Entries tagged with photos - Channel 10

Geotag Your Photos Without GPS

Sarah Perez — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:37:00 GMT

The Windows Live Photo and Video blog recently posted a great tutorial on how to geotag your photos without GPS. How is this possible? The trick to geotagging your pics is using a combination of Windows Live services - Windows Live Photo Gallery, Spaces, and Windows Live Maps. The blog post details all the steps, with screenshots, so it's easy for anyone to do. The end result is a Windows Live Maps collection collection of geotagged pictures! Awesome! Excellent post, guys - definitely worth a read for photographers and geotagging enthusiasts!

Get Microsoft Digital Image Starter Edition For Free

Sarah Perez — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:20:00 GMT

Microsoft Digital Image Starter Edition 2006 was popular photo-editing software for users of Windows XP and below. The product has been discontinued, but fans can still download it for free from Microsoft Downloads. Digital Image Starter Edition provides easy-to-use tools that help you create, organize, and enhance your digital photos. The software contains 3 modules: the Library, where photos are organized, the Editor, where editing and retouching are done, and Photo Story, where you can create movies based on your photos. Despite it's age, Digital Image Starter edition is still a great program for beginners to the world of photo editing, and you can't beat the price!

Move Photos from Flickr to Spaces and More

Sarah Perez — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:43:00 GMT

Nitrodesk Photographer's Edition is a WPF application that lets you connect to and manage your photos and photo albums across several different photo sharing services. With Nitrodesk, you can pick any online album and manage it in real-time - updating the album or photo properties, viewing and managing the comments, transferring the photos between services and much more. The app also allows you to backup your photos from an online photo-sharing website to your PC.

This program is great, especially if you want to move photos from one site to another, but don't have them all on your PC to re-upload. How convenient!! The software currently supports the following services: Google (Picasa Web Albums), Flickr, Facebook, ShutterPoint, SmugMug, and Windows Live Spaces.

You can download the beta version of the program here.

Stack your Photos with PicMe

Sarah Perez — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:18:00 GMT

A freeware application for Windows called PicMe, scans your PC for your digital photos and then displays them in 3D stacks, like a digital shoe box. You can use PicMe to browse through your photos but you can also use the application to share them with your friends by using the integrated sharing feature. PicMe lets you share photos with friends on Flickr, Picassa, Facebook, or with other PicMe users. The free version lets you share up to 200 photos, but to share more, you'll have to pay. However, it's only $9.95/year for the next step up, which allows for 5000 photos. You can try PicMe by downloading the app from here.

Outlook Add-In for Photgraphers

Sarah Perez — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:03:00 GMT

Microsoft has released a free Outlook add-in for professional photographers. The add-in, called "Pro Photo Shoot," lets photographers create lists of their equipment and then uses checkboxes next to the items to remember what to bring to the photo shoot. For example, while on the phone with the client, photographers can bring up the dialog box that lists all of their stuff, check off what they want, and the list is then stored in the body of the appointment. If you print out the appointment, the list is right there along with all the other details.

When you begin using the add-in, you'll notice a new button that appears in the ribbon (for Outlook 2007) or the task bar (for Outlook 2003) of the appointment. You can then press the "Equipment Pool" option to start entering the names and types of the equipment you own. You can also add more details, like purchase price, warranty information, etc. This can be a useful way to keep track of the items for insurance purposes, too. The add-in is available for download for either Outlook 2003 or 2007.

Another useful feature for photographers using Vista is the ability to tag, print, and handle "raw" photos, which are the unprocessed data from high-end cameras. Because Microsoft relies on camera manufacturers to supply the necessary codecs to work with these files, they have set up a website with links just for downloading the Vista Raw Image Codes. Currently, manufacturers on this list include Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, and Olympus, as well as Ardry's codec for handle Adobe Systems' Digital Negative (DNF) format. Windows XP users can also use these codecs in the Windows Live Photo Gallery when installed.

Upload Photos from Your Camera to the Web

Sarah Perez — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:57:00 GMT

The Eye-Fi Card is a breakthrough new product that everyone with a digital camera needs to know about. It's a 2GB SD card and wireless memory card that automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera or PC directly to the photo sharing site, photo printing site, blog, or social network of your choice. The Eye-Fi Card stores pictures like a regular SD card, up to 2 GB, and then uploads your photos automatically as soon as you return to your home network (or any open Wi-Fi network that doesn't require a login via an initial splash screen webpage...like Starbucks). Amazingly, the card already works with a myriad of services, including Kodak, Walmart, Snapfish, Photobucket, Facebook, Webshots, Phanfare, Shutterfly, flickr, TypePad, Vox, Sharpcast, and many more.

Organize Your Media with Photo Gallery & Spaces

Sarah Perez — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:40:00 GMT

Windows Live Photo Gallery beta, one of Microsoft's new Windows Live Services, improves upon the built-in Photo Gallery in Windows Vista. The software, available for both Vista and XP users, offers many new features like better tagging, sorting, and image editing, including the ability to do panoramic stitches, histograms, image sharpening, cropping, exposure adjustments, color adjustments, and red eye fixes. You can add captions, turn your photos into screensavers or slideshows, and publish your photos and videos online. Videos can be easily uploaded to Soapbox (see how here).

The new Photo Import Tool automatically groups all the photos taken on your digital camera by date and time as you copy the files over to your PC. You can also select specific individual photos you want to import instead of being forced to import the entire batch of photos (like in the previous version of Windows Photo Gallery). RAW format is still supported, and additionally, Windows Live Spaces users will be pleased to find that high-res photos are now supported up to 1600x1600, if uploading from the Live Photo Gallery client.

Downloading from Spaces is easy, too. With the Photo Enthusiast Template, the integration with HP's Snapfish service for ordering prints, and the ability to point a Windows Live Domain to your Spaces page, Spaces becomes a great way to organize, manage, and showcase your digital photography. The easiest way to get the software is via the Windows Live Installer.

Use Windows Photo Gallery to Share Your Photos

Sarah Perez — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:08:00 GMT

There are some great reasons to take your Windows Vista laptop on vacation with you, and, no, it's not to check your business email, you work-a-holics! Instead, travelers, after an enjoyable day of and sightseeing, can easily and quickly share their favorite photos of the day with their family and friends using Vista's new Photo Gallery. So you don't bog down recepient's inboxes with large attachment, the Photo Gallery lets you automatically resize your pictures when you send them without changing the size or quality of the photo saved on your computer. To use Photo Gallery, just follow these three easy steps:

1. Click the Start button, click All Programs, then click Windows Photo Gallery.
2. Click the picture you want to send & then click Email.
3. Select the size you want from the list, and then click Attach.

Comic Life beta breathes new life into your photos

JD Lewin — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:20:00 GMT

Last night the Plasq team released a beta of Comic Life for Windows, while some of us from the 10 team were watching the last piece of epic cinema. As you can see from our three minutes of handiwork, any single photo can be quickly turned into a hilarious piece of original art. This normally Mac development house has given the masses access to one of the more entertaining applications to come around in years, particularly if you’ve got a dedicated web-cam connected to your machine. If you install the beta, be sure to give the team as much quality feedback as you can, as that’s how devs know you really care ;)

Web 2.0 Expo: What’s the takeaway?

JD Lewin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:00 GMT

Last week the O’Reilly machine cranked up a storm in downtown San Francisco, pulling as much of the light of the internet as possible into the first annual Web 2.0 Singularity Expo. Moscone West was washed over with a sea of people anxious to be a part of the conversation around how everyone can be a part of the post-bubble phenomenon. We attended simply to see how the ecosystem has matured since the term was coined back in 2004. Over the next few days leading up to MIX07, we’ll go in-depth on our own ideas about Web 2.0, but for the moment, enjoy some of the photos we snapped while walking round.