You can find out a lot about photography right here on MakeUseOf. Stitching panoramas, finding new cameras, adding borders to photographs, getting your images noticed, finding photos, photo blogs,  and a whole lot more, but sometimes you need a real fix. You need, in fact, to get amongst it. Here are some places to go. [...]

You can install Windows 7 on a virtual machine like what Guy did (Parts 1 & 2) and that’s a very valid and safe option. However, the odds are that eventually, you’ll need to install it on an actual computer if you want to use it on a daily basis. I did. Take advantage of [...]

So, we’ve covered all the core Picasa capabilities. It’s taken five posts, but it’s a big subject. We’ve gone through Installation, Views, Editing and Special Effects. It’s time to think outside the box in this last post. Kate’s done a stunning job of reviewing my notes on a Mac, and letting me know what’s different. [...]

Hi there. Post 4 of 5. We’ve looked at Installation, Views and Editing, and now we’re going to take a look at the special effects magic that Picasa can work on your images. Feel free to head back to the start, or just dive in here. Kate, who has been helping me with Mac version [...]

Welcome to post 3. If you’ve stumbled across this series out of order, you might like to check out the Installation post, and the View post which follows it. My good friend and Mac-Meister, Kate has taken a wander through the draft, and tells me there aren’t any differences of note, so dig in, Mac [...]

If you’ve been following along with the Installation post, you’ll have Picasa up and running. I’d like to show you around the interface, which I admit I found a little confusing for a start. Kate tells me that aside from two things I’ll point out below, this is all on the up-and-up for the Mac [...]

If there ever was a photo editor for the rest of us, this is it. Picasa 3.0 is a free, downloadable easy-to-use photo editor from Google. If you don’t want to learn to use Photoshop (and don’t want to pay for it), but you’d like your images to look great, you could certainly make worse [...]

There’s nothing quite like finding an actual, honest, unbiased opinion, especially in the technology arena. If you could get some sort of logic applied to the opinions as well, the value would go through the roof. That’s the whole basis of BestInClass. Find a group of experts who actually know what they are talking about, [...]

You remember a few weeks ago I was talking about Clipperz, and how you could securely store your passwords online? Let’s take that a little further with 3tags. The concept here is similar, although the focus is different. 3tags is designed as a way to store and organize notes online securely. Bear in mind that [...]

We’ve covered a few web services which are able to create mosaics from your online photo collections before. PicArtia, and Pixisnap for instance. We also covered this area in 6 quick ways to jazz up your photos.  Varun also recently covered AndreaMosaic. But if you have a large number of images stored locally, and you [...]

YourFonts provides an easy way to get add signature to photos using your own handwriting. After that, it’s all very simple. I’m writing this on the basis that you’re a Windows user, but I’m sure you’ll be able to translate my instructions if not. If you’ve ever fiddled with fonts before you’ll know that constructing [...]

Capzles is a relatively new free site that lets you create entertaining social photo story lines very easily. You could call them slideshows or photo stories, but really they are a whole level above the Flickr slideshows I was talking about last time. The site has been running for about a year, and went public [...]

You know, the fact is that some folk just don’t want to troll through your thousands of images. They like them, but they can’t be bothered. What they want is a no-effort option that looks nice. Now. Enter the slideshow. I’m old enough to remember when it was common for folk who had been on [...]

A traditional watermark is a variation in the thickness of paper that is visible under certain conditions. Watermarks have been used for security purposes for a long time. They have also been used by paper manufacturers as some indication of quality. In the digital age, watermarks are defined in a different way. There are basically [...]

Last week I had a catastrophic outage of my ADSL connection at home. If you think the word catastrophic is too strong then you don’t have teenage geeks in your house. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, send me your address, and I’ll forward the kids. C.O.D. Tonight. In any case, after waiting [...]