Adobe Photoshop Express free online

Adobe’s Photoshop Express is now available online and free for everybody to use. Like its Premiere Express cousin, it uses Flash and all you have to do to get started is to register online. You get 2 GB of storage space and there are presentation choices. You can sync with Facebook, MySpace or Picasa and the editing choices you have are as follows:

• Basics: crop & rotate, auto correct, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup, saturation.
• Tuning: white balance, highlight, fill light, sharpen, soft focus.
• Effects: pop color, hue, b&w, tint, sketch, distort.

Digital online archives of huge value to newspapers/magazines

The statistics do not lie, the times are changing. Traditional newspapers and magazines have to face the inevitable. As older generations are replaced by the younger tech savvy ones, online news gain ever more momentum, to the detriment of paper publications. People like to get a quick glimpse of the news at the office, much like they read blogs or purely online news sites.

So how do established but older names like the New York Times, Newsweek and Time magazine differentiate themselves from Yahoo for example? The answer seems to be in experience and huge archives that for some publications go as far back as the 19th century!

By digitizing and tagging old articles and photographic material, the depth and size of a site can be enhanced unbelievably. Additionally, all this information helps with online searches that can more frequently point to a publication’s site.