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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 (more…)
Written by Pixelhead on February 20th, 2008 with 8
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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.
Tags: Lirbrary of Congress, Flickr, Photography
Written by Pixelhead on January 22nd, 2008 with 10
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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
Written by Pixelhead on December 20th, 2007 with 15
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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
Written by Pixelhead on December 11th, 2007 with 13
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Here is a basic easy tip for cropping with Photoshop. Many times in the past all I would do to crop out a piece of a picture would be to click on the crop tool, click on the picture and drag the cursor so that the crop box would include everything or nearly everything I wanted cropped. Often times though this is not very accurate.
An Easy Cropping Solution.
Lizzie showed me how to use the guidelines sometime ago, and since I discovered them, I have used them almost every time I want to crop.
In order to use guidelines you need to have the rulers on. Go to the view tab and click “Rulers” or just use the shortcut “CTR R” which will enable the rulers.
Grab The Guidelines
Next put your cursor in the ruler at the top or side, click and drag the ruler over to the edge of part of the picture you 
want to crop. Do it again to create the other side of the crop box. Then grab the opposite ruler and do the other two sides. Now that you have the area defined, click either the rectangular marquee or the elliptical marquee tool. Click at the top of your area marked off by the guidelines and drag down until the entire area for the rectangular marquee is selected or until the elliptical crop selection fills the box. The crop tool will use the guidelines, so your cropping selection will be much more accurate.
Release the cursor then CTRL X or CTRL C > CTRL N >CTRL V. Then go to the Layer tab at the top of the screen, select “flatten image”. Then you can save the cropped pic as a new pic and you are ready to use your cropped picture.
What Tips Do You Have?
I hope this little tip is something you can use. If you have some other Photoshop tips for me, please leave a comment as I am eager to learn new Photoshop tips. This can include links to Photoshop tutorials you may have done.
Written by Pixelhead on November 30th, 2007 with 12
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The top commentator for mid November was the Photographer Forrest Croce. For some really awesome Photography tips and lessons, you should check out Forrest’s Fine Art Photography site.
Forrest also has a blog were he offers up some Photography tips. In his post, Vivid Color in Photoshop, Forrest relates some of the methods he uses to create vivid life like colors using both common sense and Photoshop.
Two of the common sense methods or maybe not so common sense methods for outdoor photography he suggests are:
Photoshop tips
Several Photoshop tools that he suggest using in the post are;
In addition to telling how he adjusts photos manually, Forrest also offers some down loadable tools to automate the procedures that he discusses.
Below are before and after pictures of a Lake Pontchartrain Sunset I took on our New Orleans trip that I edited with Photoshop using Forrest’s techniques.
Before Editing |
After Editing |
Be sure to check out Forrest’s site for some tremendous photography resources as well as his photo galleries.
Written by Pixelhead on November 23rd, 2007 with 5
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