Using Fotoflexer for editing provides a nice set of tools for manipulating pictures. This is the first time I have used the site. There many features that you would expect on a pay site or from a software package. The transitions are not very fast when saving the images but other than that for the price this is one very cool tool.
This is a jing capture of a photograph taken first hout 4/18/11 in the RHS library. One class is onthe computers and another is sitting in the lounge area reading. A typical quiet morning.
The same picture after a few simple modifications at Fotoflexer. This is a new feature at Fotoflex borrowing the popular format of the common inspirational posters. The title and text are added in a side box and quickly applied. the outcome has a very nice professional finished quality. Fotoflex fosters a nice amount of creativity and I could see using it with students and staff. For teachers the chance to produce quality classroom graphics/posters/ signs would be welcome. With students the creativity they could express could be transformative as an assessment. A high student buy in by those students who feel stifled by traditional written assessments could result.
This is done in Draw on Fotoflexer. With some cropping as well.
Original
A picture of the new books display.
Jazzed up a bit with one of the features in Fotoflexer. Also textbox was added. Saving this and the drawing above required afew extra steps opening up the image in paint and then saving as a png file. For some reason Fotoflex saved the images as an all file file which Blogger.com did not recognize as a picture file.
I have a some staff members who will find Fotoflexer very useful.
I have used Picasa a few times in the past - mostly to mine for images for projects or to explore images of places I have visited or plan to visit. Below is a link to a Fotoflexer enhanced picture I took of the front of the RHS library cafe.
https://picasaweb.google.com/113198490372300830406/RHSLibraryPictures418?authkey=Gv1sRgCN3AjOqd_sbZ8QE#5596983766572948594
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