The fairy tale of the shoemaker and the elves tells us the story of a poor shoemaker and his wife, who didn’t have enough money to buy materials for their shoes. That was until the elves came into their lives and helped them make the fanciest and most comfortable shoes the town has ever known, making their shoe store the most popular in town. Thanks to the kind elves, the shoemaker and his wife – as expected – lived happily ever after.
Now you too can get famous among your family and peers – no, not with shoemaking – but with the creative projects you’ll be producing with your handy-dandy digital camera and your every own elf. No, not the magical kind but the digital variety – PhotoELF!
PhotoELF claims to be the only software package you’ll ever need for viewing, editing, printing and organizing your digital photos – truly “The Digital Camera Companion.” Not only does it provide a photo editing suite, but it’s also versatile in terms of file support and even provides many time-saving capabilities.
While viewing your photo, simply click on the “Editor” button from the toolbar. From here, you may adjust the image’s contrast, brightness, gamma, saturation, hue and sharpness. You may also despeckle scanned images, crop, rotate, remove red-eye, add text and shapes, even create holiday cards, posters and calendars, add some fun effects, do JPG compression and save photo in 60 different formats such as BMP, EMF, FPX, ICO, IFF, JPG, PCT, PCX, PNG, PSD, TIF and WMF just to name a few. Now, that’s what I call versatility!
PhotoELF’s efficiency lies on it’s batch operation capabilities. You can rotate, rename, resize, convert photo file formats, do JPG compression, set dpi, adjust brightness and contrast, manipulate color saturation and hue, print, crop, toggle between read-only and read/write and apply watermarks, texts and logos – not only to a single photo but to an entire batch.
Feeling the itch to be more creative? Let it all out! Create albums using the HTML Photo Album Wizard, which comes with various slideshow options. You may even add music in MP3 and WAV file formats to your photo albums. Share your creations to family and friends by burning them onto CDs. You may also publish them to the World Wide Web for all the world to see. These albums can be viewed with any Web browser whether your on or offline.
Read enough? If you want to try PhotoELF now, they’re offering a two-week trial, afterwhich you may purchase it for $24.95 at www.photoelf.com.
Create Your Own Digital Library
The moment you got your first digital camera, your view of the world has totally changed. You always seem to see something beautiful or artistic in your surroundings, worthy of being captured in pixels. You experiment quite a lot and keep on loading your pictures in your computer. Until one day, you thought of working on a project. You’re sure you have the kind of picture you need – you knew you have it somewhere in your hard disk… in one of those folders… You can’t run a search for it though because you pretty much use generic filenames like Flower1, Flower2, Flower 3 and so on. Uh-oh! Looks like it’s high time for you to organize your digital photos!
When the Best Gets Even Better: The Release of Maya 6.5
No one would have thought that it is possible – I mean, how could the best possibly get better? But I guess for those who have a vision, it is possible. And vision is exactly what the people in Alias Systems Corp. have.
Using Photoshop and Illustrator
Unless you have tons of money to burn, every consumer wants to be as smart as possible when buying their goods. We want value for our money. If there’s a cheaper alternative that can deliver the same results, of course we would rather have that!
