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Photography
25
Jan 12
Rolling Photography
Interested in taking a photo like the one below with just your iPhone (probably works on most digital cameras, at least mobile phone ones)?
If your answer is yes, read this article http://bit.ly/xI3UT4 by +Takahiro Yamamoto
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22
Jan 12
JPEGmini: Less bytes, same quality on your photos
Here is a way for making your website faster: #JPEGmini http://bit.ly/zb7QdM is a new service that compresses a JPEG file without any change in the quality. I tried some random tests with pretty good results.
a) Flower photo by +Thomas Hawk : 2048x2048px at 964KB turned to 721KB (1.3x compression)
b) "Bird" photo by +Elena Kalis : 754x700px at 369KB turned to 100KB (3.7x compression)
c) Stadium photo : 1024x768px at 602KB turned to 260KB (2.3x compression)
I didn't have #Photoshop handy to compare this with the "Save for web" feature but the beauty of JPEGmini is that doesn't seem to alter the quality of the photo at all, where as on "Save for web" you have to experiment between different compression ratios.
Currently a free web service is offered (also allowing you to upload entire folders) as well as a Photo Server for big clients. A cloud service and a desktop app (that would be more convenient in a web development workflow) are on the way.
Hat tip to +Robert Scoble
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18
Jan 12
Escaping Flickr
I previously http://bit.ly/x0KSf0 wrote about my troubles with Flickr: my Pro account expired (Flickr cared so much about keeping me as a client that it sent me a total 1 (one) mail about it) and according to Flickr policy I could only access only the 200 most recents og my photos. The solution (according to #Flickr was easy: pay them for another year).
Thankfully, I had most of my photos in my iPhoto library. So for most of the photos I could just export them again to Picasa and then delete them from Flickr. As soon as I deleted some photos, Flickr would release a few more, always holding me on the 200 limit.
So I ended up with about 100 photos I didn't have elsewhere. To the rescue came #Migatr http://bit.ly/xTGzjE . Migatr, a Windows-only application, allows you to migrate from many web platforms to another. The following are supported:
- 23HQ
- Aol Pictures (Import Only) (CLOSING)
- Faces.com
- Flickr
- Menalto Gallery (Self-Hosted)
- Picasa Web
- Phanfare
- Photobucket
- SmugMug
- Zenfolio
- Zooomr
The process was quite pain-free (I was only troubled having to find the .NET Framework that is required not the actual migration). Your photos are first downloaded locally and then uploaded on the service of your choice. Unfortunately titles from Flickr are not saved, but titles embedded in EXIF data will of course be read on the other end (e.g. Picasa in my case). I'd like it the photos were also separated in folders when they are downloaded, as it is they are all dumped in a single folder. Still, it's free and worked without issues, and I'm free from Flickr now
See the liberated photos here http://bit.ly/ygyScu
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