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Flickr, Facebook, your blog… so many wonderful places to share your pictures. And yet, such a giant pain in the butt to tag and organize and upload photos separately to every single site. Sometimes it’s almost not worth the effort. Until now! (Cue burst of golden light and singing choir!) Pixelpipe’s a new service that uploads all your pictures to all your favorite sites at once. Here’s how it works:
Easy, right? Also, did we mention that it’s free? And there are free software add-ons that let you upload straight from Picasa, and your mobile phone, and stuff like that. So there you go: more sharing your photos, less pain in the keister. Simplify Your Life at Pixelpipe.com |
Remember the first time you made a mixtape? Up all night, headphones on, slaving over a hot stereo until you got it exactly right? Making your own postcard at Postcard.fm feels like that. Except it’s practically instant, so you can skip the up-all-night part! All you have to do is choose your greatest photo, upload a song that captures the moment, and send it off with a message to your favorite person. Here’s one we made. You can make a musical postcard for any occasion, but if you’re looking for some ideas try these on for size: Best Valentines Ever: Send a foxy photo of you along with your intended’s favorite sappy love song. Hot-cha! Party Invites: Send a festive postcard with all the party info to yourself, then forward the link to all your friends. Sorry I Broke Into Your Apartment and Stole All Your Socks: OK, fine, maybe we’re the only ones that need to send those on a regular basis. Now get out there and start mixing it up! Make Your Own Postcard at Postcard.fm |
 Need to convince your friends of something? Nothing works quite like, well, propaganda… Especially if it has your face on it. Maopost, a site dedicated to an extensive collection of Chinese propaganda posters, will seamlessly paint your face (or your friend’s) from any of your photographs into a classic propaganda oil painting. You supply the photograph and choose one of the 35 suggested posters (or from their entire collection, over 1,500 posters), an artist hand paints you as a socialist hero. It’s never been easier to insert yourself into (socialist) history. And you’ve never looked so convincing. p.s. Take part in the traveling photo notebook or share your panorama photos or storm photos in our forum! |
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s Weather Service predicts 1787 tornadoes this year. That’s almost 5 tornadoes per day. Dorothy would shiver in her ruby slippers, all right. Us? We want to chase ‘em down. ‘Cause the only thing cooler than 300-mph funnels of wind are the pictures you take of them yourself. Luckily (kinda?) we’re right smack in the middle of twister season, here and across the globe. Do it yourself: Chasing tornadoes, mind you, is DANGEROUS. And doing it right requires lots of fancy devices, like anemometers and hygristors. If the thought of hunting a roiling squall excites you, the Stormtrack website outlines the basics of storm chasing. Do it with help: Want those amazing photos, but like your limbs right where they are? Consider a storm tour! Professional storm chasers lead you into twister territory in these weather safaris, and some are even made for photographers. Fair-weather friend who prefers rainbows to cyclones? So be it. Rainbows are cool, too. for the DIY-er… for the Do-it-with-help-er… Texas-Based Tempest Tours (via PopPhoto) |
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We don’t speak Russian, so we don’t know much about the background of Russian-made PhotoFunia. What we can tell you, though, is that the folks behind it really like Eugene Petrosyan. And they can do some really nifty things with pictures! Put yourself or your friends in the newspaper, on a $100 bill, or up on a Times Square billboard! Always wanted to be on the telly? PhotoFunia won’t just make it happen, it’ll give you a feline audience. You’re sure to find something among the site’s 50-plus effects. Especially classy: These lads even use facial recognition to automatically plug your face into the right spots in some photos! Putin would be proud. p.s. Like this? Then you’ll probably like Dumpr, too! |
Marcel Duchamp walks into a bar, with a funhouse mirror in one hand and a webcam in the other… Wait, how does that go again? Anyway, we’re pretty sure if you put those things together, you’d end up with pixel-lapse. Instead of capturing a photo all at once, pixel-lapse records one pixel at a time, starting at the top of the image and working downwards. Try moving your head side to side as the picture records, or moving closer to the camera, or changing positions halfway through. Surrealists of the world, unite! Pixel-Lapse for Mac and Windows p.s. If you don’t want your images uploaded to the online user’s gallery, be sure to turn off “photo-sharing” whenever you open the pixel-lapse application. |
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Maybe we were nerdy children, but we used to get really excited when National Geographic arrived each month. It was the big, glossy photos that got us, pictures of faraway places and people we’d never heard of. Here’s something that makes us feel that way again: The Big Picture. Every day there’s a photo essay on a different news story. One day it’s the Olympics, the next it’s the shuttle launch. With ginormous pictures. The biggest you’ve ever seen on a news site! It’s been a long time since the news made us happy. And we’re feeling pretty good about it. p.s. The Cutest Baby Ever contest ends tomorrow, June 13th. Add your photos now! Photo credits: NASA/Johnson Space Center, AP Photo/Andre Penner, Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images, Reuters/Stringer. |
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Finding photos on the internet is like being a tiny spacecraft adrift in a vast, starry galaxy. How will you ever find what you’re looking for in that cosmos of tags? What you need, weary traveler, is a guide. We hear Carl Sagan isn’t taking much new work these days, so allow us to present an alternative. Follow us to Tag Galaxy, where swirling solar systems of Flickr tags abound. Say you want to find a memorable photo of poodles. Type in “poodle,” and it becomes a fiery sun, orbited by related tags like “dog” and “silly haircut.” Click on more tag planets to create new suns (“poodles+noodles+strudel”). Or click on the sun itself to see all of the photos tagged with your search terms projected onto a rotatable spheroid planet. All you need now is a turtleneck for your computer, and it’ll be just like having Carl at your side. |
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If you send Damien Weighill a photo, he will draw your face and put it on his blog. When he does you will have a mustache. Or perhaps there will be a gorilla behind you. Maybe you will be a dinosaur. He is unpredictable. Approach with caution. Your Face p.s. Remember that Squarespace Portfolio Makeover Contest we had? We hear our winner Jennifer Konig is pretty excited about her new website: Check out her swank new portfolio! Photojojo Live! This Saturday only! We’ll be at Maker Faire on Saturday May 3rd demonstrating our ever-so-fabulous photo block kits. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, come by the Craft Zone at 5:00pm and watch us rock the house. It’s gonna be huge. Arena-rock huge. |
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The Japanese have gotten hold of a time machine. We knew it would happen sooner or later. The weird thing is, this time machine only works on photographs. You feed it a sharp modern photo, and it comes back to you looking like it was taken sixty years ago. Maybe it came from The Future! Or Outer Space! Or the Underground Lair of the Mole People (yikes)! We don’t know because, well, we can’t read Japanese. All we know is, if you click “browse”, upload a photo, and then click on the blue button in the middle, the time machine magically oldifies your picture. It might also summon an army of cranky Mole People, we’re not sure. Click if you must, just don’t say we didn’t warn you. Eerie Photo Time Machine p.s. We’re looking for more Long Portraits! Email us a link if you’ve got one. This one is happy and cute, and this one rocks our socks. p.p.s. If you want to get in your momma’s good books, score her one of our custom photo bags for Mother’s Day. Last day to order for rush delivery is Monday the 28th! Photo credit: Jim Abraham |
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