Facebook’s new, awesome Timeline feature is rolling out to everyone, and a few early adopters have discovered a neat trick where you cut your profile picture out from your cover photo, for a very cool picture-in-picture effect. Here’s how to do it. More »
Lifeheacker reader Charley had long harboured a desire to have a desktop which used a blueprint-style design featuring his business logo. Here’s how he went about it. More »
The magic of digital cameras have freed us from dusty and scratched photos, but old photos can carry a lot of damage. Eric Goodnight over at the How-To Geek shares a few tips for repairing old photos. More »
If you’re looking for a way to make your photos a bit more interesting with cool effects, you can turn them into vector art with previously mentioned photo editor GIMP in just a few simple steps. More »
We’ve shown you how to create a time lapse video with your DSLR camera, but if you’re looking for something a bit quicker and simpler, DIY web site Instructables shows us how to make an animated GIF from a series of photos. More »
Got a lust for Photoshop but a budget for GIMP? These tips will actually add many of the functions and capabilities of Adobe’s flagship photo editor to its open-source counterpart. More »
Antique photographs have a certain warmth to them imparted by the development process that can’t be replicated by simply dumping the colour data from a photograph. At wiikiHow there is a tutorial on using GIMP, a free Photoshop alternative, to take the rich tones from an old photograph and apply them to a brand new photo. The process works with both black and white and sepia toned photographs, and can easily be adapted from the given steps to work with Photoshop too. The above image is a blend of the before and after sample photo from the tutorial. If you don’t have any antique photos handy, the tutorial covers where to find public domain images to lift tone samples from. How to Retone a Photograph with GIMP
A standalone, portable version of the latest version 2.6.1 of the GIMP image editor is now available to download and run from your USB drive, plus two useful plug-ins: the GIMP Portable Photoshop Layout plug-in, which approximates the Photoshop dock and toolbox, and the GIMP Portable Background Window plug-in, which lets GIMP occupy a single window. [via Download Squad]
