Posted in OSU, Photography, Technology on Feb 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
There are several ways to stitch together photographs to make stunning panoramas. One of the easiest ways is with Microsoft’s free photo organizer called Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG). WLPG is a free download that works with XP, Vista, and now Windows 7. For Vista users, this tool is an evolution of Vista’s Photo Gallery [...]
Posted in OSU, Photography, Technology on Jan 5th, 2009 4 Comments »
Check out this 10 photo panorama from the OSU campus. The sun was setting and the photos aren’t that great, but this is still cool. Using Silverlight’s Deep Zoom feature, you can zoom in, out, and all around. You can get close enough to see detail in these photos. I used the free Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) to [...]
Posted in Photography, Technology on Dec 11th, 2008 15 Comments »
Resize Photos in Windows 7 (and Vista too) Way back in 2001-2002, Microsoft released a set of free utilities for XP called PowerToys. Theses were small, very useful programs. One of the best tools in the set was the Image Resizer. Once installed, you could right-click on any photo, click on Resize Image, then select [...]
Posted in Photography, Technology on Mar 26th, 2008 9 Comments »
6/17/2011: There have been several hits on this entry recently. Since the original content was from 2008, I decided to refresh it slightly. Please let me know if you have any additions. Commercial software is available for every conceivable use, but many of these applications come with a price tag which is too high for [...]
Posted in Photography, Technology on Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
Paint.Net is a free photo editing tool originally started as a class project at Washington State University (In fact, it is in my upcoming post “Huge List of Free Software”). IThe software is still maintained by one of the original authors even though he currently works for Microsoft (this is not a Microsoft product). The [...]
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