joke

An American, an Englishman and a Indian went for a hike one day. It was very hot. They were sweating and exhausted. When they came upon a small lake, they took off all their clothes and jumped into the water since it was fairly secluded.

Feeling refreshed, the trio decided to pick a few berries while enjoying their "freedom". As they were crossing an open area, suddenly a group of ladies from town appeared. Unable to get to their clothes in time, the American and the Englishman quickly used their hands to cover their privates. But the Indian covered his face while they ran for cover.

After the ladies had left and the men got their clothes back on, the American and the Englishman asked the Indian why he covered his Face rather than his private part.

The Indian replied, "I don't know about you, but in my country, it's the face that people recognize!

Noise Ninja

Noise Ninja - The gold standard for image noise reduction
Noise Ninja is the most effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images. It is a must-have tool for anyone shooting in low-light or fast-action situations -- including news, sports, wedding, and event coverage -- where high ISO photography is required and the resulting noise compromises the image.

Noise Ninja often yields a two-stop improvement in effective image quality, while preserving important image detail. In addition, it can produce cleaner, smoother enlargements from low-ISO images.

Best-of-breed technology Designed by a former professor of computer science, Noise Ninja is based on multiple patent-pending advances in a field of mathematics called "wavelet theory." This powerful, one-of-a-kind technology yields an unprecedented balance between noise suppression and detail preservation, achieving natural-looking results without artifacts. Competitive products often yield plastic or blurred results. Those based on conventional wavelets tend to introduce artifacts like halos, ringing, or color bleeding around high-contrast edges, or false edge artifacts in smooth areas.

Reliable, easy results Noise Ninja excels at getting you "in the ballpark" with default settings, and it responds gracefully and predictably to adjustments. This consistency is unmatched by other tools, which often respond erratically to different images and adjustments.

Unmatched productivity and flexibility Noise Ninja is more than just an algorithm with a user interface. It is a complete solution, designed so you can quickly and easily get the results you want. It includes a rich set of tools, including automatic and manual noise analysis, camera-specific profiles, an innovative "Noise Brush", and batch processing. Whether you want a one-button automated solution or full interactive control, you can easily adapt the tool to fit your particular workflow needs.

Plug-in or standalone Noise Ninja runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (standalone only). It is available as a standalone application, and as a plug-in for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and compatible hosts.

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Microsoft ICE Image.Composite.Editor

Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) is a new free panoramic photo maker from the same people who gave the world the super cool Photosynth technology. It’s Windows only of course (.NET too in fact), but it offers an awesome set of features for a free program. Not only can you export to standard file formats like JPEG, PNG and Photoshop’s PSD, but also to HD formats with ‘deep zoom’ using Silverlight, just like the big boys do. Fabulous stuff.

In use it offers drag and drop simplicity, just pull the images into the box and the program will make best efforts to stitch the shots together. In my test it managed an almost flawless stitch of four out of 6 images, but the last two, with a phone pole in the way, kind of broke the image. Not seriously, but enough to render it useless.

Still it’s better than I’ve experienced with any other panorama software to date, so kudos so the development team. Excellent stuff!

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom. Features: state-of-the-art stitching algorithms, advanced orientation adjustment view, and exposure blending.

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Panorama Factory

The Panorama Factory from Smoky City Design, LLC is a panoramic stitching program for Windows and Mac. It creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. The Panorama Factory transforms (warps) the images so that they can be joined seamlessly into panoramas whose fields of view can range up to 360 degrees.

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The Panorama Factory creates images that rival those made by rotational and swing-lens panoramic cameras. Not only can The Panorama Factory facilitate creation of immersive VR worlds, it also provides features for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm images or images captured with a digital camera.

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Fileseek

Fast and Free File Search

Have you ever needed to find a file buried somewhere in your computer? Have you ever needed to find a specific string of text inside a file? FileSeek can do that, and more. FileSeek is lightning fast, small and super easy to use. It can even be integrated right into the Windows Explorer right-click menu to provide quick and easy access. FileSeek doesn’t use background indexing, so when FileSeek is closed your computer’s performance won’t be affected.

Features

Search for text string matches inside any kind of file
Match Regular Expressions inside any kind of file
Search a folder and all of it’s sub-folders
Match 1 or more file patterns, like *.jpg, file?.txt or anything else you can imagine
Exclude 1 or more file patterns from your search, like *.exe or *.dll
Filter results by the last modified date
Never indexes files in the background
Completely Free!

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HDR photo

Great New Looks

• Complete Interface Redesign
• New Toolbar with Buttons !!!
• Exposure Control in Statusbar
• Pan & Zoom anywhere

Feature Boost

• Ghost Removal
• RAW Support
• Local Tonemapper: Bilateral
• Auto Luminance & Contrast

Internally Rewired

• Unified Tonemapping Dialog
• Consequent Multithreading
• Very large image support
• Open-Source Plugin API

Make better HDR images.

You want the accuracy of HDRShop, with all the low-level control to squeeze out the maximum on image quality. But you you also want all the modern convenience features like exposure detection from EXIF data, image alignment and ghost removal? And you want a tone mapper where the final result looks exactly like the preview?

Picturenaut is for you.

Picturenaut was born in the German photo community. It has been in the works for four years, with consistent improvements according to user feedback. It has always been freeware, thus setting the standard for making high quality HDR Imaging accessible and easy.

Fast. Seriously.

Picturenaut's consistent multi-threaded architecture makes it the fastest tone mapper in the world. Nothing beats it running Reinhard's Photoreceptor Physiology in realtime on the full image. If you call a new 8 core box your own, you will see it haul through a 32 Megapixel image in realtime, while you find just the right slider settings.

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