With the recent explosion in the use of digital cameras in schools, many teachers and pupils are wanting to edit their photographs. However, the tools often available in the standard paint programs found in schools don’t offer the range of tools that users require.
We’ve found Photofiltre (http://photofiltre.free.fr/) to be an excellent tool for some of the more advanced photo editing tools that you may require. It has a good range of filter tools as well as a selection of artistic tools to make photographs resemble oil paintings, pencil sketches etc. It’s also useful since it supports transparency and allows you to have two images open at the same time.
Another useful tool is the online photo editor http://www.splashup.com/ which apart from offering a comprehensive range of tools, supports layers. However, it is perhaps for the more confident user. A more clunk and click editor that also has an impressive selection of features is www.fotoflexer.com. Both of these can be linked to online photo albums (such as Filckr or Picassa) and can be used without signing up which is useful in the classroom. Take a look also at phixr.com which has a wide range of tools, pixenate.com which has an interesting interface and snipshot.com which is very straightforward to use.
For pure fun and wackiness try Flickr Toys at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ Here you’ll be able to create movie posters, calendars, blog headers, motivaltional style posters and a whole lot more.
Finally, our friends at Common Craft have another great video. This one is all about online photo sharing.
July 2, 2008 at 9:13 pm |
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