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Free Photo Fun at PhotoFunia

Looking for a quick, easy, fun and inexpensive way to take your images to another level? Check out  PhotoFunia, literally an online photo fun house with hundreds of one-click photo templates that can do everything from place your image on the side of a city building to snuggling up close with your favorite celebrity. You [...]

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Photo Makeover at InStyle.com

In Hollywood it’s all about the look.  While today’s hottest celebs spend thousands of dollars and endless hours on perfecting that look, you can mimic all of them in seconds at InStyle.com. Using a head shot of yourself you can try on the newest celebrity hairstyles from short cuts and bangs to long party styles [...]

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Photo Mosaics Made Easy at PicArtia

I’m sure you’ll agree that photo mosaics — on large photo comprised of dozens or hundreds of smaller ones — usually produce a very cool effect. You’ll probably also agree that the notion of creating one of your own seems a bit daunting. A site dubbed PicArtia can help you turn the trick in a three-step [...]

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With PixelTone, Adobe Lets You Edit Photos Using Only Voice Commands

While smartphones are great for taking photos, it’s a lot harder to do any editing on their small screens. To address this problem researchers at the Adobe Imagination Lab have teamed with the University of Michigan to develop something called PixelTone – an app that would allow you to speak image editing commands to the computer [...]

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Serif’s PhotoPlus X6 – Advanced Editing Made Easy

Publishing and image software developer Serif recently updated their popular photo editing software program dubbed PhotoPlus X6 opening the $89 title to a broader range of photo enthusiasts.  The new version now allows photographers of any level to quickly and easily produce some truly unique and original image creations with a just a few clicks. Compatible [...]

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Yes, You Can Make 3D Prints From Your Photos — Here’s How

3D isn’t quite the “next big thing” some people thought it would be, but several camera and camcorder makers have introduced 3D products, which means some people are sitting on 3D photos and wondering what to do with them. You may just want to turn your run-of-the-mill 2D photos into 3D images. While 3D print [...]

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New Camera Decides When to Shoot

We don’t typically cover digital cameras here but seeing as this particular camera can actually create a story as it shoots, we thought we’d make an exception. We’re referring to a groundbreaking new camera that decides itself when to take a shot. Developed by British motion capture company OMG Plc, the Autographer  uses five built-in [...]

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Photobucket Adds “Stories” for Combining Photos and Videos Into Moving Memories

There’s no better way to tell a story today than by combining photos and videos and with Photobucket’s new “Photobucket Stories” feature the story-teller in all of us has a much easier way to accomplish this. Photobucket Stories allows you to easily create and collaborate on living stories by inviting your friends and family to [...]

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HP’s Live Photo App Makes Still Photos Come Alive

HP has a new “Live Photo” app for the iPhone that lets merges the world of print photos with videos. Here’s how it works: using the app, you find a video in your phone’s camera roll and isolate one picture from that video to print out (you need to have an AirPlay-compatible printer for this [...]

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How to Keep Your Online Files Safe

With more of our digital life migrating online to cloud storage services like Box or Google Drive, we’re increasingly relying on passwords to keep our data safe. Unfortunately, most of us have very bad password habits. We make passwords that are easy to guess (the most popular password is “password”) and so short and unsophisticated [...]

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