For the past 5 years, Pixlr has been ranked as one of the best free online photo-editors. For example, The Photofinishes and TechRadar agreed that Pixlr was a top featured online Photo editors. Pixlr looks a lot like Photoshop supporting layers, selections, photo effects plus a broad range of color and text stylings as seen […]
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As a photographer and Web Designer/Developer the most frequent question I am asked “is how can I protect my pictures from being stolen?” The question recently arose again when I showed a client the David Hockney website and thus encountered its somewhat forbidding entrance way: Immediately the client said “That is exactly what I want to put on my
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Adobe has announced that it will drop support [both updates and operational/security fixes] for Flash Player sometime in 2020. Already major browser vendors Google, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge have put in place schedules to drop drop support for the Flash player in 2020. Already Google requires users to clear Flash for use everytime an
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Our fellow tutorial website, TheOpensourcery.com, has recently completed a review of Online Interactive Diagrammimg Apps. The review discovered that within the past 5 years the number and quality of free [or freemium] online apps for Interactive Diagramming had improved considerably. The Features of the online apps rivalled Microsoft Visio for number of diagram and flowcharting
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Images and other media such as gallery of images, videos, pdfs, soundfiles etc have been secondary citizens when working with the WordPress Media Library. WordPress has added support for video, pdf, Microsoft Windows files, soundfiles etc over the past 10 years. Users can now edit Media Library images – cropping them and downsizing them. And
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DesignCap.com is an online poster and cards creator. It looks like Canva.com from about 4 years ago. Take a look: The basic sidebar menu on the left is nearly identical – Templates of poster and card designs is the starting point: Now DesignCap has two dozen categories for their templates covering a wide range of
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For the past 5-6 years, my goto Photo Editor for a number of tasks has not been Adobe PhotoShop or Corel Paintshop Pro, but rather Photoscape – especially for quick batch color corrections and photo display tasks like creating collages or animated GIF. In effect, Photoscape became the Swiss Army Knife for rapid photo edits.
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Five years ago, I wrote about how I had given up on a Mac computer being good for graphic artists. A travesty ? Well, I had a number of beefs but the crucial two were 1)Macs always losing graphic speed tests to Windows machines and 2) was the lack of touchscreen operation on Mac machines. Yes
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