Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Media. Show all posts

FREE RAW PHOTO EDITOR SOFTWARE

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These image files are supported by many digital equipments, say digital camera, scanner, etc., and most of the photo editors don’t support these formats. These software will help you to view as well as edit different formats RAW images, like *.nef, *.raw, *.crw, *.rwz, and more. Using these software, you will be able to enhance your unprocessed RAW images, apply effects, crop, resize, and rotate them. Most of these software also let you set output quality when converting the image as jpg file. Let’s have a look at these free RAW photo editor software.

RawTherapee
Apart from this, you can set Exposure level by maintaining the brightness, contrast, saturation, reduce noise from your image, and view exif information. So almost all the features that are possible with above-mentioned software are available in this software as well. After editing the images, you can save them as TIFF, PNG, and JPEG.

RawTherapee is an advanced photo editor in this list and more useful for experts. It comes with a complicated interface with a bunch of tools. You can add multiple RAW images, other format images, and can process any image using its tools. You can flip, rotate image, crop and resize, tag photos, add color labels to images, etc.


Fotor is also helpful to create photo collage using templates or in freestyle mode. Moreover, you can also set custom background color of your photo collage. So it is an all in one image processing software. After editing the images, you can save the images as JPG, BMP, TIFF, and PNG.

Fotor is one of the best photo editors in this list that supports RAW images and other common format images, like JPG, PNG, BMP, etc. It provides batch image convert, rename and resize features. Apart from this, it comes with preset effects to retouch your photos by just using mouse clicks. For any applied effect, you will be able to set the intensity level.

There are many other important features available to use. You can add borders, text to your photos, crop images, rotate and zoom images, compare original and enhanced photo, view exif information of images, etc.

This software also provides presets to crop image and save to PC. Apart from this, you can perform multiple adjustments to enhance the image. You can move sliders to set contrast, tint, contrast, vibrance, temperature, hue, sharpness, etc.

While editing a particular photos, you can also explore metadata information to check the focal length, flash used or not, ISO speed, photo taken date, and more. So this lite version of this software is good enough to perform quick editing and exploring the photo details.

Scarab Darkroom (lite version) is also a good software to edit *.nef format and other RAW images supported by multiple digital cameras. This software is also a good RAW image resizer and converter. You can set custom height/width and save image as tif or jpg format. You need to drag n drop images or the whole folder and it will show thumbnails of RAW images on the bottom part.

There are three main tabs on its interface that makes it easy to work. First tab is used to insert images and view thumbnails of images. Second tab helps to add tasks to process the input images. You can add tasks to change color depth, canvas size of images, enhance focus, edges, resize, rotate, apply watermark, and more.

After applying a task, you can also preview original and output image. Finally, you can jump to the third tab to select output format and convert your raw images.

XnConvert is also a feature-rich image editor and image converter software. It supports around 500 image formats which none of the other software in this list do.

Apart from this, you can also automatically adjust colors of an image in a single-click. Moreover, option to set bluescale, redscale, etc. is also available to retouch your photo.

Other interesting features of this software are: crop and resize image, use preset filters, preview the output image before applying the changes, and save image in any other format. Supported output formats are JPG, PCX, TGA, BMP, PBM, GIF, and more.

Able RAWer is another handy RAW image editor that provides navigation pane to open images directly using its interface. Unique feature of this software is that you can preview original and output image side by side while enhancing or setting the adjustments for contrast, HSV, Gamma correction, sharpness, etc.


Whether you have to retouch your RAW images, resize, rotate, set exposure, etc., these software can come in handy. These all are good software to process RAW images and commonly used image formats.
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5 Tips to Manage Social Engagement on Your Site

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When it comes to a successful social media campaign, the key is to make sure fans, followers and connections aren't just reading, but engaging in what you have to say. Ofte, engagemen is thought of as being pro-active, but it's equally as important to use tools that help organize and disseminate information to give you the best change og getting a good response.


There are 5 main angles you need to approach social engagement where your blog or web site is concerned: Social Commenting, Social Plugins, Managing Reposts, Analyzing Growth, and Growing Via RSS.

I will go over each of the 5, explan their importance, and give you tools you can use to get the job done!

1. Social Commenting

The days of the standard WordPress commenting system are behind us. Far behind us. You need to make sure your site is moving with the times. Install a free commenting system like LiveFyre or Disqus.
Commenters who can post out and be pulled in through social networks are more engaged with the story, tweeting out their comment is a breeze, and it really facilitates discussion. In one easy click you can send a message saying “You were just mentioned in this conversation…” with a link back to the blog post. It’s amplification on steroids once it gets going.

Why Is This Important?

Perpetuating a conversation gives your blog post a longer life, and if you can manage to get it into the social media sphere, you can harness that inherent virility that comes with it.

2. Social Plugins

It may seem obvious, but I often see sites that are missing a trick by not including all the ways to send things to social networks. The best plugin I've found is Digg Digg, which allows you to easily customize which social plugins you want to add to your side bar. It really has everything, even the new Google Plus.

3. Managing Reposts

You need a "ground control" so that you can catch all the engagement that occurs. MarketMeSuite is an absolute juggernaut of a marketing/management tool. It takes the best elements of your favorite management platforms, mixes in geo-targeting and pro-active marketing, and gives you one giant place to share, cross promote and organize.

Why Is This Important?

You need a centralized place to monitor all of your social marketing efforts, and allow your entire team to work together. Set up searches for any mentions of your brand to be sure you never miss a chance to turn a reader into an engaged evangelist.

4. Analyzing Growth

Getting engagement and monitoring is a big piece of the puzzle, but how do you prove it? Enter Twitsprout, the one page social analytics site. Currently in beta, it offers a decent insight into how you are doing on Twitter. It shows follower growth by day, hourly change in following, growth rate increase/decrease and follow area list ratio.

Why Is This Important?

ROI on engagement is really difficult. Twitsprout is starting to crack it, but they are still very focused on Twitter growth. I'll let it leak here that MarketMeSuite version 4 is going to go a step further to crack this nut and show some pretty awesome analytics on actions that drive interaction, so stay tuned, it's being released in early 2012.

5. Making Your Site RSS Social-Friendly

With all the ways for people to automate RSS to social media, you need to make that RSS button easy to find. I'm talking front and center on your blog, right next to your social profiles. And encourage people to share your posts.

Why Is This Important?

Get your RSS feed syndicated by the right people on Twitter and Facebook and you're going to be looking at upwards of a 200% increase in exposure and engagement. Target the key influencers in your industry and send it to them. The blogs that pay attention to details like RSS get free traffic that no amount of SEO can bring.

Key Take Away

Writing great content is only the first step. Getting people to your site to read it, engage, appreciate and share - that's what makes your site a success. I hope these 5 tips have helped you think about ways you can make your site more social, and please share any other tips you have by commenting!
Source: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2011/12/26/5-tips-to-manage-social-engagement-on-your-site/
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