Before I go to what the title for this post is about, let me say thank you first to my Entrecard droppers. For January 2010, Jean Squared is back on my Top Ten, with drops for all 31 days of the month. Thank you so much! With her is CAP News and a come-back kid Wirez and Circuitz, hehe. I am off to drop ECs on your widgets, and place ads too. I wonder if I made it to anyone’s list? I probably didn’t 🙁
So I had posted before about trying out Picasa 3. I started a discussion over at myLot about photo editing software. It really opened my eyes to alternatives to the two software I use: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and PaintShopPro. Although it does seem like Photoshop gets a lot of votes, GIMP and Picasa are definitely holding up too. Then someone also mentioned Microsoft Paint.Net and now I also want to give that a try!
Now, would you be so kind as to check out the discussion and participate too? You would have to sign up for myLot to post a response, but it’s easy and you can earn off your participation too. 🙂 I ain’t just asking you to sign up so I can gain referrals, I really do want to find out what photo editing software you use and why you think it works best for you. 🙂
I finally got PaintShopPro installed (just a few minutes ago) so I resized the photo I tweaked in Picasa yesterday. Here it is:
the photo from yesterday's post, edited in Picasa
Notice any difference? It does look well. And editing was quite simple too. I didn’t get to play around with the program more today though so still no review from me 🙁
I now have three softwares pertaining to photos on my PC. PSP for editing (and also for digiscrapping), and Windows Live Photo Gallery and Picasa for photo management. Maybe I should write up a review for each? There are very good reviews out there already though, all you have to do is search.
This isn’t a review. I don’t have time to make one just yet.
But a colleague at work who is also into photography shared his experience with Picasa as a photo editor and I decided to give it a spin. I can’t find my Adobe CS3 installer and I haven’t reinstalled PaintShopPro, so this was the perfect opportunity.
Here’s the original photo:
Now, just based on five minutes of playing around with Picasa, what I do see is that it does some awesome job for basic editing. It doesn’t have as much options as Photoshop though, but that doesn’t really mean negative points does it? After all, simpler is better when it comes to some things.
Here’s what Picasa helped me come up with…
Okay. No picture. I can’t figure out how to resize a photo with the tools I currentl have and the edited photo is 7.5MB big. The WP uploader is only allowing upto 7. Grrr. I can figure this out, but I have no time just now. Sorry.
I will continue with a proper Picasa review though. Someday. 🙂
In the meantime, let me just introduce you to my SMEs – Subject Matter Experts. They are the go-to personnel for technical concerns, highly proficient on all the products we support. They were hanging about, just in time for the weekly call we have with the clients, just like what we had this morning.
I finally made a donation to the Haiti Fund, through Hope For Haiti Now, the organization that launched the star-studded telethon to raise funds.
I figured that since I was already enjoying the videos of the performances from the telethon, I might as well make the donation through them. You can also checkout their YouTube channel if you want to see amazing performances and short features.
If you haven’t donated to the Haiti Fund yet, well what are you waiting for? Every small contribution counts!
My PC woes haven’t been resolved so I have to be offline for a longer time. Sigh. On the upside, I did (finally) get to finish Inkheart while Alfred worked on the PC.
I am trying Windows 7, after my PC’s been getting the blue screen of death (BSOD) and kept on restarting over and over. So it’s running right now, but we did have restart and BSOD issues again, even after installing Win7. I am hoping that the problem is solved already, since the last restart has been more than an hour ago (maybe even two).
Ahhh but I typed a little too soon.. PC just crashed again, but the debugger points to filtmgr.sys and I don’t really have any idea what that is or what other troubleshooting to do. I think though that it must be something with the flash/apps from Facebook because it happened while I was doing something at the Zoo application.
I am disappointed too because I seem to have lost my Chrome bookmarks. I had synced it through the Google Chrome Bookmarks Sync feature but now I don’t see the option to actually sync it back. I didn’t think about backing up the actual file because I was safe in the knowledge that I did that sync up. Now, I am without the many awesome blogs and photography resources that I favorited in the past 6 months or so. 🙁
There are a number of programs that I need to reinstall, and I also haven’t moved back my files. I’m guessing this is probably the best time to organize my photos and other digi-clutter.
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Before I move on though… Here’s the reveal of what was in the picture… Most of you got the sky part correctly. The blue part is indeed the sky at dusk. But that pinkish part isn’t a roof. What it is is part of a white (tiled) wall. I took the photo looking straight up from ground level, right outside The Creamery at the back of the Mall of Asia and across San Miguel by the Bay. I was going to look for another photo to post that would give you another view of the area but, like I mentioned already, I haven’t moved my files back just yet.
I think guessing what’s on the picture is a nice blog activity? At least I got some of you commenting 🙂 I’ll keep this game in mind when I shoot. Maybe next time I’ll turn it into a giveaway too. Hehe 🙂
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We were at Raon in Quiapo yesterday afternoon. It was quite an afternoon, costing us a lot of money 🙁 We got the PlayStation installed with a new harddrive and network adapter, so now it’s loaded with a lot of games, including several versions of Guitar Hero! We also bought another videoke system 🙂
Since it took more than hour to get the PS fixed, we walked around the area (specifically staying away from Hidalgo, lest I be tempted to buy camera gear) for awhile. There were so many Kodak moments, but I didn’t have Maxine with me. Alfred isn’t too keen on taking it to Quiapo, snatcher magnet that it is. Truth is, I don’t really think it is something that would be stolen from me while walking around Quiapo. I mean, it would just be too obvious diba if anyone grabs it from me? But then again, better safe than sorry. Kung bakit naman kasi boyfriend doesn’t have the body of a cla supplement hunk. With him towering over me, he could be my body guard. He’s big too, but most of it’s fat (sorry babe, haha). He actually does need to lift and take those supplements so he’d be all toned and muscled up. Wahaha 🙂
