Ipiccy.com is a good, free, cloud based photo editor that lets you make your photo awesome with many easy to use photo editing and enhancing tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and paint. This free web service provides you new and user friendly tools for modifying images using advanced image processing. It offers very easy user interface and workflow of any photo editing application, enabling users to easily pull images from any Web site or file folder.
Carousel-of-post-images provides you completely integrated jcarousel Image Gallery shortcode and function call that enables quick and easy galleries generated from images attached to posts. Photos inside the gallery are selected from either all images attached to posts, or from images attached to a specific post. By default it selects 10 random images from all posts.
Media Extra Fields lets you manually add custom fields for media files and you can use them while uploading new media like images etc in your library. The plugin has been created to add as extra field to media uploader while adding media to WordPress at the time of creating new post etc.
There are about one thousand (or a little bit less) slider plugins you can search in WordPress plugin repository. Most of the slider plugins comes with both free and pro versions. Many plugins are broken, some broke your website, many works and there are very few which works and looks good, both at the same time. Hence, in this tutorial we are listing some of the best free slider plugins which we have tested on the latest release of WordPress and they all are good. See which one works best for you.
WordPress media library contains all your media file like images etc which you have uploaded on your website. By default you cannot get the any media file’s direct URL without opening it. For example: Suppose you want to use a image on some other website and for that you need its URL, so what you will do is search its name on your media library, then click ‘Edit’ button then copy its URL from right metabox. But now you can make things more easy.
Rio Portfolio is the brand new portfolio plugin for WordPress. The plugin is a portfolio management plugin which enables you to manage Image, Link and Video type Portfolio items using jQuery filtration option.
With Jetpack Tiled Galleries you can display your image galleries in three new styles: a rectangular mosaic, a square mosaic, and a circular grid. All three gallery styles are beautiful, specially the Tiled Mosaic but in some full width WordPress themes a common problem comes, default width of gallery. Sometime width defined by the theme is less than website’s actual width and in that case gallery automatically aligns itself and starts showing space on other sides which looks odd. Tiled Galleries are built to fill your theme’s content width but occasionally themes forget to set the $content_width variable in functions.php and hence Tiled Galleries auto defaults to 500px wide. This tutorial explains you how you can easily edit the gallery width according to your website’s layout.
Media File Renamer is the best plugin for renaming your image and other media files from media library. The good thing about this plugin is that when you rename files physically by updating their titles, the plugin automatically updates theirs links inside your posts. It simply update all references (like img, src, url) to the media file in its associated post. But also there are other plugins designed for media renaming with more or less features.
Fix my posts! is the new WordPress plugin that lets you automatically repair all your posts and images after data-import or at the times when your database get messed up. It becomes more useful at the times when you you import posts/images from another CMS using direct SQL, it simply allows you to run an automatic wizard where it auto repairs some basic things on all of your posts one by one.
GIMP is a free software, works as an alternative for Adope Photoshop and is widely popular among Linux users. But now you can use it from any operating system, even from Android or Chromebook by using it online via rollApp cloud service. GIMP on rollApp, simply lets you use GIMP in your browser from any other device and there’s no need of downloading or installing any software or browser addon etc. It is an EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE but you can easily start and enjoy online experience of GIMP.
To start, visit its home page at Rollapp.com/start/gimp and then Sign in to Open, Edit and Save Files. You can sign in using your Google, Facebook, Yahoo or Twitter account credentials.
Sketchpad 3.3 is a powerful image & vector editor that can work offline in your Google Chrome browser. The editor is built in HTML5. Using this chrome app you can experiment with images by painting new elements into the composition, you can add notes, you can manipulate graphics, you can overlay text on anything, move backwards and forwards in time infinitely through changes you make.
Harmony is a cloud project where you can easily create coll drawings and do amazing things. The only problem with this app is that there’s no undo button but still you can enjoy this web service, use the rubber instead. It provides you with simple and easy drawing tools with a set of special brushes.
Dribbble is a network to share, promote, discover, and browse design. It is a community of designers like Web designers, graphic designers, illustrators, icon artists, typographers, logo designers, and other creative types where they can share small screenshots (shots) and show their work, process, and projects they are working on. Now this tutorial in on new WordPress plugin that simply lets you display your dribbble.com shots as Portfolio in your WordPress site using shortcodes. See it working preview here.
Now you can set, manage thumbnail in bulk for your posts, pages and other custom post types in bulk. Quick Featured Images is the new awesome WordPress plugin allows you to do so. It simply saves your time and you can run it over all your posts or narrow down to posts by using its flexible filters. The implemented filters allows you to narrow down the action to only the posts and pages you want to modify.
By default WordPress Media Library admin archive page shows Title, author, uploaded to, comment number and date columns. Now this tutorial explains you how you can enable it to display extra columns for Alternative Text, Caption, Description, Permalink and File URL in the media library view.
Smaller images reduces page load times. Most of the bloggers use desktop applications like GIMP or Paint etc for resizing images. This tutorial is on an online web service that allows you to do same thing on cloud and more easily. Simple Image Resizer is a free online image resizer that provides you fast image resizing features so that you can quickly resize images before using them on your website or blog.
With Creative Commons Tagger plugin youcan easily enable feature for tagging your website images with creative commons license. The plugin simply provides licensing information for media library images and enable you to input Creative Commons licensing information in custom fields in the media post. Finally the license is displayed under the image in wp-caption element.
PsykoGif is a cloud based webservice that provides you a cool photo booth app you can use for making crazy animations. Using PsykoGif you can very easily create GIFs, save them or share them online in just a few simple steps.
IconSmash is webservice that lets you explore free icons. It has hundreds of thousands of free icons all ready for download. You can enjoy awesome icons on various categories like for fun, business, holidays, Christmas, and create stunning presentations using these great pieces of clip-art.
Image optimization becomes very important for responsive WordPress site because your website is being viewed on smaller, slower, low bandwidth devices then all desktop-centric images loads very slowly, cause UI lag, and hence cost you and your visitors unnecessary bandwidth and money. This tutorial is on adaptive images plugin that fixes this thing.
Now you can very easily create and organize group of images and keep them in a separate folder and use them inside your posts with their URLs, share them on other websites etc. Image Collections is the new, very powerful and useful WordPress plugin made for the webmaster who like uploading and managing image collections in a separate folder other then default media library. It is also good for WP plugin and theme developers looking for a better easy way to work with a sets of images.
