ImageChef - create custom images for your blog or im

ImageChef is a family-friendly site that allows you to create custom images for your blog, forum signature or general amusement. Without having to register any kind of account, you can modify text in a variety of image templates. The resulting pictures can be easily saved or emailed to friends.

ImageChef will host your pictures if you’re a registered user (registration is free), and provide the snip-its of code so that you can embed your artwork in your MySpace, Friendster or TypePad account.

source [downloadsquad]

Windows Vista Wallpapers 桌布大全

Windows Vista的美感設計非常棒，當然桌布也是由設計師精細拍攝設計，非常漂亮。
這是一個Windows Vista桌布包，它把Vista的桌布全部打包，總共有92張經典桌布，方便大家下載。沒騙你，這是真好料XD

在Flickr上瀏覽:

• Windows Vista Wallpaper Pack

下載位置:

• Microsoft Windows Vista Wallpaper Pac
• World of Photography

source [少年Eazie@Internet / Lifehacker]

Two-minute Photoshop tricks

I love Photoshop tutorials. I like them even better when they’re not six pages long and produce great results. I’m guessing you can guess from its name what 2 Minute Photoshop Tricks is. It’s a text, video, and audio blog that shows gives you tips, tricks, and tutorials for Photoshop, each in about two minutes. Unfortunately it’s not updated especially frequently, but there’s a lot of good stuff there, from adding a dept of field effect to a photo to giving text a shiny Web 2.0 look. They’ve got feeds for their videos, podcasts, and blog posts, so you never miss a tip.

source [kottke.org / downloadsquad]

Wallpapr - Find free photo wallpapers on Flickr

Looking to update your desktop wallpaper? Having trouble finding anything good. Ask Wallpapr to find something for you. It’s a nice, simple Ajax app that will spit out a bunch of photo wallpapers from Flickr’s Wallpapers pool on command. Just enter a tag (e.g. clouds, skyline, food, whatever you’re into) and click on 20, 40, or 100 to get that many thumbnails, or leave the tag field blank and get a nice variety. Every photo in the pool is at least 1024×768, and clicking on a thumbnail will take you straight to the photo download page. Excellent!

source [downloadsquad]

百萬圍城桌布

9/9/2006 反貪怒潮 全球在看

9/9/2006 展示納斯卡圖騰

9/15/2006 百萬圍城

9/15/2006 人民勝利

source [台灣蘋果日報]

Preloadr - The best way to upload and optimize photos to Flickr

一試用過 Preloadr, 只有兩個字 - 「驚豔」. Preloadr 不僅有 Flickr 的 Look & Feel, 更有 Flickr 還沒有提供的強大線上影像編修功能.

在 Preloadr 裡, 你可以開啟你 Flickr 中的相片, 然後做許多基本的影像處理, 這些編輯方式在 Photoshop 或小畫家也許是很基本, 但是在 Web online 就不多見了. 你可以對相片做裁切, 旋轉, 翻轉; 他還提供了類似 Photoshop 的圖層(Layer), 讓你可以套圖重疊到現在照片上, 當然也可以增加文字圖層, 移動這些圖層的位置與上下順序. 除此之外, 還有 histogram 屬性, 可調整 graduation, 超過十種 filters - blur, sharpen, contrast, brightness 等等, 活像一個簡易的線上版 photoshop. 最令人佩服的是, 這些影像處理操作都是以 Ajax 的方式寫出來的.

當編輯完成後, 只需要儲存, 就會幫你存回 Flickr , 取代原先的相片.

Steeev 為這個 online flickr photo editor 寫了一個 GM script: Online Photo Editor, 在 flickr 相片網頁的相片上加一個按鈕, 就會連到 Preloadr 並開啟這張相片來編輯.

source [Blog of Flickr Hacks]

Dual Screen Wallpapers

If you are lucky enough to be able to run multiple monitors on your system, you may sometimes find yourself wishing you could find desktop wallpapers that are optimized across multiple screens. The folks at Dual Screen Wallpaper obviously decided to try to do something about it.

While I really like some of the wallpapers at Dual Screen Wallpapers, I should warn you that they have integrated the advertising in their site in such a way as to try to trick people into making false clicks; the titles and descriptions of each wallpaper are formatted exactly like the text ads that they display at the top of the screen, and they even display an image beside the text ads so that they blend in perfectly with the rest of the site. I'm sure this is a breach of the terms of service for their advertiser so they won't be able to keep this up for long, but for now just be careful of the top two links on the site. I simply can't help linking to them though, as the wallpapers are gorgeous and work beautifully on my dual-screen setup.

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Pixrat: Social bookmarking for photos

Pixrat is basically del.icio.us for photos. I don’t say that disparragingly, though–Pixrat works as advertised and will definitely be useful for some people. By clicking on the Pixrat bookmarklet when viewing a page with a photo on it you can give the photo a description and tags, then later you can browse your boomarked photos with handy thumbnails, optionally searching by tag. You can also, of course, browse everyone else’s photos or view the most popular recent photos. Pixrat does lack a few of del.icio.us’ more powerful features like tag intersections and RSS feeds, but those issues aside, I can see Pixrat as being very useful people who keep track of a lot of stock photos, for example, at a number of different sites.

source post [download squad]

This is crazy!

Download of the Day: Slickr

Slickr is a free screensaver program for Windows that pulls images from a Flickr user, group, tag, or even from your local drive (if you so desire).

The screensaver is actually very attractive, very configurable, and offers a nice way to showcase your Flickr images or some Flickr images you like. If you』re a Flickr lover and you』ve been jonesing for a different screensaver from the Windows XP logo, Slickr is a pretty cool choice.

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