Sure, you just use online photo editing tools in Flickr for a quick crop, color adjustment or the like but if you need real Photoshop Power? What if you need to clone your ex out of a photo on Facebook pronto? Or paint in some well placed horns?

Now there’s an alternative online alternative to Photoshop. It’s name is Pixlr. Layers, cloning, painting, type and even filters.

Crazy great, right? Non-photo friends, trust me here. It’s crazy great.

You Want Your Damn Lightroom?

Disdain cloning and painting? Are you a purist who only danes to shift colors and exposure and make a perfect crop? Then check out the beta of MugTug Darkroom.

Jack London once said “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a mouse.” Okay he might have said club instead of mouse.  Same difference these days in the realm of digital creation. If you’d like to discover amazing photographs by no one in particular, without a similar subject,  and with the only thing that makes them alike is that they’re sweet sweet eye candy then I suggest you try Flickriver.com.   Prepare to scroll down for as long you have batteries in that mouse.  The great images just keep coming.

Want a little more control over the context of the photos?  Take CompFight.com out for a photo browsing bout.  Maybe London’s quote inspired the name.  Inspiration can be a fight sometimes.  Consider yourself armed.

CompFight.com

Need inspiration without the constraint the camera? Then you may like the aptly named FFFFOUND! This last one was recommended to me by Joseph Grillo.
Thanks Joe.

Self portraits are just uncomfortable business. But then again so is putting up a blog and sharing imagery and thoughts. All part of this experiment’s learning process.

I like this shot ok.  But it’s only just passable.  And really it’s only passable because I put four shots together and created the frame to make it semi-interesting and passable.  So again another learning experience for me but not a shot I’m particularly proud of.

In my next post I hope to be sharing something that works out better.  Perhaps I can someone to let me take their photograph. I also want to comment that this one photo post per week for this year is a little harder than I thought.  Or at least harder to get great images that I’m proud of.  So it maybe it’s time to mix things up a little more.

I think that shooting with a purpose is a good way to mix it up here.  And maybe also adding in more fun.  Photography is fun, dammit.

Photo by RonAlmog

Geek Side Note:

This is one my first shots with a gorilla pod which looks like a robot but even better than that works really well.  Thanks for the recommendation Mr. Nada and a double helping of gratitude to my wife for the Christmas gift.