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Picasa 3

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Google's popular photo organizer software, Picasa, has been upgraded with new features like photo editing and video slideshow creation.

http://picasa.google.com/

Read about the new features here:
http://www.google.com/support/photos/bin/answer.py?answer=93773

Pixolu helps you find images by their similarity to each other. Enter a search term and Pixolu searches the image indexes of Google, Yahoo, and Flickr.

http://www.pixolu.de/

Choose Flickr Photo Sets by Color

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Wow. Idee Multicolor Search Lab is a great tool. You select up to ten colors and it returns Flickr photos with those colors Great for coming up with color palettes.

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/

Great aerial photography site

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The site http://leidorf.blogspot.com is a collection of interesting aerial photographs. Here are some that caught my eye:

- Aerial of lumberyard
- Aerial of tires in dump
- Trees in snow

Photographs of distressed books

Amazing photographs by Cara Barer of warped and distressed books.

"After soaking it in the bathtub for a few hours, it had a new shape and purpose. Half Price Books became a regular haunt, and an abandoned house gave me a set of outdated reference books, complete with mold and neglect ... I am attempting to blur the line between objects, sculpture, and photography."

http://www.carabarer.com/gallery.php#

Cara Barer

How to Shoot Light Trails

Great tutorial at Digital Photography School site on shooting light trails:

"Light Trails continue to be popular subject matter for many photographers and they can actually be a great training ground for those wanting to get their cameras out of manual mode and to experiment with shooting in low light at longer exposures.

Following area few examples of light trail shots as well as some practical starting point tips for those wanting to give it a go."

Light-Trails-Photography
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-light-trails/