Michaela Cernescu’s Blog

Part II  -  Graphics

Picresize  and Picasa.

You can use for Graphics: Photoshop or Corel Photo-Paint, both are expensive and there is a learning curve to use them properly.

But in majority of cases if you creat a Squidoo lens, or a Blog Post, re-sizing is all you need.  For just this operation I use Picresize which is incredible simple, follow this example.

The flowers you see in next pictute I need to resize at 50%

• Equalize
• Gaussian Blur
• Grayscale
• Raise
• Raise Frame
• Rotate or
• Go forward with the default

 

 For this demonstration I Chose Raise Frame, pres a button and this is what I get:

This is it, I have my picture reduced 50%.

As an alternative you can use Picasa  a great software from Google, the difference is that you have to download the software, and the process is similar.

GIMP.

If your needs are more then just resize, Gimp is a fantastic free alternative, is easy to use, intuitive and above all is free.

It is true you don’t need of spend hundreds of dollars, it is a great editor to use.

For Blogs.

Blogging is closer to my soul, I highly recommend:

Blog Pulse 

Blog pulse is a great free research tool that allows you to discover what’s hot and what’s not in the blogsphere.  All you have to do is typing:  a topic, keyword, or URL.

In the above chart is a comparison between:

• Google Chrome
• Google Wave
• Google SideWiki

Do yourself a favor, and start using Blog Pulse, it really is an excellent tool.

Until the next time all the best

Michey

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