March 28, 2009
During my early years of education, I can’t deny the fact that I dreamed A LOT. Whether my mind wandered into sports, lunch or the weekend, my grades could have been a lot better and my life could have been a lot different if I just paid a little more attention. Some of the time [...]
February 22, 2009
Aviary is an online photo editor suite that has a lot of promise and currently has four applications – Peacock Visual Laboratory, Phoenix Image Editor, Raven Vector Editor and Toucan Color Palettes. The site has two membership plans available at the time of writing this article – Basic (free) and Pro ($9.99 per month). With [...]
February 21, 2009
Most of the digital images and pictures you see on the web are raster graphics images or bitmaps (.bmp). A raster graphics image is simply defined with a grid of pixels that are set to certain colors. Raster graphics images are resolution dependent and cannot be made larger without loss of apparent quality. Therefore, for [...]
December 16, 2008
MakeUseOf readers are a discerning bunch. While its true that I say this to flatter you it may very well be true, and so it is only fitting that this site now sports a fresh new look. Your aesthetic curiosity now whetted by the new MakeUseOf, where do you turn to for supplementary visual pleasure? [...]
October 14, 2008
Image search is evolving quickly. Today you don’t even need to use words to search images. Now you can use colors!. That’s right you can search images by color. Let’s search the web for an autumn-like palette (yellow, red, brown) using the following 3 services. Let’s see how the search results are like. 1. PicItUp [...]
August 23, 2008
I am no webmaster by any stretch of the imagination, yet there are times in the course of my work where I need to be able to match the color of something on my screen to a project that I am working on. There are several ways that I know of to do that. The [...]
August 13, 2008
Webcomics are perhaps a more unusual subject for you to see on Make Use Of, but I thought it’d be a nice change of pace. With the rise of the internet came the ability for everyone and anyone to self-publish. ‘Webcomics’ is a term that came to refer to any cartoon published on websites and [...]
July 24, 2008
There is no dearth of online image editing tools and we have already covered some of the most powerful ones and some more free image editing programs. Each of the tools try to distinguish them from the herd by including some eye-popping features and effects and thus try everything to emulate the ultimate software which [...]
July 8, 2008
TinEye is an image search engine by Idée that lets you find where a particular image has been used on the web. You are probably saying, “Oh, but there is Google image search for me. Why would I need another one?”. But TinEye is an entirely different kind of image search. While Google image search [...]
May 4, 2008
Those people who frown at the Linux GUI (Graphical User Interface) haven’t actually experienced the 3D effects provided by Compiz. Compiz is a composite manager that adds visually pleasing 3D effects to your desktop – these include the cube effect and other window minimization effects that make things very appealing on your screen. For instance, [...]
