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Histogram is a useful tool for helping you analyze, at a glance, how the information and exposure data in a photograph is distributed. It shows the luminosity range of the image along with how it is distributed. The horizontal scale of the histogram measures exposure latitude, and the vertical scale measures quantity: it tells us how many pixels in the image have a specific luminosity value. While the horizontal scale is measured in absolute values  (0 to 255) the vertical scale is effected by several factors: the color space, bit depth, and if you are shooting jpegs, the compression level. So the further to the right you expose without clipping the highlights, the greater amount of differences you are recording. Once you have recorded the image you can start teasing it apart to see the differences in tone. (more…)

Taking screenshot from any video or capturing movie frame is uncomplicated if you use right software. Instead of black hollows after using Print screen key in combination with Windows Media player you can have good quality screenshots with Media Player Classic, a Swiss knife for video playing. After downloading and installing (just unzip archive in any directory) make sure that you have proper settings for screen capture process. (more…)

I create useful image search bookmarklets for various needs. Now you don’t have to browse a variety of photo sites individually or see tons of ads on image meta search engines. All you need is to click image search bookmarklet link and paste keyword. There are such bookmarklets as high resolution image search on free stock photo sites (morguefile.com, www.stockvault.net, www.sxc.hu, imageafter.com, openphoto.net, photocase.com, www.openstockphotography.org), high resolution photo search on Flickr, inspiration Image search on DeviantART, portrait and news image search, Google, Yahoo and Live.com image search. (more…)

Box.net provides to users new feature called OpenBox which lets you edit and do more with the files on Box.net. After uploading your files only once on Box.net you have choice of 3rd party web applications to edit your files, convert and send them. Now you will need to upload files to the web only once.

You can edit your pictures with online photo editors Picnik or Snipshot, send it to a friend on Facebook, add a link to it on Twitter, turn your image into a custom t-shirt on Zazzle, turn any photo into wallpaper and any mp3 into a ringtone with Myxer, fax any document in your Box.net account with eFax, edit documents online with Zoho, get them signed with the EchoSign, view CAD files (2D and 3D) in your browser with Autodesk Freewheel and post files from Box.net directly to your blog  (compatible with Blogger, Wordpress, and LiveJournal).

Since OpenBox is an open platform, allowing for developers to contribute to the Box network, there will be a lot of new applications for over one million users integrated soon.

Blog client lets you post to your blog via XML-RPC running on your local machine. Often, blog client can manage blog entries. Blog client allows you to write a post even if you are off-line. The next time you connect to the Internet, you can publish that post. The advantages of using a weblog client also consist of the ability to save drafts, rich formatting features, cross-posting to multiple blogs and faster uploading and addition of images. In this review I take a close look at 10 blog clients inspecting their strengths and weaknesses aiming to find a winner – blog client suitable for most bloggers. This blog clients review include Semagic, BlogJet, Windows Live Writer, W.bloggar, Blogdesk, Zoundry Blog  Writer, Post2Blog, Ecto, Qumana and Scribefire. (more…)

It is a steady myth that you need to convert every work for print design from RGB to CMYK color mode. Once I forgot to convert my work to CMYK for printing in Konica Minolta C6500 print machine and by chance I got better results. Image->Mode->CMYK is possibly most perplexing command in Photoshop. Because each print device has its own color profile and moreover even own adjusting algorithm for color conversion. (more…)

Are you looking for inspiration and have no idea? Do you can’t get in a creative flow and can’t think of alternative to routine solutions? Try these advices. I picked out 10 most interesting and useful inspiration tips from 60 sources of inspiration for Photography and applied them to graphic design. (more…)