Adobe Flash and PDF continue to thrive despite all the efforts of Steve Jobs and Apple in the case of Flash plus Google and Microsoft in the case of PDFs. Microsoft’s first incarnation of Metro was an XML-based alternative to the PDF format spawned in 2004-5 and then retired in 2008-2009. Google would like to […]
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Dirty Dog Photos has a rough and tumble meaning – something that you might see on the mean streets of Toronto [or City Hall]. But they actually turn up on Flickr, Facebook, Google Plus albums, and even on commercial websites. Dirty Dogs are photos that are in focus but off on exposure or tinting or
Digital Photography has become one of the most popular leisure activities. One can literally see its cornucopia like flow on social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Pinterest. For example, Instagram alone gets over 5 million image uploads per day. Web images are key to story telling on diverse sites like NYTimes, Sports Illustrated,
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The Direction-Aware Hover Effect is not really a slider but rather an image grid with a novel built-in hover effect. As you drag your mouse over the grid of thumbnail images, a directionally aware caption appears to slide over the current thumbnail. The captions are well designed and and can have a link to a separate
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Continuing our Series on Sliders, here is the an innovative Grid Accordion slider that saves display space and works well with action shots. Okay, Grid Accordion is not a really a slider – it shows all your images on one page in grid layout. I have seen grid accordions of anywhere from 2 x 2
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Zooming into images is becoming an alternative to using light boxes which often take a while to initialize. Here is one called powerzoom. Just hover the mouse over the image. Here we compare before and after images. Note the optimized JPEG is 1/3rd the size but does lose some crispness. For the complete story on
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Psykopaint is all about emotional painting and artistry. As a photo artist I am fond of using Corel Painter and Photoshop with the Impressionist and Virtual Painter plugins as my palette and canvas for Photo Artistry. Psykopaint is an online photo painter in the style of say Pixlr-o-matics . This means it is a fun
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In 2008 thePhotoFinishes did a popular review of the 5 best online Photo Editors. Having just taken a tour of the best online photo editors, some of the 5 best were rediscovered 5 years later. Here are their stories in a field that is frankly over-crowded with great online photo finishing tools. How well do
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