Print Screen Capture Software with Special Effects, Annotation Tools and support for Windows 7, Vista and XP Alpha Transparency (Translucency). Create Annotated High-Fidelity Screen Shots... in Minutes, not Hours ! Make Your Screen Shots Stand Out, Impress Your Audience Have you ever wondered how to create screenshots such as this or this ? Most screen capture programs are fine if you just want to take an image of what's on your screen to include in your document or presentation. The hard stuff comes when you need to add annotations or special effects ! In SnapDraw Free, all the complicated annotation graphics such as Callouts and Magnifier Lens or nice looking effect such as 3D perspective and Reflections - are built-in tools. For more screenshots click here. It's a great tool - I've used it to make screenshots for my latest help file ( and it worked well with grabbing rounded windows and then it was easy and quick to make the balloons with text. - Dennis Volodomanov - I have looked for a program like Snap Draw for a long, long time without finding exactly what I had imagined. - William Marcum -
5 Fantastic Free Tools to Showcase Your Portfolio This series is supported by Webdesigner Depot, a popular web design blog covering tutorials, design trends, blogging and inspirational posts. You can visit WDD at webdesignerdepot.com and follow WDD on Twitter @designerdepot. Whether you're an artist, designer, or photographer, your web portfolio is your calling card and your showroom. If you're looking for an alternative to hand-coding or DreamWeaving your ultimate gallery, check out these five great tools that should make maintenance a bit easier, and give you a stylistic leg-up on the competition. 1. Simpleviewer is simply gorgeous, and can generate a stunning visualization of your portfolio that is sure to impress. The viewer comes in a few impressive flavors, including the TiltViewer (my personal favorite), and the PostcardViewer, both shown below. Pros: You can't beat the design. Cons: It's not so simple. 2. PhotoSnack is a web-based solution that generates slideshows from photos you upload to your account. 3. 4. 5.
Content-based image retrieval General scheme of content-based image retrieval Content-based image retrieval (CBIR), also known as query by image content (QBIC) and content-based visual information retrieval (CBVIR) is the application of computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases (see this survey[1] for a recent scientific overview of the CBIR field). Content-based image retrieval is opposed to traditional concept-based approaches (see concept-based image indexing). History[edit] The term "content-based image retrieval" seems to have originated in 1992 when it was used by T. The earliest commercial CBIR system was developed by IBM and was called QBIC (Query by Image Content).[3] Technical progress[edit] The interest in CBIR has grown because of the limitations inherent in metadata-based systems, as well as the large range of possible uses for efficient image retrieval. CBIR techniques[edit] Query techniques[edit] Color[edit] Shape[edit]
50 Inspirational Images From Flickr Under Creative Commons image credit: aussiegall Both personally and professionally, I’m a huge fan of Creative Commons. It actually goes beyond being an advocate – I license all my art under Creative Commons and encourage other artists and creatives to do the same, at least for some of their works. All the great imagery I use in my blog entries is from talented people adding their works to Flickr under a Creative Commons license. So yet again I’m going to demonstrate the power of CC for artists to build exposure and visibility for themselves. It is a huge opportunity for photographers and visual artists to use Flickr as social proofing to build a name for themselves. Anyone can use the power of open networks and CC to share their work in an format which puts them on a level playing field with professionals and established artists and designers. Tim O’Reilly sagely notes: “Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.” Wind Redux image credit: serac Sunset Cruise Racing Stars Azalea
Quick Screen Capture tool. Take Screenshots, Edit and Share them 12 Amazing And Free Stock Photo Resources There are various components, from typography to colors, that makes a design impressive. Photos used are definitely one of the most important factors. Today, almost any type of photo we can dream of exists in the web. Here is a list of 12 free stock photo resources that you must bookmark: stock.xchng stock.xchng is probably the most popular service which provides free stock photos. It has 1000s of high-quality images which are very well categorized. MorgueFile MorgueFile lets you to download photos without registration & it has a very open license to use images on almost any type of work. Besides the free photos, it has an online classroom which teaches about photography & a crowded community discussing in its forums. openphoto openphoto is a very straightforward website with no details & extras. Most of the images are licenses with CC:Attribution-ShareAlike (photo used). Photo Rack PhotoRack is a great resource for stock photos where all images can be used in any type of work. unprofound.com
8 Websites to Create Animated GIF Online The cool parts of using online services to create animated gif is that you won’t have to download and install any software, and the process of creation is generally simplified. The common things you do when you create animated gif online is simply selecting your pictures, upload them, pick a size and speed, and then click a button to get it done. That’s it. If you’ve been wondering which online services you should use to create animated gif, then here you are the list of the good ones that worth your time. GIFninja This one allows you to create an animated gif from up to 5 images. Picasion If you want to create from more images, then this is it. GIFworks Upload your gif image, apply some effects, resize, colorize, jazzercize it and then download it. Gickr Another free online services to make animated gif easily. MakeaGIF Unlike the ones mentioned above, MakeaGIF provides more room to upload more images. GIFup This is another online animated gif maker that you’ll probably want to try. Loogix
Commons 9 OCR gratuits, en ligne et sans logiciel L’OCR c’est la reconnaissance optique des caractères. Si vous scannez un texte, le résultat vous arrivera sous forme de photo, il va donc falloir que vous passiez par un logiciel OCR qui transformera ces photos en texte. Ce texte pourra ensuite être modifié plus facilement via un logiciel de traitement de teste. Ce service est réellement simple, rapide et surtout ne nécessite pas de création de compte, ni d’envoi par email. L’avantage du service OCR de google drive ou appelons le aussi Google doc, c’est qu’en plus de la reconnaissance de caractères, on vous propose de sauvegarder le fichier et ensuite, de pouvoir faire une recherche pour retrouver le document en question. Selon le blogue de blogs.windows.com il est possible de convertir les fichiers photos en texte via un le service skydrive. En ligne et rapide;les trois étapes classiques, chargement du fichier, choix du format de sortie et conversion Newocr.com (simple) Onlineocr.net (sans fioriture) Abbyyonline.com ocrterminal versions
Creative Commons Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. Here are some recently added bits and pieces: Attribution (CC BY 2.0) » 91767649 photos (See more) Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND 2.0) » 25009436 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) » 117052837 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 2.0) » 63465514 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) » 131662580 photos (See more) Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 2.0) » 49480401 photos (See more) Public Domain Dedication (CC0) » 4786372 photos (See more) Public Domain Mark » 13393877 photos (See more) "Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright." creativecommons.org Briefly... Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
Category:Free photo software This is a category of articles relating to photo software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy: "free software" or "open source software". Typically, this means software which is distributed with a free software license, and whose source code is available to anyone who receives a copy of the software. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. Pages in category "Free photo software" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Free Stock Photos for your Website – 11 Solid Sources :: Echo Enduring Blog Looking for some photos for your website or blog? Looking for an option that won’t break the bank? There are a lot of great stock photography sites out there that offer their wares at reasonable prices, especially for the low resolution images that are typically needed for the net. But, while cheap is good, free is even better! Wouldn’t you agree? When I first started looking for free stock photography a few years ago (on account of working on virtually no budget), I was amazed at just how much material was actually out there! Collections Collections are sites – or parts of sites – that have a standing archive of free photographs for you to download and use in your designs. stock.xchng Probably the largest and most well known repository of free stock photos, stock.xchng is an invaluable resource for finding free stock photos. stock.xchng There is a lot of really great stock on this site, but there is not a lot of consistency. Stock Vault StockVault PhotoVaco PhotoVaco FreeDigitalPhotos Dreamstime
Photo Management: Which Tool Is Right for You? In the age of affordable DSLRs, Instagram and ubiquitous photo-sharing on Facebook and other social networks, we're taking more photos than ever before. The downside of taking all of these images is keeping them in order: There are over 18GB of photos on my iPhone alone and trying to figure out where a photo is from, when it was taken and what version is the best can be a complicated and stressful process. Fortunately, there are a number of great photo management apps for Mac and PC that make the process of organizing, sharing and processing your digital images a snap. Still, figuring out what photo management tool is right for you can be a challenge. What's your favorite photo organization tool? For the User Who Loves the Cloud While most users are familiar with Picasa Web Albums, Google's online photo sharing and storage service that's similar to Flickr, it's easy to forget that Google also makes a stand-alone photo management tool known simply as Picasa.