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[Giveaway] Passport Photo Maker: ID Photo Editor With Presets, Face Recognition & Background Replacement

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Passport photos have a lot of requirements, and having a right photo for your passport is an essential part of the application process. Professional photographers who are trained to take and develop passport photos can do it, but for an individual who is not properly trained in the art of photography, capturing a self image and then editing it according to the guidelines provided along with the passport application is not that easy a job. To get the photo right, most of the people have to take the help of a professional. It means that you will have to go out and possibly waste a lot of time for it, and in today’s world, time is a very valuable commodity. Most image editing software usually don’t have any professional options to create a perfect passport photo, and you have to set everything up manually. However, that implies a lot of chance for error, and in a passport application, everyone knows how little margin one has for errors. Today, we have application called Passport Photo Maker that allows you to create professional level images to be used for passport and ID applications, using built-in presets for different countries with different passport photo dimensions and a group of editing tools (including fast background replacement), and print them directly from within the application. Read More

FunCam For Android Offers 10 Great Real-Time Camera & Photo Effects

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Several recent surveys reveal that apps belonging to the multimedia genre are perhaps the most popular ones among mobile users. Narrowing down these survey results even further, we find that it’s the photo and video-based apps that keep mobile users occupied for most of the time. No surprises there, to be honest, since app stores across both major smartphone platforms – Android and iOS  – are full of plenty of quality multimedia apps. When it comes to the photography genre, Google Play Store, too, has a huge variety of apps on offer. While some apps are based around the rather simple concept of capturing and sharing your snaps, like Instagram, others offer several exciting camera effects and filters that you can apply to your photos to make them look more vivid and appealing. Belonging to the latter category, FunCam is the fresh entrant into the Google Play Store. The app features 10 different camera effects that you can preview in real-time via the viewfinder, and instantly snap photos using an effect and image resolution of your liking. Details to follow. Read More

PhotoEnhancer Core: Improve Photo Quality By Changing Light Level [Mac]

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The number of photo editing apps available for just about any platform easily outnumber photo enhancement apps. For those of you wondering what the difference between the two is, a photo editor can let you add a spectacular handlebar moustache to a portrait, while an enhancement app will let you improve qualitative aspects of it. These enhancements can be light, exposure and contrast control or managing the levels of color in an image. PhotoEnhancer Core is a free Mac app available in the Mac App Store that allows you to improve the quality of an image. If you use the filters right, you can actually change time of day in an image. Read More

Cymera: Camera Replacement & Photo Editor With Face Detection & Auto-Retouching [Android]

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Laced with a variety of photo editing, enhancement and sharing tools, Cymera is the latest and one of the best camera replacement Android apps to hit the Google Play Store yet. Cymera presents you with a plethora of photo shooting modes, camera lens types, and number of post-processing image enhancement and correction tools. Apart from presenting users with a handful of commonly used image editing tools, Cymera lets you embellish your photos with a slew of snazzy stickers, comic masks and fancy frames and vintage-style photo filters. Cymera supports automatic facial recognition (for captured photos), and lets you apply various face effects to retouch portraits. The app also has a neatly designed native image gallery using which you can view a timeline of all your photos, jump directly to the app’s feature-rich image editor, and share the best images across various social media networks including Facebook, Twitter and Weibo. Images can be captured in silent mode (wherein the camera shutter is silenced), and you have the choice of immediately editing a snapped photo or performing post-processing operations in batch. Read More

Instant: Add Instagram-Like Filters To Your Images On Mac [Paid]

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Instagram is perhaps one of the coolest apps available for iPhone (and soon to be available on Android). The app is popular because it lets you get more out of your iPhone’s camera, making your images stunning to look at and providing you a sharing/showcase platform. Instant is a Mac app worth $4.99 (for a limited time) on the Mac App Store that lets you combine a polaroid camera and 28 filters to make your photos amazing. The app also lets you connect with your Flickr account and share photos directly to it. You can customize the filters and add a caption to the image. When you add a caption using Instant, the app adds a frame to your image, giving it an authentic polaroid shot look. Read More

Sync Photos Between Computers & Online Accounts Using SocialFolders

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Social networking websites have become really popular in the last few years. There was a time when MySpace was the only big social network, but then others like Orkut, Facebook, Twitter and the latest one from Google, Google+, took over. One of the major reasons for using social networking websites is the ability to easily share pictures with your friends and family. Other websites, like Picasa and Flickr are solely built for the purpose of sharing photos with friends and family, as well as general public. However, it is always advisable to keep a backup of your pictures in your computer, in case something goes wrong on the server. On the other hand, downloading them one by one can be a tedious task. SocialFolders is an application for Windows and Mac that allows you to sync photos between you computer and online accounts and transfer your files between different websites. Keep reading to find out more about this useful tool. Read More

uSketch: Apply Sketch, Color And Other Photo Filters To Images [Mac]

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Apps that add effects to photos are as common as perhaps water, so if you ever decide to use one, you want to make sure it offers you both a good range of effects as well as good execution. uSketch is a free Mac app that applies filters to your photos, and its interface alone will blow you away. In addition to its 19 filters that are 100% customizable, the app also has a wide range of sketch effects that are executed very well. You can use the app to take photos directly from webcam, or add ones from your system. It also lets you print, email and share photos on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Read More

KD Collage For Android: Photo Collage Creator With Multiple Designs

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Featuring plenty of elegant and stylish collage templates for your photos, KD Collage is the latest addition to the list of handy photo-editing Android apps that are available in the Google Play Store. Using KD Collage, you can create beautiful photo collages with custom background and text effects on your Android on the go. The app offers you numerous photo collage designs/patterns/frames, each with a unique style and a specific number of photos that it can sport. To make your collages even more attractive, you can choose from various background designs, gradients, textures, and even a custom photo from your device’s gallery. In addition, the app supports 90-degree rotation of collages, and lets you pick a preferred aspect ratio for them. Collages created via KD Collage can be stored on your device's local storage, shared with friends, set as a wallpaper, and saved to the app’s favorite list right from within the app. That’s not all, the app also keeps a track of your recently created collages, and let you select the required format/quality for saved images. In fact, KD Collages is among a handful of apps that lets users save their photo collages in full High Definition (HD) quality. Read More

ZeroPC Photo Connect: A Social Photo Aggregating & Sharing Android App

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From the team behind ZeroPC Cloud Navigator – a cross-platform all-in-one cloud data aggregator – comes another nifty Android app called ZeroPC Photo Connect that serves as a universal standalone aggregator and management tool for all your photos stored on your device’s local storage, as well as various social media sharing networks. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox, Box, Instagram, Picasa, SugarSync, Evernote or any other popular online sharing platform, Photo Connect automatically fetches and aggregates all the photos shared on each supported service, and lets you view them on a specially designed chronological timeline, so you can easily scroll through the best moments of your life via memorable photos. The app also features a unique virtual album mash-up option, using which you can easily tag, manage and share the best photos from selected sharing services with your friends and family in an instant. In addition, the app supports automatic syncing of all the photos between your device, associated online services, and the ZeroPC cloud itself, so that you never have to worry about losing your invaluable snaps. More to follow. Read More

Color Splash Smart: Add Color To Selected Parts Of An Image [Mac]

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Late last  year, we reviewed Big Aperture, a Mac app worth $ 9.99 (Currently available for $1.99) in the Mac App store that allowed you to add depth of field, lighting and bokeh effects to any photo. Color Splash Smart is a free Mac App from the same developer that changes an image to black and white and allows you to define any region where you want to retain color. Comparable in functionality to InstantPhotoColor, this app is far richer in features. It allows you to adjust the brush size, softness and opacity, and you can adjust the degree of luminance, contrast and saturation when color is added back to the image. Additionally, the app has the same color effects as did Big Aperture; both apps have a similar interface and you should be able to navigate it without a problem. Read More

Easily Convert Photos Into Pencil Sketches Using Instant PhotoSktech

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Creating sketches out of photos is fun way to edit them, but the problem faced by a lot of people is that, usually, the applications that allow you to create pen sketches, for example, Adobe Photoshop, are too complex to use. Some days ago, we covered a Mac app from CPSSoftware called InstantPhotoColor, that allows you to easily color your images using the built-in brush tool and color selector. Today, we have another application, from the same developer, for Windows, that allows you to convert any digital photo into a pen sketch or drawing. Instant PhotoSketch is a multi-platform tool that enables you to quickly turn your photos into pen sketches by adjusting the black and white levels for an image. Keep reading to find out more about Instant PhotoSketch. Read More

FotoSketcher Update Brings 20+ Drawing Effects To Turn Photos Into Art

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Whilst painting and sketching has always been one of the greatest skills in the history of mankind, with technology integrated into the applications today and computer prowess, anyone can be an artist. This doesn't mean that we are mocking those great artists that shaped the world, but we are only commending the technology itself. All the technology one-upmanship aside, back in 2009, we covered FotoSketcher, a poweful image editing application that allows you to automatically convert your photos into art with just a few simple clicks. At that time, the application wasn't mature enough and had some stability issues. Along with that the number of usable brushes available to the user was quite limited. In the last 3 years, the application has come a long way and the developer has been regularly dishing out updates. Now time has taken the application to a point where FotoSketcher has over 20 drawing effects and is available for download in 18 different languages. We decided to take a revised look into the application to find the changes that have been made to it. More on the latest version of FotoSketcher after a short break. Read More

Gnome Photo Frame: Desktop Gadget For Rotating Images In Ubuntu

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We have previously brought you some wallpaper rotating applications for Ubuntu, including Desktop Drapes and Desktop Nova. This time, we have an Ubuntu gadget that rotates images within a photo frame on your desktop and in full screen mode (like a screen saver). Gnome Photo Frame is a desktop picture frame that enables rotating images from sources, such as a local folder, F-Spot database, Shotwell database, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Tumblr, Haikyo Clock and an RSS Feed. Read More

TurboCollage: Collage Creator With One-Tap Photo Rearrangement [Android]

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TurboCollage is a free Android app that lets you create and share photo collages, focusing on making the process as simple and fast as possible. Laced with plenty of easy-to-use, customizable features, TurboCollage ensures that you can create and design perfect collages on your device with sheer convenience. It presents you with a customizable background/canvas on which you can place your photos in whatever size, order, orientation and position you want. You can add customizable texts to individual snaps as well as the entire collage. There’s also an option to apply a border to all the images within the collage with a single tap. Apart from saving your collages to the app’s Photo Library, you can also share it with mail contacts and Facebook friends. Read More

Photo Calendar For Android Displays Photos By Date Within A Calendar

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If you're a compulsive photographer, and love to put your Android device's camera to good use to take plenty of pictures, you must have often felt the need to view your entire photo database in a chronological order. Photo Calendar is a comprehensive photo capturing and browsing app for Android that takes a rather different route to displaying images from your device’s gallery. The app displays all images within its built-in calendar, where each image is displayed under the exact date, and according to the exact time, at which it was captured, thereby helping you to take a trip down memory lane in a simple yet visually appealing manner. Apart from exploring images by albums or month, you can also play a slideshow of your photos, delete and share them on social networks of choice right from within the app. Read More

Void Lock: Gesture-Based Lock Screen That Makes Your Android Device Seem Powered Off

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When it comes to selecting a custom device/screen protection method, Android users have plenty of options to choose from. The Face Unlock feature introduced in the latest Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, is a useful addition to the already existing screen unlock methods that include a user-defined PIN, password or pattern. Amid the availability of so many different options, if you’re still looking for additional protection for your device, then you might want to take a look at Void Lock – a gesture-based lockscreen replacement, or rather, enhancement app which, if enabled, blacks out the screen, and locks the device in a way to make it appear powered off. To unlock the screen, you’ll need to provide a specific unlock gesture or key combination that you’ve set up within the app. Unless you provide the accurate gesture or combination, you can't unlock the device; not even by pressing the power button, restarting the device, or any other conventional means. In addition, the app also lets you define gestures for launching apps and/or trigger system features right from the lockcreen. Read More

CamTethering: Take Pictures & Schedule Time Lapse Photos On Mac

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You may have connected a lot of devices to your Mac; phones, tablets, cameras and what not. For the most part, you do it only to access files on the device, and very seldom is it seen that you can actually use the device. This means not connecting you device for just accessing the storage, but actually using the device for its intending functionality. CamTethering is a free Mac App that allows you to connect your capable DSLR camera via Wi-Fi, USB or Bluetooth, and take pictures from it. You can specify the shutter speed, the F Number, shutter speed and crop factor. Read More

PhotoLikr: Create/Manage Picasa, Minus & Other Online Photo Galleries

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Photo viewers are spread in thousands across the internet, but actually a few ones feel handy and unique. For us, a photo viewer should be aesthetically pleasing and should hold a few unique features, to consider it worthwhile for a review. PhotoLikr is probably one such software, which seem to have much potential. It is an image viewer that lets you review, rate and upload your images to Google+, Picasa, Gmail, PhotoOnWeb and Minus. Your friends can then rate your images and help you in sorting them out according to their ratings, its like those Hot or Not games you'd often play with your friends. The application allows you to share individual images, whole folders or set custom filters according to the Total number of votes, Likr Score or Personal rating. Once an album has been viewed, rated, liked and disliked by your friends, you can choose to either move low rated images to recycle bin or move best rated images to a new folder. PhotoLikr supports all popular image formats such as JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, TIF etc, and lets you specify the default resolution of pictures before uploading. Read More

Track Your Kid’s Facebook Activity With Minor Monitor

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We know that you care about your child’s well being and feel protective for them, but you cannot keep them under your wings at all times, can you? As internet penetrated our lives, various strangers gained access inside our houses in the form of social networks, chat services, forums and what not. Minor Monitor is a web service the can help you track the nature of your child's activities on Facebook, without having to shadow them each time they log on to the infamous social network. It is a free web service that requires you to login with your child’s Facebook account once, and the app will retrieve your child’s photos, friends lists, status updates etc, for the previous 180 days. You also have the option of linking more than one Facebook account with Minor Monitor. More to follow after the break. Read More

Picuzo Editor Is Drawing Tool & Picture Editor Combined In One

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Remember a decade ago when we were fond of creating, drawing and editing images, and all we had was Windows very own Paint? Internet has revolutionized things in all aspects, and today, we have multitude of web applications to perform almost every task that we can think of. One such web application is Picuzo Editor, which lets you create and edit images, make drawings and manipulate images, all online. You can create vector art with this web service as well. It also lets you import your photo albums from your Facebook account, Dropbox, Picasa, DeviantArt, Flickr etc, as well as your hard drive. You can save your edited images and drawing on Facebook, your PC, as well as the Picuzo Editor server. Read More