One type of program I often forget to load on a fresh Windows install is a good photo resizing tool. Sometimes — like when I want to create a screenshot tour of an app — it would make things simpler to just dump a pile of full-size screenshots into a folder and let some little [...]
Whether you’re looking for backgrounds for your desktop, Creative Commons licensed photos, or just scanning eyecandy, Flickr is an excellent place to find beautiful digital images. Need a simple way to download multiple images? Check out Downloadr (screencast after the break!), a free program with loads of options which makes short work of bulk downloading [...]
This may not be big news for some of our more religious readers, but it’s certainly a nice surprise for me. I just found out that the Vatican has a very detailed, three dimensional, Flash tour of the Sistine Chapel. There’s nothing new about the technology itself, but the implementation is very good. In fact, [...]
HumanClock.com is a fun little site, letting you view the current time in photo form. The time in the screenshot above is 2:10 (there’s a 24-hour option as well). Sometimes figuring what time the image shows is a bit of a riddle, but that’s part of the fun for me. The site isn’t new — [...]
In what must surely be the worst (and best) case of reverse, shoehorned acronym (or ‘backronym’), NASA has just released the first 3D images of the sun taken by its STEREO (no I’m not making this up) spacecraft. The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories — there are two of them, of course! — work together to [...]
Adobe’s working on some new selection and masking tools for the next version of Photoshop. Ever since the Extract filter was removed in Photoshop CS4, Adobe has had plans to bring its various parts back as built-in tools. The first part of that is a new selection tool that’s already being demoed over at John [...]
It’s hard to picture life before Photoshop, but yes, some 20 years ago, Photoshop did not exist and photo manipulation was a matter of darkroom editing techniques and using complex sequences such as burn, dodge, fade, mask, which when used in Photoshop is a snap. Tomorrow is the 20th Anniversary of Photoshop, but the celebration [...]
There’s a chance you might already have seen this ‘sneak peek’ video, in which case forgive me. For those of you that haven’t seen it, read on and take the jump to view it. This is actually old news, but I only just stumbled across it a couple of days ago. You see, news of [...]
If you use HP’s Snapfish to share and organize your photos, you might be interested to know that there’s now a Snapfish iPhone app that makes it easy to upload photos to the site. The free app lets you batch-upload a bunch of photos from your phone at once, and you can also use it [...]
Facebook is the biggest photo sharing site in the world, so it’s pretty likely your friends have some photos posted there. The thing is, nobody’s pretending that browsing photos on Facebook is fast or user-friendly. In fact, the whole experience totally, in the parlance of our times, sucks. That’s why you should get PhotoBook, a [...]
