This post will present 21 image viewers that you have likely never heard about, which run the gamut from full-fledged image organizers to small and simple viewers with a light footprint that you might want to use in addition to your default image viewer. The purpose of →
View photos from Facebook as magazine-style galleries with Pixable
Everyone likes photoblogs, right? But consider this: what if you took the photography from Facebook and other photo sharing sites and, with the click of a button, laid them out on a single page, magazine style, for quick, at-a-glance perusal? That, in a nutshell, is what →
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 →
Make your own movies with full animation and sound with Xtranormal
Xtranormal is a great website and program that will allow you to make you own animated movies with full sound and motion, for free! It is designed with a simple concept: to convert your text into an animation, and it does this by providing a wide →
Immerse yourself in interactive aerial panoramas with AirPano
How would you like to take an interactive virtual tour, flying high over, say, the Pyramids at Giza, zooming in and out, panning across 360 degrees in every direction, and even changing vantage points within the seemingly vast environment. Or, instead, you could be gazing over the →
Create and share event-based photo galleries with Sharypic
Sharypic free is a website that allows you to create and share photo collections or galleries, based on events. It can be used for anything you can imagine, from birthday parties to business meetings to political summits. Lots of places on the web allow you to →
The Art of Video Games: an Exhibition
A current exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates games as the art form of the twenty first century. It runs through Sep 30 2012 in Washington DC, and will tour a number of US cities afterwards. No wonder the US supreme court recently decided to consider →
Find Creative Commons images that are free to use in your projects and illustrations with CCfinder
If you’ve ever had to illustrate an idea, then you’ve likely done gone and searched Google for images that may be useful or could provide a starting point. The problem, of course, is that those images are typically copyrighted, are NOT in the public domain and →
Create beautiful carousel slideshows with WOW Slider Free edition
WOW Slider is a free program that makes sliders or carousels for your non-commercial website. It features multiple templates, a simple point and click interface, and even a Wordpress plugin. Available for Windows and for Mac, WOW Slider is one of the best ways to create →
Convert screenshots to text with Capture2Text, a free optical character recognition (OCR) app
There are times when you might see some on-screen text and want to grab it or use it in a document, only to find that for some reason it refuses to be clipped (e.g. it might be graphics-based or the document might be protected or whatever). →
