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Easiest Way to Make Your Photos Look Vintage Without Photoshop

There are numerous ways to give photos a vintage look. Most people will point you to Photoshop and some tutorials on YouTube that’ll help you make your photos look old/vintage. But what if you don’t have Photoshop? Of course there are mobile phone apps like instagr.am. But what if you don’t own an iPhone, Android or any smart phone that carry the app that you need to retro-fy your photo? Then there’s a web-app called vintageJS .

VintageJS is a free to use web app that will allow you to give your photos a vintage effect. To use the service, simply upload a photo from their landing page and make some simple adjustments ‘till you are satisfied with the effect.

There are photos that look better when you view them with a retro/vintage look. So, give those photos the proper vintage treatment, the easy way, through vintageJS. There’s no need to sign-up and you need not have any experience in photo editing whatsoever to use the web-app. Just play around with the settings and you’ll be done in a few minutes with professionally done vintage looking photo.

 

Tags: photo, Retro, Vintage, web app

AudioTool: A Fun Way to Make Music Online

Burn Studios AudioTool is a web application that lets you create music in the cloud. The free online tool lets you create your own electronic music by connecting several virtual music devices.

The web app is free and all you need to start making music is a browser that runs flash and, of course, an internet connection. For starters, you can use AudioTool’s built-in templates from their audio sample library. Combine them and produce sound truly your own.

AudioTool’s advantage over other audio editing tools, particularly desktop based editors, is that you don’t have to worry about system compatibility. You can use whatever operating system you own and still produce your sound. Another thing that makes AudioTool so awesome is that it’s free! Yes, no “ka-ching needed.”

Whether you are serious about making music or not, you can save money from purchasing music production software and using AudioTool instead. Plus, it’s fun to use, and their gallery of pre-made templates are good enough to make any beginner gain more interest in producing his/her own unique sound.

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Tags: AudioTool, Cloud App, Music, Music Production, Online Music, web app

Duck My Life: Shoot Ducks on Any Website

Duck My Life is a webapp that allows you to shoot ducks on any site. The idea is simple, a duck appears on your browser and you get to shoot it. The only thing that’s missing is the stupid dog laughing his ass out whenever you miss a shot, which makes me somewhat relieved.

The app is simple enough to use. Users can simply drag the bookmarklet on the bookmarks bar and click it so that ducks will appear on any site. It’s duck carnage where you want it, when you want it. Website owners, on the other hand, can give their visitors the opportunity to massacre some ducks on their own site by placing a javascript code anywhere on the site. Add the line of HTML on any page to give your visitors the quack killing action that they have been asking for.

If you’re asking about the usefulness of this app is, I don’t know. But it can sure take away some boredom for a minute or two. The graphics could sure use some improvement like making it look like that the ducks could actually fly or go in different directions.

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Tags: DuckMyLife, Ducks, Embed, Shoot Ducks, web app

AlternativeTo: Find Better Applications

Here at Orangeinks, new web apps and software are featured so that users looking for alternatives can try them out and decide for themselves if they’re going to use it or not. They may not be always the best applications but they are chosen carefully and if they are interesting enough, you’ll see them get featured here.

I’d like to share a site, called AlternativeTo, where you can find great alternatives to desktop software that you can use on your favorite operating system. Whether you are using Linux, OS-X or Windows, they give a great list of alternatives for the pre-installed or mainstream software that you are using. They also have a great list of Web Apps that you can choose from that are carefully selected and tested. The applications featured on AlternativeTo are constantly reviewed. Users comment and vote on the app according to their personal experiences while using them. You’ll also be able to get other suggestions from the community.

AlternativeTo has a great collection of applications that might work better than the ones that you are using. It’s always great to try out new apps, especially when those apps are properly tested and reviewed by experts. Have fun trying out alternatives.

Tags: AlternativeTo, Applications, linux, OS X, Software, web app, Windows

Fix Red Eyes on Your Photos Online

The red-eye effect in photography is the appearance of red pupils in color photographs of eyes.

There are certain web apps that you can use to fix red eyes on your photos. One in particular that you can use for this job is Photoshop Online. The application also allows you to perform simple photo editing chores. This tool is great if you don’t have Photoshop installed on the computer that you’re working on. If you’re going to use Photoshop for your red eye removal, you might also want to take a short tutorial in accomplishing the task.

The web app that I’m going to introduce to you focuses only on red removal and nothing else. The app is called FixRedEyes. If you don’t want/need all the extra editing features of the applications that I’ve mentioned and simply want to remove red eyes from your photos, then this tool is for you. Just upload the photo (2MB Max), drag the red eye region selector on the area of the photo with red eyes and simply press “Fix It” and download the Photo. You can adjust the tolerance level of the tool and zoom level of the photo.

If you’re looking for an easy red eye removal tool, Fix Red Eye is as easy as it gets.

Here are some tips, also found on FixRedEyes, on how to prevent red eyes on your photos.

Cause

It occurs when taking photos with a flash that is near the camera lens, in low ambient light conditions. Reflected light from eye pupils gets painted red by blood cells.

How to prevent red eyes

• Ask your subject to look at your shoulder instead of the lens

• Increase ambient light and do not use the flash

• Use a camera with flash that is farther away from the lens, or even a separate flash.

• Utilize your cameras red eye removal techniques if any exists

Tags: Photos, Red Eye, Red Eye Remover, web app

The Color Scheme Designer

Here’s another great tool for web designers or for those who are actually thinking of redesigning their websites. I give you The Color Scheme Designer. It’s a tool that you can use to pick the right color schemes for your next layout, may it be your blog, website or social networking page.

To use the tool, just drag around the small dot on the color chart. You can choose different models for your color scheme.

The Mono or Monochromatic Model is based on a single color tint and uses only variations made by changing its saturation or brightness.

The Complementary Model is where the primary color is supplemented with its complement which is the color that can be found on the opposite of the color wheel.

The Triad or Soft Contrast Model gives you an effect where the primary color is supplemented with two colors that are placed identically on both sides of its complement.

The Tetrad or Double-Contrast Model is a scheme is made by a pair of colors and their complements. It is based on the foursome of colors evenly distributed on the color wheel (90 degrees distribution) – also known as the Tetrad.

The Analogic Model is made by the primary color and its adjacent colors found on the color wheel – two colors identically on both sides. This color scheme always looks elegant and clear which gives a warm approach.

The Accented Analogic Model. This is the Analogic model with complementary (contrast) color added.

Play around with colors by adjusting the Schemes and hues for different models. The scheme info will give you the color codes that you can use to edit your CSS files and the images used in your design. You can also view a page sample where the color scheme and model that you selected are applied. You can view a light page example or a dark page example for that matter.

Learn more about the different color schemes by using this tool and create a better looking website or something that fits your taste.

Tags: Color Scheme, Design, web app