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Wazza's Photo & Video Editing Stuff

Info about choosing a camera, additional links to video and webcam software, video showcase sites, and more graphics stuff.

Wazza's Screen Capture Info

You can easily include "screen grabs" in your lesson notes or staff development documents.

Includes tips on inbuilt Mac OS and Windows solutions, and links to 3rd party utility software

GIMP (Mac/Win/Lin)

Freely distributed software for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

GraphicConverter (Mac)

The Swiss Army knife of Mac graphics programs. Reads & saves in a huge variety of formats.

Image Tricks (Mac)

Apply a wide variety of effects to photos. Free.

Inkwell (Mac/Win/Lin)

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand & CorelDraw. Free.

Irfan View (Win)

Useful for screen captures and general graphics editing.

LiveQuartz (Mac)

Powerful image editor with a range of tools and layers. Donationware.

Mike's Edge (Mac)

Web-ready transparencies and professional postScript image mattes (free).

MorphX (Mac)

Transform one image into another. Free.

Photofiltre (Win)

Full featured graphics editing. Free.

Seashore (Mac)

A full-featured image editor. Includes textures, gradients, anti-aliasing, etc.

Downloading, organising, cataloguing and printing photos from digital cameras:

iPhoto (Mac)

Brilliant software for organising and sharing digital photos. (Part of iLife).

Picasa (Win)

Organise, view & print photos in albums. Free.

PhotoShop Album Starter (Win)

Free version of Photoshop Album

PhotoShop Album (Win)

Brings iPhoto functionality to Windows! Commercial.

Photo to Movie (Mac, Win)

Creates slide show with motion effects, music, and captions. Burn your movies to DVD or publish to the web.

PhotoPresenter (Mac)

Present pictures and movies, and easily create amazing presentations.

Automatically create web albums - a web page of thumbnail-sized photographs, linked to the full-size item:

Galerie (Mac)

Very neat web album generator, for photos and QT movies, with a huge range of templates. Works with iPhoto albums. Free.

iPhoto (Mac)

Provides a basic built-in thumbnail export option. (See Wazza's iPhoto thumbnail quickstart).

BetterHTML Exporter (Mac)

A plug-in to enhance iPhoto's web export function.

Picasa (Win)

 

Web Album Generator (Win)

 

PhotoPage (Mac)

 

Smaller Animals (Win)

 

Easy Thumbnails (Win)

AutoResizer (Mac)

Resize and reformat dozens, hundreds, even thousands of images. Free.

FastStone Photo Resizer (Win)

Image converter / resizer to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in batch mode. Free.

iResize (Mac)

Batch resize and compress images.

Resize (Mac, Win)

Resize an entire folder of photos with one click.

SmallImage (Mac)

Batch process JPEG files, resize, recompress, etc.

Art Text (Mac)

Create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons.

GifFun (Mac)

Drag a folder of gifs to create an animated gif.

Pics4learning

 

Flashkit Images

Google SketchUp (Mac, Win)

3D modeling program to create models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, etc. Free.