Scrap Booking Online: Word Perfect or Corel Graphics Suite? by Kristina Chu
Scrapbooks are very popular these days. I think that almost everyone wanted to capture family histories and stories in any which way they can. And with the onset of digital technology, scrap booking has even extended to newsletters and journals with photos and illustrations online and in the email. ... It has the Corel Photo-Paint for bitmap editing of photos and images for that professional digital imaging look. ... Corel's WordPerfect Office 12 And if you're the simple type, and you don't want too much clutter, you can use Corel's WordPerfect Office 12 to create a no-visual and...

Tips for Perfect Prints (For Beginners) by John Sollars
Undeniably, photo prints still remain the most popular way of sharing memories. With the right printer and a handful of simple techniques, your pictures can look as sharp as the lab-processed ones. Read on for some great tips for getting the best prints possible. ... Good for framing, screensavers for home or gallery display and photo calendars Best Format Even if your image is high resolution, you will still need to save it in the correct file format: TIFF or JPEG. ... Most digital cameras offer a variety of resolution settings.

Adobe-Photoshop - Can You Afford the Full Package? by John Gibb
While Photoshop is far and away the industry standard, it is also very expensive. Adobe has introduced the cheaper Photoshop Elements for people who don’t want to shell out for the full package, but its functionality is limited. While they’re not generally suitable for very high-end work, there... Instead, you should be looking at programs like Microsoft’s Digital Image, IfranView and Google’s Picasa. ... Apart from that, you could try Paint.net. ... Originally intended as a replacement for Paint, the simple drawing program that comes with Windows, Paint.net has quite quickly turned into...

Free Picture Editing for the Novice and Intermediate Photo Taker by Phil Gerbyshak
As a technology guy, I'm often asked about the software I use for various applications. The most recently asked for application is "How do I edit my pictures after I take them with this neat new digital camera?" The simplest, best program I have found is one called Picasa offered free by Google. ... Just because you have a shiny new digital camera does not mean that you should e-mail full MB shots to everyone in your address book. ... Simply select the folder with the big pictures, select a new folder to put the smaller pictures in, select the size of the pictures you wish to re-size too...

Dot Matrix Printers Are Not A Blast From The Past by Abbie Frank
Everyone jumps onboard for the latest and greatest technology has to offer. This is no more true that in the printer market. Color photo printers have been a growth market for years. While continuing to drop in price, many of these wonders of the modern technological age no longer even need a... Photo and color copiers use a series of inkjet nozzles to spray the correct colors onto the sheet of paper to create the letters and pictures. ... for all the fantastic technology offered in todays laser, color and photo quality printers, there's 1 thing that none of them have been able to do.

Optical Character Recognition - What's It All About? by Brett McQueen
Optical character recognition, or ‘OCR’, is a technology that allows digital images of typed or handwritten text to be transferred into an editable text document. For example, if you hooked up a scanner to your computer and used the scanner to scan a handwritten essay into a digital photo, you... For a normal computer user who wants to be able to edit scanned documents of text, there are many different types of software solutions available. ... The United States Post Office has also been using optical character recognition since 1965.

A Guide to Digital Cameras by Mike Bryant
When my wife and I first found out a few years ago that we were going to have a baby, we both automatically shifted to baby-prep mode. She spent her time buying pretty things for the nursery and shopping for cribs and car seats. Like the ultra geek that I am, I started shopping for a digital... When buying a digital camera, I completely ignore the digital zoom capabilities, instead looking only at the optical zoom. ... Using digital zoom can ruin an otherwise very nice photo. ... One thing to watch out for when buying a digital camera is the number of mega pixels.

Digital Architectural Rendering by Alison Cole
Digital architectural rendering involves using computer techniques in creating and presenting architectural designs. It is almost like making a 3D film of your house, office, a hotel or some other commercial building. With the advent of computer-aided designs, and the associated technologies,... Digital rendering is making great headway by incorporating 3D animated virtual reality. ... New techniques have been developed to infuse life into the video presentations of the building by integrating them with sound effects and a photo finish.

Digital Camera For Digital Printing by Marlon D. Ludovice
The world is going digital and people are crazy bout the hi-tech gadgets available in the market. But significantly paving the way is one of the hottest consumer products of the 21st century - the digital camera. Most people want to capture and store their precious moment forever in a form of... Important Items to Keep in Mind about Digital Camera Technology: Interpolation is a method in which a camera will fill in the color holes in the pixels of a picture by estimating color blends. ... Digital photography has evolved over the past few years into a highly affordable luxury that some...

What's In An iPod - And Why Is It So Popular? by Mike Singh
Not only is the iPod popular because of its reception from the public, but also because it was Apple's first and successful attempt at branching out from its iMac products and a reputation of being strictly "computer". Unlike the iPod nano and the iPod shuffle which use flash memory, the iPod is... Currently the best-selling digital audio player, with over 50 million sold and over 1 billion legal downloaded songs from its iTunes online music store, Apple's iPod player is the most popular consumer brand in the mainstream of a growing market of digital devices.