If every photo in your pile needs to be rotated, brightened, or re-sized, it’s a pain to do them one by one. It’s much easier to use what’s called a “batch converter.” We have two recommendations, one free, one $25.
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“The Book of GIMP,” by Lecarme and Delvare, $50 from nostarch.com, is a great guide to the GIMP photo-editing program.
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You could use text to tell a story but according to an old Chinese proverb, a picture is worth a thousand words. (Actually, that proverb is constantly misquoted. The character in the original Chinese does not mean a thousand or even ten thousand words, but simply very many.) Studies show that people learn and retain information six times faster if they have pictures.
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Moo.com offers business cards, and some free. We got a card one half the width of a normal card from an artist who restores books. It’s called a mini-card and it had her photo and info on the front and another photo covering the back. Looked nice.
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If you’re like us, you have photos scattered across the web. We have them on Flickr, Shutterfly, Facebook, Picasa, SmugMug etc. “Woven” is a new app for Android, iPhone/iPad, and the Kindle Fire which collects all your photos in one place and organizes them by date and app. The grouping by date is particularly helpful.
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When we were in Laguna Beach, California about 12 years ago, we stumbled upon a Dr. Seuss collection in a fine art gallery. Bob said they were just selling inkjet prints. But “No,” said the salesman, “it’s a Giclee.” “Giclee” is French, the verb form means “to squirt,” which is what inkjet printers do. (They put it in French to spray the buyers.) So we can “Giclee” a lot of copies of any print, but if you want it on canvas and wide, the inkjet printer that can do that costs about $5,000. That was the price for a Hewlett Packard inkjet printer we first saw in Pasadena a dozen years ago. You could print on paper or canvas and [...]
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“SnapHeal” removes unwanted items from photos. It’s $8 in the Mac app store. Say you’ve got a big trash can in the photo, blocking part of the beauty of the beach, or the beauty on the beach. To get rid of it, mark it and click “erase.” If it’s a skinny object, like a telephone pole, the program has tools to fine-tune the selection before you click erase.
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A reader with an image problem loved our suggestion that he download “Screen Hunter,” a free program for capturing anything you see on your screen.
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Microsoft Publisher and Adobe’s InDesign are often used to create newsletters. But they both have a substantial learning curve, so to avoid the curve and stay on the road, just use Microsoft Word.
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