But it is sometimes inevitable to send photos by email and the best option to reduce the impact of the operation on the email mailboxes of the recipients is to manipulate and resize the images before they are send.

Free Image Manipulator is an Open Source software program that can perform that semi-automatically.

The process can be divided into three steps.

• Step 1 adding photos: Multiple photos can be loaded into the program. These photos and images are then displayed with their path, resolution and image type in the program interface.
• Step 2 configuring the changes: A variety of options are available to the user. This ranges from adding text or image overlays the the photos to selecting a new resolution, image type, filename and quality.
• Step 3 previewing and processing the changes: The changes made can be previewed in the preview area after clicking on the Preview button. The process button will commence the changes.

One of the most interesting options that the program supplies is the option to select a maximum file size for each image that has been added to the program. The image manipulation and resizing options are easy to use and should not pose a problem. A save file dialog window appears after pressing the process button to save the manipulated images.

Free Image Manipulator can be downloaded from the project’s website over at Sourceforge.

Most webmasters who take screenshots help themselves by moving the window that they want to take a screenshot of on a white background so that the alpha effects do not play a role anymore. The rounded corners on the other hand remain a problem.

Standard Screenshot

7Capture Screenshot

7Capture removes the background of the window before it takes the screenshot. It furthermore works perfectly with rounded borders as can be seen in the second screenshot.

Usage on the other hand is a little bit more complicated as the screenshot software does not provide access to keyboard shortcuts or a simple window selection option.

The program will list all open windows on startup with the option to refresh the display so that windows that are opened after starting the screenshot program are displayed in the list as well.

The screenshot taking process begins with the selection of the window the screenshot should be taken of. A click on the Capture button will capture the window and display the captured image in a preview window.

There are no controls in that window other than being able to scroll up or down if the screenshot that has been taken is larger than the 7Capture window and to save the screenshot to the local computer system.

Screenshots taken can be saved in various formats including jpg and png. There is furthermore no way to change the quality settings of the screenshots which can mean that the screenshot needs to opened in an image editor afterwards to do that.

7Capture is the only free – as far as we know – software that works with rounded borders and window transparency effects. It lacks additional functionality especially keyboard shortcuts and options to take non-window screenshots like those that only take a region on the screen or screenshots of scrolling windows. The software can be downloaded from the developer’s website.

With optical resolution of 9600 x 9600 dpi (film scanning), 4800 x 4800 dpi ( documents scanning) and the light source 3-color LED, this scanner provides the speed of scan preview in 9 seconds (color documents) and a 12 second scanning process.

Another interesting feature is the Auto Scan mode and Advanced PDF Filing which is useful to scan documents and images digitally.

Its stylish and thin shape, makes LiDE700F easy to carry and could be used in a vertical, horizontal, and standing position (upright).

In addition, this scanner is also equipped with EZ-Button on the front to facilitate the user in operating the copy functions, scan, PDF, and email.