Creating beautiful panoramic pictures by stitching two or more photos into one isn’t an easy task. It takes practice to first take those pictures, then choose the right combination of photos, and finally stitching them in a way that the person looking at the photo has a hard time making out if it was a [...]
image editing
The problem with taking photos with your digital camera is that they end up being huge in size and thus you need to reduce the JPEG sizes before you could share on services like Flickr or Picasa. Reducing the sizes is also recommended because it’d help your friends easily download them or view them online.. [...]
Modern day digital cameras are quite powerful and each photograph we click using them are usually high resolution. Though these high resolution photos can be effectively used to create collages and wall hangings but as far as their digital use is concerned (like sharing them online) it’s always better to resize them. Resizing and changing [...]
Lately, if you noticed, Google is linking almost all its products and services to Google+. Sorting of email in Gmail according to Google Circles is an example. Seeing so many efforts to popularize Google+, I was wondering when they are going to integrate it with Picasa. Well, Picasa is already integrated in a way because [...]
Could it be the Instagram effect…or more aptly, the Picnik effect which is Google’s own online photo-editing app? One click photo editing apps are all the rage these days. More for fun and less for serious image stylists, spicing up your photos has almost become a social show-off activity in itself. So, it’s no surprise [...]
Ever wanted to create a poster the size of your wall? I’ve found posters to be an absolute delight — my room is covered with posters of my favorite movies, or unique cartoons, or people that I have a lot of respect for. There are times when I’d really wish for a poster of something [...]
One of the most obviously irritating things about receiving photo attachments from newbies is their total disregard for sending compressed photos. Surely, it must be a pain for them to upload megabyte sized photos as it is for me to download them. It takes time. That’s when I go out of my way to educate [...]
Capturing a perfect group portrait is a difficult task to achieve. Getting the flawless smile of every individual in the group is usually next to impossible. No matter how tactical you are, sometime you just end up with dozens of photographs with small glitches in each of them. If you don’t want all your hard [...]
Each Mac comes with a number of applications, however, usually apps like Garageband, iMovie, and Photo Booth grab the maximum share of a new user’s attention. There’s another application that is used way more often than any of the aforementioned, and only known and used for a fraction of its abilities. Called Preview, this is [...]
If you are an amateur photographer with a limited budget, chances are that when trying to take shots of a scenery, you have complained about not being able to fit the entire view into your photo. Many cameras today do come with a ‘panorama’ mode. However, this mode always is either right to left or [...]
If you’ve always felt constrained by the Picture and Fax viewer in Windows Vista or 7, or, if Microsoft’s Photo Editor from the older versions of Windows has just been cumbersome for you, Irfanview, the free photo editing tool, might just be the alternative you’re looking for. This small, lightweight yet full-featured image editor combines [...]
World cup football is on and the web is abuzz with all sorts of world cup related stuff. Google isn’t behind either and has added features specific to world cup soccer on many of its tools. Recently, it introduced Picnik soccer fever, a feature which lets you add soccer effects in your photos through Picnik, [...]
ThePicLab is a multi-feature website for online image editing. You don’t require to sign up use it. It offers numerous functions. All you need to do is go to the website and hit the “load image” button given at the top menu bar and upload the image for editing. You can also create a new [...]
The days are gone when Photoshop was the only option when it came to removing/changing the background of an image. The internet now has a huge number of specialized image modifying tools and InstantMask is one of them. It’s an easy-to-use image background remover. To get started, you need to download and install it, and [...]
Screenpresso is a feature-rich and promising screen capture tool which is available free of cost for Windows. There are lots of features in Screenpresso which make it a great alternative to leading screen capture softwares like Snagit.
