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Saturday, October 17, 2009

BP12_2009103_Web2.0#5_Pixinate



http://www.pixinate.com
Pixinate is a website that allows you to load up a picture from your computer and edit it with user easy tools. So if your not proficient with Photoshop, Pixinate can help you edit, resize, crop,and manipulate your photos. Pixenate has a fairly uncomplicated interface, with all options clustered on the left as icons. You can start playing with it as soon as you first land on its homepage, with the random sample photo that appears. A basic text box browse button lets you pick a file on your system to upload and edit. There's also an Import to Pixenate bookmarklet available, which you can simply drag to your browser links for a way to edit any web page image you come across. With the bookmarklet installed, when you go to a web page with images on it and click the Import to Pixenate link, you get a numbered list of all the images on the page; you can click on any one of them for editing.Pixenate offers 18 tools (8 of which are initially hidden under the link Show fun effects), but they can make a big difference in your pictures appearance. Here they are:
Tools:
* Enhance—a general picture improver to boost colors, reduce noise, and smoothen faces. We'd like to have seen some controls over how much it does each of these optimizations.
* Fill light—an automated light booster with no controls.
* Crop—includes presets for typical photo sizes—4x6, 5x7, 8x10, and square.
* Resize
* Rotate
* Spirit level—for straightening pictures with horizons.
* Red eye correction—At first it can be a little tricky aligning the correction box, and once we ended up with a blue pupil.
* Whiten—for teeth—no brushing or trays required!
* Sepia
* Colors—One of the few tools with some controls. For some reason brightness, saturation, and hue get slider controls, while contrast is relegated to integer adjustments up to plus or minus 3. Also, the changes are shown in the small detail of the image, but not live in the whole image.
Fun effects:
* Lomo—a dark halo effect that saturates colors in the middle of the image.
* Filter—with colored lens.
* Round—for edges.
* Interlace—adds TV-style lines.
* Snow—for that wintry feel.
* Text
* Oil Paint
* Charcoal
As with all of these programs, Undo and Redo are available. The select command, in addition to letting you crop, lets you apply an effect to just part of the image.

When you're done editing your photograph, you can save it to disk, upload it to your flickr account, or get a URL for it via Webshots for use on your blog or MySpace page.
Information from:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2108977,00.asp
Posted by Patti Duresky at 12:17 PM

1 COMMENTS:

Micheline said...

This seems easy enough. I think would greatly compliment a classroom webpage or blog because students could elaborate by adding images. Indeed cost effective rather than buying adobe suits or other purchased software.

October 17, 2009 1:15 PM

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