May 13, 2008

Free slides for China earthquake & Myanmar cyclone relief

If your church or denomination is contributing to relief efforts in China and Myanmar (Burma), you might find these slides helpful. There's a titled version for each cause and a plain background slide for each, too.

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Download the zipped file containing all four slides.

Instructions: Save the zipped file to your desktop. When the download is completed, double-click the zip icon on your desktop. When the dialog box opens, click "Browse" and locate your desktop. After choosing your desktop as the zip-to location, click the "Unzip" button. The slides will be unzipped to your desktop.

April 15, 2008

Online Image Editing Part II: Splashup

In today's online photo editing focus is Splashup, another free web-base application.

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Splashscreenshot http://www.splashup.com

Features:
-Upload photos from your computer or photo-storage or sharing site

-Resembles layout of traditional desktop image editors
-Familiar editing tools in the left-hand tool box

Summary:
If you're familiar with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Painter, or PhotoImpact, you should fee right at home with the Splashup interface. You're even able to work with multiple graphic layers - a photo one, text on another, a second photo for transparent special effects on another.

My Opinion:
Excellent. It's what Adobe's Photoshop Express should resemble (more on that another day).
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April 13, 2008

Photo Editing: It's new, free, and online

Until now, if you wanted to adjust a graphic for Sunday worship, you had a limited number of photo editing choices. Most had to be purchased, downloaded and installed on your computer. If you used a second computer in another location, and didn't have the same software loaded, you were out of luck. Now, there are a number of online alternatives that are accessible on any computer that is connected to the internet. Most of these online editors are compatible with photo sharing and storage sites such as MySpace, Flickr, and FaceBook.

Below, I've listed one of a number of online photo editors which you may find helpful in making images look their best when projected during worship. In the next several posts, I'll highlight others.

Today....

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Fotoflexrscreenshot Features:
- Import photos from your computor or your favorite photo site
- Load multiple photos and position each where you want them
- Apply separate special effects to different photos on screen
- Compatible with photobucket, facebook, myspace, flickr, picasa

Summary:

The workflow is easy to follow and the controls are similar to those of FlauntR and Picnik (both shown below) - click a tab and use its special effects controls, click the next tab and apply additional effects, and so on. There are a multitude of basic enhancement controls along with wild special effects and photo filters to choose from.

Price: Free.

My opinion:

So far, it's my favorite.

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