By Michael Garmahis on March 30, 2010
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is one of the best and easiest to use free panoramic photo stitchers. In a number of tests made by panoramic photography community, Microsoft ICE is 4-6 times faster that panoramic photo market leaders such as Hugin and Autopano Giga without compromise in quality. Microsoft ICE takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on March 25, 2010
There are a number of changes and new features on garmahis.com which could be of value to you, our loyal reader and subscriber. Check out this post for news on guest posts, Facebook page, Twitter profile, advertising options, sharing widgets and coming soon features. We’re eager to hear your feedback, so leave a comment on how to make garmahis.com even better. What kind of content do you want to see here more often? What features the site is missing to get better? Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on March 23, 2010
Usability, UX, Interface books in this review cover everything from user research, tests and interface design to information architecture, UX strategy and accessibility. They are the most popular and recommended books on usability and user experience. These books not only include theory of user interface design but a number of case studies and real life examples. Usability and interaction design are becoming more and more important nowadays. A website which is easy to use sell better in any ways, guides the users, helps to successfully sign up for a service or to complete a checkout process. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on March 18, 2010
Illustrator free alternatives are great apps for editing and creating vector images. Some of these Adobe Illustrator alternatives have advanced features suitable for professional work with vector files while other is very simple tools to quickly create vector logo, diagram, illustration. The main advantage of the vector software in this review: it’s free unlike not cheap Illustrator. Illustrator doesn’t have an online version as well. Don’t miss Free Photoshop alternatives. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on March 15, 2010
WordPress automatically creates thumbnails every time your upload a new image to your WordPress blog. It creates up to 3 different thumbnails files from one image even if you don’t need them. All these thumbnails created by WordPress automatically take up a huge amount of space on your server. If you don’t use thumbnails if can be a good idea to disable this annoying feature. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on March 11, 2010
Twitter WordPress plugins will help you get the most out of Twitter in your WordPress blog. These most useful Twitter WordPress plugins will help you to automatically publish your blog posts to Twitter and Twitter updates to your blog, show stylish Follow Me Twitter badge to increase the number of your followers, easily integrate retweet button with your WordPress blog, send notification to your commenters via Twitter about updates on the blog post, use Twitter avatars in the blog comments and track your Twitter campaigns with Google Analytics. Do you have a favorite Twitter plugin For WordPress? Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on March 9, 2010
Topaz ReMask is an extraction tool on steroids which works easily and fast. Topaz ReMask can save you tons of time and efforts. With Topaz ReMask you can painlessly extract objects, change backgrounds, refine selections including complicated objects such as hair, fog, fur. You can use Topaz ReMask to create masks or just to separate object from background and seamlessly integrate with other images. While images with complex edges are traditionally hard for masking, ReMask helps a great deal in details extraction of the subject without requiring a lot of manual work. Continue Reading →
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