July 6, 2010
Pixo is an application that allows you to apply special effects to your photos. In this case, it’s not about what you can do. You can replicate most of this functionality with numerous other tools. It’s more about how you do it. This interface is easy, simple, flexible, and a whole lot of fun. They [...]
July 1, 2010
I was recently looking for a good, easy, and fun way to add impact to some images for a presentation, and I stumbled across what just might be the cutest photo application for creating Polaroid-style images. It’s called Poladroid, and the emphasis is on fun! A couple of years back, Jackson wrote about the Mac [...]
June 28, 2010
The thing I enjoy most about digital photography is the ability to manipulate photographs after they’ve been taken. However, the nostalgic side of me still remembers film photography and the quirks that came with it — little blemishes and white frames with the date stamp added to the photo’s character. Not to mention, the photo’s [...]
June 26, 2010
We’ve all seen those stunning high dynamic range (HDR) photography on the Web before. For some photographers, the technique simply means touching up a photo to make it look better, but at the same time making it look like nothing was done to it at all. Others go in a different direction, creating a more [...]
June 18, 2010
As awesome and powerful as Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are, these programs can be both expensive and overwhelming for many users. However, there are several free image editors or design alternatives that can be downloaded for free, such as Delight’s Image Tricks. Unlike Photoshop, Image Tricks contains all of its tools in a single interface. [...]
June 2, 2010
With today’s widespread availability of digital cameras, everybody can shoot digital pictures whenever and wherever they want. Sharing the images is also as easy, anybody can post almost any picture to one (or all) of the social sites for everybody to see. The abundance makes ordinary images difficult to stand out. To turn daily pictures [...]
May 24, 2010
Even though the iPad lacks a built-in camera, you can import images from your camera using Apple’s camera connection kit, as well as from your computer via iTunes. When you get images on your iPad, you might want to use an image editor with similar Photoshop features to edit your photos right on the device [...]
April 15, 2010
Photoshop as we know, is the mother of all image editing software. Rarely does a software achieve so much competence and popularity in its niche as Photoshop has done. One of the downsides of so many features in a single piece of software is that it gets cumbersome and difficult to learn for newbies. Well [...]
March 18, 2010
Ever wanted to know how to create clouds in photoshop? It’s an easy yet effective way to perk up any old boring sky and bring more life into your work. They’re obviously not going to be “real” clouds, but hopefully once you’re finished creating those magnificent, big, and fluffy clouds, nobody will notice. No doubt [...]
March 8, 2010
Often times when you take photos with your camera’s Automatic mode, the images might come out too dark or too bright. The best the way to avoid that problem is to learn how to use your exposure compensation settings in your digital camera, by opening your aperture, or sometimes raising your ISO to increase your [...]
