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Tech Talk presented Thursday Dec 11 2008. 

Pixenate
Simple one-off editor. Free, no registration or user account required. Allows you to upload a photo and perform basic operations. You can save edited photos back to your computer or to a Flickr online photo sharing account.

- Rotate/Resize
- Crop
- Redeye reduction
- Basic color correction/enhancement
- “fun” effects; black & white / sepia, borders, text captions/speech bubbles

Photoshop Express
More complex, full featured solution. Free, registration required. Photoshop express has all of the features of Pixenate as well as an online photo organizer/manager. This lets you upload and edit multiple photos at once. It also lets you provide a live internet link to your edited photos that you can email to friends/family. Photoshop Express also has handy presets to save huge digital camera photos appropriately sized for emails and websites.

Links
- www.pixenate.com
- www.photoshop.com/express/
- flickr.com

This Wednesday November 27th from 12-1pm in Rosenwald 405, Humanities Computing is going to offer another of informal, lunchtime “Getting to Know” presentations to staff and faculty on various technical topics and internet buzzwords du jour. The goal of the “Getting to Know” series is to help introduce and explain current technologies in a way that is relevant to your own daily work and research.

Our presentation will be highlighting “visual technology in research projects” – we will focus on visual representation; photographs, paintings, sculptures, but may digress.  We may also  discuss what technologies are available for particular research problems. How collaborations with individuals in other disciplines help in Humanities research. One example demonstration will be of photo visualization project we are working on with Microsoft and how our research may assist in visual software design.

Light sandwiches and refreshments will be provided, or else just bring along your own brown bag lunch.

If you’ve ever wished you could resize a digital image someone sent you before attaching it to an email or adding it to a Word document, then this tip is for you. There are several new web based image editing sites that make this process quick and painless.

Picnik and Pixenate both work the same way. You go to the respective website and click on a link to upload your image to your browser. After that, resizing, cropping and re-saving your original file in JPEG format (best for photos) or PNG (best for graphics) is just a mouse-click away. Best of all, both services are completely free. Aufwiedersehen, Photoshop.

How many times have you wanted to make a screen-capture of your monitor and wondered… how can I?

Such a thing is of immense usage for desktop support, or documentation or even archival purposes.

Here is how to do it easily in OS X with three simple keystrokes:

• Simultaneously press down APPLE+SHIFT+3 … you will hear a nice camera click… whatever you can see on your desktop will be saved as an image file on your desktop. Usually, the file is called Picture 1 etc.
• Simultaenously press down APPLE+SHIFT+4 … and you will see a tiny cross hair which you can drag and click over the area you want to capture. If you press the SPACEBAR, you will see a camera icon which will allow you to take a snapshot of a particular window. Same as before the image file will be on your desktop.

On the PC front, you can hit the print screen key on your keyboard. Next, open a graphics editor such as Microsoft Paint [usually found in Start/Programs/Accessories] and press paste to create the image which you can save anywhere.