July 21, 2015
by Neil Turner
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Hello. My name is Neil, and I bought a selfie stick. No, I haven’t lost my mind. I saw genuine instances when I would want to use one – especially when the little one arrives – and so I went … Continue reading
May 14, 2014
by Neil Turner
Comments Off on App of the Week: Fotor
Fotor is a free desktop app for Mac OS X and Windows for editing photos. Supporting a wide range of image formats, including RAW files, you can optimise images before exporting them. When you launch Fotor and open an image … Continue reading
April 25, 2014
by Neil Turner
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Last week, Flickr launched version 3.0 of its apps for iPhone and Android. It builds upon version 2.0, which was a complete rewrite of its previously lacklustre app, that was released in December 2012. Since then, the web version of … Continue reading
December 3, 2013
by Neil Turner
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It’s December, and therefore time for Flickr’s Your Best Shot 2013. This will be the fourth year I’ve taken part, and it was a little harder to choose this year. The ten photos above are some of those that I … Continue reading
June 13, 2013
by Neil Turner
Comments Off on Giving Instagram another chance
At the end of last year, I ‘quit’ Instagram in a huff over its new terms of service. I didn’t actually delete my account but I did stop posting new photos, and deleted the app off my iPhone. Anyway, I’m … Continue reading
May 21, 2013
by Neil Turner
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Late last night, Flickr unveiled probably its biggest ever redesign, with a new look for many sections of its web site. It closely follows parent company Yahoo!’s purchase of Tumblr, meaning that Yahoo! now owns two large web sites with … Continue reading
January 25, 2013
by Neil Turner
Comments Off on Photos from Chester
It’s taken almost four months but I’ve finally uploaded the photos I took in Chester in October last year. They were sat in iPhoto, waiting to be edited and sorted but until today I hadn’t actually got around to doing … Continue reading
December 20, 2012
by Neil Turner
Comments Off on 10 Reasons why Flickr is better than Instagram
This is the second of three blog posts this week about Flickr. Today’s is about Instagram’s new terms of use and how Flickr beats it in terms of features. Oh Instagram. We used to love you for allowing us to … Continue reading
December 4, 2012
by Neil Turner
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Every year Flickr asks its users to nominate their favourite image that they have taken that year, so this year, I’ve submitted the above picture to the Your Best Shot 2012 pool. It was taken back in February at the … Continue reading
October 10, 2012
by Neil Turner
Comments Off on Quick tips for taking panoramic photos
The photo above is a panoramic view of Bradford’s City Park from last night. Although my iPhone 5 is capable of doing panoramic photos with relative ease, I actually took this as 10 separate photos on my DSLR camera, and … Continue reading