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Right behind the Nikon D90, Apple’s iPhone 4 is the most popular camera in terms of pictures taken and uploaded to the photo sharing site, Flickr. While this little camera in your pocket has its limitations, there are hundreds of apps that provide it with some truly professional features and enhancements. There are hundreds of [...]
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Photos taken with the camera app on the iPhone have become sort of an art form, typically referred to as iPhoneography. It’s not that the iPhone camera is superior to other mobile camera apps; rather, it's the assortment of artistic processing apps that make iPhone images unique, and sort of a genre of their own. Not all images taken with the iPhone can put into the iPhoneography category, so what does an iPhoneographic image look like?
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While the goal of every photographer is to take the perfect snapshot that requires zero editing, the manifold tools that are available can also be a source of great entertainment for the hobby picture takers. Not only can you improve your photos by adjusting the frame, correcting blemishes, or changing the color, you can also add cool effects and fun elements.
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If you own an iPad camera connection kit, while it's certainly not the same as having access to Photoshop or other robust photo editing programs on your desktop, there's still quite a bit of photo editing you can get done without spending a penny on a single paid app using nothing more than your iPad.
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For iPhone and Android smartphone users, there are many photo sharing and styling apps fun to play with, and also for quickly uploading something interesting. Snapbucket is Photobucket's answer to fun, mobile photo sharing – and (unlike Instagram) it's available for both iOS and Android devices.
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Ever since we first featured Pixelmator in March 2010, it has been improved in so many ways. It's pretty much the affordable Photoshop alternative for Mac. We're giving away 25 copies of the latest version of Pixelmator this week, worth almost $1,500 in total; and saying goodbye to GIMP.
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There are nearly limitless ways to share your photos online these days. All of these sites provide you with a way to quickly sort your collections of photos and present them on individual webpages or slideshow presentations. But there's something about the old school album style that still makes photos stand out. That's why you might want to check out albm.com.
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Android users often bemoan the fact that they have to wait longer than iPhone users to get some of the cool apps - or that these applications never make it to the Android. A current complaint is that Hipstamatic and Instagram, both excellent iPhone retro photo manipulators, still aren't available on Android. So, what is a good Hipstamatic alternative for Android? Well, a number of apps fit the bill.
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Nobody can turn back time. That’s why memories are so precious. Along the centuries, humans have invented various ways to capture the moments and preserve those memories; from stories, poems, paintings to photos and videos. In the digital era, it’s only natural that we manage our “captured memories” digitally. For most people, photo and video are [...]
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Some of us here really enjoy using GIMP, and not only have we mentioned where to learn more about using GIMP, where to learn visually thanks to video tutorials, and where to learn to make your own wallpapers, but we’ve also provided our own simple tutorials to create image maps, improve your screenshots with callouts, [...]
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We’ve already explained several different ways that users can protect and watermark their images using Photoshop, and discussed the advantages to using offline methods for watermarking. But Photoshop isn’t exactly the most economical choice and if you don’t already own a copy, you won’t buy it simply to watermark your images. There are several free [...]
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There are several options on how to watermark your images online, but using an online service can have its drawbacks. They sometimes impose certain limitations, such as capping the image file size, and there is also the obvious inconvenience of not being able to watermark your images unless you have an internet connection. The most [...]
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Previously we have looked at some tutorials for anyone, new or advanced, to try his/her hand at creating artwork in GIMP because it CAN accomplish phenomenal works, especially in conjunction with other open-source software. Here’s a fun tutorial to cartoonify photos in GIMP (like you see in ads all over the web), here’s another one [...]
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Although you like taking photos, you may not have the time and experience for processing them. In this regard, Apple seems to continually streamline the editing tools in its popular image processing and management application, iPhoto.   With an understanding of iPhoto”˜s tools, you can correct problems and make enhancements to your photos with just [...]
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I have had some amazingly artistic friends who could turn out sketches and paintings with a dip of the brush. The envy remains, but with a tool like Psykopaint I can at least mimic some of their flourishes. Psykopaint (beta 3) is a free online painting application that takes a digital photo and transforms it [...]
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