I’m a Flickr addict. I love browsing Flickr, looking for people with an interesting eye. But flickr doesn’t provide the best viewing experience. That’s where PicLens comes in.
PicLens is a free plugin for Safari that lets you view photos in full screen with a single click. Once you’ve activated PicLens, you can play a [...]
“We find the best photo shiz anywhere.” This twice-weekly newsletter offers tons of tips and DIY projects for digital photography enthusiasts, including how to Add Years to Anyone’s Face, Instantly! and how to Turn Your Photos into Lichtenstein-inspired Comic Book Art.
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The price came down as I predicted it would, but I still haven’t been ready to spend $300 bucks for Aperture, even though I’ve been dying to play with it. Finally, Apple is offering a free, fully-functional, 30-day test drive.
Via TUAW. Apple
This weekly(ish) podcast offers dozens of Photoshop tutorials (including how to create digital mats, enhancing aged photos, and working with RAW), many of them videos, and all of them short enough to complete on your coffee break.
Digital photgraphy may be the epitome of instant photogratification, but viewing your images in a two inch LCD can’t compare to flapping a Polaroid in your hand waiting for it to dry. And Polaroids have a warmth and softness and sheen that digital photographs lack, even with patient Photoshopping.
POLANOID.NET is building the largest [...]
Adobe responded to the release of Apple’s Aperture today with the release of a beta version of Lightroom. Derrick Story has already written a thorough overview on Macworld, First Look: Adobe Lightroom beta, so I won’t bother to rehash the features here.
Lightroom looks impressive, if not quite as slick as Aperture on the surface, [...]
I haven’t tried this yet, but it looks like a great tip.
Photocritic.org has posted a how to called “Extreme Macro Photography on a budget,” which shows you how to build your own macro lens out of a Pringles can.
And if you’re into Pringles, it seems there are a lot more uses for [...]
I haven’t tried this yet, but it sure looks like fun. FlipClips takes your digital video clips (of less than 30 seconds) and prints them to one of three book sizes: FlipBooks (3.5″x2″x75 pages), Greeting Card (4.25″x3.5″x50 pages) or Story Book (4.5″x3″x150 pages). Prices range from $8.99 for FlipBooks to $18.99 for Story Books. [...]
If you’re not satisfied with printing your photos in an iPhoto Book or an iPhoto Life Poster, why not blow up your favorite picture and plaster it over an entire wall? ID-Wall.com claims to be able to enlarge your photo up to 16 times the original printable size with no loss in quality. You [...]
Dougal Charteris, who read my article “Solve printer problems” in Macworld, wrote in with an excellent tip for solving banding problems. I’ve had a few images in my iPhoto books marred by banding; this tip would have solved the problem.
Dougal writes:
Banding is a common problem when going to print when an image has had [...]