Our fellow tutorial website, TheOpensourcery.com, has recently completed a review of Online Interactive Diagrammimg Apps. The review discovered that within the past 5 years the number and quality of free [or freemium] online apps for Interactive Diagramming had improved considerably. The Features of the online apps rivalled Microsoft Visio for number of diagram and flowcharting […]
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Images and other media such as gallery of images, videos, pdfs, soundfiles etc have been secondary citizens when working with the WordPress Media Library. WordPress has added support for video, pdf, Microsoft Windows files, soundfiles etc over the past 10 years. Users can now edit Media Library images – cropping them and downsizing them. And
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DesignCap.com is an online poster and cards creator. It looks like Canva.com from about 4 years ago. Take a look: The basic sidebar menu on the left is nearly identical – Templates of poster and card designs is the starting point: Now DesignCap has two dozen categories for their templates covering a wide range of
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For the past 5-6 years, my goto Photo Editor for a number of tasks has not been Adobe PhotoShop or Corel Paintshop Pro, but rather Photoscape – especially for quick batch color corrections and photo display tasks like creating collages or animated GIF. In effect, Photoscape became the Swiss Army Knife for rapid photo edits.
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Five years ago, I wrote about how I had given up on a Mac computer being good for graphic artists. A travesty ? Well, I had a number of beefs but the crucial two were 1)Macs always losing graphic speed tests to Windows machines and 2) was the lack of touchscreen operation on Mac machines. Yes
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Justified Gallery plugin does this for a set of WordPress Media Gallery images: Or this: with the following for a lightbox close-up image: Yes, this is the justified gallery layout one can deliver using such other WordPress gallery plugins as Foo Gallery or Justified Image Gallery … or Nextgen Gallery but not with the same
Ye editor is on the look out for an Adobe Photoshop replacement. Recently a colleague recommended Affinity Pro citing the fact that the program runs on both Mac and Windows, has no subscription fee like Photoshop, and has a “ton of photo editing features”. A promise to take a look was made a few weeks
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Online DTP seems like a contradiction given that InDesign and the hoard of other DTP programs eat memory and screenspace at a killing clip. But this user has been on the look out for a good, easy to use Graphic Design Tool online and has been fairly happy with Canva and Pixlr for design layout and
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