Help With Free Marketing Tools Part II

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Help With Free Marketing Tools Part II

Filed under: General; Tagged as: blog pulse, Blogging, free software, gimp, google picasa, graphics, re-size
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%

I crop the image if I need and I go further to the second step where I decide the dimension, and step 3 were I chose a special effect, the effects are:
- 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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BevsPaper December 12th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Great information about graphics programs. Thank you for sharing.
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Alex Crabtree December 13th, 2009 at 10:37 am

No doubt about Blog Pulse. Any info given on trending is a weapon if used properly.
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Michaela Cernescu
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December 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

Yes, Alex, trending is something we don’t search frequently enough, and I hope that the free little tool will help us to search the trends prior to jump and write.
As usual you are an open mind, and well informed
Regards
Michey
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