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Transform your Own Pictures into Art with FotoSketcher

T.J. Mininday — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:03:20 +0000

There are many online and offline applications out there to do various fun things with your photos. Whether you want to strech or skew them, convert them to black and white, or blow them up into a poster. One things I haven’t seen to be very affective, is converting your images into art such as a pencil drawing or painting.

FotoSketcher is a simple offline application that can take any of your images and convert them into various black/white and color painting and pencil drawings. Amazingly for as easy, as fast and as cheap(FREE) as FotoSketcher is, it does an incredible job.

Photo conversion includes the following artistic options:

I took my below photo of the castle at Walt Disney World in Orlando, and transformed into a black and white pencil drawing. Frame and all…

FotoSketcher

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Find Your Next Desktop Wallpaper with Wallpaper Search

T.J. Mininday — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:33:10 +0000

After just recently writing about my favorite use of Google Image Search, by using Google Image Ripper, on MakeUseOf.com, I just happened to stumble upon a very similar service but for just typical wallpaper sizes. You can search for any topic you like, and find your new favorite desktop wallpaper.

It actually works amazingly well for it’s purpose, and should be just another place to search when trying to find your next desktop wallpaper. Check it Out: Wallpaper Search

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Desktopia – Rotate Great Photography and Art on your Desktop

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:42:29 +0000

We’ve seen these before, an on/offline application that rotates user submitted photography and artwork to your desktop. I remember an early version of this at my previous place of work, called Webshots. However it was loaded with malware and it cost me many many hours of desktop support.

Desktopia is a legitimate service that allows you to select various images based on whatever genres you would like, and display them fantastically as wallpaper on your desktop. You then also have the ability to set a particular wallpaper as your permanent display. Rating wallpaper is also built-in, so you can give credit back to the where it was due, the artist.

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