5 Sites That Will Change The Way You Work With Digital Photos. With the Christmas season and New Year behind us you’ve no doubt collected a bevy of photographs and like most people you’ve either crammed them into a folder on your computer or done the generic Flickr upload.
But if you’re like me, you’ll be looking for something different to do with the megapixels of memories that you’ve collected over the past few weeks, as well as of years past. Here is a collection of a few websites that should give you a little more freedom with your images and are sure to change the way you work with digital photographs. Collagr If by any chance you’ve already done that Flickr upload, then Collagr is just for you. This easy-to-use site lets you quickly spice up a collection of photos that you may have either on Flickr or Photobucket by simply providing a URL.
Thus far, collages can be customized by way of background colors, layouts, resolutions and overall size. Big Huge Labs Big Huge Labs is hands down one of the best sites for playing with your digital photos. Hyperlinking the Real World - ReadWriteWeb. European researchers working on the MOBVIS project have developed a new system that will allow camera phone users to hyperlink the real world.
After taking a picture of a streetscape in an urban area, the MOBVIS technology identifies objects like buildings, infrastructure, monuments, cars, and even logos and banners. It then renders relevant information on the screen using icons that deliver text-based details about the object when clicked. This project goes beyond today's mapping applications like Google's Street View, for example, which first identifies your location either via GPS or triangulation and then shows you pictures of that area. Instead, MOBVIS actually lets you "see" the world through your mobile phone. This is computer vision, or rather, mobile vision. There are obviously numerous potential applications for such a technology. Tourism/Augmented City Maps: The MOBVIS technology could be used to inform visitors about the objects in an area be them buildings or landmarks.
Who Needs Photoshop When You Can Have Splashup? One topic that never ceases to amaze me is the manipulation and editing of images.
It’s a fascinating world at which I stare at in awe. But when I open Photoshop to give it what feels like the quadrillionth try, I turn away in disappointment within minutes because I simply don’t have the patience and determination it takes to master a professional image editing program. CorelDraw may be an exception, I’ve actually grown quite used to it. So when I ran across Splashup, an online image editing tool, I was fascinated by a very well designed website. I hope they made it all using their own application.
You can “jump right in” without signing up, but of course membership has its advantages. You can start with a blank image or open images from your browser, your Splashup, Facebook, Flickr or Picasa accounts or using a mundane URL to an image of your choice. The canvas opens in a separate window, so it’s almost like running a separate program, only this one runs within your browser.