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Why are we reviewing yet another image editing program? Isn’t there a forest of them out there? Sure…but don’t you think occasionally it pays to take a second look at some of the really good ones. After all, would you stop looking at a pretty girl just because there is a population of them in your town! Easy Image Modifier carries another advantage - it comes well recommended from our legion of readers, and that enabled it to find a place in our list of Best Portable Apps.
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How many photos would you say you have? More than a hundred? Six hundred? A thousand? Pictures are a big part of all of our lives, but there is else something which is equally important and that is where those precious pictures are stored. You likely keep the majority of them on your computer (although more and more, we are relying on smartphones). But what happens when you add them to your computer? Do you organize them?
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Hugely thanks to internet superpower Reddit, Imgur is definitely regarded as the web's most elite all-purpose image host. The website's emergence took a huge chunk out of similar sites like Tinypic. Imgur just does free image hosting better. The look and feel of the uploading interface is so much nicer than other sites in the same class and it'll definitely help when you aren't barraging users with ads.
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Personally, I love Photoshop's PSD file format. It's a way to save everything that's going on in the image editor at a given moment, so you can pick up work later, or incorporate slight changes in an elaborate file without having to start from scratch. However, a lot of people - image artists included - aren't ready or willing to spend the money for this expensive image editing suite.
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We all edit images to some degree. Whether it’s a simple crop or resize, or maybe just adding some text, it’s nice to have an image editor that is reliable, fast, easy to navigate and assists you in getting the job done quickly. There are a lot of fancy image editors available such as the well-known Adobe Photoshop and even the quite popular GIMP. These are full-fledge image editors however, and often more than what the average user needs.
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If there is a single time-saving tip that I could ever offer to any writer, student, professional or anyone else that needs to produce documents with images, it’s the ability to bulk-resize images. When I first started writing online, I would resize all of my web page images individually, depending on the page that I [...]
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Everyone likes taking pictures every now and then. You might be only a holiday photographer, or mainly an Instagram photographer, but when you do take pictures, you want them to look good. Especially if you plan on sharing them or printing them. Professional photographers know all about compositions, and have the patience and equipment to get everything just right. But do you?
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Though it's a little difficult to gauge just how many webmasters browse MakeUseOf, any one that you talk to will let you know that image optimization and sparing every bit of bandwidth possible is a key to running a successful and affordable website. The PNG is the FLAC of the world of images. We all love PNGs. They are a lossless replacement to the patent-locked GIF and make transparency look beautiful.
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Writing for MakeUseOf means that, as an author, I get through a lot of coffee, a lot of software and a lot of screenshots. Regardless of the operating system I’m using, if I’m reviewing software, rounding up websites or showing off tips and tricks then I’m going to be including screenshots to better illustrate the product or process. I learned pretty quickly that through the wonders of batch conversion that you can save yourself precious time when it comes to image processing.
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PhotoSweeper from Overmacs is an essential space saver and photo tidy-up utility for both professionals and home users alike. PhotoSweeper examines your photos to find similar images, allowing you quickly sort through and choose the best. This week, we're giving away 25 copies of PhotoSweeper for OS X, valued at $250. Read more to explore the app and join the giveaway.
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As a blogger and a normal guy who is running out of space on his hard drive, I am always on the lookout for a good image compression program. Thanks to the plethora of image editing apps available on the web, I am spoilt for choice. What I am looking for are fast, clean (i.e. uncluttered), and efficient image optimizers that are dead simple to use. I have found three so far.
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Have you ever taken a lot of photos and needed to edit them all at once? Whether they need to be resized, rotated, or combined into a photo album, editing the photos one-by-one can be a pain. BatchPhoto, which touts itself as the fastest photo editor, makes this easy. We’re giving away 25 copies of BatchPhoto Home for Windows and Mac worth nearly $875 this week! Read on for instructions on entering our giveaway and earning your own copy!
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Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve given away ArcSoft products in the past. This week, we’ll be giving away 25 copies of Arcsoft Panarama Maker 6 worth a total of $2000 absolutely free!
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The developers behind the freeware image editor GIMP have finally released a new version, GIMP 2.8. Users have been rewarded for their wait by a huge list of new features and improvements. The most obvious new feature is the new “single window” view. GIMP has always opened as a cluster of windows – the main [...]
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Taking digital photos can be lots of fun, but you don't need to limit yourself to simply sharing them on Facebook or on your iDevices. You and your kids can have fun creating scrapbook pages, collages and journal entries using existing photos on your iPad or one's you take with your device's built-in camera.
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