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Use your webcam to take photos online! Your Photos on a Diet! Photo editor online - Pixlr.com edit image. How to enlarge images with no pixellization and minimal quality degradation (using free software) Have you experienced a situation where an image you are interested in using is smaller than you would like it to be, whether it might be for printing purposes or for use in illustration projects or even for usage on the web, etc?

How to enlarge images with no pixellization and minimal quality degradation (using free software)

Typically, straight-enlarging of an image comes with too much of a degradation in quality, with visible pixellization and undesirable artifacts, and a general loss of detail. This post will describe a process that can lead a different outcome. To be clear, the steps described here will not magically produce a perfect image out of a source which (by definition) is far from optimal. Rather, what is on offer here is the prospect of processing the enlarged image algorithmically to get a much better/cleaner looking resized image than otherwise would be the case. Nor is this post about manual image processing or Photoshopping techniques. First, step by step instructions, then an overview of a test resize. Step by Step: That’s it, you’re done! Overview of test results: 1. Resize, convert, split your images online - Jimpl Image Splitter. 25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos.

Getting a little bored how your photos are presented online?

25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos

How about injecting some fun and humor into it. You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects into your photos. There’re some really great sites out there that allows you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect-templates. The best part is – most of them are free and output is shown immediately on the fly. Here’s a collection of 25 Sites To Have Fun With Your Photoswe’ve come to know. We’ll start with 10 of our favorites, followed by the rest. Our Top 10 Picks PhotoFunia One of the hottest site with tons of creative backgrounds to play around with.

Fun Photo Box If you don’t get what you want from PhotoFunia, you reallly need to check out this site. Picartia Create a photo mosaic of your choice for free online. Hairmixer Choose a photo for the left and right side and start mixing their hairs up. Photo505 We’d say, with Photo505, Photofunia and Fun Photo Box, you’ll be buzy for days. Loonapic. 5 Free OCR Software. Here are 5 free OCR software.

5 Free OCR Software

These OCR software can read text from images and scanned documents, and present that to you. These services are useful to convert scanned images, and faxes searchable text and Word format. OCR refers to Optical Character Recognition. Here is how Wikipedia explains OCR: Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. All these free OCR software are completely online, so you do not have to download anything to use. Free Online OCR Sponsored Links As the name suggests, it is a free online OCR :) This is the best free OCR software that I have come across.

Read more about Free-Online-Ocr.com, or try free here. i2OCR i2OCR is another one of my favorite OCR software. After conversion, it shows the extracted text online, and shows your uploaded image side-by-side. Read more about i2OCR, or try free here. OnlineOCR.Net BetterOCR.