Closr: Create a Zoomable Image Widget
Closr is an image tool that you can use to share your images on slightly tight web pages and allow viewers to get a closer look at them. The tool is simple enough to use and embed on your favorite social networking sites and blogs.
Register for a Closr account and you can immediately start uploading your photo and create your first widget. You can only upload one photo per widget. If you’re thinking that this is a gallery type widget, then you are mistaken. The widget is only good for sharing one image but it’s great for sharing large images on small sized pages. I just have one comment on the image quality being reduced when viewed on the Closr widget. It’s something they need to work out during the beta phase. Aside from that, it looks great and could be useful when sharing large images.
Here’s the original image:
Here’s the image uploaded and viewed with the Closr Widget
Tags: Closr, image, widget, Zoom
ResizeImage: Resize Images Online
ResizeImage is another dead simple web app that, as you might already figured out, resizes images for you. There are several apps online that you can use to crop or resize your images, but this is by far the easiest and fastest to use.
You only need to drag the photo to fit the size that you desire if you use the advanced resize. The easy resizing tool is very user friendly and visually helpful. You can see the image resize in real time as you click the size that you might want. The app also displays the dimensions of your current image. This is very helpful if you are resizing an image to use on blogs and websites. The advanced resize will allow you to break the image’s proportion when resizing and create a custom size for your image. You have to keep in mind though that breaking the proportion of the image is not advisable for it destroys the quality.
ResizeImage is a simple tool that works great. No login necessary. Just upload your image and get it resized within seconds. There is also a cropping tool that you can use to crop first before resizing. Oh and ResizeImage can also be used as a temporary image host. Uploaded images are hosted on the server for one week. Feel free to link to your image during this period.
Tags: crop, image, resize, ResizeImage
PiccDrop: A quick Image Sharing Tool
PiccDrop is one of those image hosting sites that lets you upload images in a flash with no questions asked. No questions, meaning that no signing up, no create an account whatsoever. All you need is an image to upload, and then you’ll get your image URL from PiccDrop.
Unlike other quick image hosts, PicDrop made it clear that as long as you’re not uploading images with adult content, they are guaranteed to last forever, well, as long as PiccDrop lasts anyway. You also get to upload large images (up to 6MB in size). That’s a pretty sweet deal for a free service if you ask me. Oh, another great thing about the service is that it accepts almost all image format known to man.
(note: if piccdrop ever stops allowing users to upload images – we don’t plan to – we will continue to keep your images hosted on the site and will still allow direct hotlinking.)
If ever you are in need of a photo/image host with no bandwidth limit, does not require logging in, supports all formats, no image size restrictions, you might want to check this baby out. It’s great for quick image sharing on forums, websites, IM’s and Twitter.
Tags: Free, host, image, Photos, PiccDrop
[Kwout]: Easy Screenshot and Annotation Service
[Kwout] is a web service which allows you to capture portions of websites and turn them into an embeddable image with annotations and active hyperlinks. The image map is totally optional but wouldn’t it be cool to leave it activated? It will allow your users to navigate your “kwouted” images. Of course, if you feel that the image map is unnecessary, you can always turn it off in the settings.
To Kwout a page, just place the URL and press the kwout button. The Kwout editor will appear where you can select the portion of the page you want. Just press the cut button if you are satisfied with the selection. From here on, you can make changes to your kwouted image. You can choose to go with the original cut size or place a fixed width to fit your blog. You also have options to change the decoration of the image such as giving it round corners, placing shadow, border and changing the background color to complement your website design. You can also prevent others from quoting your image and enable or disable the image map feature mentioned above.
This is a great and easy way to get screenshot images to your blog. Plus, you get to choose to activate the links from the original page and place annotations. This is great if you are taking screenshots from websites that have image thumbnails or links that you want your readers to follow.
Sample Below ( Notice that the links in the image are active)
Tags: active link, embed screenshot, image, kwout
