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Category Archives: Photo Editing and Digital Workflow
Editing Photographs in Windows Vista
Microsoft Photography Blog has posted about the photo adjustment features in Vista. While the majority of us will not be moving over to Vista any time soon I welcome their idea to place basic photo correction tools right in the operating system. The point and click posse will find it useful to not have to find, download and install additional software, plus in many cyber cafes installing tools is not allowed if you find yourself laptop-less on vacation.
Vista has incorporated a bunch of easy to use, high quality, and extremely fast photo correction tools into the Photo Gallery. I’m going to walk you through what each of them does so that you can make your photos pop.
All of the editing tools in Vista are located in the Gallery Viewer. You can get to this by double clicking on a photo in either the Vista Photo Gallery or from any folder. The various fix tools are all located on a pane which you can open up by clicking the “Fix” button in the command bar.
The Vista Photo Gallery has controls to adjust exposure, color, crop region and red-eye. Each of the individual controls are accessed by clicking on the corresponding button in the fix pane. The Photo Gallery also has an “Auto Adjust” feature, which as the name implies, automatically find the best exposure and color settings for the photo.
You know one of these days I am going to have to crack open that beta and try it out. Some of this stuff looks pretty neat.
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Online Photo Editing Web Application
Cellsea have produced a pretty cool imaging editing web application. We have linked to online photo editing sites before but this one is particularly neat.
The rest of the site is all about cell phones, bizarre! Other than that it all makes sense and is pretty darned easy to use. You start by selecting your image source, choosing between uploading, entering a url or searching.
Most people are going to look to the simple crop, resize, rotate options, maybe sharpening. Having said that it is fun to work through the quite considerable list of effects and distortion choices.
When you are finished you can hit save to download to your machine. There is also a “share it” option which I presume allows you to store your image online.
GIMPShop – Free, Powerful Photoshop-Style Photo Editing Software
I might be a Photoshop Elements user but I would hardly say I was a fan, there are a lot of things I find different or missing from its older bigger brother, such as curves. Also when your parents need a tool for sending Aunt Whatshername a quick email with the latest birthday/anniversary/holiday etc picture they don’t really want to splash out much cash.
Enter The GIMP. Famous with Linux aficionados but also available on other platforms. The only problem with GIMP is it is different again to what you are used to if you have grown up with Photoshop. These kind gentlefolks have developed a modified GIMP to be more familiar (although obviously not identical) and it is now available for Windows users; GIMPshop for Windows
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Canon Adds New DSLR Camera Photo and Raw Software Tutorial
Rob Galbraith has pointed out that Canon has added a couple of new New Digital Photo Professional tutorials. If you are an EOS owner and haven’t tried out the bundled software yet, get on over and download an update and try it out, you might be surprised at how good it is.
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Google to Attack Flickr With Picasa?
Philipp Lenssen, long-time Google watcher, reports some interesting goings-on over at Picasa …
Google Picasa Web Albums Coming?
Picasa is Google’s desktop photo management software – something like Yahoo’s Flickr, except it’s not on the web. However, online photo management is a big pie of “making the world’s information accessible”… and consequently, a new product appeared linked from the Picasa homepage, as Hermon points out in the forum: Picasa Web Albums. The link points to picasaweb.google.com, a page which at this moment doesn’t exist. Can we expect a Google Flickr?
Update: The link from the Picasa homepage has disappeared now.
I don’t know what to make of it really. Picasa is good, I use it 3/4 of the time for my photography workflow, and I have always wanted better integration between it and Flickr. Would I switch from Flickr to a Google/Picasa branded service? Right now I think unlikely but stranger things have happened …
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The Best Free RAW Conversion Software – RawShooter – No More?
I was going to review the 2006 version of Pixmantec Rawshooter Essentials but it looks like the product will be disappearing soon. PhotographyBLOG has an Open Letter from Pixmantec
They do say Canon 30D support will be arriving later so perhaps all is not lost …
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