A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Welcome to our Cool Tools Class! Today we will be learning about several free and easy tools to help you make your digital images look better than ever. Nothing we learn about today will cost you any money, so sit back and enjoy the free tools!

Image Hosting Sites

• Flickr (Stephen's Flickr Photos) - http://flickr.com/photos/srahn
• Photobucket - http://photobucket.com
• Zooomr - http://zoomr.com
• TinyPic - http://tinypic.com

Stand-Alone Programs

• Irfanview - http://irfanview.com
• Paint.NET (layer support) - http://getpaint.net
• Picasa - also allows hosting with Google account - http://picasa.google.com
• GIMP (layer support) - http://gimp.org
• Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

Web-Based Applications

• Picnik - http://www.picknik.com
• Phixr - http://www.phixr.com
• FotoFlexer - http://fotoflexer.com (layer support)
• Pixlr - http://www.pixlr.com (layer and multiple images support)
  • Snipshot - http://snipshot.com
  • Pixenate - http://pixenate.com
  • SplashUp - http://www.splashup.com/splashup/Splashup.swf (layer support)
• Picjuice - http://www.picjuice.com/

Image File Formats Explained - http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/misc/graphics/formats/formats.html

Link to Video Shown in Class - http://ksuettc.org/web20/

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/51136/images.zip