Screenshots are still images of our computer desktop, a program interface, an online game or mobile device windows. Last time we showed you the ways how to take screenshots on Windows 7, now we’ll explain how to make screenshots on Apple iOS device without any additional apps. If you have an iPad (any model), iPod Touch, or iPhone, this guide is for you.
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Decades ago we collected printed photos in dedicated albums like “Our kids”, “Anniversary”, “The newly born”, “Wedding”, “Graduation”, etc. Now we store pictures online, on our computers, iPads and smartphones, so to say, to always have images at hand. But often they lack that special spirit of old family photo albums. Smilebox, a free online web service for scrapbooks and photo slideshows, was introduced to change this situation once and forever.
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Unlike ordinary digital cameras, advanced DSLR photo cameras shoot fabulous pictures. In order to get best quality of your images, professional photographers recommend to change photo saving settings from JPEG to RAW format. If you have just bought your first Nikon or Canon DSLR cam and feel puzzled over image formats dilemma, this post is for you.
iPad is an ideal device to view photos. Its touch-screen enables you to zoom pictures, flip them and move from one photo to another simply with a finger touch. iPad can collect and store your photos. All you need is to import ready pics from your computer. If you want to transfer photos from PC to iPad, you can use iTunes. However, its complicated file transfer method is a serious obstacle for many people. Fortunately, there is a much easier way to copy pictures from computer to iPad with the help of Dropbox and here’s our step by step guide about it.
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If you believe that a typical local business website is a two-page site with contact details, weird navigation and absence of design taste, you were partly right until this moment. For the past year, we reviewed many free apps to fine-tune website design and gave recommendations on website usability and style. Today, we will summarize our suggestions and give every website owner 7 ideas that may turn an ordinary website into a reliable web store or a real online brand page. Who said, that a good web design costs too much? Let’s ruin this myth!
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Dear Photographer,
We, editors of Photo Software & Design Blog, are sure that you are longing for soul mates. Let us introduce to you the Internet paradise for photographers – ViewBug, an online photo community with tons of fancy features. More details inside this post… The lyrics above describes the attitude and the atmosphere created by ViewBug team.
There are plenty of Internet pages that every amateur photographer should bookmark. Among these pearls you can find blogs, online photography courses, digital photography schools, e-books and much more. Here we have collected the best resources that share valuable information on taking perfect photos. So look at our guide on how to shoot great photos and explore the new knowledge centers:
For 3 months in 2012, the whole Internet community was boiling from the news about sudden Picnik shutdown. Picnik was a tremendously popular online photo editor. Since April 2012 it does not exist any longer. Google, the Picnik owner, suggests everyone switch to Google+ network or Picasa as a Picnik replacement. But these options do not attract all hard core Picnik fans. However, there’s a hope for the good. Meet PicMonkey, a new and dead simple Picnik alternative made by ex-Picnik developers.
Soon many of us will open summer traveling season and take photographs that fill family albums. Nowadays there are so many cameras for any taste: simple phone cameras, more complicated consumer cameras, professional cameras with lenses, etc. It even seems strange to hear the question: how to shoot great photos? But if you surf any public photo sharing website, you will understand that high quality equipment is only a half of success, another half is photographer’s skills and imagination. Today we will observe 5 key tips that help you create perfect vacation pictures, so you can boast of them among your friends.
Today I’d like to introduce an excellent free online collage maker called Photovisi. I bet if you try it, you will fall in love with Photovisi collage maker like me. The app hooks you from the first second you spend at this website by ingenious and crafty collage templates, simplicity of collage making and no hidden limits.
At work or studies, we have to deal with tons of important information in PDF files. If you just receive an email attachment in PDF format and you need to make changes quickly, don’t panic! Here you have several ways to go: convert PDF to Word, convert PDF to image or find PDF editing software. For speedy PDF manipulations, I recommend turn PDF pages into photos. There are free online converters that convert PDF files to images in a painless manner. Let me introduce a good online solution: http://pdf2jpg.net.
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Recuva is unique free software that should be installed on every computer. Recuva restores deleted images quickly and easily. No tech knowledge needed to rescue erased images. Just select the file type you want to restore, e.g. photos, and click the “Scan” button. Recuva will explore your PC and bring up the list of images that recently has been deleted. Then, you’ll pick up the desired pictures and get your photos back.
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