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Back Up Your Photos So Companies Such As Photobucket Can’t Hold Them For Ransom
1Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return, unless thou pay Photobucket $500/year. The 14-year-old photo hosting site recently stopped letting outside sites display its photos for free, a move that instantly broke images on blogs, home pages, and eBay and Amazon listings, and infuriated longtime users. Some users are even having trouble downloading…
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A Better Way To Sharpen Images In Photoshop
Sharpening a photo digitally can be a helpful way to bring out the textures in a soft image, but sharpening too much can create an annoying ‘ghost’ effect around hard lines. Here’s a better way to do it in Photoshop without overemphasising the hard edges.
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500px’s Splash Lets You Search For Photos By Sketching Them
Photography enthusiast site 500px has a new tool that lets you search for photos by sketching them. Have a vague idea of what you want to see or a memorable picture that you haven’t been able to find? Just channel your inner Van Gogh.
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Five Best Photoshop Alternatives
Adobe Photoshop is the market leader when it comes to photo retouching, image editing, and creating new images from scratch. However, for most people’s needs, it may just be too many features to wade through, too much money to spend, or too complicated to use. Thankfully, there are plenty of powerful alternatives. Here’s a look…