May 21, 2013
Sometimes you just want to fix up a picture without all of the baggage and learning curves that come with powerhouse image editors like Photoshop and GIMP. Obviously, a program as primitive as Paint won’t do, and even middle-of-the-road programs like Paint.NET sometimes won’t cut it. Thankfully, Ashampoo’s Photo Commander 11 steps in to fill the gap. We’re giving away 10 copies of Photo Commander 11 worth a total of $500 for free!
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May 1, 2013
Quickly make an animated GIF of anything. GifCam is a free, portable app for Windows that provides you with a simple frame. Resize and position it, then hit record - everything that happens within that frame will be recorded. It's the easiest way to create your own GIF of just about anything — from desktop demonstrations to clips from any video, online or off. If you love creating GIFs, but wish the process was quicker, you need to check this app out.
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April 30, 2013
Imgur is an awesome website for hosting your photos – we all know that. Its clean interface, awesome community, and integration with social networks make it one of the best places on the Internet to look for and post your images. But you still have to go to the website to upload your photos. Just another tab to have open right? Not necessarily.
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March 29, 2013
ZScreen and ZUploader have come together to form one of the most powerful and reliable solutions to sharing, mainly screenshots, but also nearly anything else you can think of. ShareX can upload more than screenshots. You can upload text, files, shorten URLs, and more. It's very versatile and offers a lot of new features to this niche of software.
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March 24, 2013
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a Photoshop wizard or anything even close to impressive when it comes to editing photos. Like everyone should though, I know the basics. I'm proud to say that I can set an image's transparency, crop, resize, and even convert between image file formats. It's not much to brag about, but it's required for the job. But what happens when you've got a whole folder full of images that need resized?
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March 5, 2013
Several months ago, I told you about 7 free ways to batch edit your photos. While researching this post, I found many useful tools that can save you time when resizing, renaming, and editing multiple photos. Most of these tools were installed programs, and while they each come with many useful features, using them was confusing at times. Another problem with many of these tools is that you can’t use them to crop images.
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February 9, 2013
Great software can be hard to come by. That is why there are a select few that stand out and become increasingly popular. What defines "great software"? Typically a program should be practical and useful, lightweight - even portable, feature-packed, and to top it all off, free. Fotografix is all of those and that is why it landed a spot in the Image Editors and Viewers category on our Best Of Portable Apps page.
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February 6, 2013
Photoshop virtuosos who can work their magic with the clone tools, know what a mask and content fill is will probably appreciate the labor it takes to touch up a photo. Inpaint flattens out the learning curve while helping you to keep your savings from bottoming out. It costs only $19.99 and comes for both Windows and Mac. But you can claim one of 18 free licenses using your MakeUseOf points!
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January 8, 2013
If there's one thing in the world you should hate doing, it's wasting time when you know there's got to be a better way to go about completing a task. If you're one of those people who go through every single photograph they take and edit them one after another, you've got reason to be grumpy. That's time that BatchPhoto can save you. This week, we're giving away 25 free copies of BatchPhoto Home! Continue reading through my review of the software, and at the end of this post feel free to enter our giveaway for your chance to win. I'll be reviewing through the Windows version of BatchPhoto, but our giveaway will allow those of you on a Mac to redeem a copy also.
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January 4, 2013
Out-of-focus photos are becoming increasingly popular for some reason, but putting those tacky Instagram filters aside, blurry photos and videos are usually an annoyance. You’ve gone through the trouble to shoot a once-in-a-lifetime family video, only to discover it’s all blurry and shaky. You’ve taken a set of pictures you really want to use, but alas, their all slightly out of focus. It turns out there’s are dedicated programs that aim to fix just this annoyance.
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December 28, 2012
Let’s admit it, the iPad’s camera is not the best in the world, and even if it were, it can be hard to take really good photos with it. Heck, even with a real camera, most photos need some sort of touch up to be perfect. So is there a good way to do this on the iPad? Browsing my way through our Best of iPad Apps page, I found a new app – Photogene.
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December 21, 2012
If you want to get really good results, you need to download some kind of graphics software or other editing app, and put it through its paces. But now, you can do most of your photo editing online, and achieve some pretty impressive results. Yes, there are some things you’ll still need Photoshop and friends for, you can’t escape that, but today I’m going to show you several online editing tools that will blow you away. The future is truly here!
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December 19, 2012
A diptych consists of 2 images displayed side by side, and can often be a creative and attractive way to tell an even more elaborate story with your images. While with a little bit of effort, you can create a diptych or photo collage using Photoshop, there are now web-based, desktop and mobile options that make the process a lot easier. Each of the options below offer users a different experience.
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December 13, 2012
Have you ever needed or wanted to mark an image as yours to prevent others from duplicating it and/or claiming it as their own? You might already know that this is called watermarking. The process is pretty simple, but finding an efficient, easy and inexpensive way isn’t always as simple. There are some very powerful do-it-all photo editors out there, such as Photoshop, which can watermark photos.
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December 11, 2012
Of all the default applications that come with the Mac OS X operating system, Preview might be the one I use the most. As picture viewers (and PDF readers) come, it’s an amazingly slick and powerful tool, doing everything you’d come to expect, and then some. That’s one of the most crucial issues with these [...]
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