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• Keyboard Shortcuts: 18 simple, intermediate, and advanced Photoshop shortcuts

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Image Editing, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Photoshop, Productivity, Shortcuts

  Keyboard shortcuts are the bread and butter of application productivity, and Photoshop is no exception. The Digital Photography School weblog highlights 18 useful Photoshop shortcuts for beginer, intermediate, and advanced users. The 18 shortcuts listed are far from exhaustive, though, so share your favorite Photoshop shortcuts in the comments. If

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• Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Calendar, Del Icio Us, Digg, Document Sharing, Documents, Facebook, Feature, Feeds, File Sharing, File Storage, Files, Getting Things Done, Getting To Done, Google, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Gtd, Image Editing, Last Fm, Lists, Media, Media Player, Netflix, Photos

  with the Last.fm app. Editing Edit photos from within Facebook with the Picnik application. You can edit photos from your own 'puter, the Web, Flickr, Picasa, etc. Use Picasa within Facebook with the Picasa app; you can upload photos, resize them, share images, and more. Feeds Read your favorite RSS feeds from within your Facebook

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• GIMP: Intermediate GIMP image editing tutorial

  Published: August 3, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Gimp, Image Editing, Linux, Mac, Mac Os X, Tutorials, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp

  Cross platform, open source image editor GIMP is a powerful alternative to Photoshop that has many useful features waiting to be unlocked. Some of GIMP's intermediate features are demonstrated in this short video tutorial by the VnTutor weblog. The demonstration includes: working with gray scale, adjusting brightness and contrast, adding noise,

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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

  Windows only: Image processor FastStone Photo Resizer can edit, correct, crop, 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

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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

  Remove the background from any 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

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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

  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 introduces a few other image editing tweaks you can perform like cropping, padding, printing, rotating and scaling. Batch resizing images is a snap in

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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 backgrounds from your images and give them the "green screen" look using GIMP, and weblog ThemBid.com (which published 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

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• Image Editing: Edit Your Online Images with FotoFlexer

  Published: August 30, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Digital Pictures, Image Editing, Web Applications

  you'd expect from an online image editor and then some (including webcam shots). We've posted an embarrassing number of online image editors in the past year, but FotoFlexer looks like the editor that devoured the features of all the rest and then went back for seconds. If you need to do serious image editing, desktop editors like Photoshop,

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• Powerpoint: Quickly Extract Images from Slideshows

  Published: September 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Image Editing, Images, Powerpoint

  PowerPoint images can be quickly extracted with a little trick from technology blogger Amit Agarwal: To extract pictures from the PPT slideshow, all you have to do is export the Powerpoint Presentation as an HTML web page (File -> Save As -> Select .html from the File Format drop down). PowerPoint will automatically extract every picture

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• Pixelmator hits 1.0

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Image Editing, Image Editing, Imageediting, Pixelmator

  Software Long-fabled image editor Pixelmator (arguably one of the hottest, and most discussed Mac applications of the year) has finally left beta testing, and version 1 is available to download and buy. Compatibility with layered Photoshop PSD files (and over 100 other file formats too), Core Image-driven editing, Automator actions,

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• Image Editing: Resize Images without Sacrificing Content with GIMP or Rsizr

  Published: October 1, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Clips, Digital Photography, Downloads, Image Editing, Photography, Top

  both worlds—a smaller image that retains everything you want. If it still sounds a little unclear, check out the video to see this brilliant idea in action. If you're a fan of the open source image editor GIMP, you can download and install the Liquid Rescale GIMP plug-in to get liquid rescaling results (after you install it by moving

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• Featured Firefox Extension: Get Color Codes with Colorzilla

  Published: October 4, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Color Palette, Design, Downloads, Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Image Editing, Web Publishing

  All platforms with Firefox: Designers will love the usefulness of ColorZilla, a Firefox extension that provides color readings in RGB and hexadecimal format. For die-hard Firefox users who surf the net often, this is a convenient alternative to standalone application Color Cop. We've briefly mentioned Colorzilla before, but I find it a

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• Free online photo editing tool www. flauntr.com

  Published: October 5, 2007, 2:15 am

  Tags: Image Editing Online Tool, Flickr Edit Image, Free Effects For Images, How To Edit Image Online

  image editing tool -www. flauntr.com/ FlauntR is created with the vision of enabling consumers to enhance photos or images without reading through heaps of user manuals or purchasing and downloading expensive software. Flauntr.com helps you to edit ,modify or apply style to your photos ,it is easy & 3 easy steps 1 2 3 your photos is

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• Edit Photos Online for Free with Picnik

  Published: October 6, 2007, 12:16 pm

  Tags: Social Media, Technology Web, Image Editing, Picnik Com

  was done. I could continue editing photos from my Flickr account by clicking the Photos menu item. Or I could get out of editing mode by clicking the Home button. My conclusions are that picnik is easy and powerful. It's fast and it's simple. If personal photo editing software such as Fireworks or Photoshop is not on your horizon, picnik.com a

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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

  you incredible 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

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