Articles tagged with: Images

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[1 Jun 2009 | One Comment | 242 views ]
The Easy Way to Put YouTube Videos On Your WordPress Site or Blog

You want to put videos on your blog, but you don’t know how. You think it’s probably fairly technical, so you leave it on the to-do list for later, because you don’t have the time to learn something technical right now.
Here’s the good news: It’s really very easy to do!
The one thing to remember is to work with the HTML editor in WordPress, not the Visual editor. (I’ve got the Visual editor turned off on my sites because I don’t use it at all, so I won’t be able to …

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[28 May 2009 | 3 Comments | 188 views ]
Easy Photo Editing with Picnik

Adding images to your blog posts or to your website is a really effective way to dress things up and add to your message, and WordPress makes it silly-simple to do. But if you’re getting your images from your digital camera or a stock photo site, those images can be way too big to upload the way they are. They need resized, very likely.
I use PhotoShop to do this (and much more) to images for my site and my client work. But, what if you don’t want to buy and …

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[15 May 2009 | 3 Comments | 272 views ]
Should You Get a Professional Photo Taken For Your Site?

You’re putting together a new website and everything is in place except for one thing: your picture. You begin to question whether you actually have to have a picture at all, particularly since you never seem to get around to getting the appointment made at the photography studio. You go back and forth with yourself about whether you need a professional portrait made, or whether a snap with the digital camera would do. Meanwhile, as the battle rages on in your mind, you still don’t have a picture on your …

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[23 Sep 2008 | One Comment | 869 views ]
Photo Dropper WordPress Plugin

One of the more common complaints I hear from my clients is, “I want to use pictures on my site, but I don’t know where to get them for free…legally.” To their credit, every last one of my clients who’ve asked me about adding more photos and images to their sites has voiced concern about adhering to copyright laws.
Well, kiss that problem goodbye by installing the Photo Dropper plugin!
Now you can easily add Creative Commons licensed photos – images that are licensed for shared use – to your …

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[30 Jul 2008 | One Comment | 621 views ]
Tweak Your Photos With PhotoShop Express

I’ve been using Photoshop since version 7.0 and I’m STILL learning how to do things to my photos with it. But not everyone wants to spend (or has laying around to spend!) a few hundred bucks to tweak their photos. Now, you don’t have to!