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Add Weird Effects to your Photos without Photoshop

Sometimes, you just want to quickly add an effect to your photo. No tedious editing, no spending time watching tutorials, no Photoshop. If you have a photo and want to simply add non-conventional effect(s) on it, try using Imageoid. It’s a web app that lets you easily apply effects to your photos.

To use the service, simply upload a photo, transform it, apply effects and download the result. If you’re using (or familiar with) Instagram on your iPhone, it kinda works the same, only for your browser and with more effects for you to choose from.

As good as Imageoid as in adding photo effects quickly (performs rather fast) and effectively, there’s only one thing that concerns me. The maximum size per file(photo) upload is only 800Kb. This simply means that you can’t upload photos taken directly from high megapixel cameras. Forget about using it on photos taken immediately from DLSRs. I tried a photo from my digital camera and it got rejected because it’s 2MB in size. I need to resize the photo to reduce the file size which takes time. In my humble opinion, changing the max upload capacity will greatly improve the service in terms of convenience. I really don’t want to open Photoshop and resize my image just to add effects on a web app. If I use Photoshop to open the image, I might as well choose a filter and add effects while I’m at it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tags: effects, filters, photo, Photoshop

FlixTime: Quick Video Maker with Transition Effects

FlixTime is a video app that lets you create a video file slide out of photos, video clips and text. You can publish a video slide with transition effects in (3) three easy steps and in about (3) three minutes. The service is absolutely free and as soon as you finished signing up for an account, you’ll be able to start creating your 60 second video immediately.

To create a Flix video, just add photos/videos, music and text. Click on the “Add Photos/Videos” button, and you’ll be presented with two choices: Upload and Media Lounge. You can upload images from your computer to Flixtime, or select stock photos from the Media Lounge. You’ll also be presented with the same choices for the “Add Music” — upload your own music, or choose from our stock music collection! To create a text slide, simply click “Add Text Slide”, and enter your text in the “main text” and “subtext” fields.

You can move and organize images by simply clicking, dragging and dropping the image to the place in the timeline that you’d like it to appear. You can also rotate and duplicate images using the video creator. The effects and transitions are automatically generated by their system, and every time you render, a new and unique video is generated.

What I like about FlixTime is that it doesn’t limit you to just create videos online. You can download the created videos so that you can use them offline and on different devices. You’ll have a choice of MP4, DivX, H.264 and FLV files, all in 640 x 360 resolution, and a smaller MP4 file (320x x 240) for iPods and other portable video players.

FlixTime allowed files for upload:

• Video: avi, mpg, flv, wmv and mov files, maximum file size and resolution: 75MB

• Audio: mp3 files, maximum file size and length: 15MB

• Photos: jpeg, gif and png files, maximum file size: 7MB

Tags: effects, FlixTime, Transition Effects, Video Creator, Video Effects, videos

Photoshop: Use Multiple Layered Images to Create a Textured Effect

This Photoshop video tutorial teaches us how to create a website design with a highly textured effect by layering multiple images. You’ll learn to quickly create image intensive designs that can be used on other projects other than a web design.

Tags: effects, layers, Multiple Layered Images, Photoshop, Textured Effect, Textures

Rollip Adds More Effects and Allows High Quality and Original Size Processing for Pro Accounts

Rollip is a service we reviewed a while back that allows you to convert ordinary photos and give them Polariod effects. In addition to the free service, Rollip just added a pro feature that allows you to choose from more effects in addition to the standard (free) account. A pro account will get you 40 effects in total and allow you to process high-quality and original large size photos.

You can purchase pro credits and use them to process high quality and original size photos. You can still process ordinary sized photos using the effects available on Rollip. You will need a Pro account if you want them processed in high resolution. Browse the site to check out the newly added photo effects.

As an early gift from me and Rollip, 10 Readers of Orangeinks can get a pro account for free with 30 credits each (the worth $5.98 per account, the normal Pro account is $2.99 for 15 photos). Just make the jump to get your Free Rollip Pro Account.

Tags: effects, Photos, Polariod, Rollip

EffMyPic: Effects for your Pics or Your Pics as an Effect

Want to try something new with your photos? Add effects on them using EffMyPic. It’s a quick photo effect engine that you can use to add different effects on your photos. Or if you want to see it the other way around, use your photos as an effect on a particular EffMyPic image.

With EffMyPic, you can place your photos on a billboard, graffiti, sidewalk chalk art and much more in just a few clicks. All you need to do is upload your photo, choose an effect that you want to use and let the EffMyPic engine Do the rest. When all is done, you can easily share them on your favorite social networking site using the quick share buttons or by grabbing the embed codes. You can also publish your new photo on EffMyPic’s gallery.

This will add new life to your old photos. If you want to do something new with your favorite snapshot of yourself, EffMyPic might just do it for you. You can also use the tool to generate variants using a single photo. Try it on your friend’s photos to impress them without spending too much time editing several images to achieve a certain effect.

If you don’t find a particular effect that you want on EffMyPic, you can contact them and suggest effects that you want to see featured on the site and they’ll be more than willing to listen to your suggestions.

Tags: effects, EffMyPic, photo, Pics

FaceBomb: Add Effects to your Photos

FaceBomb is an online photo enhancement tool where you can do a lot of neat stuff with your photos automatically. You need not be a Photoshop ninja in order to make your photos stand out. Just upload them at FaceBomb, select which enhancement tickles your fancy and watch it do the work for you. No signing-up and registration required. You can add effects on your photos in a matter of minutes.

Once you have uploaded your photo, just select an area, crop it and add your desired effect. There’s a wide variety of effects that you can choose from. You don’t have to bother with the technicalities of knowing the name of each effect. Just view the sample photos and choose which effect best interests you. You can also add text and other images on your photos.

This is an easy and painless way of enhancing your photos without taking too much time editing and adding effects manually on photo editors. You can use this to quickly tweak your photos for use on your social networking profiles. This works best on profile pictures but you can also try experimenting using other images. Have fun with your photos.

Tags: effects, FaceBomb, Photo Enhancement, Photos