Tag: IMAGES

So, Flash is dying, eh? It's no longer a technology that is in "its spring." Alright, sure, I can see why Jobs would say that. I have to say that, as a user, I really, really dislike Adobe. They make horrible software, if you ask me; I've had some awful experiences with CS3, and I'd take antiquated CorelDRAW 12 (not to mention the new X5) over InDesign any day. I won't even go into the ...

First off, I must say that I am a total IrfanView addict. A key part of my workflow is based on the fact that IrfanView can include a filename's full path right in the title bar; that's very useful for AutoHotkey automation. FastStone Image Viewer doesn't have this particular feature, but it's still a nice viewer. As a whole, it is more comprehensive than IrfanView, not less. For example, when ...

I love IrfanView this no-frills image viewer/editor is one of the first applications I install on a new computer. It seems I'm not the only DownloadSquad writer who admires this program, as we've previously featured the 4.10 release and the 4.20 release. At its core, IrfanView is a nimble, powerful and very fast image viewer. But over time, the developer seems to have added more and more features ...

So, a while ago I wrote a post about ffffound.com, and commenter joshuasbones replied with a couple of other image bookmarking services that are not invite-only. I looked into them, and one was, indeed, quite chic. That service is Imagespark. Its interface is far slicker than Ffffound's; they have something called "mood boards," which are collections of images created (or rather curated) by ...

Greased Lightbox puts a nice lightbox interface around images found in Google Image Search (shown above), FFFFOUND, deviantART, Flickr, and a bunch of other sites. Once the userscript is installed, you only have to click on an image thumbnail. The larger image pops up in a slick lightbox, and you can use the left or right arrow keys for cycling through all images on the page. When I tested it, it ...

by treehouse1977 When writing a post without a specific screenshot, a blogger (such as myself) needs to come up with an appropriate image. That image must be licensed for use -- you can't just take any old image. What I usually do is go to Flickr and search for Creative Commons licensed images, with a "commercial okay" provision. I then upload the image and tag it manually, because you still ...

I can't believe we've never covered ffffound.com before. This website is one of my favorite resources for inspiration, ever. On paper, it's an invite-only image bookmarking service. Only, unlike most other "invite only" services, it's not using that label as a PR shtick; it really is exclusive, and that works very well. The images bookmarked are actually interesting, and there is no spam at ...

Like having a stash of beautiful wallpaper images on your computer? Dream Desktop has several thousand to choose from, and their free Desktop Agent program makes it easy to download and enjoy your favorites. Install the Agent and head to its configuration screen. There you can choose which images you want to display -- either random selections from those you mark as favorites in the search ...

Whether you're looking for backgrounds for your desktop, Creative Commons licensed photos, or just scanning eyecandy, Flickr is an excellent place to find beautiful digital images. Need a simple way to download multiple images? Check out Downloadr (screencast after the break!), a free program with loads of options which makes short work of bulk downloading from Flickr. Downloadr is packed ...

One type of program I often forget to load on a fresh Windows install is a good photo resizing tool. Sometimes -- like when I want to create a screenshot tour of an app -- it would make things simpler to just dump a pile of full-size screenshots into a folder and let some little app churn out images resized to the dimensions I need. Photo Magician is an excellent option. It weighs in at ...

Twilk is a simple site that looks at either your Twitter follower list and/or the list of accounts that you follow, and creates a tiled background image that is then applied to your profile page. The people whose accounts you refer to most often via @ replies, re-tweets, or mentions will show up in the first two columns going down the page. Although Twilk is primarily a free service, they also ...

The official Windows 7 personalization gallery already has some pretty nice themes available. Whether you're into hot cars, animals, or abstractness, there's something for (almost) everyone. Just added is a gorgeous new seasonal theme called Czech Spring which includes eight high-res springtime wallpapers. Flowers, a babbling brook, a pastoral landscape -- you can almost smell the nature-y ...

This one's for the food buffs: Food Porn Daily showcases nice, carefully curated images of all sorts of food. You get to see a single image every time, and clicking it brings you to the next one. No recipes, no comments, nothing -- just the food. Very minimalistic, and the images are quite large (around 970 pixels wide). A description is somewhat artistically superimposed on each image -- you can ...

Adobe's working on some new selection and masking tools for the next version of Photoshop. Ever since the Extract filter was removed in Photoshop CS4, Adobe has had plans to bring its various parts back as built-in tools. The first part of that is a new selection tool that's already being demoed over at John Nack's Adobe blog. The future of selection in Photoshop looks pretty bright, because this ...

Liquid Scale is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows you to resize images by removing unimportant elements in the photo, leaving the important ones untouched. It's a technique called seam carving that we've previously mentioned, but what's interesting here is that it's now available to be used on the iPhone. For those that are unfamiliar with it, the seam carving technique analyzes images to ...