photo editing software

How to Overlay Two Images in PhotoScape (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, 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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jKiwi – Free Beauty Transformer

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?

Give a try to jKiwi, free desktop software that casts away all doubts. jKiwi is a virtual appearance makeover that helps you try various haircuts, makeup and eye colors. There are over 35 hair tints among them ash pearl blond, medium gold cooper, light cocoa brown or exotic blue, violet and green. Besides, you may pick up one of 30 highlights colors for a sophisticated style. You can put on diverse mascara from the rich palette of blush, eye shadows, lip glosses and toners. jKiwi application makes easy and funny personal style change.

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FotoSketcher Turns Photos into Drawings

Fotosketcher artistic photo editing technique is turning photos into sketches or drawings. A mediocre digital photo can become a sophisticated digital masterpiece made with free photo sketch software. To apply this feature to your digital images download FotoSketcher, a David Thoiron Windows application.

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100 Samples to Create a Photo Mosaic

I have just downloaded the latest version of the program and was expecting to overview the common 20 or 30 page samples to place your pics in various configurations. And I was shocked when I had to grab my mobile and switch on the calculator to count the exact mosaic templates number.

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Top 8 Photo Editing Apps For Android Devices

With that many photo editing apps for Android popping up left right and centre in Google Play, it can be mind boggling to know where to even start. We’ve picked out the eight best photo apps for your device and told you why we listed them. Here you’ll see best Android photo editors (both free and paid), photo collage makers and smartphone-friendly photo albums. If you have an Android phone or tablet – you must try these apps!

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Scribus: A Brief Review of a Compact Print Shop For Your Computer

A magazine, a brochure, a booklet, good-looking business cards – these are the items that are vital for any small and not very small business. These branded items serve as a trademark and there are several applications that you could use to prepare them.

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Christmas Photo Frames and New Year Photo Effects

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. And hope you have taken enough funny, touching and interesting pictures to start making something beautiful out of them. In this post, we have gathered all possible ideas of Christmas photo effects and frames that you could use to add more snow, snowflakes, fir trees and Christmas toys in your pictures!

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How to Change Photo Background in PhotoScape

PhotoScape is a free powerful photo editor. As we reviewed earlier, it’s full of various photo editing techniques among which there is image background editing. To replace an old background in PhotoScape, you can select one of the following methods: crop photo background, paint background or clone background. Each option has pros and cons. Have a look at a PhotoScape tutorial to apply the method that suites you best.

Crop Background

Crop background is a good way to remove photo background in PhotoScape. However, if you use this mode, you will save only important photo element with no background at all. Here is a step by step guide on how to crop a background as in the image sample:

Open PhotoScape Editor tab;
Select a photo;
Choose “Crop Freely” and mark “Chop Round Image” as in the image above;
Use your mouse to create a circle and stretch it to select the key area;
Click “Crop” to preview the image without old background;
Save cropped area to get an image without background.

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Make Custom Photo Albums on iPad with App by Appsicum

Photo Album by Appsicum is an iPad app to make custom photo albums which is worth trying. As you know, iPad’s camera roll and basic photo viewer are useful but feature-limited applications. If you have over 2 hundreds of images, it becomes impossible to manage them and digg through to the one you need. Besides, filtering pics and grouping according to certain parameters in bulk isn’t quite simple without additional software. This way, probably, thought Appsicum team when developing such handy and intuitive app called Photo Album. (more…)

Smilebox: Splendid Scrapbooks & Slideshows for Family Photos

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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Microsoft Word: A Better Image Editor than Microsoft Paint

I’m not very good at PhotoShop and I mostly use Paint to edit images. Yes, I know that it’s not the best choice, but at least Microsoft guys have introduced a lot of good tools in 2010 Office program versions. But just imagine my frustration and amazement when I discovered that Microsoft Word has even more image editing features than Paint!

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Sony Photo Editing Software Falls Behind Free Photo Editors

Nowadays Internet is abundant with various photo editing programs and free online photo editors. Hardware suppliers also want to have their slice of a pie in the software market. Thus, they ship digital cameras with related programs. For example, Sony provides digital camera buyers with its own photo editing tool – Picture Motion Browser. (more…)