Live Capture is a comprehensive screenshot tool that is free and jam packed with options and features. It goes beyond the typical window capture modes to offer such options as freehand capture, timed capture, auto scroll capture, web capture, and auto repeat last capture. Other options →
Improve your photos with Croppola: a free web service that can suggest better picture compositions
Do you think it’s possible to teach good taste to a computer?, or that a program can suggest better picture compositions? That is what free online service Croppola aspires to; it “provides automatic suggestions to obtain the best composition from pictures you have already shot”, which, →
Three must-have FREE image manipulation tools: Smilla Enlarger, Seam Carving GUI, and ShiftN
If you are an expert Photoshop user then this post may not be for you; for the rest of us, however, the 3 tools presented here will provide high level functionality that will delight and deliver. Smilla Enlarger uses an algorithmic approach to enlarge images without pixellization, →
Create your own search page and a customized logo at Createfunnylogo
Createfunnylogo.com is a fun little web site that allows you to create your very own search page and customize it’s look and style, for free. The resulting page is a fully-functional search page that you can use to launch all your web searches. There’s no real →
Get a free alternative to Photoshop or Paintshop with GimPhoto
GimPhoto is a free program that allows you to manipulate and edit your image files in many of the same ways as the retail programs like Photoshop. GimPhoto is designed to approximate Photoshop in many ways; it’s interface design, menu layout, and it’s use of best →
Crop unwanted elements out of images automagically with Seam Carving GUI
You may heave heard of ‘Seam Carving’, also called ‘content aware’ or ‘liquid’ resizing, a technology that can reduce, extend, and even crop elements out of images while keeping it visually plausible and/or cohesive to the human eye (more info here). Seam Carving GUI is a →
Edit, enhance, and improve your images using PicsArt Photo Studio for Android
PicsArt Photo is free application for Android that allows you to edit, enhance, and add special effects to your photos. Since it runs on your phone, you can manipulate your photos right after taking them, or you can upload them from your computer to the phone. →
Resize images with Photo Magician, a stylish yet powerful image resizing program
So many images to resize, and such little time; but at least you can do it with a stylish, free program that is a delight to use. Photo Magician manages to deliver the near impossible: a wide range of functions and power under the hood, coupled →
Convert images to icons and vice versa with ConvertICO.org
If you need to convert PNG, JPG, GIF, or BMP images to ICO icon files, or vice versa, then check out free online service ConvertICO.org. This one is different from many similar services in that it can create a genuine Windows 7 style icon with multiple →
Insert your face into ‘interesting’ and funny photos with Photofunia
Photofunia is a free online service that can embed any photo within a number of image templates. It provides a very wide range of interesting images to choose from, and offers the option to apply a handful of effects to the resulting image. Photofunia can run →
Resophnotes: take notes quickly on your desktop, then access them in the cloud on other devices or computers
Resophnotes is a free note taking software that syncs with the “SimpleNote” cloud-based note taking service. This means that your notes from Reshopnotes can be accessed from multiple computers and devices (including the iPhone via this free app). Resophnotes can also be used portably from a →
How to enlarge images with no pixellization and minimal quality degradation (using free software)
Have you experienced a situation where an image you are interested in using is smaller than you would like it to be, whether it might be for printing purposes or for use in illustration projects or even for usage on the web, etc? Typically, straight-enlarging of →
