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Zerox’ Image Search Algorithm will Tell you if Photos are Good or Bad

 

Zerox’ Aesthetic Quality Image Search uses and algorithm that divides photos into two very straightforward categories, photos that suck and photos that doesn’t suck. If you think of it, when you are looking for a decent photo in the internet and don’t really have an eye for photos, what really will matter to you is that if is it any good or not. Zerox’ image search project will help you figure out if the photos that you are looking at are any good or not. This will be useful when there’s nobody else around to ask for an opinion.

The engine specializes in different subjects, like beaches, portraits and skies. The photos go through an image categorization engine that understands the content of the images (no texts and tags are required for the engine to process the images). The algorithm uses different parameters to evaluate the photos according to a particular subject matter. Then, the aesthetics rating engine separates the images with good and bad aesthetic elements.

Aside from telling bad and good photos apart, Aesthetic Quality also offers a few tips on how to capture images that are worthy of their “Good Images” section.

Here’s an example of the photography tip:

“A good beach image contains high cliffs, rugged coastlines, eroded landforms, pounding seas. Fast shutter speed (higher than 1/250) will stop the motion of the waves and freeze sea spray. Slow shutter speed will blur the waves and soften the seascape.

Add human elements and a sense of scale.

Head for piers and rocky promontories to include the sea in the foreground.

A polarizing filter will often improve the colour and contrast around the water.

Ref: Lonely Planet’s Guide To Travel Photography

 

Tags: Aesthetics, Image Search, Photos, search, Zerox

How to Easily View your Instagram Photos on your Computer

There are several web apps that let you view your Instagram photos on your computer. In fact, I’ve covered some of them here at orangeinks. So, here’s another webapp that you can use to easily view all your instagram photos on your computer browser and save them on your computer.

All you need to do is to head over to copygram and give it access to your instagram account. Copygram will extract all your photos from instagram which will allow you to view them all on your browser. You can also save them on your computer or get the image link to share with your friends.

Copygram also has a photo developing service that will allow you to easily order copies of your instagram photos outright.

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Tags: CopyGram, Instagram, Photos, Print Instagram

Superheroes in Historical Photos

Ever wondered what if history would look like with superheroes? Check out this collection of shopped history photos with superheroes (and some villains) inserted in them.

More in Agan Harahap’s Flickr account.

Tags: Historical Photos, History Photos, Photos, Photoshop, Superheroes

Funny Photos (Portraits ) of People Playing Video Games

These pictures were taken by Phillip Toledano who wanted to capture people’s hidden emotions and feelings.

In his own words:

I’ve never been very interested in straightforward portrait photography. I often feel that it reveals nothing other than the photographer’s intentions, and a topographic record of the effects of time.

But what of hidden emotions and feelings? Characteristics that are usually secreted from the world? How do we record those?

I wondered if there was a way to unconsciously tease out aspects of people’s personality, and capture it on film. So I had them play video games.

These are the results:

[Mr. Toledano]

Tags: Gamer, Photos, Portraits, Video Gamer

Photos of People Staring at Computers

Check out this bunch of photos that shows what people look like when looking at computers. Sadly, the guy who made this happen, Kyle McDonald, got his gears confiscated by the Secret Service. Someone obviously thought that what he has done poses a threat to the public. You can read the full story here. Anyway, here are some of the photos that Kyle took.

He probably caught photos of the Secret Service looking at computers. Maybe that’s what ticked them off.
Watch the video.

Tags: Computers, people, Photos

Easily Migrate Photos from Facebook to Google+ All at Once

Migrating from Facebook to Google+? Creating an account on a new social networking site is so easy that your grandma can do it for you, so migrating from Facebook to Google+ won’t be a problem for anyone in terms of account creation. What’s hard is transferring the millions of photos that you managed to accumulate on your Facebook account over the years. Luckily for us who wants to give Google+ a shot, there’s a webapp that will help us transfer photos from Facebook to Picasa.

Move2Picasa is a tool that will help your Facebook to Google+ migration a breeze. Simply allow Move2Picasa access to your Facebook account to begin the transfer. The transfer rate will depend on the amount of photos stored in your Facebook account.

Reminder: Move2Picasa will transfer ALL your Facebook Photos. You won’t be able to make a selection of photos you want shared/transferred on Picasa.

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Tags: Facebook, Google, Photos, Picasa