Thumbnail Me - An Easy Way To Generate Thumbnails From Videos
Have you ever attempted to take a screenshot of a video? If you've ever wanted to show someone the quality of a video (without actually sending them the entire video) or create an Internet meme from a still image in a movie, screenshots can be useful. However, they can be quite difficult to take at times, as traditional methods tend to not always work.
Take a Screenshot & Upload To Your Site In One Step With UpScreen [Windows]
There are a lot of important reasons why people need to take screenshots and then upload them to the web for online publication. We've covered many screenshot apps before but believe it or not, there is another tool that you may want to consider if you want to shave even more time off your screen capturing efforts. You can cut four or five steps from the typical screenshot process by using UpScreen.
3 Tips to Help You Create Photo Collages the Easy Way
Creating collages can be a bit time-consuming if you do it yourself in MS Paint or Photoshop. If you don’t feel exactly creative, your work may not even bring you the results you want. I know I’ve been there. I might spend a few hours trying to create collages, without any fancy effects, just lining up images in rows and columns, and the whole thing just doesn’t look as glorious as I imagine it to be.
Upload, Edit & Share Your Images Online With Imgur, The Simple Image Editor
Everybody needs a decent image editor. There are times when you'll need to crop, rotate or make other light edits to your images. One of the online image editors that you can use is imgur. In its early days, the service focused more on simple ways to share images and only had two editing features. But now imgur has integrated Aviary's Feather to boost its image editing power.
How To Take A Screenshot & Apply Artistic Effects With The New MS Word 2010
If Microsoft 2007 covered all that you could think of doing with a document, think again. Two new features (among the ten or so) introduced in Microsoft Word 2010 help to reduce your dependency on a third-party screenshot tool and a photo editor by just a smidgen. The latest version of Microsoft Office Suite gives you an 'inbuilt' screenshot tool and a slew of artistic effects.
The Best Sites To Learn All About The Art Of iPhoneography
Photos taken with the camera app on the iPhone have become sort of an art form, typically referred to as iPhoneography. It’s not that the iPhone camera is superior to other mobile camera apps; rather, it's the assortment of artistic processing apps that make iPhone images unique, and sort of a genre of their own. Not all images taken with the iPhone can put into the iPhoneography category, so what does an iPhoneographic image look like?
SnapShoter: A Screen Capture Tool & Clipboard Manager Rolled Into One [Windows]
Screenshot tools are a large tribe and an ever growing one. From the industrial standard SnagIt to even little browser add-ons that reside in our browser, you can have your pick. Fast, lightweight, and portable are three adjectives that fit SnapShoter (ver1.4.9b) to the T. You can throw in ‘free’ too and you have a winner among the ranks.
3 Free Photo Customization Websites With the Best Features
While the goal of every photographer is to take the perfect snapshot that requires zero editing, the manifold tools that are available can also be a source of great entertainment for the hobby picture takers. Not only can you improve your photos by adjusting the frame, correcting blemishes, or changing the color, you can also add cool effects and fun elements.
The Best 3 Free Photo Editing Apps For The iPad
If you own an iPad camera connection kit, while it's certainly not the same as having access to Photoshop or other robust photo editing programs on your desktop, there's still quite a bit of photo editing you can get done without spending a penny on a single paid app using nothing more than your iPad.
Snapbucket – A Fun Mobile Photo Styling & Sharing App [iOS & Android]
For iPhone and Android smartphone users, there are many photo sharing and styling apps fun to play with, and also for quickly uploading something interesting. Snapbucket is Photobucket's answer to fun, mobile photo sharing – and (unlike Instagram) it's available for both iOS and Android devices.
Pixelmator - The Image Editor That Mac Users Should Be Using [Giveaway]
Ever since we first featured Pixelmator in March 2010, it has been improved in so many ways. It's pretty much the affordable Photoshop alternative for Mac. We're giving away 25 copies of the latest version of Pixelmator this week, worth almost $1,500 in total; and saying goodbye to GIMP.
3 Tools For Managing Your Photos In Dropbox [Mac]
For us Apple iOS users, the Dropbox application is one of the best solutions for syncing images between your computer and one or more mobile devices. In addition, there are a couple of other iOS apps that picture-taking iPhone users will want to have as part of their mobile repertoire.
3 Hipstamatic-Equivalent Android Apps For Retro Photo Effects
Android users often bemoan the fact that they have to wait longer than iPhone users to get some of the cool apps - or that these applications never make it to the Android. A current complaint is that Hipstamatic and Instagram, both excellent iPhone retro photo manipulators, still aren't available on Android. So, what is a good Hipstamatic alternative for Android? Well, a number of apps fit the bill.
Free CAD Drawing for Linux, Windows & Mac Using LibreCAD
LibreCAD Beta 4 is a free 2D open source CAD client, which can be used for all manner of 2D design, including architectural plans, engineering drafting, graphic design and the design of mechanical parts. The LibreCAD client is quite advanced for open source CAD software, allowing layer control and complex item selection processes. It's free for Windows, Mac and Linux.
4 Great Tools for Editing RAW Photos in Linux
These days most digital SLR cameras include the ability to shoot in RAW, an uncompressed image format that gives you great control over a number of photographic variables. This can vary from the basics like white balance and exposure; to curve adjustment, lens vignetting and more. As a semi-serious photographer and Linux user, you'll be forgiven for feeling a bit left out when it comes to post-processing.
Some Great Linux Alternatives For 4 Tasks Normally Requiring Windows
Linux has been receiving plenty of attention lately and none of that is going away anytime soon. You can now do things with Linux that you might’ve thought would only work in Windows. Here are some common problems and Linux solutions that you can take advantage of right away.