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.
Create a mosaic of photographs
February 6, 2008
You’ve do doubt already seen those cool photographs created starting from an assembly of hundreds f smaller images. These mosaics put aside the singularity of each photograph for, with the proper perspective, composing an image close to reality.To create such mosaics, you first of all need a large enough collection of images. Each colour of the image that you wish to compose must be indeed found in an image which you have.
Then, a free software as AndreaMosaic will do all the hard work of choosing and assembling your photographs to give your final image. The result is convincing and makes it possible to give almost a second life to all your photographs! Read more
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.
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.
Italian goth band guitar game
January 11, 2008
OK it’s Friday. And on Friday we do silly things. And this is about the silliest I could come up with.
If you got a copy of Guitar Hero for Christmas then it’s likely you’ve had a lot of fun on it. It’s pretty unlikely you’ve already completed expert level. It’s even less likely you’ve videod yourself doing it and uploaded it to a YouTube like site.
Underwater digital camera mask
January 11, 2008
From the “only in California” category… Ever wished you could have a camera bolted to your head so that you can photograph anything you see at any time? No? Ever been diving/snorkeling/swimming and wanted to take a snap but couldn’t be bothered carrying an underwater camera with you? Ah, now you’re interested.
Yep those crazy guys from Liquid Image have managed to come up with a head worn digital camera/video camera that you can wear underwater.
And now….a tripod for your camera phone
January 10, 2008
This comes straight from the “I can’t believe nobody has thought of that before” file. Let’s face it, the pictures you take with your phone are pretty rubbish. But when you’re out and about you don’t really want to carry your great big DSLR and a tripod. Sometimes a phone is all you have.
Let’s make a fake T-shirt
January 4, 2008
It’s Friday and time for some silliness. And when I’m looking for Friday silliness I always head over to PhotoJojo - I don’t think they will mind me calling them one of the silliest photo sites on the web. Silly - but a lot of fun.
