Monday Tech: Photography
Since this is Monday, here I am again armed with more technology. Today I chose Stuff You Can Do With Photos, since I use these sorts of things a lot, and take photos a lot, etc.
photojojo First of all, if you want to find more cool stuff to do with your photos, you should sign up for the Photojojo twice weekly newsletter. They email you stuff to do with your photos, and stuff to buy for photography (heads up to this keyboard skin for people who have a love/hate relationship with Photoshop).
big huge labs If you’re on Flickr, chances are you know about Big Huge Labs. Haven’t heard of them? Use your own photos to create mosaics, print items like calendars, jigsaw puzzles, the Hockneyizer, the Lolcat generator, Wordpress blog header, generate color palettes from photos… you get the idea.
pictobrowser If you want to embed photos in your website, blog post, whatever, I recommend the Pictobrowser. Uses Flickr and Picasa photos to create and embed swank Flash slideshows, customization of look available. Super simple to set up. [The following is a pictobrowser made with my Flickr photos that have the tag "afghan" in them.]
scan cafe Got old pictures you want to save? Worn, torn, dirty, discolored? Try digitizing and fixing those with Scan Cafe. They also will just scan your old pics, making you much more digital. I’m about to do this with four boxes of my old pictures. They can create things with your photos too.
gorillapod My favorite tripod is the Gorillapod. It’s pretty much as cool as they say. They also have the Gorillatorch (portable light) and Gorillamobile tripod for iPhones.
photo editing online
No photography list would be complete without some of the online photo editing websites, so here’s what I think of some of them. Piknik is simple to use with some fun extra photo effects – some things are free and some aren’t. FlauntR seems similar (editing, create print items), more extensive although you have to sign up first.
Aviary is a suite of fairly intuitive media editing online applications for photo editing, effects, etc, even vector images.They’ve put a lot of work into these applications, and they’re pretty.
Photoshop.com reminds me of iPhoto with editing and albums, but you can have friends and “decorate” pictures too. Not sure why you’d use this if you have iPhoto and Flickr, but if you don’t – BINGO. I hear Gimp is second to Photoshop but I haven’t tried it.
Other mostly interchangeable, simple, upload-and-edit photo sites are Dr Pic, FotoFlexer, Phixr, Snipshot.
There you go! Hope these are of some aid to some people. I know about them because I have photography nerd friends, whereas I am just a tech geek, but I try to pay attention when they talk 
