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Scrapblog.com-Emerging Technologies Post #3

The name of the technology  I am exploring is Scrapblog.  It is a website where you create cards, slide shows, calendars and various other products.  I found it to be very useful and others could use it to make Christmas cards like I have done.  I found it to be very user-friendly and with my experience with Picnik found it to be very easy to use.  I recommend that everyone try out this site, especially if you plan to send out a family Christmas card.  It is a cheap and easy way to spread holiday joy.  

this is a holiday card I made w/ pictures of my girlfriend and I.

Emerging Technologies Post #2- Picnik.com

I explored Picnik.com for my second emerging technologies post.  Picnik.com allows you to take your "average joe" pictures and make them into something unique.  With Picnik.com you can change the effect of your picture (black and white, sepia, boost, etc.), add text, frames, stickers, and even touch up the discrepancies in your pictures.  You can also make collages and picture shows.  I learned how to use Picnik.com by simply going to the site and clicking around.  Everything was pretty easy to navigate and I didn't have much trouble figuring things out.  This technology is really neat, but I don't know that this is something that I would use very much.  However, it would be a great website for those who like to do a lot with photography.  The only tips or suggestions that I would give to those learning to use this website is to make sure you have photos on your computer or somewhere on the web that you can pull them from.  I pulled mine from facebook with the facebook application button.  


Here are the photos I edited with this website...

This is a photo (before and after editing) of me by a waterfall after walking on a 5 mile hike.  I changed the color to sepia and added text (james and 2010).

This is a picture of my girlfriend and I at a friend's house.  I changed the color to black and white and put a black framing around the edges called vignette.

This is a picture of me walking along the river.  It wasn't snowing when I was there, but with a picnik.com application, I was able to add the effect to my picture to make it look like it was snowing.