photo editing and albums

Picnik


Picnik is free tool where you have the opportunity to:
• Fix your photos in just one click
• Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
• Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
• Use tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
• have basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers

Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. No download required, nothing to install

It is not a very collaborative tool but you can take advantage of it if, for example, ask from your partners to send photos of each other and invite students change their partners photos by adding special effects from artsy to really fun!!

Useful links:

http://www.picnik.com/

Fotobabble

Fotobabble: An eTwinning project should offer fun as well. A nice application for having fun with your partners is fotobabble. You just have to upload your photo, record your voice and share it with your partners. This can be used at the beginning of an eTwinning project. Ask your children to upload their photo and then record their voice introducing themselves to their partners. Ask your partners to do the same!!Isn’t this a nice, amusing and live way of getting to know to each other?
Useful links:

http://www.fotobabble.com/

Image Mosaic Generator

 
Image Mosaic Generator: generates mosaic images by combining thousands of images. To create a mosaic image just upload an image to their website, and wait for a few minutes for your mosaic image. You can upload images in GIF, PNG, JPG or JPEG formats. Put a bet with your partners: who is going to make the most amazing mosaic of project photos?
 
Useful links:

http://click7.org/image-mosaic-generator/?create

Mixbook


Mixbook: This is collaborative software that allows you to create common photobooks. You can start by uploading some of your photos and then ask your eTwinning partners to add their own photos there and their own personalized stamp. The photobook creator mixes the photos and you have an amazing common presentation! Some of Mixbook features are:
• Photo zoom
• Custom frames
• Photo rotation
• Custom colour matching
• Transparent text boxes and backgrounds
• Photo integration as you can take photos from other applications like Flickr, Facebook, Yahoo.

Useful links

http://www.mixbook.com/

Flickr

 

Flickr: is an online photo and video management application, used for editing, organising and uploading digital images online. It was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched this application in February 2004. In 2005, both Flickr and Ludicorp were acquired by Yahoo. Flickr requires a Yahoo! account to sign in, and it’s a free and easy way to share photos with friends from the other countries.

Useful links

http://www.flickr.com/

Tabblo

Tabblo: Tabblo was started in 2005 with a simple observation:
There is no good online application for putting together photos and words with styled templates that can be customized by the author for the purpose of telling a story.
In this site you can:
• Create your own tabblos of photographs and share them with your partners who can leave their comments under them.
• Pool your photographs together with other members (why not your partners?) for collaborative tabblo creation
• Integrate open photo services such as Flickr to avoid having to upload in multiple sites
• Publish tabblos to blog and other social networking sites.

Tabblo is part of Hewlett-Packard, and is located in Marlborough, MA.

Useful links:

http://www.tabblo.com/studio

Picasa

Picasa is a Google software with which you can find, edit and distribute easily and quickly all the photos available on your personal computer or in a digital camera. The classification of the photos is done in virtual albums that are organized by date and have folder names for easy identification. Classification of albums (with the method of drag and drop), photo rating, password protection of albums is supported while a photo can belong to more than one albums.
Picasa also provides photo editing, allowing adjustments at the touch of a button (contrast, problems with the colours, red eye reduction) and 12 powerful effects. The sharing options include sending photos via e-mail, publishing photos on a website, creating slide shows or films, and transferring images to mobile devices (eg a CD).


Pedagogical value in eTwinning
Children can take pictures of their work during the project. Then they can apply some effects, like making the pictures black and white or sepia, add captions and description or make a slide show.

Useful Links

You can download it free at:
http://picasa.google.com/download/



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