Ian's Messy Desk » Photography http://www.ismckenzie.com Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:15:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Splashup – Online Image Editor http://www.ismckenzie.com/splashup-online-image-editor/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/splashup-online-image-editor/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:03:30 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/11/06/splashup-online-image-editor/ Splashup edit images online

Splashup is a powerful, on-line image editor.

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

A few of the features:

  • Multiple image editing
  • Pixel-level control
  • Layers of depth
  • Edit images from photo-sharing services
    • Picasa
    • Flickr
    • Facebook
  • Filters
  • In-canvas text editing

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Picnik is an on-line photo editor that handles the basic cropping and resizing you find with other free services, as well as a number of other useful features.

* One-click photo fixing or in-depth tweaking
* Crop, rotate, and resize in real-time
* Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
* Amazingly fast
* Works directly with many photo sharing sites
* No download required, nothing to install!
* Works on Mac, Windows, even Linux
* Free version, premium version (soon)

Picnik – edit photos the easy way, online in your browser

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  •  – Web Worker Daily some ideas for moving your e-mail archive from a disaster zone to a useful resource.
  • Evolution of my e-mail setup – an overview of how this e-mail system went from chaos to lean and mean.
  • Begin, again – I pointed at this a couple of years ago, but it bears repeating. Bren looks at restarting when you fall off the GTD wagon.
  • What’s on Jason’s Hard Drive – scanning your paper files and storing them electronically.
  • New mind mapping videos on YouTube – more mind mapping how-to’s posted on YouTube.
  • 10 New Uses for Coffee Filters – from a flash diffuser for photography to cleaning window, here a 10 alternate uses for paper coffee filters.
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    ]]>     http://www.ismckenzie.com/bits-and-pieces-february-23/feed/ 0     Surfing Flickr With Tags http://www.ismckenzie.com/surfing-flickr-with-tags/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/surfing-flickr-with-tags/#comments Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:07:38 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/12/07/surfing-flickr-with-tags/ The bignoseduglyguy has moved his blog to Wordpress and freshened it up with a Kiwi-coloured theme, appropriate to his NZ home. Today he points to a tag-based browser for Flickr.

    The Flickr Related Tag Browser takes a search term and returns a mosaic of images tagged with that term. Surrounding the images are related tags, “based on clustered usage analysis.” I’m not sure what that means, but it is an interesting way to browse the connections in Flickr tags.

    Flickr tag browser

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    ]]>     http://www.ismckenzie.com/surfing-flickr-with-tags/feed/ 1     Vote for Me http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-me/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-me/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:39:43 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/12/04/vote-for-me/

    Now that we’ve finished voting Joe into the upper echelon of Canadian blogdom, maybe we can get one of my photos voted into JPG Magazine. By clicking on one of these two images you can cast your vote to include that photo in issue 8 of the magazine.

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    ]]>     http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-me/feed/ 0     DIY Jewel Case Frames http://www.ismckenzie.com/diy-jewel-case-frames/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/diy-jewel-case-frames/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:17:07 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/11/30/diy-jewel-case-frames/ After two years in the house, we’re finally getting around to hanging pictures.

    While the small photo accompanying this post looks kind of funky, I find most jewel-case projects end up looking like… jewel cases. Still, if your budget is limited and you’re going for a pop-art look, this project might be just the thing.

    a clever project that uses CD jewel cases to make rearrangeable, refillable, photo frames for those empty walls of yours.

    Photojojo » DIY Jewel Case Frames: Wonderful Wall Art Faster than you can say Polar Bears!

    [tags]pictures, photographs, DIY, jewel cases, projects[/tags]

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    ]]>     http://www.ismckenzie.com/diy-jewel-case-frames/feed/ 0     Clockr – It’s Flickr Time http://www.ismckenzie.com/clockr-its-flickr-time/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/clockr-its-flickr-time/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:04:53 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/11/20/clockr-its-flickr-time/ Clockr

    Clockr uses random digit images from Flickr to display the current time.

    There is also a screensaver.

    Clockr – It’s Flickr Time

    [tags]flickr, photos, clocks, time[/tags]

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    ]]>     http://www.ismckenzie.com/clockr-its-flickr-time/feed/ 0     Vote for Leavin’ on a Jet Plane http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-leavin-on-a-jet-plane/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-leavin-on-a-jet-plane/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:02:42 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/11/20/vote-for-leavin-on-a-jet-plane/ at JPG Magazine

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    ]]>     http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-leavin-on-a-jet-plane/feed/ 0     Vote for Embrace the Blur at JPG Magazine http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-embrace-the-blur-at-jpg-magazine/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-embrace-the-blur-at-jpg-magazine/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:57:58 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/11/20/vote-for-embrace-the-blur-at-jpg-magazine/

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    ]]>     http://www.ismckenzie.com/vote-for-embrace-the-blur-at-jpg-magazine/feed/ 0     Embed Flickr slideshows on your site http://www.ismckenzie.com/embed-flickr-slideshows-on-your-site/ http://www.ismckenzie.com/embed-flickr-slideshows-on-your-site/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:29:44 +0000 Ian McKenzie http://www.ismckenzie.com/10/27/embed-flickr-slideshows-on-your-site/ Lifehacker has some instructions for embedding the default Flickr slideshow on your website. If I followed them correctly, you should see a slide show of my Flickr photos tagged Edmonton.

    [tags]Flickr, Lifehacker, slideshow, photos, web, howto[/tags]

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