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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
