Photo Software & Design Blog | Reviews, Tips & Tricks

How to Make Banners for Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn on Canva? [TIPS & TRICKS 2022]

Have you ever thought why professional designers spend so much time creating a digial ad banner? Can do it yourself without design experience and get a really creative and effective ad banner? Yes, you can with Canva app! Make digital ad banners for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or LinkedIn for FREE on Canva. We will show you how.

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Opus Pulvinarium vs. Cross-Stitch: How to Divide an Image into Crosses

I have been talking to many people, yes, mostly women, but I also know a couple of men who cross-stitch. And they told me that the very process of cross-stitching really calms down, the only annoying thing is that sometimes it’s difficult to find a ready pattern that you would like at first sight.

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How to Make Screenshots on iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone (3 Super Easy Ways)

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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9 Unusual Poses for Photographing Women

All girls dream of becoming a model, but many fall behind strict standards. This doesn’t mean that you should put away sweet hopes of appearing on the top magazines covers. You can turn into a charming photo model. Here are several great posture ideas for making a beautiful photo portfolio.
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How to Highlight Text in Google Chrome & PDF in Weava? (2022)

Google Chrome is a top web browser on all devices: Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. We work, study, chat and play in Chrome. When we study or work with lots of online content such as text, essays, research PDF papers, online documents and free online books, some part of text like citation, facts or data tables might caught your eye on the web page. Some line, some interesting phrase, some intricate detail among a lot of letters that you need to remember. You can highlight this text on the webpage and after a while you can return to it without wasting time on scanning the text for this detail! In real life, people use highlighters. Why not install a good Google Chrome highlighter app for web pages as well?

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Smilebox Online Scrapbooks App for Family Photos: How to Get Started [REVIEW 2022]

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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What is Prezi Presentation? Top 9 Advantages & Disadvantages

Prezi is the online service to bake awesome presentations that you can share with your friends. First, I planned to make a kind of a step-by step user guide to show you how to Prezi works but then I understood that it would be incredibly long that’s why you have to try it yourself!
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What is RAW File Format? How to View RAW Images in 2022? [FAQ]

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.

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How to Transfer Photos from PC to iPad Without iTunes (2022 Dropbox Guide)

iPad is an ideal device to view photos. Its touch-screen enables you to zoom pictures, make screenshots, flip them and move from one photo to another simply with a finger touch. If you want to transfer photos from Windows 10 PC to iPad, you can use iTunes and cable/cord to connect PC and iPad. Or there is a much easier way to copy pictures from computer to iPad wirelessly with the help of Dropbox and here’s our step by step guide about it.
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Clipart: Where to Get Free Images without Watermarks?

We have written tons of posts about image licenses, pictures collections, photo contests, and mentioned dozens of applications (online and desktop) that make wonder out of ordinary images. But if one doesn’t have any wish to take photos, edit pictures, read image licenses? Let me give you a piece of advice…

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10 Winning Ideas for Couple Photo Making

Everybody wants to have breathtaking pictures and to show himself off. It means that the advantages of figure and attractive face features should be accented in the pictures whereas all the shortcomings are disguised. As a rule people expect photographers to control the process completely. But we suggest that you should stop being a passive model and take the initiative into your hands. (more…)

What’s ViewBug Photo Contests for Photographers? [Review 2022]

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.

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