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| November 5, 2012
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Best Open Source, Free And Reliable Icon Editors For Real

There many commercial tools to create amazing Icons for your Apps. E.g. IcoFX used to be a good Icon editor, however it is not free anymore. Well, you do not need to buy such expensive tools because open source icon editors and tools such as GIMP, Paint.Net, InkScape etc. can create amazing Icons and in few minutes. Here are some tutorials for you to get started.

Gimp tutorial on how to create amazing looking icons

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Paint.Net with Icon plugin for editing Icons.

Create Icons from Images the Easy

Inkscape is another powerful graphics editor with great icon creation capabilities

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There other creative image editors and all of them can create or edit ICO/Icon files easily. Check them out here.

Category: Alternatives, Freebies, Fun, Open Source, Photos & Photoshop | Tags: , , , ,
| May 24, 2012
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10 Free Tools to Create Videos from Photos Easily

With easy to use tools and services, creating videos out of pictures have become easy that you do not need to have any special skills on videography. You can create cool videos from your pictures and share it with your friends with very little efforts. Here are 10 such services and tools that lets you easily create your own videos using pictures.

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1. Ezvid

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Ezvid is a free video editor, software which can be used to make RPG videos, to make slide shows and photo videos from JPG, PNG, GIF, and other still images, and it imports all mainstream video formats including AVI, WMV, and MOV. It is the best Windows Movie Maker alternative for free video editing, screen capture, screen recording and slideshow creation. It’s total freeware, with no registration, no subscription, and no signup required. Ezvid works well on a wide variety of Windows platforms, including Vista, XP, and 7. Especially popular among gamers, who use Ezvid to upload videos captured with software like fraps, hypercam, and camstudio, Ezvid is an alternative to complex and expensive software like imovie, final cut pro, and limited web-based solutions like one true media, xtranormal, wevideo, and stupeflix.

Download the software here.

2. FileLab Video Editor

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FileLab Video Editor is a free application that easily edits videos and photos. Split, cut, rotate, mix video files, add transitions, overlays and visual effects. Save video files for upload to YouTube, Android, iPhone/iPod, Sony PlayStation, Xbox, SWF, FLV, etc. The app layout is divided into two parts, the upper part displays video, transitions and visual effects. The bottom part is a timeline to help you change the video length.

Access the software here.

3. Stupeflex

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With Stupeflex you can Mix photos, video, music
create stunning videos in seconds. It provides limited functionality for free.

Try out and make a free video here now.

4. Flixtime

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FlixTime turns your photos and videos into stunning and unique videos in just minutes. Sign-up for a free account, and upload your images, videos and music. Then, sit back and watch your masterpiece come together. click here and signup for free.

5. ProShow

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ProShow is a dedicated tool for creating slide shows from your photos, video and music. Unlike some slide show tools that are little more than a toy that creates a cute video clip, ProShow provides a complete set of creative tools and publishing options. For more information check here.

6. Clip Generator

Clipgenerator - Your personal Videoclip - Create. Share. Publish. Download.

Clipgenerator produces music videos from your images and texts. Clipgenerator can be used to compile professional slide shows from your own photos, texts and your favourite music – within seconds and without downloading software or going through any registration process.

Check here to start creating your videos.

7. One True Media

One True Media lets you mix your photos and videos with our effects to create something wow-worthy. One True Media helps you turn your photos and video into awesome slideshows and video montages for free. Embed your slideshow or video montage onto MySpace or any website, share via email or links. It lets you create customized DVD or share to your own personal TiVo channel. With amazingly easy tools you can edit your video and photos, add in cool effects and transitions all without a software download.

Check here to create a powerful video.

8. Photomotr

PhotoMotr is a Facebook app created to bring your stories to life. Essentially, PhotoMotr is an easy-to-use video editing tool that uses your images already uploaded to Facebook allowing you to create cool videos and share them via your social network. PhotoMotr is easy. PhotoMotr is fast. PhotoMotr is fun. Within a couple of minutes you can create a music video of your last family trip, birthday party or special event and then share it with a video that automatically uploads to your Facebook account.

Chick here to try now.

9. Animoto

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Animoto lets you easily select photos and video clips from Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram and others. And you can always upload from your computer. Then add your own words to tell your story.

Click here to create your videos.

10. Photo Movie Creator

Photo Movie Creator is a photo to movie software that can create your favorite photos into movie. It changes the way you look at your photos. You can slide show your photosand enjoy them with your family and friends. It lets you Make wonderful slide show easily by creating photos into video format such as AVI, MPEG, DIVX and XVID.

Download the trial version here.

Category: Alternatives, Media Editing, Photos & Photoshop |
| June 8, 2010
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Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software – Recover Your Lost Photos Instantly [ Free Licenses Giveaway ]

With the advent of digital photography, more and more professional and amateur photographers have switched to using digital cameras. This trend has given a rise to adoption of various measures to safeguard valuable digital photographs. Though, users adopt many backup measures to protect their prized possessions, these measures do not always prove fruitful. Luckily, in case of digital photos, the affected photographer has a chance to recover them in good health.

Photographs can be lost owing to various instances like inadvertent deletion, accidental or deliberate formatting of the storage media, corruption, file system damage, or virus attacks. But, the good news is they can be recovered by employing efficient photo recovery software, like Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery.

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When selecting a photo recovery tool, a photographer would always want to opt for an easy-to-use yet risk-free software. And, Stellar’s software meets both the requirements, ensuring a photographer of safe and absolute recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a versatile application which supports recovery of lost or deleted images, audios, videos and other multimedia files from multiple storage media including memory cards, memory sticks, digital cameras, camcorders, hard drives, USBs, CDs, DVDs, and other removable media.

This immaculate photo recovery software from Stellar recovers all photo(JPEG, Exif, RAW, GIF, PGM, PNM, PBM, CD5, NFF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF and TIFF), audio/video (MP3, AVI, WMV, MPG, RM, WAV, WMA, OGG, AU, RPS, MP4, M4A, M4P, MOV, ASF, 3GP, DAT and AMV) formats whilst supporting all major digital camera and memory card brands.

The lost or deleted photos can be quickly retrieved by following three simple steps viz select, scan and save. Sounds unbelievable? Try the software’s demo version and get a glimpse of recoverable data.

Key features of Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery

  • Supports recovery of photos, audios, videos and other multimedia files from all storage media
  • Supports all digital cameras (Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, and more)
  • Performs recovery in all data loss circumstances including deletion and formatting of storage media.
  • Do-it-all software
  • Supports all memory cards (SD, SDHC, XD, CF, MMC and more, irrespective of the brand)
  • Compatible with both Windows and Mac family
  • Performs recovery from damaged or corrupt storage media

A powerful tool for both casual and seasoned photographers, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery, is available in two separate versions, one for Windows and the other compatible with the Mac operating systems. The Windows compatible Photo Recovery software supports Windows 7, Vista, 2003, 2002, 2000, NT versions, while the Mac Photo Recovery software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6(Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.3.9 (Panther).

If you like the software download it here and add a comment on this post. We have some free licenses to give away. You could be lucky to get one.

Category: Photos & Photoshop | Tags: ,
| April 30, 2010
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Resizing Digital Images Easily – 10 Free Software List

If you are one of those who frequently resize image then you would need a software that does the job easily for you preserving the quality of the image. If your are unhappy about the quality of your digital image enlargements, then read on. There are many innovative algorithms in the image processing space that lets user to enlarge the images without loosing much quality. Some software makes use of these unique innovative algorithms to provide quick and easy steps to resize digital images.

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Here in this post we have listed ten free software that lets you resize the digital image. Some of them are freeware and can be bought for a reasonable price.

 1. Able Photo Resizer

Able Photo Resizer is a simple, quick and easy tool to resize (reduce or enlarge) any single or batches of photos or images for the purpose of sending it by e-mail, publish it on the Web or just to save space on your hard drive

More info here.

2. Dema Image Resizer 2005 with B-Spline

Dema Image Resizer enlarges your photos without quality loss. It uses algorithms like B-Spline, lanczos, mitchell, and hermite to make your photos clear.

More info here

3.STOIK Smart Resizer 1.0

This program offers you various methods to resize digital photos including new STOIK Smart Resize algorithm which allows to enlarge digital images up to 1000% without loss of visual sharpness. You will find it useful for multiple tasks – from quality zooming to increasing resolution of digital photos to creation of good-looking photo thumbnails.

More info here

4. PhotoZoom Pro 3

PhotoZoom Pro 3 is software for enlarging digital images, available for OS X 10.3+ and Windows. It is based on S-Spline XL: a renewed and improved version of our patented, self-adjusting S-Spline interpolation technology. S-Spline XL is able to render sharp and crisp clear image magnifications, perfectly focused, yet without the jagged edges, loss of detail or lack of photorealism that normally come with enlarging images.

More info here.

5. Enlarger Pro 3.0

Enlarger PRO is remarkably easy to use, yet offers incredibly powerful photographic enlargement. Just select your input image, select an output file-name, choose your enlargement factor and click the "Process" button and Bearded Frog Enlarger PRO will do the rest.

More info here.

6. Cleanerzoomer

Cleanerzoomer is an advanced image processing tool designed for reduction of different kinds of noises and artifacts as well as for sharpening and sharp-edge enlargement of images for printing. Its specially developed noise removal algorithm carefully takes away only noise, keeping the image as sharp as it was, while the sharpen algorithm produces very satisfying image enlargement results that are nicely balanced between art-like sharp-edged and more natural look.

More info here.

7. PhotoZoom Classic

PhotoZoom Classic is specialized in enlarging digital images while preserving quality. Equipped with BenVista”s patented S-Spline technologies, this software easily surpasses alternative solutions such as Photoshop’’s Bicubic interpolation. This software is extremely easy to use. It comes with handy presets that are specially designed for different types of photos and graphical images.

More info here.

8. Alien Skin Blow Up

Alien Skin Blow Up is a Photoshop plug-in that produces enlargements dramatically sharper than any other software, especially Photoshop. Blow Up uses an innovative algorithm that temporarily converts pixels to a vector representation which results in perfectly smooth, crisp edges. Simulated texture and film grain keep photos looking natural even in extreme enlargements.

More info here.

9. ResizeDrop

ResizeDrop is a simple drag and drop image resizer. Just drag files into the drop zone, set the new dimensions, and the entire batch gets resized in seconds. Images can be enlarged or reduced, and resizing can maintain the aspect ratio of the original or redefine both the width and height of the final image.

More info here.

10. Resize Pilot

Resize Pilot helps you resize photos quickly and easily. This photo resizing program has a unique algorithm for image enlarging. The enlarging algorithm is most productive for focused images. Sharpness of the image may slightly improve as a secondary effect of applying the algorithm. The program allows you to enter a desired percentage value to resize the image or select it from the pulldown.

More info here.

Category: Photos & Photoshop |
| April 28, 2010
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How To Use Kuler And Choose Colors Easily For Your Interior Designs

Choosing the right combination of colors is one of the most important elements in a interior design. The colors you choose often have effect on your mood. If you would like to use your creativity, the combination of colors can easily be generated using existing natural patters around us.

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Adobe Kuler, an internet application from Adobe Systems lets individuals to use their creativity and try out various color schemes. It is available in a simple browser-hosted variant that runs on Adobe Flash. Use Adobe Kuler one an generate various color schemes that suits their taste and have their room painted based on the color combination generated. As the application lets you to create color schemes from images, you could use the natural combination of colors and patters around you to create fantastic color combinations. Here are some examples of color schemes generated using naturally available color combinations and patters:

Deep colors from Beet Eater

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Bright Colors from Sunset

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Colorful Mood using natural colors from Sky

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Bright Pink Colors

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There are endless possibilities to use natural harmony of colors available and generate you color combination for interior designs. Kuler is indeed a nice tool to play with these and create color schemes.

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