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Digital Photography Resources

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Feb 25th @ 11:32 PM
If you're into digital photography, I just discovered a great resource that you'll want to check out via Brian Johnson's BufferOverrun blog. Brian created a list of links using Microsoft Live Labs Listas, which breaks down the resources into the following categories: Digital Camera Resources, Photography Education and Techniques, Photo Software and Sharing, Photography Podcasts, and Photography User Groups and Events. The list features some Microsoft resources, like PhotoSynth and some non-Microsoft resources like Paint.NET's Wikibook. Even if you don't have time to peruse the whole list now, it's one of those gems that you find and just have to bookmark!
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Slide.Show Does Web Slideshows

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jan 9th @ 4:12 AM

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight 1.0 control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the web. Created by Vertigo, the application lets you build rich, interactive web slideshows with minimal setup and configuration required. You can add your own transitions and customize various options like color, font, size, position, and behavior. You can even configure it to display your photos from flickr. The app is 100% customizable via XML or JavaScript and works on IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, and Safari 2 and 3.

To see some great examples of the Slide.Show app at work, check out the links below:

http://www.duncanchannon.com/baddecisions

http://blog.offbeatmammal.com/post/2007/12/Silverlight-Slideshow.aspx

http://www.nikhilk.net/Silverlight-Slideshow.aspx

Slide.Show is available as a free download from CodePlex.

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Online Scrapbooking

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jan 4th @ 4:29 AM
Now that the holidays are over, you may find that you have taken a ton of new photos to share with your family and friends. Before the world went digital, your pictures were stored in hardbound photo albums, or, if you were a creative type, you dressed up your albums with backgrounds, stickers, text bubbles, cut-outs, shapes, drawings, and other mementos. These albums were no mere repositories of photos - they were true scapbooks. Now that everyone takes digital photos, our photo albums have moved online. Although there are plenty of online storage spaces for collecting and sharing photos, the creativity and fun of scrapbooking had been somewhat lost. For many people, that creativity was channeled into making online slideshows using services like Slide, RockYou, or Photobucket. These services do offer a lot of customization techniques, but they still aren't quite the same as making a real scrapbook-like page. However, a service called Scrapblog, which launched earlier this year, brings back much of the fun of creating scrapbooks by letting you make customized and personal scrapbook-like photo pages. You can begin using the service right away, with no need to register unless you want to save your work, so it's easy to get started with making your own page. The service offers a wide assortment of themes to use, or you can start with a blank page and make it your own. You can add in various backgrounds, frames, shapes, text, and, just like real scrapbooks, you can add "stickers" too. The objects can be resized, rotated, overlayed, and hyperlinked and the photos themselves can be edited to have frames, shadows, and other effects. You can even add videos from YouTube to your Scrapblog pages. The individual pages are combined to make up an online photo album that is just as personal and fun as the scrapbooks you made in the past. To see some examples of the extent to which these pages can be customized, check out some of the pictures of scrapblog pages that are featured on the Scrapblog Blog. To learn more, watch the quick online tutorial & then get scrapbooking!
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Windows Live Photo Gallery: Share Your Photos & Videos

Posted By: Laura Foy | Nov 7th, 2007 @ 1:11 PM
It's here and it's all yours. The new release of Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you be a photo editor and one touch publisher. It's so easy now to share all your tagged images on sites like FlickR and Spaces. Plus, you've got to check out the new panoramic photo editing feature- go ahead and take it for a spin.
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