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Review of Digital Photography Related Software in Market and What They Do?

Posted by admin March 26, 2008 No Comments »

Here is a compiled list of digital photography related software you can find in the market today.

Alteration of photos/graphics

Irfan View – Free and simple program. With this program not only can you change the way your graphics look but you can also create slide shows, cut and crop your graphics and convert your graphics and more. Ideal for batch processing.

Kodak EasyShare Software – A popular software program for editing, sharing and printing your pictures is the new which makes it even easier to organize, print and share your digital pictures.

ImageForge – ImageForge is a freeware image editor with painting and editing tools. Allows you to import images from scanners and digital cameras, apply special effects filters, and create photo albums and slideshows. Although this is teaser program for the shareware ImageForge PRO, it’s probably a few steps above Microsoft Paint.

VCW Vicman’s Photo Editor – This award-winning graphic editor offers a variety of painting and editing tools and features including a text tool, gradients, selections by color or region, color replacement, editing in any scale, special effects and so on. This free version is an enticement to upgrade to the Pro version for $29.95 US, so you can expect to put up with nag screens.

PhotoFiltre – Although it’s fairly limited in features, PhotoFiltre offers a simple, but elegant user interface and a lot of one-click image adjustments, filters, and effects. There is a built in image explorer panel for visually navigating your file system, basic drawing, painting, retouching and selection tools, and batch processing capabilities.

Ultimate Paint – Ultimate Paint is available in both shareware and freeware versions for image creation, viewing, and manipulation. It has been designed to be fast and compact, and if you’re familiar with the old Deluxe Paint program from Electronic Arts, Ultimate Paint is said to be very similar. The freeware version is an older release of the full-featured shareware product.

Picasa – Picasa is free software from Google that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures ? you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello?, and even post pictures on your own blog.

Sherif Photo Plus – Serif has long been giving away previous versions of their software to entice users to purchase the current version. Currently you can download a completely free, fully-functional version of PhotoPlus 5.5, or order a CD and pay only shipping costs. PhotoPlus 5.5 features an export optimizer, editable text, image slicing and image maps, selection tools, smart shapes, and image enhancement tools.

Pixia – This is the English version of a popular free painting and retouching software that originated in Japan. It features custom brush tips, multiple layers, masking, vector- and bitmap-based drawing tools, color, tone, and lighting adjustments, and multiple undo/redo. Like many freeware editors, there is no support for saving GIF format. Also available for many other languages. http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/download.htm

ADG Panorama Tools 5.0 – This program lets you from a series of photos quickly and easily generate, edit & embed publish 360 degrees interactive panoramic composition on the Web. ADG Panorama can be viewed through ADG Java Viewer 4.0 that eliminates any plug-in installation and gives a platform independent use on the Internet.

Make 3D images from 2D graphics! – PhotoModeler Lite is a program that allows you to extract measurements and 3D models from photos. To use it, you simply need to take several photos of a scene or an object and open them in the program. Then mark each photo with the mouse, tracing and tagging features of interest. The program combines the photos and locates the marked features in 3D, and then creates 3D points, 3D lines, surface meshes, and cylinders. These may then be exported in DXF, 3DS, and VRML formats. Don’t worry if you don’t quite understand it, the included tutorial will help you through each step.

Picture Shark ? This program allows you to “stamp” visible logos or text on their image files. Features include: Wizard-like interface, making it easy to use; the ability to create real watermarks; the ability to choose transparent color, opacity, position and much more; a “feather”-feature to make the edges between the stamp and the picture smarter; very fast (processing hundreds of pictures each minute); support for different output formats and quality settings; and WYSIWYG preview-mode for all settings. http://www.picture-shark.com/index.htm

This article is prepared by Christy Berger who writes for PrintCountry.com. A longer version of this article can be found at Digital Photography Printing Software Review .Main resource of this article is Epson Photo Ink Cartridges & HP Photo Printer Cartridges.

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Digital Photography School

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Digital Photography to Get Great Scrapbooks

Posted by admin March 16, 2008 No Comments »

Scrap booking is becoming increasingly popular in many areas of India. It’s a hobby, which combines, creativity, history,

family togetherness and art. Prior to the common use and acceptance of digital photography, scrap booking was a process of collecting pictures mementos and artwork into a creatively decorated book. The book often told a story of family history or events and was customized to fit the age, interests and understanding of the recipient. Many times, a parent and child would work on the project together. Most of the fun of scrap booking was in the creation, not the finished product.

Digital scrap booking uses all the same elements as traditional scrap booking and gives them extra emphasis. Digital scrapbooks are easier to store, edit, organize and share with others and the only limiting factor is your imagination.

Digital scrapbooks may a great way to share digital pictures, to prepare and decorate photo books and also make a great photo gift.

How to get started with digital scrap booking

1.Digital images – You can use images from your digital camera,

from scanners, or from online files, emails, photos and other information. JPEG images will work, but TIFF images provide

higher resolution 2.Computer – You will need a computer with a CD or DVD burner. You will use the computer to make and store images, as well as

to edit and reorganize existing pages in the scrapbook. 3.Editing software – Adobe Photoshop software is a popular choice for scrap booking fans. 4.Printer — You’ll want to have a good quality color printer, preferably inkjet, to print out your finished scrapbook pages.

Preparing Scrap book Images

It’s important to scan images at 8 x 10. Images scanned at this size will show more detail and be less grainy. It’s easier to

reduce the size of an image later than it is to increase the size of a too-small image.

Save master images as TIFF files (Tagged Image File Format). TIFF files are easiest to edit and manipulate.

Use a meaningful name for your TIFF files. Most scanners and digital cameras assign a number to your image files. Find a

name, which helps you to know what image is in the file.

Images and Art Digital scrapbooks use other digital elements besides your

pictures. You may use many things which will help to make your scrap book exciting and appealing.

Some of the other common digital elements used by scrap bookers include:

Backgrounds – Great backgrounds help to make your images stand out and add visual interest to the pages.

Photo mats – These are the small pieces, sometimes called borders, which surround and set off the photographic images.

Embellishments – Embellishments are the decorations, which add interest and excitement to your scrapbook pages.

Word Art and Fonts – Another thing, which makes your scrapbook pages really pop is the use of a variety of different style

and color, type fonts.

Your digital scrapbook is really just a collection of images displayed in a way, which is meaningful, decorative and

informative

About the Author

Copyright of Sandeep,Working as a web designer and content writer for target=”_blank”>Anaga Solutions

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