Showing posts with label MySpace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MySpace. Show all posts

Sunday, December 2, 2007

LunaPic Online Photo Editor

I found another free, web-based photo editor that has a large number of tools for modifying photos. LunaPic Online Photo Editor (formerly called MyTheme Photo Editor) works well with MyTheme, MySpace, FaceBook, and Xanga; however, it also will save images in GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, or MPG (movie) formats on your computer for whatever uses you have in mind.

With LunaPic you can crop, resize, or rotate an image. Drawing and text tools allow you to work directly on the image. The border tool can choose a variety of textures. A blemish remover tool facilitates touch-ups. A variety of speech bubbles are available.

Tools are provided to change the image to black-and-white, sepiatone, or color tint. Others help sharpen or adjust brightness or color saturation. Of course, a red-eye reduction tool is available.

LunaPic seems to specialize in effects. Take your choice: blend two images, Polaroid picture, photo spread, cartoon, Andy Warhol effect, bubbles effect, charcoal, pencil sketch, coloring book, and many others.

Many animation tools are also provided. Options are old movies, reflecting water, rainbow, sparkles, pouring rain, floating hearts, lightning, fire, and others.

This photo was taken at a nearby county fair this past summer by Rick Keller. I decided to try LunaPic using this picture of a horse.

The first tool I tried was the photo spread. Well, that’s a fun tool. What else can I do...

Next I played with borders, speech bubbles, and the text tool. I always did think that horse looked like he wanted to ask something!

So far the tools are easy to use and the results look good. It will be interesting and fun to try some of the other tools. I think there will be some good opportunities to use LunaPic for both personal and professional work. And students will enjoy being creative with their photos and using them in digital storytelling and other projects.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Some Interesting Facts About MySpace

True or False: the majority of US visitors to MySpace are 35 or older.

True. Surprised? Elinor Mills shares this and some other interesting data about MySpace in an October 5, 2006 article in CNET News.com (http://news.com.com/MySpace+drawing+older+visitors%2C+study+finds/2100-1026_3-6123266.html
).

51.6 % of the U.S. visitors to MySpace in August 2006 were aged 35 or older
39.5 % were aged 35 or older in 2005

MySpace now has more video than YouTube.com...
1.5 billion streams in the US in July 2006 for MySpace
649 million streams for YouTube.com

25 % of total visitors to MySpace were aged 12 to 17 in 2005
12 % of the visitors were in the same age range in August 2006

19.6 % of the total visitors were 18 to 24 in 2005
18 % of the visitors were in the same age range in 2006

The more than 55.8 million unique visitors to MySpace this year is more than twice the number who visited the previous year.