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Question from Barbara: I bought a new computer with Windows 11 on it and after using it for a while I’ve decided that I despise the Photos app.
Can you recommend a good replacement for it?
Free would be great but I don’t mind paying if I have to in order to get a good one. [Read more…]
If you’re like most folks these days, you probably take tons of photos with your smart phone, and maybe even a point-and-shoot digicam or DSLR.
If so, you probably know that it’s very easy to make a photo smaller.
All you have to do is load it into your favorite image editor and either crop it or resize it, and the resulting image is almost always as crisp and clear as the original.
But try enlarging a photo instead and you’ll quickly realize that you have a problem. When you resize a photo to make it larger, you typically end up with an image that’s blurry and pixelated.
In short, you generally end up with a mess. [Read more…]
Question from Nina P.: Hi Rick. First, I want to thank you for sharing all the beautiful pictures with us every morning.
They really start my day off on a positive note!
Now, a question. When I go through your page and click on the older pictures it always shows the last one you posted.
Why is that? I love seeing the old photos too!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
It’s no secret that the cameras built into Apple’s most recent iPhones are capable of producing outstanding images that rival those taken by many DSLR cameras.
In fact, a simple Google search for “best iphone photos” returns page after page featuring some of the most incredible images you will ever see.
While most any pro photographer can use virtually any camera to take pro-quality photos, the folks at Apple are on a mission to help us casual photographers use our iPhones to create the very best images possible. [Read more…]
Every now and then I have a need to combine two or more photos into a single image by arranging them side by side and/or over top of one another.
To get an idea of what I’m talking about, take a look at the image on the right.
It’s actually pretty easy to create a mini-collage like this with most popular image editing programs, but I’ve found a much easier and faster way to do it.
Just fire up your web browser and click over to the wonderful online Combine Images tool from the folks over at QuickPictureTools.com. [Read more…]