If you ever consider impressing your date by sketching a likeness of her or presenting her with a painted portrait of her image (similar to how Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson did for Kate Winslet as Rose) and she responds by throwing a drink on your favorite suit (by the way this should dry very quickly), FotoSketcher 1.6 is an adware, spyware and virus free software (available for Windows 98/NT/2000/XP & Vista) that might be helpful. This free application can transform your favorite digital images into sketches or give them a painted portrait look easily with a few mouse clicks!

Keeping at least a copy of all your digital photos (or photo albums) online is a way to play it safe when a hard disk completely wipes out and you're screaming "the hacker has won!" (it's worst when a virus gets in there and starts chewing all your files and when you try to locate them your PC asks you instead "well, where is it?" ). Fortunately, photie.com is a place where your PC and you can both see it. Photie.com is a free photo uploading and sharing service that provides you with unlimited storage space where you can upload files of any size (photie.com easily lets you resize images if you need to as well and makes photo sharing with friends and loved ones easy). Registration is quick. Simply choose a username, create a password and supply an email--this way you keep the hacker busy!

What if you can go back in time and repair all those corrupted Photoshop images? Well now you can (in a way) because the geeks at datanumen.com are on the job and they've released Advanced PSD Repair 1.4--an inexpensive way to recover and repair corrupted Photoshop images. This free software (for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server & Vista) works on multiple versions of Photoshop and can repair batch images and files even if they're stored on a CD, zip drive or floppy disk. When you get to their download page be sure to scroll down the list of applications until you come to Advanced PSD Repair 1.4 (which you can then click and begin your free download).

Waiting in line to get your hands on a new passport photo is as hectic as any city sidewalk if you've been waiting over half hour and you're still the 12th person in line (that's eleven people too many). Especially if you've asked the other two people in front of you how long they've been  in line and they don't even care enough to answer you right now. Fortunately for everyone there's epassportphoto.com where everyone can create valid passport photos online (free) that comply with current passport rules in over 60 countries.

Simply upload your photo in Step 1, resize your photo to ensure it meets passport compliance in Step 2, then in Step 3 you'll be presented with a premium and  free option. Choose "download and print" so you can download your passport photo images free and print it yourself (as opposed to buying the layout from epassportphoto.com and having them print and ship it to you). As for the 13th guy in line waiting for his passport photo his soul is dying right now!

When it comes to renaming, resizing and watermarking digital pictures (especially if you have to resize, rename, and watermark 24 in a row) manasoft.com gives you a real chance to both save money and time with PhotoWham (a cool application that let's you rename, resize and watermark all your digital photos in  batches or entire folders of photo's at once). Its drag and drop features make handling this baby a breeze. Oh and one more tip, when you get to the site be sure to follow the link which says "Home Use--Free",  follow that link since this software is free to use for non-commercial (home use) and is priced at $99.95 for commercial use (compatible with Windows XP/2003 Server/Vista).

If you like to have fun with pictures and love to create photo albums, slides, or Web pages (where people visit your site mining it for laughs) adding fun word bubbles to your digital pictures is easy. At captionpicture.com you can upload your pictures, choose a word bubble and add your own clever phrases. No additional software install of any kind is required and it's free!

When it comes to easily organizing and sharing those photos that have piled up as a result of all that digital cam over-usage (especially if you take pictures for a hobby) snappages.com is probably the online photo album and sharing Web app you'd like to go with (it can be a very useful photo library management tool). Snappages.com allows you to manage all your photo libraries free with rich drag and drop features that quickly let you arrange, group, edit, rotate, crop photo's (and so much more). You're then given options for sharing your images by either making your libraries public or private--just in case you're trying to keep those last 3 images secret at the moment!

Amazing things can happen when you stack up on useful, clever and better ways to take pictures and when you fuse them with savvy image editing tricks each image creates its own storyboard--sort of an interesting dynamic. Here are 20+ Simple, Useful, Clever, Fun Ways to Get Better Photos--it's the key to becoming a photography genius!

If you love working with pictures and would like to learn a useful technique on how to extract the background from an image (using Photoshop) here's a short video demonstration you'll find helpful--especially handy for the people you don't want to see in a photo!

Ever surfed an online social network (or some other site) where you came across your picture on someone else's page and right below it they had their name on it and you couldn't believe your eyes? And now thanks to this impersonator everyone hates you because of a statement they made on their page, so your outrage is even greater? Well, maybe this hasn't happened to you yet, but you can avoid getting completely caught off guard by placing custom watermarks on your pictures. At picmarkr.com watermarking your photo's is easy. Simply upload them from your computer or grab them from Flickr (if you already have photo's in a Flickr account), watermark the image and save it to your computer (or upload it back to Flickr). No additional software is needed and it's free!

Photo image editing software can be very costly, just simply walk into any Best Buy or software retailer and you'll find a customer service line populated by people ready to express their concern. And though there are several image editing programs out there reasonably priced, nothing beats a free online image editor loaded with hundreds of photo editing features including morphing and seam carving (unless the competition has thousands of photo features). At fotoflexer.com you can upload your photos free and you don't need a flask of brandy to add visual effects!

Multimedia presentation and design can be a back breaking process and if you have limited resources and tools laying around it can also prove disappointing, which is why the geeks over at spresent.com developed spresent--a Web based Flash tool that let's you design and create powerful (Flash & PowerPoint-like) presentations online so what you make goes everywhere! Spresent's rich tools will not only allow you to create, edit and publish your multimedia presentations over the Web (or distribute them by email), it will also provide you with storage for your creations. Signup is a breeze and no installations or downloads are required. In case you're curious, it's free!

If you enjoy playing with video and pictures, and can appreciate the significance of manipulating and keying out the background in videos or digital sequences cinegobs.com wants you to have their free chroma keyer as an added tool for your digital toolbox should you feel like eroding, blurring, or tweaking the backgrounds in your videos or still images (requires Windows XP/Vista/Microsoft NET Framework 2.0). Nice!

Photo's are a visual reminder of our fondest moments and most precious memories--which puts a layer of meaning to our lives. So editing our photo's shouldn't be a hassle, rather a short, smooth series of steps until our images reach a bath temperature (precisely why finding and using the right photo editor becomes increasingly important). Saunter down to flauntr.com and see just what we're talking about. Flauntr is a free online photo editor (no download required) that will enhance and style your photos by easily adding thousands of effects the way professionals do with robust blends, overlays, filters, mobile wallpaper creations and more (in a matter of seconds not hours or days) so that your memories stay happy. We love a story with a happy ending!

If your day appears uneventful or you simply love to hack and do zany things with digital pictures, morphthing.com gives new meaning to having fun with pictures. This free online photo morph will let you perform all this magic without fuss. Registration is simple (takes about 10 seconds). You choose a username and password and supply an email. That's it! It's easy! Upload your pictures and start morphing.

Ever try to make a picture smaller and the word text or picture quality got lost and you took issue with the result because the photo's perfect features began losing its detail? Here's a free tool better tailored that couldn't be simpler for this specific job. Rsizr allows you to manipulate your clipart, photo's, and word text images as you wish while preserving its original detail. So what are you waiting for? There's nothing to download. Break open a few picture album files and get started!

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