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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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Three Reasons Why You Should Store Your Photos in the Cloud

Three Reasons Why You Should Store Your Photos in the Cloud

Into every life, a little rain must fall. Some lives, however, get drenched, as the recent “super storm” that devastated homes on the East Coast reminded us. That storm, and others like it, drove home for many of us just how precious our photographic memories really are. Sadly, in the digital age, those memories aren’t [...]

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What to Look for in Your Next Photo Printer

What to Look for in Your Next Photo Printer

You may not believe it, but the best way to preserve a digital photo for generations is to print it out at home. While there’s no sense in printing every photo you snap, a good home printer is a wise investment if you want to preserve some of your precious photographic memories. Printer technology may [...]

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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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Polaroid Opens Fotobars for Turning Your Photos Into Art

Polaroid Opens Fotobars for Turning Your Photos Into Art

Sure, the one hour photo lab of old is long extinct, but Polaroid is back with a 21st century take: the Fotobar. Step inside a Fotobar and you’ll be able to transform your photos into a wide variety of wall art — from metal prints to posters, framed canvases, acrylic prints, bamboo prints and even photos-on-Lucite. [...]

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PicLab App Adds Type/Masks to Mobile Images

There’s loads of image editing apps out there that allow you to instantly turn your images into some fairly interesting looking works of art and the latest that has crossed out paths is dubbed PicLab for iOS. The app lets you easily add typography, masks and other effects to your photos and share them across [...]

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Fun Profile Picture Apps for the iPhone

There are some of us, this author included, who don’t really care to show the world how old and haggard he looks on Facebook. Others are less inhibited. And good for them. Either way, there’s no reason you need to drop any old self-portrait onto Facebook and call it a day. There are plenty of apps [...]

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MailPix to Offer Personalized Photo Home Decor and Gallery Blocks

MailPix is one of the newer online photos services and they’ve recently announced a partnership Artsy Couture to expand their offerings to include  Sweet Frames, Gallery Blocks and Cube Décor products. Prices start at around $55 and combine designer borders with matte surfaces and a UV coating to resist fading. You can view all the styles here.

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Edit Your Photos More Precisely with Wacom’s Cintiq 13HD

Anyone who uses Photoshop or a similar photo editor knows that the mouse can be an imprecise tool for making edits to your images, particularly if you need to make very subtle or very precise adjustments. Wacom’s line of digital drawing tablets can help. These PC/Mac tablets can stand in in place of a mouse, [...]

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