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A lot of people like to give their images a little touch up by adding rounded corners to them. This can be done with any photo editing software like Photoshop and GIMP but why go through the time-consuming heavyweight software when you can do it online within seconds?

RoundMyPic is a simple online tool that lets you add rounded corners and bevel effects to your pics. Simply upload an image from your computer and click ‘Round it now‘. You can also give your image a new width and height and choose not to have a bevel effect. You can also specify a round size for your image. The resulting image can be easily downloaded to your computer.

Features:

• Add rounded corners to your images quickly.
• Option to add bevel effect.
• Specify a new width and height for your image.
• No registration required.

Visit: roundmypic.com

Taking 3D Photographs: Getting started in 3D photography is easy. Just take two side-by-side photographs approximately eye distance apart with your normal camera. It’s very important not to move the camera too much in between the two shots – for best results, we suggest you move only about an inch per four feet of distance to the subject (2cm per meter of distance to the subject). Make sure both of your photographs are in focus and well lit. You should end up with two .JPG files. If necessary, rotate them to be the right way up.

Creating Albums: After registering, go to your albums page (click on ‘My albums’), and click on the button that says ‘Create Album’. Fill out the title for the album and choose whether it will be public (viewable by anyone) or private (viewable only by yourself and people you share it with) and click the ‘Create album’ button to continue.

Uploading Photographs: Upload the JPG taken from the view of your left eye in the left column, and the JPG taken from the view of your right eye in the right column. Click the ‘Upload’ button and wait for the upload to complete. Fuji REAL 3D users should change the setting to upload MPO files; each MPO file contains two pictures.

Making a Piku-Piku: That’s it! Your photographs are being turned into ‘Piku-Piku’, an exciting new way to experience 3D photographs without glasses. A thumbnail will appear on your album page when it’s done, usually in about 10 seconds.

Visit: start3d.com

Digital photos are great, but often times we just post them straight to a website page or let them languish on our computers. For several years now,however,  Big Huge Labs has provided some awesome and practical photo related projects that can be done in a short amount of time, with very little computer skills needed.

The site includes over two dozen projects that can be printed and/or posted on the web. Projects include various custom poster ideas, custom trading cards, calendars, desktop wallpaper, a pocket album, a CD Cover template, slide show generator, and much more.

Visit: bighugelabs.com

There’s something magical in the absence of color and there is something unbelievably inspiring in black and white photography. This is the oldest type of photography and still the most inspiring one.

Multicolr is a Flickr-based image search engine that allows you to search by color . To see only black and white photography, all you need is to pick colors from the last row:

Yahoo Image Search : Only few people know that Yahoo can be the best Flickr image search engine you’ve ever tried; mainly, because it has some useful search option that Flickr doesn’t. One of them is actually Black&Whit photos. Both options are accessed via Advanced search; there you can set the image color (black and white) and image source (check Flickr to only include photos from Flickr). Right there, you can also set the license filter to only search for images available for distribution:

Corbisimages is my preferred stock images search engine that both contains a high-quality selection of creative photography and offers a robust search feature with lots of features. I first learned about it from this image search engines overview by Edward Khoo and it has been my personal favorite since then.

Besides setting it to search through black and white images only, you can filter:

• By Type (photography or illustration);
• By distribution rights (royalty-free or “rights managed”);
• By editorial type (current news, documentary, fine art; entertainment):;
• By orientation (horizontal, vertical, panorama);
• By date when the photo was created;
• By photographer.

Bing Image Search : As an avid Googler, I feel bad listing both Yahoo and Bing and not mentioning Google; but here’s the truth: I love Google general search, I hate Google images search. It is both limited and irrelevant. I prefer Bing Image Search engine.

It has plenty of great search options (including a black and white filter):

• Search by size (small, medium, large, wallpaper);
• Search by layout (squire, tall, wide);
• Search by style (photography or illustration);
• Check special people search filters: just faces or including head and shoulders.

Besides, it offers a similar search option if you hover your mouse cursor over an image.

Picsearch is a good alternative image search engine to have by hand. It doesn’t have any extraordinary search options to mention. The only reason I use it from time to time is that it provides totally different search results – something I’d never be able to find using ordinary tools like Google or Yahoo.

“Picsearch uses its own technology to crawl the web and has created a searchable index of images…. Picsearch image search technology has three main features that make it unique. It has a relevancy unrivalled on the web due to its patent-pending indexing algorithms. Also, Picsearch has a family friendliness that allows children to surf in safety as all offensive material is filtered out by our advanced filtering systems. The site is also very user friendly as it’s designed to be simple, fast and accurate.”

Besides searching for black and white photography, the tool offers a few other nifty features like:

• Filtering by size;
• Filtering by type (landscape versus portrait for example);
• Showing search suggestions.

There are a whole lot of mobile, desktop, and helper apps tied to Flickr. The team at the photo sharing service decided to make those apps easier to find and install by opening a free “App Garden” to everyone.

Like you might expect, the App Garden is an uncluttered, keen-looking showcase for the efforts of Flickr-happy developers and companies that have made it easy to download and upload photos to the service from many platforms. Apps are tagged by developers, making it fairly easy to find, say, a desktop Mac uploader or Android-based tool.

To help users stumble across great apps, Flickr has also started tagging photos with the tools they were uploaded with, with a link back to that app in the Garden. Share some of your favorite Flickr app finds in the comments, and read up on Flickr’s API if you’re interested in developing an app yourself.

Visit: The App Garden

AllOurStock is a web resource that host a collection of free stock vector symbols, photos and custom created artwork. All images are free and can be used for commercial or private purposes without any restrictions. You can search for images or browse them by categories.

Another cool feature the site has is a shopping cart where you can drag and drop your favorite images while browsing. Then when you are ready to go download all as zipped file.

You can also create an account to stay up-to-date on new updates and keep track of the downloads you have already made.

Features:

• Lists collection of free stock vector symbols, photos and custom created artwork.
• All images are free and can be used for commercial or private purposes.
• Drop images into shopping cart and download all at once.
• Register to stay up-to-date on new additions and keep track of the downloads you have already made.

Visit: allourstock.com