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• Photoshop Tip: Give your text the Photoshop effect

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, Digital Media, Mac, Mac Os X, Photoshop, Photoshop Tip, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp

  Improve your Photoshop skills and make your documents pop with Photoshop text effects. Tutorial site The Photoshop Roadmap compiled 80 tutorials of text effects for Photoshop. The tutorials are laid out so you can easily see the final product before sifting through the tutorial. Although not exactly beginner-friendly, most of the tutorials are

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• How To: Batch process images in Photoshop

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: Digital Images, Digital Photos, How To, Photoshop

  and optimizing your images in Photoshop by hand? Make an automated batch action to do it for you instead. In Photoshop you can preprogram sets of actions that process images automagically with parameters you set, and the Wired How To wiki runs down how. Anyone know how to do something similar in a less spendy graphics program? Tell

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• Digital Images: Free stock photos at Freerange stock

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:33 am

  Tags: Digital Images, Image Search, Stock Photography

  selection of good-looking images. We've long been fans of stock photo aggregator and search engine everystockphoto, but Freerange is still a nice addition to the art search arsenal. Photographers, you can submit your photos and make some coin with Freerange's ad revenue-sharing program, too.Free Stock Photos at freerangestock.com

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• Mac Tip: Batch Resize Images Without Extra Software

  Published: August 24, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, Image Editing, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip

  You can batch resize images in Mac OS X without installing third party software. The Mac OS X Tips weblog shows how you can use Automator and Preview to batch resize any group of images. After you've created the Automator script, all you need to do is drag and drop the images onto the icon and they will be instantly resized. The article even

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• Cameraphone: Turn Your Digital Camera into a Scanner with Qipit

  Published: August 31, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Cameraphone, Digital Camera, Digital Images, Digital Photos, Digital Pictures, Gizmodo, Pdf, Photos, Scanner, Top

  Webapp Qipit turns a digital photo of a whiteboard, handwritten notes or a typed document into a PDF. Much like previously mentioned ScanR, you can email cameraphone snaps to Qipit, or upload images via email or the web site. Qipit stores up to 100 scanned documents in your account for free, where you can make them public and tag them, too.

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• Featured Mac Download: Browse Multiple Images with Xee 2.0

  Published: September 25, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Digital Images, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Images, Mac Os X

  Xee browses all the images in a given directory with lots of features and keyboard shortcuts. Flip, rotate or zoom images, move back and forth from one to the next, run a timed slideshow or launch your editor of choice with Xee. Opening multiple files in Preview.app is one thing, but Xee is definitely an even better way to browse a set

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• Featured Mac Download: Batch Process Images with Photo Drop

  Published: October 24, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Automation, Digital Images, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Image Editing, Mac Os X, Top

  rotate or convert multiple digital images at once with Photo Drop, a small utility that creates programmable image editing droplets. Launch Photo Drop and set the actions you want to perform, like rotating, padding, cropping, resizing, resampling or adding copyright or other meta info and save your droplet. Then, drag and drop any number of

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• Add Thumbnails to All Images in Explorer with Xentient Thumbnails [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: November 8, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Top, Windows, Windows Explorer

  Windows only: Freeware application Xentient Thumbnails replaces all image icons on your desktop or in Windows Explorer with a thumbnail preview of the image. Of course Windows Explorer has the Thumbnail view and Filmstrip views dedicated to image thumbnails, but after you install Xentient Thumbnails and restart your computer, all image icons in

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• Add a Ruler to Your Digital Toolbox with JR Screen Ruler [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: December 1, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, Digital Media, Featured Windows Download, Graphics, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp

  photos, graphics and other digital media directly on your monitor with freeware app JR Screen Ruler. JR Screen Ruler comes as a stand-alone executable that can be used to measure inches, centimeters, pixels or picas (a unit of measurement corresponding to 1/6 of an inch). You certainly won't need to use the ruler everyday, but it's nice to

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• Guess-Free Photo Tweaking at ImproveYourImages [Digital Images]

  Published: December 20, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Digital Images, Digital Photo, Image Editing, Images, Web Applications

  all the other tools of the digital image trade. Free web app ImproveYourImages.com is like a web version of Picasa's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. Upload your image, check out the improvements, and download the corrected version. I had to scale down and set one of my digital camera pics to 72 DPI before it would take it, but not being all that

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• Find a Picture Based on How It Looks with ImageSorter [Featured Download]

  Published: December 26, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, Digital Photos, Downloads, Featured Download, Linux, Mac Os X, Top, Windows

  Freeware application ImageSorter organizes images by color, date taken, name, or size. According to ImageSorter's developer, the main purpose of the application is to help you find pictures you've taken when you remember how the picture looks (by color) but have no idea where it is on your computer. The application is pretty simple to

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• Create Multiple Photo Libraries in Picasa [Photo Management]

  Published: January 28, 2008, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, Digital Pictures, Google, How To, Photo Management, Picasa, Pictures

  Blogger Vinayaka CA details how he uses Google's excellent photo management application Picasa to manage multiple photo libraries. His solution: Create a Picasa library under another user account (e.g., PicasaUser) on your Windows PC, then put a shortcut to Picasa on your main desktop. Whenever you want to use your alternate Picasa library,

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• PixelCryptor Encrypts Files with an Image [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: January 29, 2008, 11:30 am

  Tags: Digital Images, Downloads, Encryption, Featured Windows Download, Privacy, Security, Top, Windows

  your files, it uses a digital image. Lock up your PixelCryptor file package like a drum and set an image as the key. The more complex the image, the more secure your encrypted folder. Then, on another PC with PixelCryptor installed (or available on a thumb drive), unlock the folder contents only with the image you used to encrypt it.

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• Rescue Lost or Damaged Photos with Zero Assumption [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: April 9, 2008, 10:07 am

  Tags: Digital Images, Digital Photos, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, File Recovery, Windows

  is free. Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery [via Digital Photography School]

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• Turn Photos into Sketches [Photoshop Tip]

  Published: May 22, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Images, In Brief, Photoshop, Photoshop Tip

  Wikihow runs down how to make a digital image look like a sketch in Photoshop. Looks like a good photo transformation before you upload it to the Rasterbator.

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