Online Digital Photo Fun
Posted in Articles, Digital Photos | Posted on 06-13-2008 | 265 views
Tags: flickr, photo editing, photo fun
By Mark Levy, CEO MaxxoMedia
Who do you want to be today?
At Universal Studios City Walk in Los Angeles, they have a store where you can have the picture of your face inserted into a variety of scenarios. For instance, you can have your face placed into a picture of Indiana Jones or onto the body of a supermodel. Well, today I found a place online where you can do this with thousands of different photos — all for free. You can even share the photos you make with friends.
If you’ve ever tried to manipulate pictures in order to try something different or just to have fun, you know that without the proper training and photo editing tools, it is very difficult and most of the time the results aren’t all that great.
Well, not anymore. With FACEinHOLE.com you can easily and, in a matter of seconds, create a totally “new look” for you and your friends. You just have to select a scenario, upload and adjust a photo (or use your webcam) … and there you have it, a great FACEinHOLE to send to your friends, post in your blog or make available to the world.
The site has a huge collection of photos you can put your face on. How would you look with a Mr. T haircut? Or dressed up like Wonder Woman? Or floating through the air skydiving? You can put for face into ads, book and magazine covers, film and TV posters, or on the body of sports heroes and celebrities, music artists and cartoon characters. And the service is completely free.
Low-Priced Professional Photo Editing
My mother in law recently found a box of old photographs in storage. She asked me if I could help digitize them so she could share them with others in the family. As I went through the box, I found some of the photos were ripped, others were faded and some others included the crazy cousin no one talks about anymore.
After scanning them in, I tried to fix some of the photos with Photoshop. I don’t have a lot of skills or patience with Photoshop, so I didn’t get too far.
But looking around the web, I came wowApic.com, a site that makes it easy and convenient to get professional photo editing services from the convenience of my home (computer) … from enhancing and fixing my pictures to restoring old worn-out pictures.
wowApic provides a whole range of professional photo fix and touchup services to suit your picture editing requirements. They can add a person to a family portrait or remove an unwanted stranger (or crazy cousin) from the background of photos, or even change the entire background. They also offer glamorize and digital cosmetic enhancements that, for example, can give you a tan, clear acne or remove braces.
Other services such as hand tinting for your kids’ pictures and “portraitize” to crop out one or a couple of people from a group photo are also available. Simple touchups such as digital camera mark or red eye removal are also offered.
For those old photos, wowApic can reverse the effects of color fading, repair cracks or creases, tears, stains, blemishes, blurred patches and other forms of damage on your valuable photos.
Their customer service is unbeatable. Upload your picture and get an instant price quote and delivery commitment. You also get free lighting, contrast and color optimization on every picture along with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
3D Photo Viewing
I love to look at photos on the web. Sometimes I’ll spend hours stumbling around photo sites. Flickr, the massively popular photo sharing site, is one of my favorites. I recently stumbled upon a new photo viewing site. FotoViewr.com, launched just last week, brings online photo viewing to a new level.
The service was born out of someone’s frustration with browsing photos on Flickr, through static web pages that offered a meager user experience at best. Wading through page after page of thumbnails, clicking on them and then waiting for them to load made it seem more like a chore.
FotoViewr is a very intuitive application. It easily and simply pulls in any Flickr publisher and offers their photos up in a very elegantly designed 3D interface.
It’s easy to get started – choose your photo gallery style. There are currently 5 to choose from including one that puts all your photos into a 3D moving wall and another that places the photos onto a 3D floor. Then enter a Flickr username.
If you don’t have a Flickr account don’t worry, you can still enjoy viewing Flickr photos through the viewer. I am not sure they intended this, but you don’t need a password, so you can enter any username you wish and view those images.
Next, choose to view the gallery by photoset or keywords and press Create gallery. Your gallery is instantly available for interaction. Click on individual pictures and they fly to the forefront.
You can also choose to view the gallery full screen. Some of the pictures gets pixilated at full screen, but the experience is still worth it. Finally, FotoViewr, provides you with a link to share the gallery with others.
The service is currently free.
