A Polaroid stack
February 12, 2008
This is a great presentation technique you can use to show off your photos on a website, make fun prints or even use as your desktop wallpaper.
We’re going to go from a plain ordinary picture to one that looks like stack of Polaroids you might find in the bottom of a drawer. You can use it for any pictures you like but it’s particularly appropriate for Valentine’s day. Take a quick snap, spruce it up with a little Photoshoppery and print it out as a gift for your loved one.
There are quite a few steps but every one of them is easy and if you follow them through then you’ll get a great look at the end.
Use Flickr? Get Piclens
February 1, 2008
Actually the title should read “Use Google Images, Flickr, Facebook or Friendster and want to make your viewing experience more enjoyable and altogether cooler? Then go and get a free copy of Piclens”.
But that was too big to fit in the title bar.
It’s actually kind of hard to explain what Piclens does. It simply transforms your browsing experience of most popular picture websites. Instead of seeing the pictures on the site you just see the pictures.
Here’s a snap of my screen when I’m browsing my photostream at Flickr.
Mouse over any picture and it enlarges just like that one of the boat. Double click it and your screen fills with the picture and a little running strip at the bottom showing thumbnails of the other pictures on the page. It’s just like one of those gorgeously designed Flash website - but without the website. It just sits on top of the website you are browsing.
Truly beautiful and totally awesome.
Go to Cooliris right now and install a copy in your browser. Currently only Firefox has the picture wall function but most popular browsers have the full screen slideshow effect.
Once it has installed, pop over to Flickr and hover over any of the pictures. When you see one you like, click the little “play” button…and prepare to be dazzled.
The hidden art of digital photography
February 1, 2008
By Computers and cellular phones, mobility and microchips – these are the trademarks of the world today. We live in a world continually changed by technology. Even the arts have continually changed due to technology. Think of it: from charcoal drawings to painting to photography to digital photography, we have come a long way in the visual arts. We have used various methods in capturing life and freezing time. New technology is continually being developed to make art easier and more fun. However, you should know that the art of digital photography is not as simple as aim and shoot.
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Valentine’s Day! Canvas art is the best gift for your sweetheart!
February 1, 2008
Saint Valentine’s Day is coming soon! Every person tries to find something inimitable and very special for their beloved ones-something that vibrating with the good mood, which reflects character and inspires heart and soul for creating pure and beautiful the world of love. Nowadays we have got used to the huge diverse offerings, but sometimes this big pleasure and seeming comfort turns into an issue. Everybody has experienced this feeling when you come into the shop in order to buy a present and while walking about the shop you understand that among the wide range of goods, forms and colours you cannot find that one, very individual specialty you are looking for. Alluring print on canvas is an amazing present for your dear ones, as it is very extraordinary.
Fashion Photography
February 1, 2008
Do you have a knack for taking photographs and a love for fashion? Perhaps attending fashion photography school is something you may want to consider. Fashion photography school teaches you how to use photography to take photographs that sell everything from perfume to clothing.
Fashion photography is not as easy as it looks. Many men dream of going into this field so they can mingle with beautiful models and take photographs of them. This is not what fashion photography is about. Fashion photography is an art form. The models may be lovely, but they can only look as good as the fashion photographer makes them out to be.
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Basket Case
January 25, 2008
Originally uploaded by DJC7
Sometimes you can look at things a million times and really not see them.
I’ve walked along Kent beaches hundreds of times and now and again even taken the odd snapshot of the things I’ve seen. But I’ve never seen anything like the work of David Constable.
He’s using an awful lot of post processing to get a totally surreal HDR look and the result is some of the most eye catching photography I’ve seen in a long while.
Check out his portfolio. WELL worth it.
Make your pictures pop with a step mount
January 18, 2008
Today we’re going to look at a great way to make your pictures pop when you use them as wallpaper, show them on an online gallery or even print them out.
Pictures on the screen can often look a little boring and in danger of “escaping” into the rest of the screen. Lots of people like to use keylines but these are getting a bit old news now and they generally look pretty terrible if you print them. We’re going to go one better.
Mobile phone mouse
January 18, 2008
Take a look down at your desktop now (the real one not the computer desktop). Chances are there are a couple of things on it as well as your keyboard. I’m guessing there is a mouse and probably a mobile phone too. C’mon guys - this is the 21st century! Why are you still using both of those when you can combine them into 1.
Yep, as well as all the other features on your phone that you don’t use, you can now control a computer with it just like a mouse.
People from 1 to 100
January 15, 2008
This is just amazing. Not strictly photography but one of the cleverest videos both in concept and execution I’ve seen in a while.
Tribeca Photobot Review
January 11, 2008
Imagine an application that can edit all of your pictures without you having to do anything.
Dream come true? Nightmare? Or another symptom that photographers are getting lazy and relying on automated post processing to avoid having to alter their camera’s controls?
