September 14, 2010
Mac doesn’t count nearly as many free image editors as Windows. This is something you won’t notice if you’re using Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator or Apple’s own Preview application. But you’ll need a second mortgage to afford Photoshop, and Preview doesn’t do much more than annotating and cropping. Looking for freeware clears the stage of all [...]
September 13, 2010
A few weeks ago, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a spare partition. I’d dabbled with Linux before, mainly through a Knoppix Live CD many moons ago but working at MakeUseOf, it’s often hard to ignore some of the great articles aimed at Linux users and these ultimately made Ubuntu quite an attractive proposition. That, and [...]
August 28, 2010
There’s a thousand and one screen capture utilities around the web, including quite a few commercial applications. Windows’ built-in Microsoft Paint can actually be used as a decent screenshot utility that you can start using without having to download extra software or spend money, particularly if you know a few tricks. This MS Paint tutorial [...]
August 3, 2010
What can you do with your photo collections? The most common actions are saving them in your hard drive, sharing them with friends and family, or printing them in a picture book. For those who want to go a little bit further, you can geotag the photos, organize the photos by faces and places, and [...]
July 30, 2010
Although Apple’s iPhoto is not a high class professional image editor, it is still a powerful tool for editing and enhancing photos. It can transform a dull, bland and low contrast image and make it pop and sing with just a few added effects and exposure adjustments. In fact, after going through this tutorial, you [...]
July 26, 2010
The idea behind tilt-shift is to make your photographs of real life-sized objects look like photographs of models. No, not supermodels. That’s a whole different subject. TitlShiftmaker makes this easy, and the results are great. You can buy lenses for big cameras that do this stuff properly, but most of us will never find the [...]
July 22, 2010
IrfanView is a compact graphic viewer for Windows. It’s small, fast, and offers an incredible amount of features. Best of all, it’s freeware. Per default, IrfanView comes with some basic features, including multi-language support, a large number of supported file formats, paint options, slideshow capability, batch conversion, and a lot more. The application can be [...]
July 6, 2010
Pixo is an application that allows you to apply special effects to your photos. In this case, it’s not about what you can do. You can replicate most of this functionality with numerous other tools. It’s more about how you do it. This interface is easy, simple, flexible, and a whole lot of fun. They [...]
July 2, 2010
With digital photography largely taking over traditional film photography’s place, it has become more and more important to have an image editing software. The king of kings is, of course, Photoshop, but with a price tag of $699 for the full version, many started to wonder if there aren’t free options around that could do the [...]
June 18, 2010
As awesome and powerful as Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are, these programs can be both expensive and overwhelming for many users. However, there are several free image editors or design alternatives that can be downloaded for free, such as Delight’s Image Tricks. Unlike Photoshop, Image Tricks contains all of its tools in a single interface. [...]
