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Online Vector Image editor from Aviary

There are dozens of good capable online Photo editing programs out there, but few Vector image editors. And sometimes you need to edit or create a vector image.
Raven is a new product from Aviary that allows vector image editing in your browser. I don’t think it’ll replace Illustrator for serious designers, but for [...]

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Awesome roundup of photoshop tutorials

I love Photoshop, and going through detailed tutorials is an incredible way to build your skills. This is an incredible list of great tutorials.
50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

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10 Online Photo Editors reviewed

In the relatively short time I’ve been keeping this blog, I’ve reviewed a few different online photo editors. Daily Gyan has done a nice roundup of 10 photo editors.  Unfortunately, they don’t really cover the pros and cons of each one, but if you want to try some, this would be a good place to [...]

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Google does it again. Offers archive of 10 million old LIFE magazine photos online.

Say what you want about Google, but the amount of information they’ve made accessible to you and I in amazing. They’ve just announced an archive of LIFE magazine photos. 10 million of them. Loved it.
You can find it one of two ways:http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Or simple add the notationSource:life
to any google images search.
Neat.

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Shutterfly – Awesome photo books.

I uploaded a ton of wedding photos recently to Shutterfly (we were married 2 years ago). My wife did a great job sorting through them, and using the the Shutterfly web program to assemble a gorgeous wedding album. The templates and such seemed pretty intuitive and easy to use, though the process was time [...]

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Big Huge Tools Flickr Picture tools

This website has some fun tools for messing with your pictures. Although designed to work with Flickr, few (if any) seem to require Flickr at all. But some fun, free tools for messing around with pictures.
More fun than useful, but worth checking out.
Big Huge Labs

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Excellent Photoshop and Web design tutorials.

I don’t normally recommend tutorial type sites, though there are several I follow. My favorite Photoshop tutorial site has started a new web design tutorial site, and they’ve started it off with an impressive list of design tutorials. If you do any web design work, this is well worth a read. [...]

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Casio Exilim EX-F1 Slow-Mo Super Cam

I love my Cameras, and love taking pictures. I thought I had an awesome pairing, but now I want a trio. I have a Canon Digital Rebel SLR, a great camera with several lenses. I also have a Pentax waterproof camera, a great little camera for on the river, that takes [...]

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Fotoflexer – Better than Photoshop Online

Since we’re on the topic, I just discovered another nice online photo editor. It has all the normal editing tools, a fast and intuitive interface, and lots of neat effects, some of which I’ve not seen elsewhere. http://fotoflexer.com/

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Photoshop online – eh. Not so much.

I use Photoshop all the time, actually own a legal copy of Adobe Creative Suite. It’s one of only three pieces of pay software I use regularly. (XP, Office being the others.) It’s a great program, and has enough of a market that “Photoshop” has become the generic term for any computer modified photo, [...]