phog
What is phog? A static-site generator along the lines of Jekyll, Volt, nanoc etc. but for the purpose of generating image & video galleries and photo blogs. It’s not a general purpose blogging engine — galleries are the main focus.
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Mosaic
Mosaic magically connects multiple iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads together into one big screen to view photos and share files.
See the demo video for details—the ‘one big screen’ thing is a fun gimmick, but Mosaic’s quick ‘n’ easy, Bump-style file transfer feature looks to be the real draw.
Barry
Save full length webpages as images using your iPhone and iPad.
Scotty
Wirelessly transfers iPad, iPhone and iPod touch photos and videos to your Mac or to another iOS device.
Napkin
A new OS X app for image annotation and diagram sketching that automatically turns doodled forms into precise circles, squares, arrows and “callouts”—magnified views of an image detail.
This video from iMore gives you a good idea of how Napkin’s simple interface lets you produce complex, sophisticated diagrams and images.
Via Daring Fireball.
jpegoptim
jpegoptim is a utility for optimizing JPEG files. It provides lossless optimization (based on optimizing the Huffman tables) and “lossy” optimization based on setting a maximum quality factor.
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Picturescue
Picturescue scans all of the iOS backups on your Mac and presents all the photos it finds in a simple image browser.
holder
Holder uses the canvas element and the data URI scheme to render image placeholders entirely in browser.
Include holder.js, then add placeholders like so:
<img data-src="holder.js/200x200/text:hello world">
Via The Changelog.
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Freethephotos
Freethephotos allows you to migrate your photos from Instagram to Flickr by simply logging in and clicking a button.
ImageXY
Thanks again to this week’s sponsor, ImageXY, a fast and easy-to-use image resizing app for OS X.
Read my review of ImageXY, or grab yourself a copy from the Mac App Store.
Snag.gy
Snaggy is an image host that lets you paste images from your clipboard directly online. Any kind of image, from raw data to URL paths, can be pasted in one step.
A quick, clever way to share images.
Flickr
The new Flickr app for iOS offers image editing, Instagramesque filters, the ability to easily share images on Facebook, Twitter & Tumblr, and makes it much easier to find and view photographs by contacts and in you groups.
Picturescue
Picturescue scans all of the iOS backups on your Mac and presents all the photos it finds in a simple image browser.
ImageXY
Many thanks to ImageXY for sponsoring One Thing Well this week.
ImageXY is a simple, fast image resizing application for OS X. Drop a selection of images onto the app, pick your preferred dimensions, then click ‘Resize’. That’s it!
The app isn’t fussy about where you drag images from, either, happily accepting files and folders from the Finder, photos, Events and Faces from iPhoto, not to mention entire drives or SD cards.
ImageXY ships with a sensible set of default sizes for sending images via email, posting them to the web, &c., and you can easily add custom presets on the fly:
It’s pretty snappy, too. On my Macbook Pro, the app takes about five seconds to deal with two hundred images of various formats and file sizes. With a handful of files, processing is near-instantaneous.
If you—or those less technical friends bombarding your inbox with huge attachments—need an easy-to-use utility that makes short work of resizing images, ImageXY is a great option.
You can buy ImageXY for $9.99/£6.99 at the Mac App Store.
If you’d like to sponsor a week on One Thing Well, get in touch.
