As you can see from the screenshot below, this reviewer was an early user of Flickr: What was not to like – free storage online of images grouped into categories and albums with annotations/captioning. In addition Flickr provided tools for sharing and rating colleagues photos and art work. Flickr proved popular among artists friends to […]
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Here are two background generators, one free and the second premium-priced but very good. The free one is SiteOrigin’s Background Generator which has been covered in an overview at theOpenSourcery.com. Before Background Generator, this designer avoided working on backgrounds because so much time was spent in Photoshop or Ink or Xara Designer constantly refining a
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The problem with Web images is that many are DirtyDogs. Now Dirty Dog images are not bad per se; just wanting in style and polish. They are produced on smartphones or even SLR cameras in which the camera automation has been “tricked into” giving you an “okay” picture. But on closer inspection they turn out to
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Every year, despite global warming, Winter intrudes its cool self into Spring almost to the point of Summer. That is my excuse for not doing thePhotoFinishes.com’s makover for Spring this year and the reason it will be a Spring-Summer makeover. The makeover includes a new header image that emphasize the delicately gaudy Spring pastel colors:
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Imagify from WP-Media is one of about a half dozen image compression online apps which also have WordPress plugins. This review compares Imagify compression versus the reigning compression champion, Riot.exe. Imagify runs as an app and as a plugin for free up to 50MB of compressions per month then there are a variety of plans to choose
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Well ye Editor finally shucked off the Winter with a cold shudder and made the change to a Summer New Look for thePhotoFinishes.com. Bah humbug! The new design for the header resulted in two images: A racy design for the very hot days of summer upcoming- and our politicians have guaranteed HOT HOT HOT for July and August And
A Touch of Color works very well in photofinishing. By lowering an image to just hints of the original hues or leaving just traces of the original full colors, graphic artists have attractive design alternatives. This post will look at a range of color hints and touches available to photofinishers. Full Color Traces It would appear
Sometimes creating a background for a website is easy because the website’s subject matter, as in the case of a knitting site, offers plenty of background images for tiling. But other times, after several rejected proposals, one can start pulling an already thin crop of hair. But not any more thanks to SiteOrigin’s Background Generator.
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