File Repair - easily repair corrupted files. HOW TO: Create a Printed Album From Your Digital Photos Mobile photo sharing services like Instagram and Picplz continue to be a big app trend in 2011. Users love taking photos, applying effects and sharing their digital creations with friends and family members. Sometimes, however, a digital copy just isn't enough. As great as digital photographs are, there is still something special about a physical, printed photograph. Fortunately, creating physical albums and books from a digital photo library is easy and affordable. We're approaching the spring/summer gifting season (Mother's Day, graduation, Father's Day), which means that now is a great time to start making physical mementos out of digital memories. Getting Started The first step in creating a print album or photo book is to determine what photographs you want to use. If you use photo management software like iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa or Windows Live Photo Gallery, finding and sorting photos for your album can be fairly straightforward. Picking a Service iPhoto '11 (Mac)
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Convierte cualquier imagen en un dibujo a lpiz con AKVIS Sketch plugin Por defecto AKVIS Sketch convierte cualquier imagen en un dibujo a lápiz en blanco y negro. Pero si la foto original tiene colores, es posible añadirle color de la imagen original al dibujo a lápiz. Paso 1. Abra una foto a color en su editor de imagines preferido. Paso 2. Llame al plugin AKVIS Sketch. Reduzca el valor del parámetro Intensidad de tonos medios para reducir la intensidad del sombreado en lás áreas claras y uniformes de la foto (ej. el cielo). Paso 5. Paso 6.
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Why Color May Be The Next Twitter Love it or loath it, the smartphone app Color is one of the most innovative Web products to have launched this year. It has a user experience that is as unique and different as Twitter was 5 years ago. This has led to confusion about how to use Color and questions about its value. In this post we look at the early uses of Color and analyze its chances of emulating the success of Twitter. Color launched last month in a whirl of hype, mostly due to the eye-opening $41 million prelaunch funding. What is Color, Again? Color enables you to share "photos, videos and conversations" with a group of people who are at the same location as you. Here's a quick intro: Color Demo from Color Labs, Inc. on Vimeo. The ideal use case for Color then, is for events with large groups of people - like a concert or conference. Color Goes to the Movies In mid-April, Color set out to showcase its new app at the premiere of a new Hollywood film called "Water for Elephants." Color's Future
Convierte una imagen en un dibujo a lpiz con AKVIS Sketch plugin Para el primer ejemplo demostrativo de como funciona AKVIS Sketch, hemos seleccionado una fotografía sencilla: una flor en primer plano y un fondo borroso sin ningún detalle claro. Paso 1. Abra la fotografía en su editor de imagines preferido y llame al plug-in AKVIS Sketch. Paso 5.
How to Capture Dynamic Screenshots of Web Pages Learn how to capture dynamic screenshots of web page in an automated manner. Such screenshot images refresh automatically if the content, or the layout, of the underlying source website has changed. There are innumerous software programs and browser add-ons that let you capture screenshots of web pages with a click. You open some page in your browser, hit the capture button and the screenshot gets saved as a static image. Simple. The short answer is this simple web form. Here’s a sample screenshot image that is 1024 pixels wide that is also ‘dynamic.’ You may be wondering why would anyone want such ‘dynamic’ screenshots? There are other potential uses as well. Certain websites serve different versions of pages based on the IP address of the visitor but you may use these screenshots to check the US version of a web page. Behind the scenes – The Geeky part WordPress has a Python based tool called Mshots that they use internally to generate screenshots of these featured sites.
Sonic Visualiser How Color is Being Used Yesterday we compared the recent launch of new photo and video sharing app Color to the arrival of Twitter five years ago. Like Twitter, Color is an innovative app that has intrigued early adopters and has the potential to catch on in a big way. It's also popularizing a new buzzword: proximity. Yesterday we looked at an early use case for Color: photo sharing at the premiere of a Hollywood movie. However, it wasn't clear what value Color users at that event got from the app. So we asked the company for more information about the user experience so far and to give us more examples of how Color is being used. In this post we explore some of those other examples of Color usage, including a concert and a BBQ. Prior to joining Color's founding team, DJ Patil was LinkedIn's Chief Scientist. Color is a smartphone app that enables you to share photos and videos with a group of people at the same location as you. What Happens to the Content? Use Cases So Far So how has Color been used so far?