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Wanna be Mario (even if only in photos)?
Step 1 : Make an 8 bit or 16 bit question mark box similar to what Mario punches. You can create them out of cardboard and some color paper or use shiny gift wrappers.
Step 2: Hang the box somewhere. Preferably near a brick wall to further add the Super Mario effect on your photo.
Step 3: Jump and Shoot.
Step 4: Share
Source: Be Mario
Tags: DIY, photo, Photography, Shoot, super mario
Riot (Radical Image Optimization Tool) is a lightweight Windows application that allows you to easily compress (reduce the file size of your photos). If you need your photo file size reduced without sacrificing quality, Riot is the application that you should use.
Once you open a photo in Riot, it will automatically optimize the image without losing quality. You can also manually set the desired photo (file) size. This will make it easier for you to resize a photo before uploading it to websites that has a minimum file size requirement.
When compressing a photo, data is always lost. But the question is that, how much photo data is lost when compressing and are the lost data necessary?
When you use RIOT, the compressed photo loses the unnecessary data first. By doing this, you won’t be able to immediately spot the difference between the original photo and the compressed photo. This makes the compression easy on the eyes of the owner of the photo. You won’t have to worry about pixelated photos due to the result of compression.
Tags: Optimization, photo, Photo Size, Reduce
See a photo that you like? Want to know the equipment and setting(s) used to capture a particular photo? Try reading the photos EXIF data and study it to further improve your photography skills. EXIF data is embedded in most photos that you see today, especially if they were taken using a digital device (DLSR, Digicam, Camera Phones, Etc.).
If you have Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Bridge, you can use those to read the EXIF data. You can also start at Deviant art. They usually publish the EXIF data of the submitted photos. Recently, Google just announced that they’ll be adding EXIF data to Google Image Search.
Google’s image search engine started to show additional information about photos after clicking the results. The landing page’s sidebar includes EXIF data: camera, settings, focal length, flash usage and exposure bias.
By reading the EXIF data, you’ll be able to know which kind of lens was used in a photo. You can also learn the shutter speed, ISO, aperture and even the type of camera that the photographer used in a particular photo. You can learn all these and a whole lot more.
This is a great way of learning from the masters if you are a novice photographer. Even pros are using this method in finding out how a particular photo was taken and what settings are used by other photographers. You can try the settings that are used by other photographers and experiment with your own. This will also help you identify the difference in using different types of settings versus the brand of equipment. Even if you use the same settings that you learned using EXIF data, the result may vary depending on the equipment you use. Let the EXIF data be your guide in becoming a better photographer.
Learn more about EXIF data at [How to Geek]
Photo Credit [Casualeye]
Tags: Camera Data, Camera Settings, EXIF, EXIF data, photo, Photo Data, Photography
Looking for a free online Photo Mosaic Creator? Try EasyMoza. Creating a photo mosaic has never been easier. The service is free and there’s no need for you to download anything. Simply use your browser and head over to the EasyMoza website to begin creating your mosaic.
Just upload a high resolution photo for your main image. The main image will be composed from all the small photos. The ones that you’re going to use as small photos need not be as high resolution as the main. They’ll be reduced to being part of the big picture anyway so do yourself a favor and save some upload time.
Another thing that you should remember if you want to produce a good mosaic is to choose a photo with very few details as possible, and ones that are not zoomed out too far. For example, a close-up picture of a face as the main picture will look better than a picture of you standing near a tree.
Tags: Mosaic, photo
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.
[ Imageoid ]
Tags: effects, filters, photo, Photoshop
Awesome concept by Lego, integrating reality with Lego fiction.
Tags: Ad, Design, Lego, photo
