There are a huge number of really interesting and free Open Source programs in the graphics field. Many run in Linux and MacOS; but a goodly number are also ported to Windows. They run the gamut from albums through DTP to photo or video editors of varying interest. This series of Open Source reviews will […]
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It is Spring! So color is on mind. And so exploring what is available in color wheels and creative aids followed in interest along with a web blog development project. And in the process I came across a … uhhh color tablet from GenoPal: Get the genopal widget and many other great free widgets
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See the latest in this saga with review of PaintShop Pro Version 3 Corel Paint Shop Pro has been one of my favorite Paint editor tools for the past 10 years. Jasc, the original developers, understood that users wanted a lighttable-like interface to their images-> a browsing windows of thumbnail images from which users could
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JPEG2000 has shrivelled and not quite died but certainly is not what it promised to be as a replacement for the JPEG image format. Here are the ugly facts: Graphics Support in the Major Browsers Web Standard IE8 Firefox 3.x Chrome 1. Opera 9.6 Safari 4 JPEG2000 No No No No No SMIL Dropped? 3.1
Sitegrinder is a Photoshop plugin – not an ordinary photo-effects oriented plugin; but rather a Web Development tool. SiteGrinder allows graphic artists to layout the design for a website page (or pages) in Adobe’s Photoshop. Using the extensive Layer and Layer Comp facilities in Photoshop one can add sophisticated buttons, links, page transitions, galleries, and
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The above screen shot is of Snipshot, another very good online photo editor. In a small but deliberate array of tests on a 900 x 600 pixel image, I found the response time from Snipshot to be very good and the array of commands at my disposal very useful for the quick image retouching or
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For the past 3-6 years, the facilities in graphics programs have improved such that it is simple to create very good looking galleries on the Web. The programs do all the major taks: 1)help gather together the photos into a collection; 2)allow simple resizing and/or watermarking of the images; 3)provide many templates for the basic
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In our previous posting on Web Photo Galleries: Upsides, some of the attractive features of photo editor based Web Gallery creation software held center stage – it is called the Upside. Now we discuss some of the Downsides to current Web Gallery Creation Software. No Comprehensive Tool In the previous review, the issue of a
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