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• Featured Windows Download: Migrate or back up your photos to another online service with Migratr

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Photos, Digital Pictures, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Flickr, Top, Web Publishing, Windows

  Migratr moves your digital photos from one photo sharing service to another, metadata and all. We're pretty into Flickr here at Lifehacker HQ, but Flickr's free account only serves up 100MB of storage space, so we can understand if, for example, you want to move to the 1GB pastures of an integrated Google service like Picasa Web Albums.

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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

  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 us about it

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• Photography Tip: Make your photo subjects look thinner

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Photography, Digital Photos, Photography, Photography Tip

  you do, don't take any photos from down low when you have a larger subject! Watch the head position. Make sure your subject doesn't pull their head back for the photo. This makes the chin skin squish out. This makes even thin people look terrible. You can try having them put the head out just a tad if you like, which stretches out the skin

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• Featured Windows Download: Batch process images with FastStone Photo Resizer

  Published: August 14, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Digital Photography, Digital Photos, Digital Pictures, Featured Windows Download, Image Editing, Images, Top, Windows

  rename, and watermark your digital images in batch mode—that is, in big bunches all at once. This impressive little utility can: Convert and Rename images in batch mode Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text and watermark. Rename images with sequential number. Better than Picasa's batch edit and

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• How To: Quickly Remove Backgrounds with Photoshop

  Published: August 23, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Photos, How To, Image Editing, Photoshop, Top, Tutorials

  photo quickly and easily in Photoshop with weblog ThemBid's quick and dirty tutorial. Using Photoshop's Extract filter, trace the area you want to extract with the highlight tool and then color in the traced section using the fill tool. Excluding a few of the finer points, that's about all there is to it, and it works surprisingly well.

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• How To: Quickly Remove Backgrounds with GIMP

  Published: August 27, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Photos, Gimp, How To, Image Editing, Tutorials

  the companion tutorial for Photoshop last week) demonstrates the process. The Extract filter does the heavy lifting in Photoshop, but there is no equivalent to Extract in GIMP. GIMPers must use a more rudimentary technique of outlining the image and then adding an alpha layer as the new background. The results in Photoshop and GIMP look

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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

  via email from your regular digital camera. Qipit can also rotate documents once they've been uploaded (for the ones you shot landscape.) Qipit's concept is a good one, and it groks lower-res photos than ScanR (ScanR requires a 2MP cameraphone at least), but the site is slow and a bit flaky. (One of my uploads never made it, and the app

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• Featured Windows Download: Manage Your Digital Pics with Windows Live Photo Gallery

  Published: September 20, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Digital Photos, Featured Windows Download, Photography, Windows

  it ships with a built-in digital picture manager called Photo Gallery—but now Windows XP users can get in on the newest beta of that action. The Photo Gallery Beta automatically organizes your pics by date, and can add tags, ratings and captions to each. Edit features include red eye reduction, sharpening, auto-enhance,

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• How To: Use Your Cameraphone as a Visual To-Do List

  Published: September 28, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Cameraphone, Capture Tools, Digital Photos, How To, Memory, To Do List, To Do Managers, Top

  guide to developing your (digital) photographic memory. Use Your Cameraphone as a Visual To Do List [Micro Persuasion]

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• How to Publish your Photos to Any Photo-sharing Site

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:30 am

  Tags: Linux, Mac, Windows, Website, Web Browsers, Jalbum, Digital Photos, Gallery

  share and upload your digital pics to your website or to your preferred online photo-sharing site...full feature

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• Featured Download: Edit and Convert Graphics with XnView

  Published: October 9, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Digital Photos, Downloads, Featured Download, Image Editing, Linux, Mac Os X, Windows

  control over editing digital photographs in a lightweight package. Similar to Lifehacker favorite IrfanView, XnView is fast and can import and export hundreds of image formats. It also features lossless rotate and crop, filters, color modifications, red-eye reduction, and slideshow view. Categorize images and easily access EXIF meta

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• Archiving: Digitize Your Analog Images at ScanCafe

  Published: October 9, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Archiving, Digital Photos, Digitization, Photography

  you'd love to preserve digitally but don't feel like going through the work of scanning every one yourself, send them to web site ScanCafe for cheap and professional scanning. The service charges $0.19 for each negative and $0.24 for each slide you accept (you can reject up to 50% for whatever reason, whether you don't like the quality or

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• Photography: Make Your Photos Better in 60 Seconds

  Published: October 14, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Photography, Digital Photos, Photography, Photos, Top

  the basics of really good digital photography simply and quickly with iDigitalPhoto's sixty second guide to improving your photos. A lot of ground is covered here: anything from lighting to depth of feeling. By the time you finish reading you should have a firmer grasp on what it takes to take a better photo. Improve Your Photos in 60 Seconds

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• Digital Photos: Give Photos the Pleasantville Look

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Digital Photography, Digital Photos, Gimp, Image Editing, Photos, Photoshop

  to giving objects in your digital photos a distinct focus by singling them out as the only color in a black-and-white background. We've offered tips on using desaturation and the History Brush to paint in color, but this tutorial seems a bit easier for those who use the lasso select tool. The guide uses Adobe Photoshop Elements, but any photo

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• Photography Tip: The Best Light for Taking Photographs This Fall

  Published: October 15, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Photos, How To, Photography, Photography Tip

  harshly lit, high-contrast photos that don't do justice to you and your loved ones' beautiful faces or the soft nuance of the fall colors. Lighting-wise, the post also suggests that overcast days can be terrific for fall photography. If you're looking for more ways to boost your fall photos, the author offers several other tips for great fall

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