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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Fun Free Picture Editors

I have been looking at a lot of photo stuff lately and thought I would pass on some of the better stuff, pretty much all free.
PictureCloud
By using a picture cloud you can turn still photos into images that spin 360° by uploading images you take around an object with your digital camera.
It's kind of like those VR quicktime pictures, but instead of a camera spinning around in place, you can fly around. And it is free and can be put into a site.
PictureCloud Homepage. Click here for an example --> House Show
Microsoft Group Shot
I saw this in this post --> Downloadsquad.com
Microsoft Research has release a little app called Group Shot which "helps you create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos." It basically allows you to take the best parts of several successive photos of a group and easily stitch them into one "perfect" shot. Helps you fix the blinkers in the crowd.
Microsoft Group Shot -download
Click HERE for more info and screenshots
AutoStitch
Autostitch is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical). It has a free demo. AutoStitch Homepage
Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us <--click for full view Mosaic Creator
Mosaic Creator is a program for creating image montages (photomosaic, mixed mosaics, random mosaics), that are images which consist of a small pictures called cell images. When viewed from a distance, you see source image. You can easily change the size of the thumbnails that make up the pic.
Mosaic Creator homepage.
<--click for full view Below is one of the things I am giving my wife for val. day in a nice frame. It is made up of all the pics from our wedding (this was my 1st go at it, tons of options I still need to play with): Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
fd's Flickr Toys
And here is a cool site that lets you do things with pictures on Flickr. The site is free if you want to post your own pics, and you can log in with a Yahoo.com account if you have one. The Captioner is pretty cool (lets you make your pics look like they are from a comic book), as well as the Calendar, Movie Poster, and Framer. Flicker Toys Homepage.
The Rasterbator
The last one is The Rasterbator. The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size. It uses a pic from your computer or anywhere on the net to blow up and print out your pic on a home printer. It sends you the thing in a pdf file.
The Rasterbator Homepage.
Check out the Full Gallery, it has tons of user submited stuff to give you ideas. Click on the link to "Only Cool Images" to see some of the best.
Here are just a couple of good ones.(Click for a larger view)

If you have any other programs you like, feel free to pass them along too!

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