Since I got Lizzie a easel for Christmas, she has no excuse but to paint. She was working on a painting that she has been working on for a few months, when she decided she was going to paint over it and start it over again. I remember one painting she actually painted over four times before she settled on a finished product.

Since she was going to paint over it, I asked her if I could work on it. She said sure. So I did a little outlining in black, then made a black and white of my jowling picture, cropped and cut it out and pasted the picture onto the fat lady. After seeing the additions I made to her painting, Lizzie decided she would keep the picture(for now).

To create a Jowling picture of your own, see the original Jowling post on Digital Point Photography.

I just watched this Eye-Fi Media card review video of the new eye-fi media card. It looks pretty cool. Take a look and see what you think. I still have not updated so I can’t post videos, so if you click on the pic, you’ll be taken to Masto’s video page on Viddler. Please come back and let me know what you think.

The Eye-Fi media card looks pretty cool. A few draw backs include the camera’s power needs to be on while it sends the picture to the Eye-fi site, which will then update your computer when it is received. It also does not go out and join wifi networks were ever you may be, it needs to be configured for various networks. Still its pretty cool, as Masto states, its amazing what they can get into that little card.

Oh if anyone wants to take on the task of upgrading Pixelheadonline, leave a comment with your fees and contact info.

The Library of Congress is doing a pilot program with Flickr, which is called The Commons, and involves having Flickr users go through over 3000 photos from the Library of and tag and make comments. The photos have a unique copyright called “no known copyright restrictions.”

Got some time? Go check out the Library photos, and add some tags,notes, and comments.

• Library of Congress profie page on Flickr.
• http://www.loc.gov/blog/ Library of Congress Blog(not and official LOC Blog)

Tags: Lirbrary of Congress, Flickr, Photography

One of the Flickr groups that I belong to, Landscape and Seascape (Com. 2, Invite 1), is having a Favorite Landscape Picture contest and this Pic entitled “7449 Reflecting On a River-Scape” would be my current favorite. With the bright colors it just seems like such a festive picture.
Stop by the group to see some really beautiful landscape pictures. Got a picture to add, join the group, comment on two and invite one picture to the group.

7449 Reflecting on a River-Scape,
originally uploaded by tengtan.
Tags: Flickr, photography, contest, Photo contest

After reading Techcrunches report about Picnik being live on Flickr , I went to the Flickr blog and read about the newest Flickr feature that enables online photo editing using Picnik’s Photo editing services.

To use the service while using Flickr, you must be signed it to your Flickr account, and then when viewing your photos, click the edit button at the top of one of your photos. You are then taken to Picnik where you see all the editing options that are available to you from a Picnik’s free account.

Its a pretty simple interface that includes such options as cropping, red eye reduction, color adjustments and more. There are plenty of advanced features available as well, but many more features can be obtained by upgrading your free account for a little less than 25 bucks a year. For someone who does not want to make the purchase of Photoshop, this might be an awesome tool to use for editing of photos. I will probably continue to use Photoshop, but I can also see myself using Picnik while using Flickr.

Also, while surfing the net, there is a Firefox addon, that lets you edit graphics online through the use of your right click menu. There is also an extension for IE if that is your browser of choice. Here is the Picnik tools page for a list of available photo editing tools .

In addition to Flickr, Picnik can also be used with Facebook, PhotoBucket, Picasa, and Webshots, and it’s API is available for others to use and develop for other applications.

What do You Think?

This is the first Internet based Photo Editing site that I have used or reviewed for that matter. While doing the review I was exposed to several other sites. Does anyone have any experience with any other photo editing sites? What do you think about PicniK?

Tags: photo editing, online photo editing, Flickr, Picnik, photography