Monday, October 24, 2011

#91 Fun with Photos

Pop Art Me from fotoflexer (left) and PopArt Me from befunky. Generally, Befunky gives you a lot more control over the effects than fotoflexer and results seem cleaner somehow.
Though for ease of use fotoflexer is better. I really like the solid colors of befunky's Pop Art, but the grainy/gritty look of fotoflexer is probably closer to Warhol's silkscreens.

The left is me driving in the Le Mans 24-Hour Endurance Race fifty years before I was born. Probably my proudest achievement.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

#90 You Ought to be in Pictures


The features that are most important to me are ease of use and some kind of integrated photo editor like flickr has with picnik. I see that photobucket has a photo editing mobile app which sounds very cool. That would be something I would use.

Flickr seems to have adequate privacy protection and enough options that you can protect what you want to protect. I tend not to put pix on any site that I think shouldn't be shared with everybody. I don't take enough pics or keep them long enough to have much of a problem storing them on my home pc or cds.

Flickr's creative commons is what keeps me coming back to it. I routinely troll it for my hcpl blog posts. I don't bother with anything beyond the attribution license and have never been disappointed by the selection.

#89 You Oughta Be In Pictures


Of the features available, cropping and resizing are the ones I find most useful for what I do, but picnik’s color and exposure editing features are pretty handy.You can make subtle adjustments.

Of the three, Photoshop is probably better for the professional. Adobe doesn’t even try to make it user friendly. I like fotoflexer for the reasons you mentioned. The premium features on picnik look really cool but if you don’t want to pay for them you end up tripping over them all the time but I use Picnik the most. It’s sort of my default photo editing site–mainly because Flickr links straight to it.