GeneaBloggers

Photos add flair to your blog and your genealogy projects.  The list of tools below can assist you in tapping your creativity as well as protecting photos against copying by others.

Collage

• Free Utility Creates Mosaic Photos from Other Photos (via Gizmo’s Freeware)

• How To Make A Creative Collage On Your Computer With Shape Collage (via makeuseof.com)

Effects

• 9 Cool Websites You Need To Bookmark To Manipulate Your Photos (via smashing apps)

• Create Funny Pictures from Your Photos with PicJoke (via ThemeLib)

• flauntR (add great visual effects)

• Framer: Provides Cool Frame Effects For Your Photos (via makeuseof.com)

• Give Your Photos a Vintage Look without Photoshop (via digital inspiration)

• How to Make Items or People Stand out in Black & White Photos (via makeuseof.com)

• Photo notes (create Polaroid type photos from your images)

Image Converters

• Go2Convert, A Free Web-Based Tool That Can Help You To Convert And Resize A Picture (via smashing apps)

Photo Editors

• Changes Images

• Citrify

• Cut My Pic!

• Mugtug

• Perform A Variety Of Batch-Processing Operations On Your Photos With Phatch (via makeuseof.com)

• Phoenix (part of Aviary set of tools)

• Pho.to (online photo enhancement)

• Photo Magician Makes Resizing Images MAGIC! (via makeuseof.com)

• picjuice

• Picnik (can grab photos from facebook, flickr, Picasa and more)

• PicTreat- Online Free Photo Editing Software to Fix Your Pictures (via makeuseof.com)

• pixer

Protecting and Watermarking

• 3 Methods To Protect Your Web Images From Thieves (via makeuseof.com)

• 4 Ways To Watermark Your Images Online (via makeuseof.com)

• Batch Watermark Images Online

• Create a Watermark with WaterMarkLib to Prevent Photos From Being Stolen (via makeuseof.com)

• ImageMerger.net (protect online photos by adding logo or signature)

Resizing

• 5 Websites To Cut And Re-size Your Images In 3 Easy Step (via smashing apps)

• 2 Great Photo Tips to Digitally Enlarge a Picture Without Ruining Picture Quality (via makeuseof.com)

• EzyImageResizer: Batch Image Resizing Tool Online (via makeuseof.com)

• Resize My Photos Batch Resizes Photos Quickly (via Lifehacker)

• Shrink Pic Resizes Images Automagically for Faster Uploads (via Lifehacker)

• SmillaEnlarger – A Portable App To Increase The Size Of Digital Images (via makeuseof.com)

Tagging

• Foto Tagger – Easily Tag Photos With This Free Annotation Tool (via makeuseof.com)

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Resources for Editing Photos