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A tool shed of resources for
digital photography, including editors, image viewers,
slideshow/screensavers, audio/video, podcasts, blogs, web pages, color charts. Enjoy!
Digital Cameras and Photography:
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How to Buy a Digital Camera: From resolution to storage and from
exposure control to white balance, we'll explain the digital camera terms
you need to know.
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A
Complete Guide to Digital Cameras and Photography (ShortCourses.com):
Offers a number of tutorials and informational essays on all aspects of
digital photography, camera operation, and editing digital photos. In the
site's seventeen sections, visitors can learn about how to choose a
digital camera, how to display and share digital photos, and how to best
use one's digital camera for a variety of purposes.
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Canon Digital Learning Center: getting the most out of your digital
camera.
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Kodak: Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures. Do you wish you were a better
photographer? All it takes is a little know-how and experience. Keep
reading for some important picture-taking tips. Then grab your camera and
start shooting your way to great pictures.
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Digital Focus (PC World): Dave Johnson's expert tips promise to enhance
your expertise with your digital camera, scanner, printer, and image editing
software.
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Digital Cameras
Info Center (PC World)
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Digital Photography Review:
an independent resource dedicated to the provision of news,
reviews and information about digital photography and digital
imaging.
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TakeGreatPictures.com: offers photo tips and techniques from master
photographers, latest news on new products, events, and artists, photo
contests, reviews of photography books, columns on digital photography.
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Your Digital Photography Tool Kit - 14 Downloads (Including Freebies)
Essential Tools: IMHO
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Quick View Plus 10 — For Windows Vista, XP/2000: Support for over 300
different file formats, including Microsoft Office 2007, QVP-10 lets you
view all the files and email attachments you need, instantly – without
purchasing numerous software programs. Quick View Plus maintains the
formatting of the files you view. So you can see and print files as they
were originally created and meant to be seen, complete with fonts, text
formatting and graphics.
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Image Resizer: Need to send a photo to someone but it is too
large, use Image Resizer to easily resize pics smaller. Right
click any image and click Resize Pictures for menu. Part of the
PowerToys suite, this add-in lets you resize one image--or
several--by right-clicking.
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IrfanView: a fast and compact image
viewer/converter. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail
option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch
conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth,
scanning, cut/crop…The Slideshow feature has terrific options to select
images to burn to a CD (family photos), create an executable (exe) file. or
a screensaver (scr) file.
Frequently Asked Questions about IrfanView.
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CutePDF
Writer: Create PDF documents on the fly — for Free! Portable Document
Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable
distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the
world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of
commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a
"printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must
be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just
a push of a button! (The downloads are in the upper left column)
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SnagIt is the perfect utility to capture and share images, text or
video from your PC. Creating beautiful presentations, flawless
documentation and just saving your favorite online content is now easier
than ever before with SnagIt.
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Boogie Jack’s Background Magic: The ultimate solution to creating web
graphics that reflect YOUR perfect taste. You can easily create
top-quality web page backgrounds with complementary buttons and banners
that say exactly what you want them to say, not just the closest thing you
could find.
Photo Editing
Tools:
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Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2: the ideal choice for any aspiring
photographer's digital darkroom. It's filled with everything from easy
automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools. It even includes a
built-in Learning Center to help new users get started right away!
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Adobe® Photoshop® CS3: ultimate playground for bringing out
the best in your digital images and transforming them into
anything you can imagine. Productivity and workflow enhancements,
powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing
capabilities.
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Adobe Photoshop Express-beta: Upload, sort, polish, and store
up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and
more–add your mark to all your images. Then show them off on
Adobe® Photoshop® Express or your web page.
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Photoscape:
easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance
photos. Features: Viewer, Editor, Batch editor, Animated GIF,
Screen Capture, Color Picker, Rename,Raw Converter.
- Paint.NET (Windows):
free image and photo editing software; features an intuitive and
innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo,
special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
- Picasa (Google):
Locate and organize all the photos on your computer. Edit and add
effects to your photos with a few simple clicks. Share your photos
with others through email, prints, and on the web: it’s fast, easy
and free.
- GIMP (GNU Image
Manipulation Program): a freely distributed program for such
tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
GIMP can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality
photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a
mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
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FotoTagger 2.3: Users can add embedded comments on the photos.
Additionally, the program allows users to create photo blogs, and upload
and download photographs to Flickr accounts with all of these wonderful
captions preserved intact. This version is compatible with computers
running Windows 2000 and XP.
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IrfanView: a fast and compact image
viewer/converter. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail
option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch
conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth,
scanning, cut/crop…The Slideshow feature has terrific options to select
images to burn to a CD (family photos), create an executable (exe) file. or
a screensaver (scr) file.
Frequently Asked Questions about IrfanView.
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Image Resizer: Need to send a photo to someone but it is too
large, use Image Resizer to easily resize pics smaller. Right
click any image and click Resize Pictures for menu. Part of the
PowerToys suite, this add-in lets you resize one image--or
several--by right-clicking.
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Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP: Create slideshows using your
digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate
pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice
narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and
captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an
e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based
portable device.
Tutorials:
Audio Tools:
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Audacity: This editor can record and play sounds and import and
export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy,
and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or
apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in
amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a
frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in
effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program
also supports VST plug-in effects.
- SoundEdit Pro:
a full-featured digital audio editing software that offers a variety of
audio recording, mixing, editing, analyzing and effects processing
possibilities.
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MAGIX
Music Maker: Record, edit and mix. Everything in perfect audio
quality for the most demanding standards. Songs, sounds and loops
are made quickly with the instruments selected.
- Audiograbber grabs
and copies a cd's audio digitally—not through the soundcard—which enables
you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can automatically
normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks,
and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders. You can even record
your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or
MP3's of them.
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Use Windows Media Player 10 to rip (copy) songs from your CDs to your
computer.
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Free Audio Dub: free audio editing software that lets you
delete unwanted parts from audio files without re-encoding. And
"without re-encoding" means without loosing original quality!!!
This is a lossless conversion, which is very fast. Supports many
audio formats: MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, M4A, MP2, OGG, WMA.
Video Tools:
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Windows Movie Maker 2.1 (FREE) makes home movies amazingly fun. With
Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on
your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete
bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the
Web, e-mail, or CD. Using third-party software you can even take movies
you've made and turn them into DVDs. You can also save your movie back to
the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera
itself. Check under Programs > Accessories to see if it is already on your
system by default.
- Five Steps to
Multimedia Reporting (UC-Berkeley & Knight Media Center): offers a
number of tutorials that will help such persons learn about choosing a
story, doing fieldwork, editing their piece, and even offer a few tips on
shooting video. The site is divided into sections that provide tips on
picking the right video camera for the assignment and those that give some
useful information on the various audio recording devices that might come
in handy.
- BBC - Free
Online Broadcast & New Media Courses: These particular guides and
modules were originally designed for in-house use with BBC staff, and few
editorial changes have been made in the interim. Visitors can browse
through such sections as "Television", "Radio", "Broadcast Technology",
and "Journalism". While some of the materials can bit a bit technical,
there are many that provide basic operating procedures on creating
effective radio interviews and editing existing video segments.
- Motionbox
is all about viewing and sharing personal video. Today we have the amazing
ability to capture moving images on the fly. With this ability comes a
need for innovative ways to share our lives through video. Motionbox lets
users easily edit parts of videos to email others.
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Free YouTube Download: Download video from YouTube and Google
Video to your computer hard drive with one mouse click. Video from
YouTube will be saved as AVI, MP4, 3GP or FLV files. New batch
mode can download several video files from YouTube or Google Video
during one session.
Blog Tools:
"A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's
a place to collect and share things that you find interesting—
whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links
to web sites you want to remember." ~Blogger
- WordPress: start a blog in seconds
without any technical knowledge.
- Blogger
- TypePad: premier blogging
service, hosting the world’s leading blogs.
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Blog Tools: Do you Want to Improve Your Blog?
Podcast Tools:
Web Page Tools:
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BoogieJack.com: primarily a webmaster resource site featuring HTML
tutorials, CSS tutorials, web graphics and very cool products you won't
find elsewhere. Check out the
Inner Circle
benefits.
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Boogie Jack’s Background Magic: The ultimate solution to creating web
graphics that reflect YOUR perfect taste. You can easily create
top-quality web page backgrounds with complementary buttons and banners
that say exactly what you want them to say, not just the closest thing you
could find.
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Google: Webmaster Guidelines. Following these guidelines will help
Google find, index, and rank your site, we strongly encourage you to pay
very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of
the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from
the Google index or otherwise penalized. Includes How to add your website
to Google’s index?
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<hyper>gURL.com: Learn how to create, improve and promote a website.
Tools for webmasters including web templates, html codes, Javascripts and
tutorials all help to create your site.
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HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0
Reference (W3Schools): Includes description of HTML Reference and HTML
Tags
Color Tools:
- Color
Theory Tutorial: Color theory has been worked on by a number of
individuals over the years, and those with an interest in the field
include artists, scientists, and of course, interior designers. Visitors
can learn about the basics of color, complementary colors, and concepts
such as contrast, dominance, proportion, and intensity.
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Color Chart Pickers
- Palleteman
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Basic Color Code
Free Fonts:
PowerPoint Templates:
Misc. Tools:
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PosteRazor 1.5 (free): Want to print an image the size of a poster--but
you don't have a wide-format printer? One solution is to print the image in
smaller sections, each taking up a sheet of standard paper, and then put
those sections together to create the full image. PosteRazor is available as
a Windows, an OSX and a Linux version.
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Google SketchUp 6: a
3D modeling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, and lets you
place your models in Google Earth. Are you remodeling a kitchen, landscaping
your back yard or adding a deck to your home? From simple to complex, from
conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp helps you see your vision before
you build it.
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SyncToy: a free Microsoft PowerToy to copy, move, rename, and delete
files between folders and computers, and thumb drives. Provides an easy to
use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting
involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different
directories. SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time;
it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and
deletes in another. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps
track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried
over to the synchronized folder.
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Official Seal Generator:
Enter some text, choose a border and an emblem, pick your colors, and
click the 'Go' button. An Official Seal will be generated for you.
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Buttonator: Create quick-n-easy web buttons. Button templates are on
the right. Click and drag the one you want into the "Button Preview"
window. Click on the text to change it. You can change the button
properties for text font, font size, and the width of the button) and the
color of the button and button text. Once satisfied with the button you
can download it as a .gif file.
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Custom Sign Generator -
FREE with no installation or registration: Create your own free customized
special messages with your own customized captions, quotes, sayings,
phrases from thousands of free dynamic JPEG, GIF & PNG image creators.
Customize FREE logos, blog headers, parody photos, buttons, banners, email
sigs, comics, signs, and more.
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TheMemStore offers the
ultimate in advanced technology Flash Memory products for sale in North
America. A new breed of on-line retailer that has taken the step from
being one of the largest Flash Memory Product Distributors to selling
directly to the end user though our portal web site. Offers the customers
the ability to purchase products for the same price as the retailers
without stepping foot out of your house or office.
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ZDNet: How to
REALLY erase a hard drive. Secure Erase, a set of commands embedded in
most ATA drives built since 2001.
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What’s Inside a JPEG File?: a tutorial from The Society for Imaging
Science and Technology. Very few users actually know what goes on inside a
JPEG file and still fewer understand the many pitfalls associated with
using this choice when storing their digital photographs. This essay will
describe the inner working of this file format that we so commonly use,
highlighting its many merits and it many flaws. Like any tool that is
available to us, there are correct ways to use the JPEG file format and
there are times when it is a poor choice.
Stock Photography:
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Foto Search
Stock Photography: The best online search engine for stock photo images,
digital illustrations and artwork, map clipart, picture clip art, and stock
footage from more than 2.5 million images from 140 quality stock photography
publishers at one site. Stock photos and images:
Bible |
Catholic
| Christian.
Type query into Search box.
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