There lots of software for customizing image files, but most of them are not simple and user-friendly. So if you’re looking for a simple and free customizing tool for images, check this one out. ImageMagick is a tool that can convert, edit, and even help you create image files, and supports tons of image formatsContinue reading “ImageMagick: a simple, scriptable tool to convert, edit and compose Images”
Category Archives: Software
Faststone Image Viewer
Those of you that attended the Black & White meeting last night will have seen this application in action. Faststone Image Viewer is a free Windows application that is not only a viewer but provides fairly extensive editing features too. It’s perfect for playing around and experimenting with different processing ideas. While the old favouriteContinue reading “Faststone Image Viewer”
Hueless, a B&W camera app for iPhone
I follow A Lesser Photographer and an iPhone app mentioned in his latest newsletter caught my interest. If you like shooting black & white you might want to take a look at this app; I would if I had an iPhone. Hueless There’s a reason the best photographers embrace black and white. In the wordsContinue reading “Hueless, a B&W camera app for iPhone”
Lightroom ate my photos!
One of our members sent me an email with a question and while replying I thought this may well be a problem that others have so I should blog the answer. This was the question. I have Lightroom 2, but have not really got my head around to understanding it – but then I don’tContinue reading “Lightroom ate my photos!”
Adding a border to your images
When images are viewed on a computer screen or when projected, the screen around the image appears black, or near-black. If your image does not completely fill the screen and has large dark areas running to the edge of the image these tend to blend into the background and viewers’ eyes can wander out ofContinue reading “Adding a border to your images”
The Photographer’s Ephemeris for Android
We’ve mentioned The Photographer’s Ephemeris before. It was available on the desktop for Windows, Mac and Linux, but mobile availability was restricted to the iPhone. This has changed, with a version for Android becoming available. Find out more in the web version of the Android Market or scan the quick response code below to openContinue reading “The Photographer’s Ephemeris for Android”
Photoshop Elements 9 Finally Gets Real Layer Masks
Earthbound Light published an article that starts; Users of Adobe Photoshop Elements have long envied some of the cool features only available in the full version of Photoshop. Chief among these is true layer masks. There are workarounds to add layer masks to Elements, but Adobe has finally given in and added the real thingContinue reading “Photoshop Elements 9 Finally Gets Real Layer Masks”
VSO Image Resizer 4
VSO Software announces the release of VSO Image Resizer 4, a major new version of its photo resizing freeware. VSO Image Resizer 4 is a stand-alone application which will compress, convert, create copies, import, edit or organise a single picture or a whole batch. VSO Image Resizer 4 offers an improved stand-alone usage and aContinue reading “VSO Image Resizer 4”
The Photographer’s Ephemeris
The Photographer’s Ephemeris is an interesting software application that presents details of moon phases, times and directions of sun and moon set and rise for any location you select. You can save your favourite locations and call them up again with just a few clicks. The software runs on the Adobe Air platform and isContinue reading “The Photographer’s Ephemeris”
Black & White in Photoshop Elements
At the last meeting I demonstrated the use of the Enhance > Convert to Black and White… tool for converting images to black and white. While this tool is still a perfectly acceptable way of doing this, I have since discovered this tutorial that uses a different, in many ways better technique for this. IfContinue reading “Black & White in Photoshop Elements”
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