Expanding My Horizons
I recently
started thinking about all of the photos I format for my
clients websites. Have you ever noticed that the color
is less green, yellow or pink once they get on your site?
I make them cleaner, sharper and more vibrant. I've
been doing this for a long time so I've gotten pretty good
at it. Now I have put together a website selling this
service. I'll still clean up your photos when I put
them on your website, but this is for any other photos.
Everything from old photo restoration to making your
Facebook photo look a little nicer. Check out some of
my before and after work at:
www.digitalphototouchup.com.

A few of my Favorite Toys - I mean Tools
Since my life is pretty much spent on a computer, I use a lot of different programs in my day to day work to make tasks simpler and faster. Here are a few really cool and inexpensive tools I just couldn't do without!
www.wavget.com has a
really neat tool I use called Type It In Pro.
It stores account numbers or any text you use over and over
again. When I send an invoice do you think I type in
"You can pay your bill online by . . . " Heck no, I
click a button and Type It In does it for me. I use this
program for passwords, account numbers, credit card numbers,
java script snippets and other stuff I use in making
websites. The cost is $19.95 an they don't have an
affiliate program so I don't get anything for recommending
them.
Another program that I use a lot is call
Capture Wiz Pro from Pixel metrics.
www.pixelmetrics.com.
The cost of this program is about $40.00 (I
don't get any kickbacks), but it will capture anything on
your screen. Just drag a box and save it to your
clipboard, or to a .jpg, .gif or pg file. It also will
record audio and video from a website. I use this program at
least 50 times a day!
When I need to resize or optimize photos
for the web in large batches I use Land of Com's Photo Elf.
It looks cheesy, but this program will batch rename, size
and do all sorts of editing to photos for you. $40.00
www.photoelf.com/
I also use a little program called File Monkey by
www.monkeyjob.com/
FileMonkey automates common time consuming file operations.
This package can copy, move, split, search, replace, rename,
alter case, generate lists, trim, truncate, crop, chop, set
attributes, encrypt, decrypt, wipe, delete, extract and
more. Cost: $29.00 but can save a lot of time.
MonkeyJob has some other cool tools on their website worth
checking out.
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