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 [...]

There’s nothing quite like a nicely framed photograph. Ideally we’re talking about some classy wood and quality glass. If your image is heading to Grandma for her birthday, then that’s probably the best option. But for many of us, photographs largely live online, ready to be admired and/or criticised by the masses. For some situations, [...]

Flickr contains over three billion photos. let’s face it. Some of them are better than yours, and mine. But despite that, there are things you can do to be noticed. Tagging Everything on the web is about context, and Flickr is no exception. If you provide tags for your photos then people can gather more [...]