Autodesk Pixlr has emerged in the past year as one of the best online Photo Editors. What makesPixlr remarkable is 1)its actually 3 online photo editing apps and 2)it is written in Adobe Flash+Air and 3)it is amazingly fast and 4)it also one of the most feature complete of the online photo apps. It is […]
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There is a new version 4 of Artweaver available and this is important for a number of reasons. First, as one of the group of free PC photo editors, Artweaver like the others continues to upgrade and improve on a timely basis. Second, Artweaver is a Photoshop clone which provides basic color adjustment, masking+selection and layering
A recent trend has been the more frequent use of full page images in Web designs. One can see big images used in sliders like the Fox Sports design or Giorgio . Also see the big changing backgrounds images such as those used at Newsweek’s website. Big images give Web designers some real advantages using
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ThePhotoFinishes will be offering a series of free presentations Starting this Fall and featuring key Photo Finishing skills and crafts. The presentations will be available at local libraries or the Studio. The presentations are 50 minute lectures and a ten minute Question and Answer session for issues that did not get resolved during the presentation.
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Big commanding full page slider as LibreOffice’s home landing page A new trend that is picking up steam is the use of full page backgound images and responsive full-page slides. As sliders become ever more accomplished and compression of images improve, fullpage mages abound – see Newsweek for some great examples. So instead of special event,
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The PhotoFinishes links to some of the best online color tools for photographers and designers. Thus we are constantly on the lookout for new and more innovative tools. Here are some of the latest: Pictaculous Pictaculous analyzes your uploaded image for its palette then goes to Adobe Kuler and Colourlovers to get 5 suggested palettes
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There are now at least two major camera-phones coming to market where a camera-phone is a smartphone with a serious point+click camera attached – or vice versa. Two vendors, Nokia and Samsung, are testing the theory that a top of the line compact camera equivalent or better can help sell a premium priced smartphone. The first
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Remember the Flip video camera from 5 years ago? Simple and easy to use and able to feed the growing use of video on the Web. Cisco bought Flip for nearly $600M in March 2009. But two years later Cisco shutdown its Flip division as video came on board not only point+shoot as well as
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