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WeT Floor Maker: Create Wet Floor Effect for your Images

Do you want to make that web 2.0 wet floor effects for your images but don’t want to go to all that trouble editing in Photoshop just to achieve the effect that you are looking for? Wet Floor Maker is an online tool that can help you in getting that wet floor or mirror reflection effect for your image.

The service is very easy to use and won’t require you to sign-up or register. The first step is to just upload your image then select the effect options for the wet floor effect. You can change the angle, camera height, brightness, reflectivity, sky color and floor color. You can also select a size for your image. The minimum size available is 160×120 and the maximum is 1280×1024.

This is a simple but cool tool that you can use to give your image(s) a web 2.0 effect. You may have more control with your editing in Photoshop but this is a real time saver. Advanced features are coming soon which means more editing power for the app and improvement for the generated image.

Tags: image, mirror effect, wet floor maker

Slice and Crop Your Photos Online

PicSlice is a place online where you can slice and crop your photos. The webapp is useful if you want to adjust your photos depending on your needs and if you do not have a decent photo editor available on a computer that you are using. You can either upload from your computer or use a link from your online photo/image host.

Saving the image is very easy. You can choose from two ways to save your sliced image. Clicking a slice will download it. So all you have to do is click all the slices to complete your image. Or, you can download the zip file which contains all the sliced images.

Slicing photos is great for displaying large photos on a single page. It will speed up the loading time of the entire image. It also protects your images in some ways. Bandwidth thieves will have a harder time stealing your images and your bandwidth.

PicSlice is pretty much a very basic web tool that you can use when the need arises. If you are looking for a place online where to crop and slice your images, try PicSlice. It’s fast and free (I just wish they’d change the background color).

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Add Text to Images Using PicFont

PicFont is an image editor which lets you insert text or comments on photos. You can normally do them in a desktop image editor installed in your computer. The only difference with PicFont is that the editing is done online. You can either upload from your computer or grab a photo online.

There are other online editing tools which does the same job and more but with limited fonts styles. PicFont is only focused on placing text on your images. Just place in a text, choose a font, size and color and drag it around the photo. You can also rotate the texts that you inserted. There is also a preview feature which allows you to see the photo in different sizes and download it in the same manner.

PicFont is great for grabbing photos online and inserting comments without having to download the photo and edit it in your resident photo editor. If you are looking for a quick way to place text(s) on images online, PicFont is a great place to start. It may not give you the full editing power of a normal desktop editor but it will surely do the job in adding texts and comments on a photo/image.

Tags: add text, editor, image, photo, picfont

Roundpic Easily Makes Rounded Corners for your Images

Roundpic is a simple webtool that can easily produce rounded corners for your images. This is a great tool for bloggers who wants to make a rounded ad image or logo without the hassle of editing it in Photoshop or other image editing software. Rounded images can be used to complement a website theme or just produce a unique image style for posting purposes. The tool is quick and very easy to use and does not require any editing skill.

How to Use:

All you have to do is go to the Roundpic website and upload an image from your hard drive or from a URL and choose how round you want the corners to be. You can also choose which corners you want to become rounded. Just uncheck the corner you do not wish to be rounded to do this. After you are all done with the rounding, just download the image. That’s all there is to it. It doesn’t get any easier than that. Check out the samples I made below.

Tip:

You can use this tool along with Free125Cards. Free125Cards lets you easily create a 125 card for your blog ad, logo and avatar purposes. You can check out the full review here. If you want rounded corners to go with your 125×125 card, Roundpic is perfect for the job. This will give you the chance to produce a more unique 125 card and be a bit more creative with your images.

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Online Image Editing and More from Aviary

I just got my invite from Aviary (Private Beta) and finally got to test it. Aviary is an online service which caters different kinds of media editing and creating applications for artists of all genres from images, typography, music, 3D and video. Compared to Adobe’s Photoshop Express which is more of a photo enhancement tool, Aviary’s image editing tool called Phoenix gives more freedom to the user when it comes to image editing and creating from scratch. There are lots of editing tools to choose from which are essential for an editing job like layers and brushes. I must say that this online editor is far more advanced than other online editing applications that I have used and tested. You can check out the video below to see the Phoenix Image Editor in action.

There is another application in Aviary that I am excited to see. It is not available yet so I guess we have to wait until it is out. The service is called Dodo, the web based time machine. This is a new tool which will allow you to age and de-age people, places and things from any browser with Flash 9 enabled. They released a video trailer to see the app in action and I find it very interesting. Check it out below.

This two are just but a portion of what Aviary is offering. I have a few invites left (contact me or post it in the comments for an invite) which is restricted to image editing because that is what I signed up for. You can request an early bird invitation in their site if you want to check out other services that fits your taste.

Tags: aviary, editing, image, online, time machine, tool

Get Blogging Suggestions for your Content Using Zemanta

Zemanta is a new web app (still in alpha version) that lets you get suggestions for your content while blogging. As of now, they index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of their users. They also provide image suggestions for your content. The suggested images are based on the contextual comparison of your text and image description, title and the articles or posts they were used in originally. They currently get their suggested images from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers like Shutterstock and Fotolia. Link suggestions are also provided and even tags for your post.

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The suggestion engine will start working after you have typed in 300 characters in your blog. It will analyze your post through their proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and then the engine will statistically compare its context framework to their preindexed database of other content.How to Use:

The service currently supports the Mozilla Firefox browser and is currently available in WordPress (supports both hosted and wordpress.com platforms), Blogger and Typepad blogging platforms. All you have to do is install the Firefox Plugin which is available in their site. Once installed, you will notice a small icon (will be activated when you start writing your post) addition on the right side of your URL bar, then go to the dashboard of your favorite blogging platform and start writing an article. When you get to 300 characters, the engine will start to work and will give you relevant articles, images, links and tags suggestions for your post. You can either visit the suggested articles through the link provided or click to insert them in your blog as related article for your content. If you find an image in their suggestion bar, just click on it and it will be automatically added to your post. The same procedure applies to links and tags suggestions.

This is a great way to find additional content for your articles. The service is very new and you can expect more improvements in the future when it comes to bringing suggestions and supporting other blogging platforms and browsers.

 

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