Saving high quality movie stills is not as easy as it sounds. While some players support saving images of movie scenes non that I know of process the image afterwards to ensure a high quality image. None are capable of batch saving images every x seconds either. Todays Giveaway of the Day Topaz Momenttopas m [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

You all know that I like to search for new wallpaper repositories and one that I found recently is hosted at Flickr. What’s even more interesting is the fact that you can view all 25581 photos in a slideshow with the option to load a photo page if you spot a wallpaper that you like [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment

Squash is a lightweight fast batch image resizer. I could end the article here because the previous sentenced is a good summary of what Squash is able to do. Add multiple images to Squash, select a new size for them, and click on Resize images. That’s the process in detail. It’s possible to specify a [...]

Categories: Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

HD View is a new technology that is developed by Microsoft Research that aids in the display and interaction with large images with sizes of one or more Gigapixels. I was very astonished to discover a plugin for Internet Explorer [link] and Mozilla Firefox [link] that could be installed from the project website although I [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Software

Flickr hosts an unbelievable amount of images of all sizes on their website. One easy way to search Flickr for Wallpapers is to simply enter the term wallpaper in the search box on the Flickr homepage and browse through the results. Currently more than 260.000 images are found when searching for wallpapers.

Categories: Entertainment, Online Services

Make 3D is a wonderful piece of code from the University of Stanford that transforms a normal 2D image into a 3D image. While the results are not true 3D images they are still very impressive. I tested the script with two images that I took last summer, one from the North Sea [link] and [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

I just stumbled on to a very cool idea, a sort of picture research online community. The basics of PicAnswers is that you upload a photo, and ask a question related to it. If you visit the site you’ll instantly know what I mean. What might seem like a fun place at first, actually has [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Online Services

Just when I thought I tried them all I find another promising image viewer called Imagine deeply hidden on the Internet. Imagine is a fast image viewer, it opens and displays images faster than any image viewer that I have tested so far, at least that’s my personal opinion on the matter.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

ImageSorter provides a way to automatically sort pictures of a directory by using several parameters such as color, name or size. Results will be displayed in a picture matrix and the user can zoom in and out fluently, use the mouse to navigate through the displayed thumbnails and click on images to load them in their original size.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows