July 15, 2009
Some days back, I was looking for a quick and easy way to add an artistic touch to my travel pictures. With a slew of free photo editing programs out there, I was sure I’ll find one that colors my pictures like famous paintings in one-click. I didn’t have to look far: we covered FlauntR, [...]
July 13, 2009
After Michael Jackson’s shocking demise, I was watching some slideshows on the web that showed his face changing over the years. I was reminded of cool morphing special effects in movies and wondered if there was any website that allowed me to morph my face into a famous celebrity. Of course, like everything else here [...]
June 24, 2009
Good evening, Ladies and Gents, Allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Mike, also (hopefully) known in the online community as Commodore 64 or C64 for short. I have spent the last 12 years, since Photoshop 5.5, exploring the many realms of this staple of the graphic designer’s diet. Aside from the usual plethora [...]
May 9, 2009
There are hundreds of free image editors out there for your computer, many of which are known as “bloatware” since they are bloated with unecessary features. Sometimes you just want a light, simple program that doesn’t take forever to load and will let you do a few simple tasks. Well, here is a list of [...]
April 25, 2009
You want to create your own panorama, but do not want to bother with messy details like control points and blending options? Here are 5 ways to get you up and running with your own panorama without getting embroiled in advanced photographic terminology. Clevr Clevr is a website that allows you to upload your overlapped [...]
April 8, 2009
Hi there. Post 4 of 5. We’ve looked at Installation, Views and Editing, and now we’re going to take a look at the special effects magic that Picasa can work on your images. Feel free to head back to the start, or just dive in here. Kate, who has been helping me with Mac version [...]
April 6, 2009
Welcome to post 3. If you’ve stumbled across this series out of order, you might like to check out the Installation post, and the View post which follows it. My good friend and Mac-Meister, Kate has taken a wander through the draft, and tells me there aren’t any differences of note, so dig in, Mac [...]
April 5, 2009
If you’ve been following along with the Installation post, you’ll have Picasa up and running. I’d like to show you around the interface, which I admit I found a little confusing for a start. Kate tells me that aside from two things I’ll point out below, this is all on the up-and-up for the Mac [...]
April 4, 2009
If there ever was a photo editor for the rest of us, this is it. Picasa 3.0 is a free, downloadable easy-to-use photo editor from Google. If you don’t want to learn to use Photoshop (and don’t want to pay for it), but you’d like your images to look great, you could certainly make worse [...]
March 28, 2009
Trying to make your photos more interesting? Thinking about learning Photoshop to add some creative effects to images? How about achieving similar results by nothing more than point and click? Check out the following sites to add funny, interesting and artistic effects to your photos: Photofunia This is one of those websites that will really [...]
