Photo Editing Software and Applications

Overlays are all about romance. Pictures we’re emotionally drawn to need more than a “just the facts” look. Imagine

what a bride sees looking through her veil on the walk to the altar. A child swinging under a tree flaring with light. A ballerina warming up in the vignetted grunge of a loft studio. Not just sirupy sweet romance; stark, hard edged, torn, ruined effects all have a place here.

What will make a good, home-made texture? Almost anything, any surface that invites fingers to touch. Fabric and peeling paint are favorites. Search for metal rust, pavement, cracks, lace, abstract art, grasses, flower petals, flares, leaves, stones, water. A good texture subject is not very irregular, that is, not a tightly repeating pattern, but an overall design and somewhat flat in appearance. A texture image is not always desaturated; it can incorporate colors, blotches, flares, vignettes.

Wanna learn how to add overlays in your picture with PicsArt. I'm going to show you how! Its actually pretty simple and really creative. If you making an ove...

"You can use the photo editing tools inside Google+ to quickly fix your photos and make them look awesome with a click. The online editor also offers Instagram like filters and stylized borders.

What really sets Google+ apart from the other image editors is the Auto Enhance mode that fine-tunes your photos automatically. Advanced users can always make manual adjustments to their photos but for the rest of us, Auto Enhance is the magic wand that will fix all the common flaws in our photos without having to click anywhere.

Just upload the photos to Google+ privately, edit them online and download the enhanced photos with a click. The other good thing about Google Plus is that it preserves your original photographs so you can always revert changes or apply different effects to your digital photos without having to re-upload the files."

The thinking behind the new Android and iOS app Chirp is that if animals in nature communicate through sound, machines should too. And so, the four person Animal Systems team created an app that does just that: no bluetooth, no email, no 'bumping' - images and other files are sent using only 2-second sound clips.

As you can see, the concept is extremely simple. Once you’ve selected a photo to share, all you have to do is hit the yellow button and any phone within earshot (or is it micshot?) that has the Chirp app open will receive the photo.

Since Chirp works exclusively through sound, there is no security, but the app has to be on and in the foreground in order to hear your chirp. On the up side, that means that sending a photo to tens of people at once is super easy. On the down side, any unwanted eavesdroppers will receive the file as well.

Basically, specific sound frequencies are assigned a number or letter by the app. When you take a photo or select a file, it’s assigned an alphanumeric code that is then encoded as sound in the “chirp.” When you press the button, the “chirp” broadcasts that code, which others running the app decode into a link and, ultimately, your photo. All of this happens in real time.

How to: Putting Overlays Into Pictures

So I've been asked many times how to use PicsArt to add overlays to pictures. Apparently my tutorial wasn't very clear so here I am with a pictorial tutorial! I hope everyone will get to learn something here. :)

Download 'PicsArt' for your phone. I think both iPhone and Android has it.

Step 1: Choose 'Photo' since you're working on a photo
Step 2: Pick a photo you want. In this case, I will be working on one photo from my gallery. So I picked 'Gallery'

PiZap.com launched in 2008 and has grown into a highly social and creative community with over 50 million registered users that create over 130 million pictures annually. PiZap offers users a variety of fun and free tools to creatively enhance, and share their photos. Since the start of 2013, piZap's primary focus has been launching and improving the photo editing experience for mobile and tablet users. The commitment to mobile has really paid off, as both iOS and Android applications have a 4.5 star rating and continue to add several thousand new daily users.

“We are really just getting started on mobile. We have succeeded in bringing our core features to phones and tablets, and we will continue to innovate and listen to what our users want as we keep developing the app,” said Sam Crisco, piZap CEO.

From a development perspective, piZap designed the app in HTML5. This allows for condensed development cycles and increased distribution opportunities.

Online Branding Tips | It is no secret that in this day and age, online presence = brand awareness. In fact, most marketing experts agree that how your brand online is the 21st century equivalent of your first meeting with a customer. Your online brand is what people think of you when you are not available. In fact, your online brand is as important as any of the traditional forms of branding and becoming more important each day. Most customers today are technologically savvy and typically rely on a company’s online presence as a validity test of its credibility in the market.

Branding is much more than just a name and a logo. It’s a philosophy, a particular way of doing things that starts with the simple act of presenting yourself, or your business, but ends with an increase in perceived valued; which ultimately leads to an increase in profit.

The first three things to learn in Adobe Lightroom when getting started in photography.

It helps to know that nothing you do in Lightroom is permanent. Until you export the photo you can make as many changes and adjustments to it as you want, and you can always step backwards. Once you export the photo it becomes a separate file (typically JPEG), and the original RAW file is always available for further editing or to return back to its original state.

During post processing, you will usually make a series of adjustments. In the “Develop” module you can step back to undo just the last change you made by clicking on the “Previous” button. To return the photo to its original state simply click on the “Reset” button. This is a fantastic way to safely experiment with the various capabilities available in Lightroom – just start clicking around and playing with the various sliders and see how they change your photo. Export to keep the effects you like, and hit “Previous” or “Reset” to start over.

Budding photographers will tackle white balance and exposure correction as they practice their newfound skills. I wrote about tone and exposure settings in this recent article, so let’s talk about white balance.

We’ll often shoot in “Auto” white balance mode to make things easier on us, since we know we can always correct it in post-processing. Colors, shadows, saturation, brightness and tone can all be impacted by white balance. In Lighroom, the white balance menu has eight settings to choose from, plus a setting for custom white balance.

If you yearn for the golden days of black-and-white photography or want to explore the possibilities, Dynamic Black & White is a great app to have. With the app's slider tools, you can fine-tune your photo in a dizzying number of ways. Sharpness, brightness and contrast controls are in the app, as well as tone and spotlight tools. The tone slider lets you add mood and depth to an image.

  Adobe announced today that its Creative Cloud software suite surpassed the one million subscriber mark in Q3 2013. That announcement was followed up by the release of the Photoshop Photography Program, which includes Photoshop CC and LIghtroom 5 for only $9.99 a month as a limited-time offer.

The special pricing on this program can only be claimed before December 31st, however, so users who want to get in on the deal should do so before the end of the year.

"Adobe Photoshop is the industry leader when it comes to PC and Mac image editing software. Image editing is not something readily associated with mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad, but Adobe Photoshop Express is a free app available for Apple devices that enables you to edit and share images from your device.

The app couples up with Photoshop.com. Adobe's online photo editing and sharing site, and makes it possible to not only edit images on your idevice, but also share them online. There are a wide range of basic editing tools available such as cropping, straightening, flipping and rotating, and it is also possible to adjust colour levels, saturation and other image settings."