When editing a photo in an image editor, sometimes you want to get that cinema-style look by cropping the photo to a specific ratio. The problem however is that other than the templates you may be given for "pre-boxed" cropping, you really have no clue what dimensions you’re supposed to use since photos are in different pixel dimensions depending...

The news in movie cameras – and I’m talking about the huge for-pro-motion-picture-kind – is that ARRI, Panavision and Aaton have all ceased production of film-based cameras. This may come as sad news to some, but it shouldn’t because hot on the tail of the end of movie film cameras, the digital realm is promising some unbelievably...

Some products are introduced to market that can only do one thing, but if it can do that one thing well, it’s worth the buy. This particular product cannot be bought yet, but I imagine it soon will be available because it is a great idea. The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera is actually not one but 36 mobile cameras. You take the ball, literally throw it in...

One of the best avatars (for use in social profiles, forums, etc.) you could ever use is a photo of yourself. However it’s generally true people don’t like the way they look, but consider it okay if the photo has been "cartoonized". Fortunately there’s a web site, Cartoonize, that will exactly do just that. At right is a crappy photo...

Taking pictures underwater is just plain cool, however the equipment to do it has never been cheap – or is it? For the longest time, the only way to take an underwater photo on a budget was either to separately purchase an enclosure for underwater use custom fit to your cam that cost more than the cam itself, or do the old seal-in-transparent-bag thing and...

When it comes to photo sharing, there are basically two types of sites. The first is traditional full-featured photo sharing like Flickr, Photobucket and Zooomr. The second is what’s labeled as ‘simple’ photo sharing like Imageshack and imgur. Min.us is a photo sharing service that falls under the ‘simple’ category; it’s...

When it comes to photos that serve really well as wallpaper, NASA is a great place to go to get them. Here are 5 that you’re sure to enjoy: A Good Day for a Spacewalk Full Size Sunlight Full Size Aloft Full Size The Triangulum Galaxy Full Size SOFIA Prepares for the Stars Full Size See more images at the NASA...

Image sharing is something a lot of people do, and just when you thought it couldn’t get any easier, along comes min.us. Min.us, simply put, is the easiest image sharing I’ve ever seen. No account required. No forms required. Open the site, drag the image in, drop, it uploads, done. You then have a share-able short link ready to go. If you want to...

Huge images are cool because they show so much detail, but they have tendency to crash web browsers a lot – any web browser. How huge is huge? "Huge" at present is anything 40 megapixels or more. Or to put it in pixel dimensions, anything 7216×5412 or greater. However I’ll do even better here and tackle a 70+ MP Earth poster, weighing...

TinEye is one of those things that gives you a, “Whoa.. this is the future” moment. In movies you’ve seen technology before where someone just takes a photo, scans it into a computer and it magically knows where the photo was taken. This is exactly what TinEye does. The best example I can give of this is that someone on Reddit recently asked,...

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 very recently posted an auction for my old Dell Inspiron 6000 (take a look if you like). She’s obviously old and has seen better days, but hopefully somebody will find it useful as a parts laptop. The challenge here was to make an older laptop look half-way decent in an eBay listing photo. How to do it? Here’s how:Yes, I know the laptop is old...

This is the first time I’ve found something Linux can do that Windows (or OS X for that matter) cannot, that being to backup a large Flickr account. I’ll explain. My paid Flickr account has 1000+ photos in it. I use it routinely, realized it was frickin’ huge and felt the need to back it up. The only semi-decent tool available is flickredit....

With most digital cameras there is the ability to store photos in "RAW" format instead of the standard JPG/JPEG. When you take shots to be stored in RAW, the first thing you notice is that it takes a really long time for the cam to finish storing the photo after taking the shot. The second thing you notice is that it’s not the easiest thing in...

Whenever you take a photo with a digital camera the resulting JPEG file is obviously quite large both in dimensions and file size. Many people like to send photos as file attachments in e-mail. While it’s true most e-mail services will auto-resize photos for you (like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail), the rest do not. The Online Image Resizer at...

Yahoo is in the digital doghouse lately after they made what many see as a bonehead move and walked away from talks with Microsoft. Stocks crashed on the news and it hasn’t really recovered since the drop. Now we have news that the co-founders of Flickr are leaving the company. Flickr is and has been one of the bright spots at Yahoo. The photo sharing site...

I am in the midst of writing an article that is going to compare online photo services plus a few freebie photo clients. It occurred to me that in order to make for a better article, it would be good to ask the audience: Why do you use what you use and what features are important to you? Your online options With online photo management you’ve got several...

Generally speaking there are three types of digital cameras, that being consumer, “prosumer” and professional. In layman’s terms you can think of each like this:Consumer: Basic Prosumer: Advanced (or “mid-grade”) Professional: Expert[hidepost=1] Consumer Digital Cameras With digital cameras that are specifically designed to be basic, almost all...

One of Picasa’s most powerful features is the ability to post a photo to the internet easily with just a few clicks. [hidepost=1]If you look at the bottom-middle of the previous screen shot, there is the option for “Web Album.” On click you will see this screen:Signing up for Picasa is simple and easy. Once you choose your username and password,...

[hidepost=1] Here is a default view of some photos in Picasa:If I double-click any image I see it in full view:When in full view I have image editing options to the left. By default you will be on the “Basic Fixes” tab. Let’s say I want to crop the image to a certain point in the photo. I click “Crop”, then “4 x 6”, then click and drag...