January 2008 Archives

Here's a very cool free app for displaying images with captions. I'm making a note of it in case I want to upgrade my albums.

AutoViewer Download

AutoViewer is a free Flash image viewer. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.

Features:

• Auto-Play allows you to view a gallery hands free.
  
• Displays image captions and gallery title as a text overlay.
  
• Intuitive image navigation via mouse.
  
• Keyboard navigation (Spacebar, cursor keys, 'Home', 'End' keys)
  
• Interface rescales to fit any aspect ratio images and monitors.
  
• Lightweight (34k).
  
• Image pre-loading to prevent waiting for each image to load.
  
• Cross platform - Windows/Macintosh (requires Flash 8 or higher).
  
• Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are redirected to an upgrade page.
  
• Free!
  

Cool site to help get you out there doing something. This is my biggest problem -- getting out and photographing things.

AIRC - Adorama Imaging Resource Center: 100 in 100

Want to create a personalized photographic gift for a birthday or other special occasion? Make that special someone’s name out of photographs of letters of the alphabet!

What you need:

• Any camera
  
• Inkjet Printer or online lab such as AdoramaPix
  
• Picture Frames and Mats (optional)
  

Wherever you go, there are posters, signs, logos and other places where you’ll find letters. Look for interesting and unusual fonts (letter styles) and combinations of colors, and take lots of close shots of each letter you see. Save your letters on your computer (create a file/subfile structure with each letter getting its own file. That way you can have several choices for each letter).

1. Put the letters together using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-editing program to spell out a name or message.
   
2. Adjust image size until letters are all of equal height (that's a big advantage of doing this digitally instead of working with hard prints).
   
3. Crop out unecessary details so the letters are easy to read together.
   

Got these cool cards through Moo and Flickr. They link up to your Flickr account and you can put full-colour images on the backs of these tiny business cards. Or maybe not business cards; they could have a bunch of different uses. And they're tiny -- only 7cm X 2.8cm.

Look for them in a coffee shop near you.

http://www.moo.com/

Entitled "Gourmand".

Looks kind of thirsty. By artist Andrew Severynko.

Fishes, bugs, flies: Andrew Severynko. Contemporary sculpture artist.