A recent trend has been the more frequent use of full page images in Web designs. One can see big images used in sliders like the Fox Sports design or Giorgio . Also see the big changing backgrounds images such as those used at Newsweek’s website. Big images give Web designers some real advantages using […]
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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 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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ThePhotoFinishes has been an admirer of Xara’s photo finishing software like Xara Photo Designer Pro. And why not?. Xara software is super fast particularly when dealing with large bitmap images [30MB or larger] and vector graphic files[20K graphic point or more]; many of its operations are drag and drop simple to do or just a
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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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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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For PhotoFinishing, mobile apps like Instagram, FxReviews, and PicSay have re-invigorated a revolution started by such web photofinishing tools as Picnik [see here the new Picniks since Google closed shop ]. The idea was to add visual fun to images which was inspired originally by Photoshop plugins like Impressionist or Virtual Painter or Flaming Pear.
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