Daniel Ho’s Musings

For people that are looking for my Flickr, the user name is danielho_ca

The link is right here. If you are looking for the albums of “The Kid” they are here. Email me if you need a login.

Enjoy!

For everyone telling me that Adobe Photoshop is too hard to use…

You need to check out Picnik!!! This is an online photo editor that uses Flash technology to do its magic.

It has the standard photo editor tools like rotate, crop, resize, exposure control and color settings. The color settings are basic but works well enough for most general uses. However, the advanced controls include a histogram that allows the setting of shadow and highlight point separate. Very cool.

Also, Picnik is well integrated with Picasa and Flickr and from what I can tell, plays very nicely with those applications.

It really can’t replace Photoshop if you are a pro, and as of the beta, you can only a single photo at a time. It is definitely good enough for the casual user that finds Photoshop too expensive and too complicated. Try it, you’ll like it!

Just got my Moo Cards today. What are they? They are delicious little bits of art with your contact info on the back!

What you do is go to your Flickr library, pick up to 100 images and use the online tools to crop the images, type some contact info on the back, and submit them to print.

They are $19.99 / €14.99 / £9.99 and are shipped from London, UK. This was all great until Canada Post decided to charge the GST and PST on the package. That’s only a couple of bucks so no biggie, right? WRONG…you forgot…Canada Post tacks on another $5 handling/collection fee. @$%#&*!!!

The cards themselves turned out great. Nice thick card stock. Full colour on both sides. Beautiful satin finish.

I only put my name, email, and mobile numbers on the back. It makes sense for me to hand these out to people I meet at conferences and parties etc…when you aren’t necessarily talking business. Something to leave behind to say “Hey! I enjoyed our chat, give me a shout sometime soon to continue…”

Try it, you’ll like it. Art that’s useful…hmm….