Every operating system under the sun comes with an image viewer to view image formats that are stored on the computer’s hard drives, connected devices or other storage devices. The differences between one of those standard image viewers and a professional program like FastPictureViewer Professional become obvious immediately when you run the programs side by [...]

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I haven’t really gotten myself into online photo editing and effects software because they usually fall behind photoshop, but I tried one which is worthy of not just trying out, but of actual use. The effects are fun, and can be used to create wallpaper, images for your girlfriend/spouse, but can be of real use [...]

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Generally, I geotag my photos using Flickr’s Organizr. Unfortunately, I often find Yahoo! Maps to be much worse than Google Maps and whilst recently tagging some photos of Northern France and Flanders, I simply found it intolerable (being unfamiliar with placenames etc). I began to reminisce about the days when geotagging was somewhat more complex [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

animoto is a site which allows video presentations to be made in a minimal amount of time, claiming to be the killer of slideshows (although in reality they are slideshows!). The end result is an extremely slick slideshow. The site makes creating a video presentation easily: to create one, all you must do is simply [...]

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Day 21 of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. Hope you all ordered your Returnil Premium license, if not you can do so until January 2. Today’s giveaway is Fast Picture Viewer Professional which has no registration limit meaning that everyone who wants it gets it if they download and register the software today. Fast Picture Viewer [...]

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A deal between Life and Google makes more than 10 million photographic images available on the Internet. The collection spans from the 1750s to today. Google provides a special search engine for the collection that makes use of the Google Image Search engine. The collection centers around five areas called People (Kennedy, Picasso), Places (Times [...]

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High dynamic range Imaging is a technique that allows for a greater range between light and dark areas. The results are often breathtaking colorful images.It basically produces a high dynamic range image from multiple images of the same object taken with different exposures. To create high dynamic range images one needs therefor multiple images and [...]

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