The Swiss Alpine Club built its first shed on this Alpine peak back in 1929 to serve as a refuge for climbers. But Savioz Fabrizzi Architects recently replaced the aging shack to offer more modern comforts—like solar energy. Since the site is 9,768 feet above the ground, each piece of the building was dropped off by helicopter. [ArchDaily]
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Want free prints of your favorite pictures? Don’t mind seeing an ad on the back of each print? Then you’ll love Flag. It’s an upcoming image-printing service that comes with its own dedicated app that lets user print 4″x6″ photos for free.
The free prints are made possible by the sponsors’ ads that are printed on the opposite side of the picture. This shouldn’t be a big deal if you’re just printing photos for remembrance that you’ll just be keeping in an album. And it’s free in the strictest sense, because you won’t even have to pay for shipping or handling!
Select 20 photos from your camera, Facebook, Instagram or favorite social network and tap ‘Print’. Flag will print and mail your pictures to you, or someone you love, free. No shipping, no handling, no BS.
On the back of each print, you can include details about the camera, additional comments, and a QR code which can be used for ordering reprints. Flag will also offer upgraded features like rounded corners or fancy edges, as well as postcards and giant mosaic prints.
Flag recently reached its goal on Kickstarter, so you should be seeing the app for iOS and Android sometime this Summer.
Google has just promoted its licensing rights filter right to the top of its image search, making it way easier to find images that you’re actually allowed to use.
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This article was written on October 17, 2012 by CyberNet.
When it comes to uploading images to a website you always want to try and make sure the file sizes are as low as possible without compromising on quality. Sometimes that is easier said than done, but with the free ImageOptim for the Mac it’s a breeze.
ImageOptim can handle a variety of different image formats including PNG, JPG, and GIF. In general the file size savings depends on the image and how much it is able to compress it, and if you jump into the preferences for ImageOptim you can configure the settings available for the images. By default it will set the quality of JPG images to 90%, and so you might start to see some minor artifacts in the images caused by the app if you don’t tweak the settings at all. You can configure it to retain the full quality of the images though, and only have it try to reduce the JPG sizes by removing things like EXIF data and comments found in them.
When it comes to PNG images, however, they can often be significantly optimized without any loss of quality. How does it do that? One example the website mentions is that it will convert images from being a 24-bit PNG to 8-bit PNG with full alpha channel, but it will only do so when it won’t affect the quality of the image. It also runs the PNG images through several other image optimization tools to get the size down as much as possible.
ImageOptim Homepage (Mac only; Freeware)
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The development team at Gmail have shown off their newest innovation in image displaying technology this week: showing all images right off the bat. While this bit of technology might not seem all that innovative for the uninitiated, those that’ve used Gmail over the past several years have seen the “Images are not displayed” message […]
Pressing a button is so 20th century. And winking or asking Google Glass to do it for you seems like quite a lot of effort, too. So, for the truly lazy, Neurocam analyzes your brainwaves to work out when you want a picture taking.
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The latest update to Nokia’s Windows Phone build (which expands upon Microsoft’s GDR3 release), named Black, brings with it some features you may be surprised to learn Nokia handsets didn’t already contain…but here’s a big one for you: It also brings RAW support, not available on any smartphone before.
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This article was written on January 24, 2012 by CyberNet.
HDR is the process of combining multiple photos with the hope that the resulting image is clear in both the light and dark areas. Getting good free HDR software that is capable of merging the photos together can be a little tricky since there are a lot of things it has to take into account, such as perfectly aligning each image.
Picturenaut is a free HDR app for Windows that has done a wonderful job with my photos. The program has been in the works for over 4 years, and you can tell that a lot of sweat has been put into making it. Merging your images will generally take just a few seconds, and with the settings available you are able to tweak the resulting photo to look exactly how you want it to.
Here are some of the high-level features offered by Picturenaut:
Picturenaut Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)
[Images used for HDR example are from Wikipedia]
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If you’ve been paying much attention to Google+, you already know that the social network is doing its damnedest to become the go-to destination for photographers. Accordingly, it’s attracted a number of RAW format enthusiasts — thanks to the ability to store full-size photos — and to make their lives a little better, Google+ is introducing a new RAW-to-JPEG conversion method that offers noticeably better results. Over 70 cameras from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and Sony are supported as of today, and Google says that it’ll add additional models over time. Since Google+ automatically converts RAW photos to JPEG for viewing purposes (while retaining the original), the new conversion method should be readily apparent. You can view the complete list of supported cameras after the break, and as for the improved quality of conversions, go ahead and have a look for yourself. Hopefully your eyes agree with Google’s claim.
This article was written on March 22, 2012 by CyberNet.
I don’t know very many people anymore that use screensavers on their computers, but displaying a nice photo collage might be worthwhile if you still enjoy having something flashy on the screen when your computer is sitting idle. I came across a pretty nice one that was started a few months ago, and I’d say offers the right amount of options without being overkill.
Photo Collage Screensaver is free, and after being installed you’ll find it tucked in the screensaver properties for Windows. Don’t go looking for anything in the Start Menu because you won’t find it there. There are some options you’ll be able to configure after it is selected as your default screensaver:
The only thing I think this is missing is an option to set how large you want the images to appear, but the size it uses seems to work pretty well.
Photo Collage Screensaver (Windows only; Freeware)
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