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How to Create Unique Images
Whether you have a website, a blog, or just want to make your MySpace profile look great, there are tools available to enhance your text or photos. In this way, you can add a more personal touch by making them unique and special.
This can be particularly important if you’re trying to brand yourself or your product through the use of an image. Here are some tools that can help make your site memorable and keep your visitors coming back:
Have you ever wished you could create a caricature of yourself or perhaps one of your friends? Some marketers even have cartoon characters representing their persona online. Well, now you can do it easily with this free, easy-to-use software.
Even a computer novice will be able to create funny caricatures or apply some warping effects in no time at all. You can view some funny examples in the gallery on their site. The program utilizes a simple, easy-to-grasp interface for quick operation.
Cartoonist lets you watch the results of each operation in real time so that you can undo any operation at any time or jump back to the original image if you aren’t happy with the results. Try using it with one of the images on your blog or Squidoo lens. Keep people laughing and they’ll keep coming back to see what you have to say.
For those who want to add the features of a more complete image-editing program, why not use the complete photo toolkit? Some of the more interesting features are a color correction tool, a makeup plug-in which adds some portrait enhancing capabilities, a lighting effect which can also add 3D effects and a straighten plug-in to straighten tilted photos.
Photo/Graphic Edges is a suite of 32 photographic effects that enable anyone to give images a unique, artistic look. It includes a stand-alone imaging application as well as a plug-in that works with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro and Corel Draw.
Their site includes a comprehensive gallery demonstrating the powerful effects each of the different options offers. You can download demo versions in both Windows and Macintosh to try out this versatile program. If you want to own it indefinitely, the cost is $179.00.
This is a simple website that offers Photoshop tutorials on different web effects that can be applied to faces or people. Each effect is demonstrated
through screen shots and step-by-step instructions.
Some of the interesting examples are, “How to add cartoon eyes to fruits or
other objects” and, “How to make regular pictures look like old pictures.” There are also some stranger effects like, “Creating buck teeth in a photograph” and “Changing the mouth in one photograph with that of another.” You can have a lot of fun with these effects if you want to interject some humor into your site, blog or profile.
If you want to give your pictures a unique, just-taken look, you’ll like Polaroize. This free to use site converts any photo to a Polaroid-like image.
All you need to do is browse your hard drive for the picture you want to use and upload it to the site. You can even resize it to your own specifications. The site then generates a picture that looks like it just came out of a Polaroid camera. Now you can save it to your hard drive and use it wherever you like.
If you want to give your text an extraspecial touch, take a look at Font Twister. This program contains more than 50 professional styles, which can be changed and enlarged to your own specifications.
Other text effects can be created with the random text effect generator. You can try it free for 30 days and then pay $39.00 to upgrade to the full version.
Web Graphics Creator is a combination of six different programs and can be purchased for $39.95. This very flexible program can create items like web page titles, e-cover titles, graphics for blogs and podcasts, eBay ads, images for ezines and much more. It has over 2,000 built-in objects and over 150 templates you can use. This exciting program offers a lot of possibilities for adding a unique touch to your web venture.
Working on the Internet can seem so impersonal, but it doesn’t take much to add a personality to your marketing campaigns. Try out some of these interesting tools to show some of your own individuality.
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