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Among the commonly known types of printers there is a specific one called a thermal printer. It uses heat to transfer an impression onto paper, more specifically it heats the thermal paper when the paper passes over the thermal print head. Current technology allows thermal printers to print in both color and black and white […]

What’s your favorite way of spending free time? Statistics say that the answer you are most likely to get is playing computer games. Grand Theft Auto (commonly abbreviated GTA) is a multi-award-winning video game series that has a lot of fans around the world. It is indeed popular: where else can you steal someone’s car,

Nowadays everyone is familiar with digital images. Professional photographers use their cameras’ RAW format, but now even some mid-range digital cameras offer a RAW format setting. Users are moving to RAW format to take creative control over their digital images. RAW files represent the pure, unaltered scene captured by the sensors of the camera. This

Whether you are a startup business or a small to midsized business, if you have two or more computers, you need to consider networking. The primary reasons why you will network PCs are to share a single printer, files, and possibly a high-speed Internet connection between them. Your office PC can be connected to a

You’ve probably seen photos online with photographers’ signatures and you’re wondering “How do I add my signature to my photos?” If your photo is a masterpiece, then it will look like a real painting signed by an artist. It means you are proud of your work, or even if not too proud it’s one of

Real estate photos are worth more than a thousand words. Agents agree that photos are one of the most important pieces of information they need to present to potential buyers. Truth that location and price could well be the two significant components to draw possible buyers’ attention, a fabulous picture of the house’s every angle

The idea of taking photos in RAW is pretty daunting to new camera owners. It’s a new world, and it takes a different approach than you might be used to with the traditional JPEG. You have to remember though that with JPEG image compression is always applied to reduce the file size, even when the

If you are tired of images that look too photographic, here is what ImageConverter Plus can offer you for fun and creativity. The watercolor effect is nice and easy with great looking results. Artists have a great deal of respect for those who choose watercolors. It’s probably the most difficult thing to handle. You have

There are nowadays a lot of scanners available – they have gone from being a very specialized device to a common accessory. They work well not only for scanning documents, but photos as well. We decided to take after some scanners and to offer our users more possibilities. Our recently updated MyViewPad software is able

Stress is a normal part of life. Sometimes it is good – it can motivate you and help you be more productive. However, too much stress is harmful and can cause depression. But there are ways to relieve it. Try to recall when was it when you felt happy. Maybe Christmas 2 years ago when

Fancy digital cameras allow saving the RAW data instead of JPEG. If you are the owner of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8, you have noticed that this digital camera has an option to shoot RAW. This format is not for everyone, and RAW file is not a picture until it is processed further. But if you edit

Normally when the pictures turn out blurred the intention is to correct them. Otherwise the photos are not eye-pleasing, or even annoying. But sometimes the photos are way too sharp – they look too good to be true. To make your photos more natural looking, technically explaining, to smooth transition between the hard edges averaging

It may happen that you took tons of photos and didn’t realize until too late that the date stamp on the camera was set wrong. Wonder if there is a solution? EXIF data presents some important information stored within images. It exists in almost all digital cameras that record and store the camera settings, scene

Children love to create their own artwork with paint, crayons, pencils, glue and any other art supplies they find. Art projects are wonderful ways to encourage creativity and imagination. Self expression through art projects lets children learn about themselves by using colors and design to describe their thoughts and ideas. Very often, these masterpieces that

How often has it happened that you need to process some image files and as soon as you bring them home they won’t open? What you see on the screen is “Cannot Open File – This file format cannot be opened by this application.” Frustrating, isn’t it? There are file extensions that may cause problems,

If you just bought a new camera like Canon EOS D2000 you won’t be able to process your RAW files without proper software. Each camera manufacturer that uses the RAW format does it in a slightly different way, and this can change even with different models from the same manufacturer. If you use RAW-conversion software

A number of credit card issuers are now giving consumers the ability to custom-design their own cards. In order to become their clients’ favorite card issuers banks are ready to provide their customers with lots of photographic opportunities – one can put their own, their children’s or pets’ photos in the background, or just choose

When a collection of images is saved as a single file, such file is called a multipage file. The number of pages in a multipage file can be any – there are no limits except for the disk space. The most common image formats supporting the multipage layout are PDF, TIFF, DCX. ImageConverter Plus allows

If you work with graphic files a lot it means you have hundreds of them saved on your hard drive. It’s important to have these files organized, because otherwise you will be lost among hundreds of similar names. But how not to get confused among the files that you may convert multiple times and have

Digital cameras typically produce one or two types of files – JPEG and RAW. Most amateurs work with JPEGs, while most professionals prefer to work with RAW files. When you are dealing with a RAW file, you are working with a much higher quality original than you would if it were JPEG. You also have