Friday, January 25, 2008

# 7 Image Generators



As mentioned in post #6, the Library of Congress has sent thousands of images to Flickr. I used one and created a whimsical poster through Motivator from Big Huge Labs. While this isn't exactly a "motivational" message, I think it works.

There are so many options to choose from in Big Huge Labs, I think it changes what the user thinks he or she is going to do. The user could start out to search for some particular effect, then see what's available and probably decide to use an effect that's available instead of searching.

Some effects are fairly self explanatory, but some are not, such as "Pool Cleaner." Searching the list of available effects is a little misleading. Some are not effects at all, like Pool Cleaner, which is a tool to eliminate unwanted photos from a group of photos.

There are also choices that are neither effects nor photo tools, such as a digital camera ranking and world wide sunrise/sunset times. I can't figure out why it's good to bundle unrelated items together, but I suppose that's the librarian in me coming out again.

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