Here’s a situation that everyone has encountered at some point or another: You have a really nice image for your wallpaper which has a lot of detail to it; it’s most likely an image of a waterfall or a forest. On your desktop are obviously icons. Probably several of them. One day you go to click on an icon you’ve clicked a million times before...

Google Images is what you use to, obviously, search for images. Yesterday, Google updated the interface. Several big changes were made, including the elimination of by-page listings in favor of what’s known as “Infinite Scroll”. What is Infinite Scroll? It’s when you reach the bottom of any page of results and are presented with a...

If you view a lot of pictures online and have wanted to make the preview images larger (or smaller), then a Firefox add-on you might be interested in is the aptly named Image Zoom. From the author’s description: Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context...

Although this has already been written about on TC, this is my own slant on it. Yesterday I’m over at Dave’s place for the weekly meeting, he loads up Google on the Mac and the Google home page shows this disgustingly huge background image, and the image itself was disgusting. It was some type of multi-colored beach ball thing. Dave’s exact...

There was a time when Hotmail and Y! Mail allowed the use of inline images when composing an e-mail, but then took away that functionality for whatever reasons. Gmail to the best of my knowledge has never had a native way of using inline images when composing a new message. Using a little copy/paste magic, you can insert inline images when composing a new mail...

I am continually amazed by the power of “swiss army knife” command line tools which do lots of functions. Among the best I have found is Nirsoft’s NirCmd. I had a request the other day to convert a large amount of images (approximately 1,000) to PNG format. These images were collections from different sources and were in a mixture of GIF, JPG...

Whenever you get a call from a number you don’t recognize, you can do a reverse lookup to find out a little more about who the caller is. So from that line of thinking, TinEye allows you to do a reverse lookup on an image file. TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used,...

Seeing as that we’re all still here and didn’t get sucked into a black hole of doom by the Large Hadron Collider, life is pretty good. DVICE has a collection of 30 images of the LHC itself and to be honest it’s awesome. I’m not saying the generic "Oh awesome!" type of statement, the LHC truly is awesome. Make sure to go check...

Often times when I am doing development or support projects, I have users send me screenshots of their errors. Most people drop the screenshot directly into an email, however some users paste their screen captures into a Word document and send that instead. The problem with the image being embedded in an MS Word document is you can only size the image up to the...

Often, the difference between a “blah” looking webpage and a good looking one comes down to the images used. Images are used not only to accent your text, but also for the actual design and layout of your web page. We will get into how to actually design a web page a little later in this course, but for now it is necessary to know how to insert...