June 14, 2010
In the last five years or so, the art of digital scrapbooking has exploded, in part because of imagining software like Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop, and the plethora of digital resources, workshops, magazines, web sites, and graphic design techniques that can help anyone put together some eye pleasing visual memories and artifacts. Scrapbooking is an [...]
June 12, 2010
It’s taken a long time, but finally the future of Linux photo managers is looking up. It’s all thanks to amazing new photo management software called Shotwell, which is simple enough to be usable and featured enough to be useful (a hard balance to strike, and a rare one in the Linux world). Sure, there [...]
June 9, 2010
Geotagging photos and visiting them by location is a topic which we have covered before. Mark showed us how to geotag your Flickr photos on Google Maps & Earth. He used a bookmarklet called Localize to geotag Flickr photos. That’s going to a third party, and there are lots of other ways to geotag photos [...]
March 3, 2010
Every Mac comes installed with Apple”˜s simple and useful application, Preview. Typically this application is used as the default program for viewing PDF’s, but this application can also be used to preview and edit photos. That’s right, some of the same basic editing and adjustment tools that you find in iPhoto or Photoshop are present [...]
March 3, 2010
Posters”¦there’s a subculture that has grown around them and has almost made them an art form. We had it hanging on our walls in our wonder years. Most of us have stared at them and dreamt up fantasies of strumming guitars or driving in Formula One. We got to see them around the boardroom with [...]
February 26, 2010
As the megapixel size of cameras get larger (the standard size seems to be 8 megapixels and larger), it means that the photos from your camera will be larger in pixel and document dimension sizes. These larger sizes do matter when it comes to printing, emailing, or posting images on a website. Any version of [...]
February 18, 2010
OK, so there are more than a few different places online to keep our photos. You may have accounts on Flickr, Google Picasa, Facebook, and even your Gmail account. One problem we run into is that our photos are scattered! Sometimes it’s difficult to find something if you have forgotten where it was uploaded to [...]
February 3, 2010
Have you ever wanted to fool around with the more sophisticated image editors, like Photoshop? Chances are, you have, but you didn’t know how to start. Starting the application for the first time can be wholly intimidating and even right out discouraging for newbies. We already published part one to the Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop [...]
January 28, 2010
There are generally two distinct reasons for attaching images to blogs. Firstly, there is the photoblog where photos are the main feature. Secondly, photos can also used as an accompaniment in blogs for visual effect. Let’s take them separately, but first some thoughts on what makes a good photograph generally.
January 28, 2010
If you blog, you know very well that your posts will be so much better if you include pictures with them. Well, at least they will be more visually attractive. Try to look at those big names in the blogosphere, they are richly adorned with pictures. Among the many ways of acquiring pictures, making screenshots [...]
