It is the right time to prepare your Christmas gifts and the coming new year with my photographic prints or my posters (or even the new year’s cards). And it will help me maintain the YLovePhoto web site. But, I want to extend this to a gift for you. You will be able to use…
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2011 calendars
The calendars for 2011 are now available just in time to prepare your Christmas gifts and next year’s office decoration. As usual, you will find them on www.redbubble.com, our Aussie partner. Métro, collages, déchirures by Yves Roumazeilles Big cats of Africa by Yves Roumazeilles RedBubble is an online art gallery and arts community. Browse the…
8 tips to make a better slide show
Back from your holidays, with about a million photos to show to your family and your friends? You are about to start preparing a digital slide show. You will take risks, like so many other photographers, that may lead to pure chaos in the family if you do not work perfectly on this. Here are…
Photo collage, free tools
It is no longer possible to list all the web sites that offer you the possibility to assemble a photo collage in a form that is appreciated by so many photographers despite its simplicity. Many web sites are characterized by the needed payments they request, but the idea has come a long way and what…
Montier-en-Der 2009 Festival
Do not forget the next Wildlife Festival in Montier-en-Der, from November 19 to 22, 2009. http://www.festiphoto-montier.org/
Zoomable hi-rez photos for your web site
If you shoot high resolution digital photos, it is nearly impossible to present them to the visitors of your web site in a manageable way: Who would want to download a multi-megabyte file to be forced in using an external application software to watch the details. Closr solves this conundrum by providing you a way…
Similarity search engine
Some time ago we had presented the excellent TinEye search engine which is able to do search-by-similarity on images (you give it an image and it will find all similar images: cropped, reframed, slightly modified). Very useful to track pirates, copiers and illegal uses of your photos. Several other products or in-development technologies also exist,…
Cheap and to-the-point
Sometimes, you just want a simple tool that is cheap and does exactly what is advertised. And only that. Today, here are two of these. PhotoPerfect Express is a freeware version of the $59.99 PhotoPerfect suite from Arcadia Software. What I like most: It does not do much, but it’s what 90% of us need…
Wildlife Photography Competition
I discovered an interesting web site, the blog of Matt Burrard-Lucas, young winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year (the 15-17 year old category, in 2005). Even more interesting, Matt opened a Wildlife Photography Competition around a simple theme but with the added difficulty of a target rarely tried for wildlife photography: Portrait.…
It’s arrived: Picasa for Mac
Mac lovers were waiting for a version of Picasa specifically built for their Apple machine. Now, it’s done and you can freely download Picasa, the Google photo management software. Your opinion will be welcome.
Most memorable shooting in 2008
What is your most memorable photo event of this just-ended year? For me, it will obvioulsy be the discovery of this Paris subway station (Charles-Michel) just a flight of stairs down from my own Paris flat. RATP decided to renovate it seriously and totally removed all coverings revealing the previous walls complete with 30-year-old markings,…
Free shipping on prints, posters!
Some of my best images are available are posters, cards, prints, laminated prints, etc. on RedBubble.com. I like the quality of their service, their prices and the broad support (including good discussion forums about photo). What you’ll like even more is that they reduced the shipping costs to NOTHING for a week. They are celebrating…
Print photos from Linux: Photoprint/Gutenprint
Astonishingly good-looking, a solution to ever-lasting issues of Linux-printing, Photoprint is a Linux-based application using the Gutenprint driver tools. I just found a good article about these software tools on Linux Photography. I did not test the tool set, but it looks damn interesting for all Linux photo users. A must-try!
Share your photos
You have nice photos and you want to see them on the Internet, to share them with your family, your friends, the rest of the world. The choice is yours and… it is difficult. To host them somewhere on a server, you will first have to use a photo hosting service or you will build…
TinEye finds the original photo
TinEye is one of those tools you dreamed about but were not available. Up to now. Any photographer is concerned about the possibility of seeing his/her images taken from his/her web site and used elsewhere. Usually, it is impossible to find the copies, even if you know your images well. TinEye will find copies of your…