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Resize, Rotate, Crop or add Color Tones to JPEG or PNG Images

Master — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:59:55 +0000

We have written several articles about tools that make photo editing quick and easy, with little to no graphic editing experience required. Recently, one of our readers suggested a new tool to add to our collection

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Share Image Files – No Size Restrictions

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:03:37 +0000

If you have a digital camera with more than 8 MP, chances are that you spend most of your time resizing photos before you can upload them to services like Flickr. Some of photo-sharing services resize the photos for you, resulting in image quality loss.

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Reduce JPEG Load Time without Reducing Image Size or Quality

Master — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:09:27 +0000

To make a website load faster, one of the first things webmasters try is reducing image sizes. However, this often compromises the overall visual appeal of a website. JPEGmini has a solution: Instead of reducing the size of the image or the overall quality of the image, JPEGmini makes minor, unnoticeable changes to a JPEG Post from: Reduce JPEG Load Time without Reducing Image Size or Quality

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Create an Andy Warhol Style Image from a Photograph

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:44:57 +0000

Andy Warhol had a profound influence on the artistic world in the 1960s and 1970s. Several decades later, his work is still admired, copied and transformed. Good graphic editors can turn any photo into the iconic color-block style Andy Warhol used in his most famous paintings, but it can be hard to find the right Post from: Create an Andy Warhol Style Image from a Photograph

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Turn any Image into an Icon

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:06:55 +0000

Customizing icons allows a level of personalization many computer users will never know because the pre-installed icons that come with Windows are generic and really have not changed much over the past decade or two. Each and every icon on a desktop can be customized, and not just with the generic icons built into Windows, Post from: Turn any Image into an Icon

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Make an Image Map the Easy Way

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:29:26 +0000

Image maps have many uses. Many Web sites use them to allow visitors to easy select their home country or state

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Mel- and Mellin-cepstral Feature Extraction Algorithms for Face Recognition

Master — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:35:42 +0000

In this article, an image feature extraction method based on two-dimensional (2D) Mellin cepstrum is introduced. The concept of one-dimensional (1D) mel-cepstrum that is widely used in speech recognition is extended to two-dimensions using both the ordinary 2D Fourier transform and the Mellin transform.

Convert Audio, Video, Document, Archive and Image Files

admin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:05:14 +0000

Converting files from one type to another is necessary in a world where not all file types play nice with all software. Many online websites exist to convert specific file genres, such as image, video and document files—so many that we have an entire folder on our bookmarks bar for nothing but converters

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Blind Watermarking of Color Images Using Karhunen-Loeve Transform Keying

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:44:00 +0000

This paper presents a method for blind digital watermarking of color images. The proposed scheme performs a decorrelation of the RGB color bands of the image to be watermarked using a Karhunen–Lo

Use AutoHotKey to Automate Image Sizing in SnagIt

Master — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:02:13 +0000

SnagIt is likely the most popular screen capture utility on the market, it’s versatile, has plenty of features and is easy to use. One drawback to using it though is when you have a lot of images you want to capture and place in a document or for posting on a web site, and you need the images to be resized.

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Two Easy Ways to Hide Your Email Address on a Web Site

Master — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:45:31 +0000

For Web site owners and bloggers, spam bots are a real pain. These Web crawlers troll the Internet looking for unsuspecting email addresses.

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Resize, Split or Crop Images the Easy Way

Master — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:28:34 +0000

In the Web 2.0 world, there is no shortage of image-editing Web sites. There is, however, a shortage of image-editing Web sites that split images for printing on multiple pages. Jimpl’s Image Splitter splits images easily and quickly, but with a few bonus editing features, like cropping and resizing, too

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How to Make a Greeting Card with MS Word 2007/2010 the Easy Way

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:26:53 +0000

Quite often the most meaningful greeting cards are those that are handmade, and while those that are made with crayons and glue are fine for when we’re younger, a much more professional look can be achieved by using Microsoft Word.

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Best Free Open Source Software Programs for Windows

Master — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:51:16 +0000

The best quality commercial software can cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars. If you can’t afford this expensive software, you can often find free open source software with the same features for free

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How to Resize Photos in Picasa

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:20:06 +0000

Google’s Picasa is an easy-to-use yet powerful free image editor.

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Save Images with Transparency in GIMP

admin — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:13:19 +0000

GIMP is one of the best programs for creating a transparent background behind an image.

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Adjust Zune Sync Settings

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:12:16 +0000

When you connect a new Zune device the first time, you are asked to setup your sync settings. This includes music, video, pictures and podcasts. If you have a large collection, you may not want to automatically sync your collection each time you connect a device

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Use Windows Live Photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:52:41 +0000

Windows Live Photos is one of the options available to users when they long in to Windows Live, along with SkyDrive, Office, Messenger, Hotmail and MSN; it is in essence, a repository for photographs and images, and works very much like other photo hosting sites Windows Live Gallery 2011 on the other hand, is a free photo/video editing program with links to SkyDrive and other sites. To get it, go to Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 , and download it. Once you have it downloaded and running, you should notice the now familiar Microsoft ribbon that has been incorporated throughout Microsoft’s suite of applications, it looks like this: If it looks familiar to you, that’s because this is the program that is actually running on Microsoft’s “cloud” television commercial.

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Add Special Effects to Images

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:45:08 +0000

Finding new, wacky ways to impress friends with photos and other images is a popular use of our favorite social networking sites. While new ideas appear every day, most image enhancing Web sites are one-trick only, leaving them easily forgotten after a user uploads an image or two.

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How to Resize Images using GIMP

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:17:47 +0000

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a free program that does most, if not all, of the things that can be done using Photoshop, which is great. The down side though is that a lot of people find GIMP a little difficult to use, which is too bad, because once you get used to how things work, GIMP is well worth the time invested.

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Import, Arrange and Present Graphics in Word 2007/10

Master — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:43:20 +0000

Despite Microsoft’s attempts to make inserting and manipulating graphic images in Word documents easier, many people still find it a rather daunting experience, especially the part where you try to make your image sit in your document where you want it. This is especially true for Mac users who find it difficult to understand why Microsoft puts PC users through so much work to accomplish the same things they do so easily on their Apple platform

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Use the New Screenshot Feature in Word 2010

Master — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:31:33 +0000

By now a lot of people know that Microsoft added the screen capture feature, “Snipping Tool” to Windows Vista and then improved upon that with Windows 7; what many people may not know however, is that Microsoft also added a screen capturing feature to Word 2010, called, appropriately enough, Screenshot . But recognizing that there was little point in simply reproducing what the Snipping Tool does, Microsoft made the Screenshot feature in Word behave differently.

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How to Use Word 2010 WordArt Features

admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:04:48 +0000

One of the new features in MS Word 2010 is the addition of some special effects in WordArt; where before there was little ability to do more than pick from a list of predefined graphic effects, Word now gives users the ability to add new effects and to customize those effects in great detail.

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How to Use Word 2010 Remove Background Tool

Master — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:51:08 +0000

One of the lesser known new features that Microsoft added to Word in its 2010 release is something called the Remove Background Tool .

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Customize Profile Picture Displays on Facebook the Easy Way

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:23:59 +0000

Facebook recently changed the way pictures appear at the top of our profile and fan pages.

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Customize Profile Picture Displays on Facebook the Easy Way