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Here is a list of applications which provide the JPEG lossless rotation feature based on the IJG code:
- Jpegcrop [Guido Vollbeding] (Windows) – Sample application
- cPicture [Jürgen Eidt] (Windows) – Includes lossless cropping, Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
- PIE [PicMeta Software] (Windows) – Picture Information Extractor, includes Exif patch
- EXIF Image Viewer [Michal Kowalski] (Windows) – Digital camera photo viewer, includes Exif patch
- IrfanView [Irfan Skiljan] (Windows) – Freeware graphic viewer, includes Exif patch (version 3.85 or later [PlugIn!])
- DigiAlbum [Bernhard Baier] (Windows) – Digital photo album, includes Exif patch
- Cam4you [Hans-David Alkenius] (Windows) – Canon digital camera utilities, includes Exif patch
- BreezeBrowser [Breeze Systems Limited] (Windows) – Canon digital camera utility, includes Exif patch
- IxPictures [Reimar Grasbon] (Windows) – Transfer photos from your Canon-DigiCam to your computer, includes Exif patch
- GetCanon! [David Vidmar] (Windows) – Image downloader for Canon digital cameras, includes Exif patch
- Exifer [Friedemann Schmidt] (Windows) – Free JPEG Exif management software, includes Exif patch
- Rota [TsuruZoh Tachibanaya] (Windows) – Lossless rotation utility, includes Exif patch
- Jasc After Shot [Jasc Software Inc.] (Windows) – Digital imaging application, includes Exif patch
- PixVue [PixVue] (Windows) – Digital camera image management tool, includes Exif patch
- Thumber [TawbaWare] (Windows) – Digital camera image management software, supports Exif patch
- PhotoThumb [Jarle Aasland] (Windows) – Digital image manager, includes Exif patch
- ABC-View Manager [ABC-View Software] (Windows) – Flexible file manager and fast image viewer, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
- PMView Pro [Peter Nielsen] (Windows, OS/2) – A Versatile and Fast Image Viewer and Converter, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
- cam2pc [nabocorp softwares] (Windows) – An Image Downloader and more, includes Exif patch
- FixFoto [Joachim Koopmann] (Windows) – Image editing for digital photography, includes Exif patch
- FotoView [Martin Pola] (Windows) – jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless cropping and rotation, supports Exif patch
- JPEGCrops [Toke Eskildsen] (Windows) – jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless cropping and rotation, supports Exif patch
- Dreher [Martin Schulze] (Windows) – jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless rotation, supports Exif patch
- ljcrop [Marshall Perrin] (Unix) – jpegtran Frontend for comfortable lossless cropping, supports Exif patch
- imgSeek [Ricardo Niederberger Cabral] (GNU/Linux, Windows) – Photo collection manager and viewer, supports Exif patch
- PhotoLine 32 [Computerinsel] (Windows, Macintosh) – Image editing software, includes Exif patch
- Photo Studio [John Hawkins] (Windows) – Multi-purpose image management tool, includes Exif patch
- IMatch [photools.com] (Windows) – Digital image management application, includes Exif patch
- exifiron [Marko Mäkelä] (Windows, Macintosh, C/POSIX) – Orientation correction and optimization of EXIF JPEG images, includes Exif patch
- DW:Rotate [Photographer Solutions] (Windows) – Fast and easy lossless rotation of JPEG images, includes automatic Exif orientation correction!
- JPegger [Vallen-Systeme GmbH] (Windows) – Digital image viewer, includes Exif patch
- BetterJPEG [BetterJPEG Team] (Windows) – Lossless rotation, crop, and editing tool, includes Exif patch
- FastStone Image Viewer [FastStone Soft] (Windows) – An image browser, converter and editor, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
- Lossless JPEG Toolbox [Michael Lee] (Windows) – Lossless JPEG Toolbox, supports Exif patch
- JPEG Lossless Rotator [Anry] (Windows) – Comfortable lossless rotation utility, includes Exif patch and automatic Exif orientation correction!
- Picasa [Google, Inc.] (Windows) – Photo organizer, includes Exif patch
- imageN [Pawel Szczerbina] (Windows) – Digital imaging software
- Cameraid [Juri Munkki] (Macintosh) – Digital photography utility package
- jpeg explorer [Jurij Mirtov] (Windows) – Digital camera JPEG file explorer
- GraphicConverter [Lemke Software] (Macintosh) – Shareware graphic converter
- ACDSee [ACD Systems] (Windows, Macintosh) – Picture viewer and digital imaging software
- Ulead Photo Explorer [Ulead Systems] (Windows) – Digital photography software
- ThumbsPlus [Cerious Software] (Windows) – Graphic management software
- PolyView [Polybytes Software] (Windows) – Image viewer, conversion, and printing utility
- Qimage [Digital Domain Inc.] (Windows) – Image viewing and printing software
- EyeBatch [Atalasoft] (Windows) – Batch image processing software
- Diji Album [Xequte Software] (Windows) – Digital photo album software
- CompuPic [Photodex Corporation] (Windows) – Digital content manager
- Photo Viewer [PhotoParade] (Windows, Macintosh) – Digital photo viewing and managing
- FotoAlbum [FotoTime] (Windows) – Organizing and sharing digital pictures
- MyAlbum [Pierre Meindre] (Windows) – Image cataloger and slideshow
- NikonView [NikonTechUSA] (Windows) – Nikon digital camera accessory software (dubious!)
- Image Preview [Microsoft Corporation] (Windows ME, XP, GDI+) – Embedded image component
- Photo Studio for Canon [Scott Murray] (Windows) – Scott Professional Photo Studio for Canon cameras
- iView MediaPro [iView Multimedia Ltd.] (Macintosh) – Multimedia management software
- OfotoNow [Ofoto Inc.] (Windows, Macintosh) – Online photo album uploader software
- jpegtranGUI [Robert Williams] (Amiga) – jpegtran Graphical User Interface
- Prince Digital [Erithacus Software] (Windows) – Digital image printing utility
- PhotoTip [DurSoft Development] (Atari) – Digital photo graphics program
- MediaChest [Dmitriy Rogatkin] (Java) – Media file organizer
- FishEye [Willem van Schaik] (Windows) – Digital image viewer
- Firegraphic XP [Firegraphic.com] (Windows) – Image management software
- PhotoPhilia [Pholix Software] (Windows) – Image management software
- MaPiVi [Martin Herrmann] (Linux, Unix/X11, Mac OS X, Windows, Perl/Tk) – Martin’s Picture Viewer and Organizer
- Easy Thumbnails [Fookes Software] (Windows) – Freeware utility for creating thumbnail images
- XnView [Pierre-e Gougelet] (Windows, Linux, Unix/X11) – Multimedia viewer, browser, and converter
- CodedColor [1STEIN GmbH] (Windows) – Photo viewer, image editing and archiving software
- ImageBuddy [KepMad Systems] (Macintosh) – Digital image printing software
- Image Resizer [SEM] (Windows) – JPEG and EXIF viewing and editing software
- GTK Photo Gallery [Jens Wilke] (Unix) – Manage photograph collections and order prints online
- My Photo Gallery [fuzzymonkey.org] (CGI/Perl) – Online album
- PhotoMan [Keith Sheppard] (Windows) – Digital photo organizing application
- Gwenview [Aurelien Gateau] (Linux/KDE) – Fast and easy to use image viewer for KDE
- gThumb [Paolo Bacchilega] (Linux/GNOME) – Image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop
- StudioLine Photo [H&M Software] (Windows) – Digital image editing and archival software
- pixafe [pixafe GbR] (Windows) – Relational database with lots of imaging functions
- Eye of Gnome (eog) [The GNOME Project] (Linux/GNOME) – Standard picture viewer in the GNOME Desktop
- RealWorld Photos [RealWorld Graphics] (Windows) – Image editor; retouch a .jpg image without losing quality
Check these programs out and let me know you feedback.
Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!
Article is from Dominickgatto. Posted on June 12, 2007.
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Photoshop CS3 was released with a few new and powerful tools. On of which is the Black & White Adjustments Tool. But what is the difference between the previous conversion to black & white by way of the channel mixer and the new tool? Lets weigh out the steps and option for each and have you decide.
First, let’s start with a nice, colorful image to convert.
<a href=”http://designcreatology.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/tulip.jpg” title=”Pink Tulips”
Image->Mode->Grayscale
This is the most common method of conversion, and yields the result below. While the image looks O.K- it can look much better than it does.
Image->Adjustments->Channel Mixer
The channel mixer should be familiar to you if you spend any time doing color critical work. This is a good way to selectively adjust your colors- giving you a bit more control than some of the other tools. The key to this method is the ‘monochrome’ checkbox on the bottom of the palette.Once you click on the “Monochrome” checkbox, you will see the image convert to black and white in the background. Now you can use the Red, Green and Blue sliders to selectively control the contrast of your image. The example below, I adjusted the image for “pleasing-ness” in the Channel Mixer palette.
There is just one problem with the method- the image does not convert to the grayscale color space when you are done with your adjustments, and hit OK. So just remember, when using this method- CONVERT TO GRAYSCALE WHEN YOU ARE DONE! Otherwise, you printer might get a little annoyed that all of your ‘1-color’ images are actually RGB.
The New Tool: Image->Adjustments->Black and White
This is the newest tool in this bag of tricks, introduced in Photoshop CS3. The control palette looks similar to the channel mixer palette, but has many more sliders- which means more control over your adjustments.
The best part of this tool, is that visually, it is very simple to understand. In the case, the large pile of red lumber on the right hand side of the image can be darkened or lightened by adjusting the Red slider.
I can’t imagine ever converting to grayscale again without it. And if you are tinting photos, you not only get to apply the color cast you want, but you can still control the colors to create the contrast necessary, as well. This is far more useful than the Hue/Saturation techniques to create a CMYK duotone effect. How many of you used to create a true duotone, then convert back to RGB or CMYK? And, of course, there is the Color Overlay of Photoshop’s Layer Effects, but this beats ‘em all.Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!
Photoshop CS3 was released with a few new and powerful tools. On of which is the Black & White Adjustments Tool. But what is the difference between the previous conversion to black & white by way of the channel mixer and the new tool? Lets weigh out the steps and option for each and have you decide.
First, let’s start with a nice, colorful image to convert.
<a href=”http://designcreatology.com/b/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/tulip.jpg” title=”Pink Tulips”
Image->Mode->Grayscale
This is the most common method of conversion, and yields the result below. While the image looks O.K- it can look much better than it does.
Image->Adjustments->Channel Mixer
The channel mixer should be familiar to you if you spend any time doing color critical work. This is a good way to selectively adjust your colors- giving you a bit more control than some of the other tools. The key to this method is the ‘monochrome’ checkbox on the bottom of the palette.Once you click on the “Monochrome” checkbox, you will see the image convert to black and white in the background. Now you can use the Red, Green and Blue sliders to selectively control the contrast of your image. The example below, I adjusted the image for “pleasing-ness” in the Channel Mixer palette.
There is just one problem with the method- the image does not convert to the grayscale color space when you are done with your adjustments, and hit OK. So just remember, when using this method- CONVERT TO GRAYSCALE WHEN YOU ARE DONE! Otherwise, you printer might get a little annoyed that all of your ‘1-color’ images are actually RGB.
The New Tool: Image->Adjustments->Black and White
This is the newest tool in this bag of tricks, introduced in Photoshop CS3. The control palette looks similar to the channel mixer palette, but has many more sliders- which means more control over your adjustments.
The best part of this tool, is that visually, it is very simple to understand. In the case, the large pile of red lumber on the right hand side of the image can be darkened or lightened by adjusting the Red slider.
I can’t imagine ever converting to grayscale again without it. And if you are tinting photos, you not only get to apply the color cast you want, but you can still control the colors to create the contrast necessary, as well. This is far more useful than the Hue/Saturation techniques to create a CMYK duotone effect. How many of you used to create a true duotone, then convert back to RGB or CMYK? And, of course, there is the Color Overlay of Photoshop’s Layer Effects, but this beats ‘em all.Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!
For many different reasons Color Schemer Studio is a favorite of mine as you might already know if you have read previous entries on this blog. I want to give you a closer look at one of the tools that it has to offer and it is called PhotoSchemer. Use the PhotoSchemer to help create a color scheme based off of the colors in any picture or image.
To find PhotoSchemer go to the Tools menu and select it from the drop down menu choices or press Control+H. Now open any GIF, JPEG, or bitmap image, and the PhotoSchemer will automatically generate a random color scheme taken from your image. The palette that opens in the top-left holds the color swatches taken from your image, and the white circles scattered around the image show the point that each color is taken from. (see below)
Here are some tips for using the PhotoSchemer:
Drag the white circles around the image to fine-tune your photo scheme. You can even drag the transparent palette around if it is covering a portion of your image.
Use the Randomize! toolbar button to generate new scheme ideas, or drag the white circles around the image to change the reference point of the individual color swatches.
If you find that your image is too “busy” to pick out individual colors, press the “Mosiac Mode” toolbar button to switch the PhotoSchemer into Mosaic Mode. This mode converts your image into large blocks of color, making it easy to pick out your favorites.
Once you are set on your photo scheme, you can drag each individual swatch over to your Favorite Colors, or add the entire palette to your Favorite Colors with the “Add to Favs” toolbar button.
Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!
As promised here are more free symbols to be used with Illustrator.
Here is another Blogtology subscribers Illustrator art submission:
Titled: “Mothers Day”
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As promised here are more free symbols to be used with Illustrator.
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Today I was looking for interesting images for a post to show off Adobe Creative Suite CS3 and I came across a post on koregrapik.com:
While the response from the community over the recently revealed re-branding of Adobe’s various applications has been negative for the most part, I find myself growing rather fond of Reader 8 and Photoshop CS3’s icons. Since Creative Suite 3 is a few months away, I thought now would be a good time to have the full set, 45 icons in all, ready.
The icons come in ICNS and PNG format. Enjoy!
Here is just a small sample of the 46 icons available in the download he has provided. We just love the icons! Check them out for yourself!
Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!
As promised here are more free symbols to be used with Illustrator.
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The most revolutionary aspect of Illustrator is the introduction of its Graphic Symbols tools. These tools reduce file size and benefit manageability in much the same way that symbols are used in Flash. Beyond that, the tools make image repetition much easier and cut down the number of steps that are needed to do the same thing manually. Any object or group can be quickly turned into a symbol, and accessing it for reuse is as simple as selecting your symbol in the Symbols palette. Updating a symbol automatically updates every instance of that symbol in your document.
Eight new symbol tools on the toolbar help you manage and create quickly and easily. The Symbol Sprayer tool works very similarly to the Graphic Hose in Painter, quickly applying several instances on your artboard. Attributes such as size and angle can even be controlled by a pressure-sensitive tablet.
Once applied to the artboard, the other symbol tools can be used to modify the instances. Quickly change the rotation, distribution, size and position of each of a group of instances—the tools are impressively intuitive. The Symbol Stainer tool applies a raster-like colorizing effect to your symbols, and the Screener tool applies eraser-like transparency effects that would make you swear you were working in Photoshop. Plus, you can use the Symbol Styler tool to apply preset or user-created styles in varying amounts to your symbols!
Of course you have the option to break the link between placed symbol instances and the original if you wish to modify the objects without making a global change, but this means you lose the benefit of smaller file sizes or being able to make global symbol changes.
The applications for these tools are wide and varied. Not only do they make for efficient and small files, but they also open up new creative possibilities.
Installing the symbols couldn’t be easier, drag and drop the symbol file into Illustrator. The symbol is then opened inside of Illustrator and you can save the symbol to a symbol library by clicking on the symbols palette then click the small triangle button which opens a options menu for the symbols. The last option in the menu is to save the symbol library once you select save a window will open up to the default symbols folder inside of Illustrator, give it a name and press save. That’s it! Now the symbols can be selected from the same menu by selecting the open symbol library and selecting the library that you would like to open.
We have gathered free symbols from the web and have them here for you to download. There are many different symbols available from Christmas Lights, Cell Phones, Aqua Orbs and Credit Cards just to name a few. As we find more symbols we will post them for here for everyone to download and use. Get creative with these symbols and send us your artwork so we can showcase it here on Blogtology.
The Symbols
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One of our readers submitted his Illustrator Artwork:
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