Normally, I use Photoshop to resize my photos because along with resizing photos I also need to apply some filters. A few days ago one of my friends asked me was there any application on Mac that lets him resize a bunch of photos in one go. He also mentioned that he didn’t wanna apply any filters at all and opening Photoshop takes time (it’s true).
Then I figured out that properly we could do that in Automator (a built-in application for automating repetitive tasks). I had never used Automator before but it’s really easy to use, everything is done by drag and drop. After a minute or so, I came up with a small app that does the job perfectly.
If you need to do that task over and over again, you might wanna check this app out. You can download it here ResizePhotos (946). I don’t need to explain how it works because every step in the app is quite explanatory. Enjoy!
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Recently, Google’s just introduced a new web-based tool called Analytics. What does it do? It 
collects statistic data about your web site and that statistic tells you things like how many hits your site’s got, how many distinct visitors, where they are from, how they get to your site? what operator systems they’re working on, what web browsers they use, what connection speeds they have, what their screen resolutions are, and many many more. What do you get out of this information anyways? Well, from that information you can design your site accordingly. For example, it helps you to decide on the width of your web pages by reading collected information on screen resolution. If the majority of the visitors use 1024×640 resolution, then design your site best for that resolution. To conclude, it is a great tool and again it is FREE.
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Some of you might know that apart from photography, graphic stuff is also my interest. Lately, I started to get interested in another form of graphic art. I’ve seen it many times on the web and magazines recently. It’s not something new though, you saw this kinda graphic in old video games like Super Mario. I didn’t know what it was called and was wondering what the heck people would call it until a few days back while looking through a graphic design magazine and I saw it again and so I scanned through the text and then I found out that it’s called pixel art. This evening I was googling to see some pixel art works and I came across this website. The author of this site recommends a tool called GraphicGale for creating pixel graphics so I decided to download the program and gave it a try and after like an hour I had a picture (my canon camera) as below.
What is pixel art anyways? Literally, you create it by drawing pixel by pixel. As Mark (the author of the site above) says it is time consuming and often difficult. Well, I think that’s what most arts are anyways. They requires a lot of patience and effort.
10 times zoom of the picture above
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