Photo Quickies

PhotoQuickie loves to pack light when travelling, but we also of course must bring our camera with us. This ends up being a problem on our longer trips when we expect to take enough photos to bore even our enthusiastic photography friends to sleep. The real fear here of course, is not that our friends will shun us for life, but rather how do we store all our photos while on the go? We’d rather spend our money on a nice trip than a pocketful of memory cards.

Our first idea was to bring our trusty laptop with us, but it is rather painful to have to carry it around everywhere. Besides we already have to keep a watchful eye on our camera equipment, so we’d rather not bring more gadgets for those with slippery fingers.

So PhotoQuickie has brainstormed some cheap alternatives to this little problem (yes, we are considering going away for a bit so this is weighing on our minds):

• Bring along some CD-Rs and head off to the local cybercafe to burn our efforts.
• Use one of those adapters to offload our memory cards to a digital audio player
• Setup our webhost so we can upload all our pictures online
• Hire a couple of carrier pigeons to mail our memory cards back and forth

Truth be told, we haven’t found a good solution, but it looks as though we will need access to a computer one way or another. If you have any good ideas leave PhotoQuickie and our readers a comment.

Personally, PhotoQuickie hardly has any black and white photos but we look forward to having some fun with this neat utility.

Recolored is an application for Windows which helps you do the reverse of the greyscale option in Photoshop; it adds color back to your pictures. It’s currently in beta and free for non-commerical use, so download it and give it a try before deciding whether to buy the commercial v1.0 release in the future.

PhotoQuickie thinks that we’ll make some black and white pictures, and then recolor them in a different color scheme. Very trippy.

PhotoQuickie has discovered a neat little utility created by the intelligent minds at Microsoft Research which will let us easily create the perfect group picture. We sometimes take multiple shots of the same picture in the hopes that our shakey hands will be surgeon-like for at least one picture. Now we can take the best elements from all our shots and make a photo worthy of framing.

Well, we hope. PhotoQuickie hasn’t had a chance to try this out yet. Let us know how it works!

Download Microsoft Research’s Group Shot

PhotoQuickie has been busy in the new year, but we wanted to drop a note about a link we came across this morning on how to take professional photos without a professional.

Rather than take the odds of accidently taking an amazing photo, Lindsay Landis demonstrates how by using a little technique and a little photo editing, we can show our photos at our next family gathering without being embarrassed.