If you’re looking for a simple, elegant app for adding text onto your images, the aptly-named Photolettering caught our eye. For iPhones and iPads, Photolettering does one thing: adds letters to your photos. Big deal, you say? Well, it comes from a bona-fide type foundry (i.e. they create font styles), so they’re not just ripping off common [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Long Will Photo Books Last?
Digital photography has transformed the photo album from a binder stuffed with plastic pages to a hard-bound photo book that could be displayed proudly on any bookshelf. But as more of us make photo books – especially with an eye toward preserving these photographic memories for future generations – there’s an obvious question: how long [...]
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 [...]
Make Your Photo Frames Stand Out with One-of-a-Kind Creations from Shutterfly and Hallmark
Hallmark and Shutterfly have embarked on a unique partnership that will combines unique frames from Hallmark with custom print templates from Shutterfly. Here’s how it works: Hallmark will offer 13 frames in their “One-of-a-Kind Creations” line. When you purchase the frame, there’s a unique code which you can enter into Shutterfly. This code ensures that [...]
Attend APPO’s Picture Perfect Solutions and Learn How to Organize Your Digital Life
Among our phones, cameras and camcorders, we’re taking billions of photos a year. The website 1000memories.com estimated that “every two minutes we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity did in the 1800s.” Facebook alone receives roughly 300 million photo uploads per day. That’s a lot. It’s like a flood of digital data [...]
Why Google+ Is Better Than Facebook (For Sharing Photos)
When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly replied, “because that’s where the money is.” If pressed, that’s probably how we would justify posting photos on Facebook: that’s where the people are. And it’s true — with over a billion users, Facebook can lay claim to an amazing reach. Every day, tens of millions [...]
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