Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts

Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Photoline - an easy way to display your photos

photoline_(21_of_21).jpgThe Photoline is a simple but effective way of displaying your printed pictures. Photos can be easily added or removed just by pegging them onto string or wire that runs between 2 pieces of timber.

The whole thing can be attached to the wall using 3M picture hanging velcro strips so there's no damage to the wall.

photoline_(5_of_21).jpgCut 2 identical pieces of timber. Obviously you'll need to think about how many photos you want on each line and how many lines, leaving enough space between photos. This would be the best time to do any painting or finishing of the timber, although I just left mine raw.

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Moment Simplifies Posting Photos and Status Updates to Facebook

Moment Simplifies Posting Photos and Status Updates to Facebook

OS X: Moment lives in your Mac's menu bar and provides a stupidly simple method of checking Facebook status updates and posting your own. It's also one of the best ways we've seen to upload your photos.

When you click Moment in your menu bar, you get notifications from Facebook. Choosing one takes you to its page so you can reply, like, or share it. You can also post your own updates quickly from the app. While convenient, this doesn't add anything we haven't seen before. How Moment handles photo uploads, however, sets it apart. You can add a photo to any status update easily by dragging it to the menu bar. If you drag several photos, however, you get album creation tools. I've used a ton of Facebook photo uploading apps and many of them failed to operate as designed or provided few options (like things as simple as creating and album). Many uploaded albums I couldn't even edit afterwards. Moment, on the other hand, handles this all through in an instant without taking up space on your desktop.

If you want a quick way to interact with Facebook and only visit the site when necessary, Moment will get the job done. Although $4 is a bit pricey for a menubar app, alternatives just don't work as well. Hopefully we'll see a price reduction in the future, but if you like what Moment can do it's a small price to pay.

Moment ($4) | Mac App Store


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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Digitize Old Photos Better with the Negatives

Digitize Old Photos Better with the Negatives

Whether you're scanning old photos yourself, or sending them off to a scanning service, it's always better to use the negatives if you can find them.

JKastnerPhoto, a former photo lab technician on Reddit, offers up this tip and includes a dramatic side by side comparison, which you can see above. The negatives include far more detail than any prints, they haven't been cropped by an overzealous photo printer, and they can give you much more accurate color reproduction and tonal range than simply scanning an old print. A lot of you probably knew that negatives could produce better prints, but seeing the difference side by side really underscores how big a difference it can make.

While you can get an entry-level negative scanner for around $30 online, this previously-mentioned hack lets you use any flatbed scanner to do the same job for mere pennies.

LPT: If you are interested in scanning old family photos, scan negatives instead of the prints to achieve higher quality images | Reddit

Friday, July 19, 2013

KickSend Shares Your Photos or Prints them at Your Local Pharmacy

KickSend Shares Your Photos or Prints them at Your Local Pharmacy

Android/iOS/Web: Kicksend is a web service that lets you organize, upload, and share your photos with anyone, whether you just snapped it on your phone or you're going through saved photo albums. It also makes it easy to print those photos from your computer to your local pharmacy and pick them up when you're ready.

One of KickSend's biggest benefits is that you can quickly get your photos printed at your local pharmacy without having to leave your house. You don't have to go down to the kiosk with an SD card or USB drive, you can just select the photos you want printed, tweak them, choose your size, and print directly to your local CVS, Walgreens, or Target photo center. They'll be ready in an hour, and you can pick them up when ready. If you want to send those photos to a friend or relative somewhere else in the country, you can print to their local pharmacy so they can pick them up. If you'd prefer, you can even have those photos printed and mailed directly to your doorstep in the sizes and photo paper quality you choose (for an additional cost).

KickSend started off as a service that just made it easy to upload and manage your photos from your phone or your desktop. The service lets you send and share any of those photos to anyone you want to see them, regardless of whether they have a Kicksend account, and you don't have to post your photos publicly to Facebook, Google+, or any other social network. Your recipient gets an email and a link to view the photos, and you retain control over them (much like sharing via DropBox or other cloud services). With the addition of home and pharmacy printing services, it's much more useful.

For those of you who still print your photos (and we know there are plenty of you who do), KickSend makes ordering quality photo prints super-easy, and you don't even have to leave your house to get them. Prices vary depending on the sizes you want. You can check out their pricing here. The Kicksend mobile apps and web service are free to use—you only pay when you're ready to print.

Kicksend

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Do You Print Photos Anymore?

Most department stores and pharmacies still have photo labs and kiosks that let you print your photos. Just pop in an SD card or a USB drive, select the photos you want to print, and out they come, in whatever size you choose and on whatever paper you prefer. We have to wonder though: Who does that anymore?

With everyone sharing photos online, whether it's via Facebook, Google+'s new photo features, or the freshly overhauled Flickr, we're not sure people still print out photos and put them in photo albums these days. Sure, there's always a place for a well-printed photo in a frame on the wall, one your desk, or as a gift. Still, photo printing kiosks and apps that promise to let you print from home and pick up at the pharmacy are easy to find. Do you use them?

Photo by Infrogmation.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Sunday, May 19, 2013

SmartDeblur Fixes Blurry Photos without the Fuss

Windows: As good as our camera phones have gotten, they can still produce some blurry images, especially of moving subjects or in low light. While you could try to sharpen them up in a feature-rich app like Photoshop and futz around with a bunch of sliders and settings to get decent results, SmartDeblur does a great job with less fuss.

As far as photography apps go, this is a simple app for a single problem, but it delivers on its promise. Just load up a photo, adjust the kernel size and smoothing parameters as needed, then hit "Analyze Blur" to fix the photo. SmartDeblur is no miracle worker, the photos won't become crystal clear, but the app absolutely holds its own against real image editors. Obviously, if you have Photoshop and would rather set up a batch process to make some adjustments, that's probably going to be faster for fixing a ton of photos at once, but SmartDeblur is still handy if you just want to sharpen a photo or two. It's also a great app to send to any of your friends who don't own or aren't comfortable using full-featured image editors.

SmartDeblur (Free Trial) | Developer's Website via FreewareGenius

Screenshot by Carlos Macias.


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