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How to Create Wall Murals

by Barbara J. Feldman January 2, 2008

Rasterbator is a free service that creates huge mural-size images from any picture. Simply upload an image, and then download and print the resulting multi-page PDF. Re-assemble the pages and you will have an extremely cool looking poster that can be as tall as sixty-five feet. If your original image is more than a megabyte [...]

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Google’s Street View an Invasion of Privacy?

by Barbara J. Feldman June 5, 2007

Google’s Street View is now live at Google Maps for five cities (San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami) with more cities coming soon. Street View is a 360-degree street-level photograph that has some people upset about privacy concerns. Here, for example, is a view of a San Francisco restaurant I dined at [...]

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Online Photo Editing

by Barbara J. Feldman April 19, 2007

For photos that need a quick fix or for those times when you do not have access to photo-editing software, here’s a crop of three photo-editing websites that allow you to edit your photos using only a browser: Picnik, Phixr and Pixer.us. For even more photo-editing sites (including a few that don’t start with the [...]

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Replace a Person in a Photo

by Barbara J. Feldman March 8, 2007

Replacing someone’s head in a digital photo can be just for laughs, or it can fix a group shot that would otherwise be ruined. The following Photoshop tutorials show you how: Replacing a Head: Photoshop Tutorial by Janee and Tutorials Photoshop: Changing Heads.

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Cell Phone Camera Tips

by Barbara J. Feldman December 12, 2006

Disappointed with photos you’ve snapped with your cell phone? Here are three pointers for improving them. Use the entire frame, don’t just focus on the center. Adjust the brightness level if the image on your display seems too dark or too light. Place your subjects off-center for a more interesting layout. For more tips, read [...]

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Creative Commons Photos

by Barbara J. Feldman November 21, 2006

EveryStockPhoto.com is a search engine for Creative Commons photos. Although it is your responsibility to check the licensing terms at the host site for any photo you wish to use, most of these will be free for non-commercial use, and many may also allow commercial use. To learn more about Creative Commons, watch the explanatory [...]

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