Thursday, September 27, 2007

Picnik.com - Awesome Photo Editing Site makes you professional

I just want to share another interesting site I stumbled upon recently.
The site is called picnik.com. It's a web based photo editor, and you can join for free or premium account.

Now, let me tell you that I'm impressed with their simple, user friendly interface. In no time, I was able to transform a boring picture into a stunning piece of art.

Here's the original picture I uploaded. Click it to see the larger view.


Inside, I clicked on Edit tab, where you can use the edit tools like Auto-fix, Rotate, Crop, Resize, Exposure, Colors, Sharpen and Red-Eye.

On my photo, I didn't use any of it so I went striaght to Create Tab. There you can find Effects, Texts Shapes, Touch-up and Frames.

I clicked on Effects, chose the black and white, and Soften, applied to it. Then I chose the area on the the lower part of Enzo, to focus on rubicks puzzles and his multicolored converse shoes, then applied the Focal B&W.

Then I clicked on Text tab to add the annotation "Enzo&Gian Rubicks Cube Competition" Note that the texts are separated individually, because I can't change them in different colors.

Finally, I clicked on shapes, chose the square, and add them in different colors.

Ooops, before I forgot, the last thing I did was the frame with round edges
effect, which I added under the Frames tab. That's it.

Here's the resulting image. Click it to see larger view.


What do you think? If you want to try, just go to this site and join. If you want to give the premium service a spin, Picnik is offering users a one-week free trial. and you'll be able to sign up for it on Picnik's front page.

Oh, here's another version of the photo I edited.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Thinking boy


Thinking boy
Originally uploaded by tonychel
Shot of Enzo while inside the double decker bus
on our way to Sham Sui Po to attend Primary
School briefing at St. Margaret.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Rush Now! - An Awesome Blog Script!!!

If you haven't heard the buzz lately, you need to
read this. Just recently a new site which gives a
tool that will make almost all bloggers happy,
was launched.

And for the first time ever, you can add relevant
content to your blog and each time you do so, you get
to advertise your blog on someone else's blog...

Isn't that sweet? Not only that,
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-add relevant content to your blog

-add new and constantly changing content

-makes your visitors happy and of you get happy too

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I'm sure you want to get straight the site.

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Friday, September 14, 2007

My Dream Gadget is Out



My dear Chelzsky asked me to reset her iPod Video because
Gian our 2 year old super duper active kulet son played on it.
He listens to High School Musical hits. Now, she can't hear
the music.

Hmm, I did a backup first and tried to reset it back to original
factory setting inside iTunes. Then I copied back all of 300
photos inside, put some few CD albums and hand it back to her.

As I was browsing the net this morning, I learned that the new
generation iPod called iPod Touch is out in US. Also, according
to Apple, this new model, which is excatly same size as iPhone
but thinner, will be shipped in few weeks worldwide.

Come October and November, Many Hong Kong peeps will surely grab
this toy. I think iPod still has the most number of users here.

Wanna check out this cool gadget? go to apple.com