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10 Sweet Website Design Tips to Cut WP Site Cost in 2015

Relatively few small business owners evaluate the real pricing tag before jump into web building. According to Inc.com the cost of ordinary vCard site is between $2000 to $25000 in USA in 2015. It includes design, hosting, maintenance, copywriting, content management and SEO. Since site is such an expensive investment, you would expect high ROI. Unfortunately, web development often turns into financial catastrophe. (more…)

How to Overlay Two Images in PhotoScape (Easy Video Guide)

PhotoScape is probably #1 ranked free photo editor. Although, it’s often recommended for basic photo editing, PhotoScape hides lots of useful features for advanced photo enhancement. Previously, we reviewed its solutions for changing photo background or make transparent background in PhotoScape, today we will explain how to place one image above another one or speaking more professionally “how to overlay two images” in PhotoScape.
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Make eCards with Your Face: 2 Totally FREE JibJab Alternatives

JibJab is the most popular online service that needs a photo of your face in order to make a bright funny e-card accompanied with musiс and tricks. All sorts of video animations and effects, high quality images, transition, dozens of templates and professional-looking ecards. But JibJab pricing might disappoint new users as the service is paid, not free. So are there any 100% free JibJab alternatives? Can you make funny online greeting card with your selfie free of charge? Let’s explore!

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Black IrfanView Window to See Images

Everyone who works with piles of digital images, scanned faxes, PDF-documents, Photoshop files, and other stuff of that kind is familiar with standard Microsoft Document Viewer. Say it frankly, is it enough? If yes, skip this post, if no, go on reading. (more…)

Top 5 Photo Stock Sites

Each of us knows how it’s hard to find right images for your website or design needs. Probably you have spent more time on fruitless Google searches than on your photo project accomplishment. To make your life easier, we recommend you to have a list of exclusive photo stock sites at hand. Our Top 5 Photo Stock Sites overview will save your precious time and efforts.
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jKiwi – Free Virtual HairStyle and Makeup Changer App for Men & Women [Windows & Linux]

Beauty is an incredible weapon. A right haircut makes us self-confident. When we go to a hairdresser to change hairstyle, we may feel uncertainty. A new haircut is a long-term investment in appearance. If it doesn’t go well, you may feel ill at ease and less self-assured. Did you ever dream to change your look or try new haircut, but uncertainty in successful outcome stopped you from something new? Millions of men and women, boys and girls worldwide dream about virtual hairstyle app that lets you try on latest hair style and new hair color. (more…)

GIMP – Adobe Photoshop for Open Source Community

I love open source software. My open source photo software review section would be incomplete without GIMP overview, an exemplary open source photo editor. GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. At first sight, the engineering-sound name makes you feel that GIMP is not invented for shopping (photo shopping) or profit-making interest. On the contrary, open source GIMP is a pure brainchild of coding and high-tech. (more…)

PhotoMania: 250 NEW Photo Effects and Filters for Your Facebook Pictures

Summer is the best season to shoot photos. After these 3 moths you’ll have tons of pictures from your vacation, open air hangouts, BBQ parties that you might share with friends on your Facebook page. If you want to add an artistic look to your images, first of all, you should try PhotoMania, a Facebook fun online photo effects maker with over 250 free photo effects.
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4 Image License Types: Photo Stock Licenses & Usage Rights

As I said in my previous post it is important to pay greater attention to image license prior to picture’s download. You have to check thoroughly what you can and what you cannot do with the images. Sometimes you are not allowed to use the image for commercial purposes, to modify it, to display the image more than a certain number of times, etc. Anyway it is preferable to give a credit to the author.
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How to Capture Screen with PhotoScape & Save It Without Duplicates

PhotoScape is a great freeware picture editor that can resize pictures, make mosaics, slides, remove image backgrounds and perform other advanced image manipulations like pictures overlaying. One of the best picture tricks you can do with the help of PhotoScape 3.7 is to make screen captures using this piece of free software. The inbuilt screen capture tool allows you to take screen records of all Windows areas including full screen, active window or only the screen zone that you highlight. Let’s learn how to capture screen with PhotoScape and to save screenshots without duplicates. (more…)

Where to Get Images to Illustrate Your Blog?

Pictures speak louder than words. A smart photo conveying the main idea of an article owes 50% to a blogger’s success and his popularity among readers. It catches people’s eye and hooks them into reading the post. It also helps to find the content when somebody is searching for a certain theme on the web. (more…)

How to Edit Photos in Photoscape – Secret Tips & Tricks [New Tutorial]

Nowadays almost each hand-held gadget has a camera to make photos. The photo files usually need some photo editing. Let’s learn how to edit photos. There are plenty of photo editing tools for all skill levels: simple online photo editors, middle-level desktop picture editors, or advanced Adobe PhotoShop. This review is devoted to PhotoScape. You don’t need to be pro-photographer to edit your photos using this wonderful program. Check our PhotoScape quick tutorial for beginners. (more…)