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Nice or not? It may look normal but let me show you the original photo before applying HDR technique.

According to uncle wiki, HDR is

In computer graphics and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a far greater dynamic range of exposures (i.e. a large range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows.

It’s surprisingly easy to create such photos, all you need is a tripod and camera that can shoot photos in different exposure values! Try it, you’ll be amazed at the results. Oh by the way, this is Penang’s Port Swettenham. A lot of development and face lifts have taken place so it looks very nice now.

Today while I was browsing some Google tools for my blog, I noticed this photo organizing software Picasa. It offers a wide range of nifty features such as creating slide shows, collage pictures and photo editing abilities.

I like the collage feature the most, as it lets you create some pretty impressive photos. Your pictures will appear as real photos that pile up, giving a real photo album like feel. Before this I have seen some bloggers who had this type of pictures showing in their photo blogs. Initially I thought they were creating these images using Photoshop, only to find out they are actually done using Picasa.

A collage made using KLCC park pictures, the whole process takes no longer than 2 seconds!
Collage of Bak Kut Teh. Instead of using a picture itself as the background, it can be white/gray/black color. The photos can be arranged to grid, contact sheet or multi-exposure, according to your liking and creativity!

As you can see from the photos above, they are very nicely done, got that random feel Imagine you have a whole bunch of gathering photos and don’t know which ones to publish, Picasa comes in handy

The photo editing tools can be categorized into Basic Fixes (Crop, Straighten, Redeye etc) Tuning (Fill Light, Shadows etc) and Effects (Glow, Sepia, Tint etc) It even has this “I’m feeling lucky” feature that automatically fixes your photos with.. luck? Those who constantly use Google will know this is some sort of their trademark thing

The user interface design is beautiful and sleek. Nice and worthy program to have if you constantly take and store photos. Picasa is certainly not a tool for bloggers only. Best of all, it’s free and provides almost all your photo editing needs. No need to use Photoshop (which is a resource hog anyway) anymore for basic fix

1. Go to KeepVid

2. Copy paste the YouTube/Google link’s URL into KeepVid’s webpage

3. Right-click -> Save file as .flv format (you will need to download FLV player to play the files), and..

Walla, you have the video in your harddrive~

Technorati Tags: YouTube, Google, FLV player

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