May 4, 2012
The Web is absolutely awash with images. Of all kinds. They’re everywhere, forming a major part of the majority of websites, or at least ones which want to treat visitors to some eye candy to complement the wall of text that may accompany them. Pinterest has shown just how important images are to most Web users. Millions of people have signed up to share images they love with others.
May 2, 2012
Flickr has just added a photo share button to their site that enables members to post and share their photos on Pinterest. Photos pinned from Flickr will be properly attributed, regardless where they are pinned from, just as they are on other sites including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and WordPress. Flickr says you can pin all [...]
April 27, 2012
Flickr has just rolled out a nifty update that adds some awesome features that users have waited for. The main feature is a super quick HTML5 uploader. This new uploader makes the most of HTML5, and uses it especially well to optimize the overall speed of their site. Flickr claims that upload times are improved [...]
April 21, 2012
It seems like everyone wants in the cloud storage game these days – and now you can add Sony to the list of contenders. The company has just announced a new service called PlayMemories Online. It will offer five gigabytes of space for free and focus on photos. Sony apparently wants the service to capitalize [...]
April 21, 2012
In the release of iOS 5, Apple introduced Photo Stream as a possible solution to managing and sharing iOS camera photos between Apple mobile and computer devices. Indeed, Photo Stream has been helpful, but in this article I share the limitations of Photo Stream and the Camera Roll features for iOS, and how I’m trying to work around those issues.
April 19, 2012
Facebook recently acquired Instagram for a cool $1 billion, turning all of the employees into instant millionaires, and turning Instagram into just another facet of Facebook’s growing presence on the Web. While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised to keep Instagram going as an independent entity, there are bound to be changes made to the way Instagram operates at some point in the future.
April 16, 2012
ArcSoft, the minds behind other great photo manipulation software such as PhotoStudio and Panorama Maker, has delivered exactly what it promises in Perfect365 with its “one-click makeover” functionality. This week, we’re giving 25 copies of Perfect365 away (worth a total of $999) absolutely free. Interested?
April 12, 2012
Remove people, objects and other annoyances from your photos, quickly and easily, without leaving anything obvious behind. Seam Carving GUI is a simple app for doing this and resizing images in a way the human eye can’t detect. It’s completely free, and a tool amateur photographers not willing to pay for Photoshop should keep around.
April 9, 2012
Instagram for Android is not even a week old, and already there is a significant update for the app, Instagram 1.0.3. While not a lot has changed in terms of interface, there are several important behind-the-scenes updates which were implemented after some user feedback on the first version. To start, Instagram for Android can now [...]
March 31, 2012
Last October, Apple announced that its cloud and media streaming service, iCloud, would replace MobileMe, and all the latter’s active accounts will be deleted as of June 30, 2012. Well, it seems in the recent release iOS iPhoto, its Journal feature is the new way Apple and iCloud users can share photos online.
