FeaturePics Blog - Digital Imagery

Colors and textures 2009

Your DisplayName here! — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:07:11 GMT

Unfinished wood textures, aqueous, shades of sand, pearl, chiffon and shell, linen fabric textures - colors and textures that will be dominating our surroundings next year.

Unfinished wood texture

Aqueous

Shades of sand, pearl, chiffon and shell

Linen fabric textures

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Christmas graphics

Your DisplayName here! — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:59:09 GMT

Hot Stuff!!! Seasonal graphics and images for the upcoming Holidays and special events!

Christmas Sale or Discount buttons, stickers, and illustrations

Red Christmas bows and ribbons on a white background

Celebration with champagne theme pictures

Christmas shopping concept

and many more at

http://www.featurepics.com/HotStuff/HotStuffAll.aspx?id=1

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Windmills: Clean power generators

Your DisplayName here! — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:32:54 GMT

Free of charge Image: Clean power by ELyrae

Today, most of this energy is derived from oil, natural gas, and coal, supplemented by nuclear power. FeaturePics Authors are promoting alternative energies — primarily biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind.

Check out

http://www.featurepics.com/Gallery/Gallery23241_1460.aspx

http://www.featurepics.com/selections/Solar-Panel-Pictures-123.htm

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The color "forest" green and images of actual forests

Your DisplayName here! — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:01:21 GMT

Both, the corporate world and consumers are looking for images that shape green initiatives.
In 2007 we had many requests for images that help to express eco-consumerism and a "being green" idea, we expect much more such requests in 2008.

"Green Forest" Images

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Copyright and Digital Images

Your DisplayName here! — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:56:36 GMT

The Picture Archive Council of America (PACA),a North American trade association representing the interests of the image licensing industry, has published a freely downloadable PowerPoint presentation on copyright in image licensing.

The presentation is of interest to anyone who uses or produces images. It includes some very interesting copyright infringement case examples.

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Geometry And Forms

Your DisplayName here! — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:38:53 GMT

Geometry And Forms - pictures

Geometry, is the math that makes the world. These images, in an abstract way, point out the many forms that this can assume. Circles, triangles, angles, and cubes, combined with vibrant colors, serve to illustrate how versatile this medium is.

Geometry And Forms

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Black and white photography

Your DisplayName here! — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:42:47 GMT

Mysticism and mystery, fascinating shapes and forms, light, shadows and outlines- FeaturePics Authors enjoy experimenting, they create black and white and sepia-toned images using a variety of techniques.

Many of us are considering black and white photography as a unique form of art that allow for more contemplation of the "picture" itself. It is exciting to know that the majority of photography continues to be the most affordable of the fine arts.

Black and white photography

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Tutorial "Creating HDR images"

Your DisplayName here! — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:57:39 GMT

HDR (High dynamic range photography) is photography that captures a very wide range of brightness levels ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows.

John from Okinawa Photography was very kind to give us a permission to publish his tutorial "Creating HDR images".

Photo: HDR Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building

Creating HDR images

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Finding photos: A new algorithm developed at UCSD that adds word tags to images.

Your DisplayName here! — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:22:35 GMT

Finding photos: A new algorithm developed at UCSD that adds word tags to images can increase image-search accuracy and efficiency. Above, features from a picture are assigned a likelihood that they belong in certain categories, such as “water” or “person.” Credit: Gustavo Carneiro, Antoni B. Chan, Pedro J. Moreno, and Nuno Vasconcelos

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have developed a new image-search method that they claim outperforms existing approaches "by a significant margin" in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

The researchers' approach modifies a typical machine-learning method used to train computers to recognize images, says Nuno Vasconcelos, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSD.

The result is a search engine that automatically labels pictures with the names of the objects in it, such as "radish," "umbrella," or "swimmer." And because the approach uses words to label and classify parts of pictures, it lends itself nicely to typical keyword searches that people perform on the Web, says Vasconcelos.

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For instance, consider submitting an image of a dog on a lawn. The objects in the pictures are analyzed and compared with results for known categories of objects, such as dogs, cats, or fish. Then the computer provides a statistical analysis that gives the likelihood that a picture matches those categories.

The system might score the picture with a 60 percent probability that the main object is a dog and a 20 percent probability that it is a cat or a fish. Thus, the computer deems that, in all likelihood, the picture contains an image of a dog. "The key idea is to represent images in this semantic space," Moreno says. "This seems to improve performance significantly."

Source : http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18501/page1/

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