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Introducing the February Home Photo and Layout Contest winners!

February’s Home Photo and Layout Contest, Love is in the Air, had many wonderful entries. The winners this month are:

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Many home photographers are finding themselves overloaded with many photos haphazardly scattered all over the computer and with all kinds of name. I can guarantee you the collection is only going to grow and it would be a good idea to get control of your digital image collection. Granted many organizers will find all your photos on your computer and show them to you in a calendar mode, but could you quickly gather all your photos together and burn them to DVD for a backup or to share with a friend or family?

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If you assign a lot of categories to your images, you may want to know how to view which categories are assigned to a particular image.  There are a few methods but I’ll identify the two easiest methods.

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This is the final in the three part interview series with Katharine as she continues to put up amazing photos in Flickr. Check them out.

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Did you know that you can use ACDSee Photo Manager & ACDSee Pro 2 to create awesome abstract images from your photos? I’ve played with the special effects & met the developer behind many of them. But I want to introduce you to someone who is using them to create gorgeously unique art from them! 

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It seems that applying metallic effects has become popular. I’m going to show how to apply it to the water in the photo below. This tutorial will work for ACDSee 10 or ACDSee Pro 2.

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ACDSee Pro 2 & ACDSee 10 can be used to add a white or black border to a photo. If you’d like to get creative & nest the borders, that is possible too. This tutorial shows how to change the color of the border also.

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Selective coloring in ACDSee is SO easy now! Before ACDSee 10 in order to achieve this I had to use masks in ACDSee Photo Editor.

This can be done in both ACDSee 10 & ACDSee Pro 2!

• Open your photo in ACDSee by double clicking on the thumbnail.
• Use the pull down menu on the Palette Icon & choose Edit Mode

A new pane opens on the left

• Click on Selections
• With Freehand Lasso tool selected, draw around the item
• stay fairly close, but it doesn’t have to be exact.
• when you get back to where you started the selection will be made
• Click on Invert, Click on Done if you’re satisfied with your selection

Click on the Color - in the left pane & this is when the magic happens!

• Move the Saturation slider to the left to desaturate the background

To make up for the area around the image, on the top

• Move the slider for the Feathering to the right.
• Decide what looks the most natural.
• Click on Done

This will bring you back to the Main Menu of the Edit Panel

• Click on Finished Editing at the bottom
• And your photo is finished!

Here’s a quick tutorial for opening the Advanced Editing mode.

You’ll find it in both ACDSee 10 & ACDSee Pro 2.

Under the palette icon’s pull down menu, choose Edit Mode

This opens a new pane on the left with the icons described. And now you have access to the Selections tool.

Take a look at the slide show on the right under the About box. I’m going to show you how it easy it is to do.

You can create a Sendpix album in ACDSee Photo Manager 9, 10 or ACDSee Pro 2 to share your photos with family & friends. And it also creates an html code to create a slideshow on your blog or website.

Create an Album -> Next

Enter a name for your Album -> Next

Browse to your photos or layouts

select & add them

multiples can be added at once

Next -> Send (uploads your album)

An email will be sent to the email address you had given & there will be an html code in it.

You can copy & paste that into your blog to create a slideshow of your photos/pages. If your blog uses widgets then it’s really easy to create a text widget with the code. Please ask if you have questions on how to do that.

And link us to your slideshows - we’d love to see them.