It would appear
Sometimes creating a background for a website is easy because the website’s subject matter, as in the case of a knitting site, offers plenty of background images for tiling. But other times, after several rejected proposals, one can start pulling an already thin crop of hair. But not any more thanks to SiteOrigin’s Background Generator.
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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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