You probably already know how useful sharing your firm’s short format professional video is. For a company’s marketing director, video commercials are a helpful source that can help to capture your audiences’ attention and significantly enhance traffic to your organisations website. Professional videos are particularly successful in holding the target consumers’ reasonably short attention. What’s more, if codes are used & online video sharing is encouraged, online videos can be a splendid way to get one-way links & thereby positively affect your company’s rankings on Google.

Indeed, short format video commercials have become a great tool for business or self advertising. The following are numerous tips to distributing your own Internet video clips. Vidify’s business video solutions are focused on maximising your business revenue cost-effectively.

Firstly, you can post your short format promotional videos on your own website; however this would need you to make your own video hosting arrangements. Ask your online hosting solutions provider if video downloading or video streaming services are supported.

Video downloading is where your visitors are required to download your video to their computer hard disk. They need to save the short format promotional video to their own workstation before they can play it using their workstations video player or a downloadable video player software. There are several video downloading service companies that are reasonably cheap. There is also a progressive downloading mechanism where your web visitors can play the Internet video clips at the same time as downloading them.

Video sharing streaming on the other hand totally does away with the requirement to download the short format video commercials and permits instantaneous playback so it offers the most convenience to your Web users. Obviously, getting a video hosting company that supports video streaming can cost you a pretty penny.

And finally, the more popular way to circulate short format video commercials is posting your sites to video distribution websites that have their very own video hosting infrastructure. These sites cost you nothing at all to log on and will sometimes pay you to post video material. They also have a large audience base & reach; for instance, YouTube receives about 13 million users each and every month.

In this continuing series, we cover my move from San Diego to Chita, Siberia to be a professor at Chita State Technical University. We pick up the story going to the train station in Khabarovsk to catch the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

Day 4!

If you’ve been reading this series on NomadJournalTrips.com, you know my original travel estimate was 2 days from San Diego to Chita, Russia. Well, day 4 has arrived and I am just getting on the train. This horrible time estimate is evidence of a poor math education. I blame the American education system!

I never could figure out those math hypotheticals, “If a train is going south at “x” speed and a cyclist is going north at “x” speed, when will they meet?” When are they going to meet? More like, “What the heck is cyclist going to look like WHEN they meet?” What about his family, not to mention the nightmares suffered by the conductor. I mean, really, who can do math under such circumstances?

Stairs…Evil, Evil Stairs

At the Intourist hotel, we arranged for train tickets to Chita. By we, I mean my friend Grae did everything. For $27, “we” had arranged a private berth and all was good. With a good nights sleep, we headed down from the room and out into the…pouring rain. A local was kind enough to give us a ride to the train station and all seemed good. After a bit of pointing, extreme facial expressions and so on, we discovered our train was running about an hour slow. We hunkered down and did a bit of people watching.

As we sat, I pondered my luggage. I had a large hiking backpack and something I called “the lump.” The lump was an extremely large duffle bag with tiny wheels on one-end and plastic bars running down the flat side/bottom. In theory, you could roll it or drag it anywhere. Mine was black, wet and weighed about 70 pounds. Before you snicker, keep in mind I was going to Siberia for a year. What would you take? Still, I had an uneasy feeling, but couldn’t really figure out why.

Our hour was up and it was time to head to the track platform. Like many European train stations, one had to actually walk down stairs, through a tunnel and then back up stairs to get to your platform. This is not the way it works in San Diego. It also doesn’t rain in San Diego. Rain, 70 pound bag on wheels, plastic bars, stairs…I think you get the picture.

The stairs were packed as I shuffled forward pulling the lump behind me. You would be proud. I made the first flight without maiming anyone or being slapped. Just as I stepped down the second flight, “thou was nudgeth from behind.”

Time slowed.

The lump hit me in the back of the knees. I fell back onto the lump. In a transformation beyond my primitive understanding of quantum physics, the lump became a high performance bobsled. Down I went.

Still in slow motion, I couldn’t help but notice the agility of the Russians in the stairwell. Some jumped up an ornamental shelf running down the stairs. Overweight individuals sucked it up and suddenly became thin. Miraculously, not one soul was hit on my way to the bottom. My landing was uneventful, which is to say there wasn’t a loud smack on the wall at the bottom of the stairs.

I jumped up and turned to see if anyone was injured. There was total silence. Faces just stared back at me. Apparently, the only thing injured was my ego and skin, which was turning a dark shade of red. Well, I like to make an impression! I vehemently prayed that none of them were going to Chita.

Everyone started moving again and not a word was said. Alas, the lump was not so accommodating when it came to climbing up the stairs on the other end of the tunnel.

Next – The Trans-Siberian Railway…How Many Days To Chita?!

Good wildlife camera equipment on safari can make the difference between pictures you will be proud to show your friends and family when you get back and ones where it’s difficult to figure out exactly what you were photographing because it’s only a fuzzy black dot surrounded by green vegetation.

I take wildlife photographs for a living and I have had to quickly figure out what the best cameras and lenses are to get the job done effectively.

Digital or Film – Which is better for a safari?

Wild animals are very unpredictable. That’s one aspect of safari photography that makes it so exciting because you never know what you are going to get but this also means that the number of pictures you need to take to get a keeper increases.

And if you use film that can become very expensive whereas with a digital wildlife camera you can take as many as you want and then just delete the ones where the lion has ducked behind a bush, the cheetah has blurred because the autofocus locked onto a twig in front of it and the exposure of the hippo was way off because of the reflected sunlight in the water.

You can also make consistent use of bracketing to get the perfect exposures without worrying about cost or running out of film which can be a problem in certain remote areas of Africa where safaris take place.

So more is better in this case but what about quality? The fact is that digital quality is fast catching up to film unless you fall into the professional category and are going to be selling your safari pictures or entering them into competitions. In that case it might be better to stick to film because the trained eye will be able to spot the difference but in most other cases digital quality is more than adequate.

Digital also gives you valuable feedback while you are still on safari so that you can try and improve on that elephant picture with the ear cut off the next day. You also have a lot more control over the final product because you can use software like Photoshop to enhance and fine tune your pictures.

Digital SLR or Compact Wildlife Camera

A safari is the dream trip of a lifetime and it’s a great opportunity to get some fantastic wildlife pictures but it’s not necessary to buy the latest and greatest digital SLR and lenses to get them unless you are planning to take nature pictures for a living or are a serious photography enthusiast and are going to make regular use of the camera and lenses after the safari anyway.

The cost of a digital SLR wildlife camera is high compared to a compact but that is only half the story. The lenses that you need to purchase for decent wildlife photography often cost more than the camera itself making it a very expensive business indeed.

And a bulky camera body and multiple interchangeable lenses do add to the weight of your luggage and the inconvenience of carrying everything around with you.

Digital compact cameras on the other hand are not extremely expensive and the results that you can obtain from them are almost on a par with a digital SLR camera and you don’t have to worry about any additional lenses if the compact you buy has a decent zoom covering the range from 80mm to about 300mm. There are a few of them on the market that do have lenses like this and the range of the zooms increase every year.

And compact cameras live up to their name by being relatively small and light and one lens means no additional weight or carrying and no time wasted changing to another lens to suit the situation.

The Best SLR Digital Wildlife Camera for Nature Photography

If you have decided to go with a digital SLR then by all accounts the best one to purchase for wildlife photography at the moment is the Canon EOS 20D due to the blinding speed of its shutter release (near instantaneous) and its continuous shooting speed of 5 frames per second to a maximum burst depth of twenty three frames. It also powers up in next to no time at all.

This wildlife camera is as fast as you will ever need to freeze wildlife action and get the picture in the can before the animal moves off into the undergrowth.

There are other SLR cameras that are nearly as good like the Nikon D70 and the Pentax ist D so take a look at them too before making a decision.

The Best Compact Digital Wildlife Camera for Nature Photography

Canon comes up trumps again in the compact camera category with the Canon Powershot S2 IS. The factor that makes this camera ideal for safari wildlife photography is its huge 12X optical zoom lens (36 – 432mm equivalent) with a built in image stabiliser which cuts down on blur when using such a massive zoom lens.

A 5 megapixal sensor is more than enough to produce stunning safari images and as long as you can live with a slight shutter release lag and power up delay this compact wildlife camera is perfect for a safari trip.

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Trends and Findings

Over the last few years, we have identified a number of common features and trends in system security, malicious attacks, and general web application testing. Of these, a number of the security testing issues are of some interest and can be addressed over time through a targeted approach.

In the last 18 months we have performed incident response and incident management for a relatively significant number of large clients. Through this, it is apparent that approximately 50% of the compromises that have taken place have done so through application level attacks. In general terms, the root cause of the attacks were:

1. Vendor provided software (including both off the shelf and custom) having a number of insecurities and software vulnerabilities which the customer was unaware of

2. A single misconfiguration resulting in a full compromise indicating a lack of a defence in depth strategy and implementation

Other points we have observed are that:

Server and Operating System level attacks are tending to plateau, with larger companies significantly worse than smaller companies in managing both vulnerabilities and insecurities.

There were relatively few “zero-day” attacks; most attacks were the result of automated tool scanning attacks.

The detection of attacks was in the main abysmal, with the compromises only being detected as a result of aberrant behaviour by systems.

We have also performed a huge amount of network and application intrusion testing (penetration testing) over the last few years, with a number of emerging trends:

Infrastructure level testing is seeing a reduction in insecurities, largely due to improved trends around vulnerability management.

A web application deployment by a fresh (new) client is likely to have a significant number of web application security issues, with everything from exposed databases through to SQL injection level attacks being possible. Further testing over time indicates that a relationship with a security company for source security testing purposes results in a reduction of insecurities in the web applications.

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall”. There appears to be a defined trend towards the larger companies having a higher number of insecurities, particularly in the web application space. The root cause of this is unclear; however there is a relationship with outsourcing, and the need for a large organization to “secure everything”. This also applies to smaller companies; however the smaller companies tend to have significantly less infrastructure to worry about.

Certainly we have seen vulnerability management and analysis starting to be applied within organizations; however it is only really the network, operating system, and server levels that are being worked on by most companies. This is largely based around the notion that vulnerability scanning and remediation products and services are maturing in this space. Certainly while there are maturing tools in the application security testing space, they are still quite reactive, and will take a number of years to be both mature and mainstream.

From the vulnerability research and analysis that we have been performing, it is apparent that application development is still poor in terms of security. Not all of this can be blamed directly on the developers; with so much pressure to get product out the door, security is often given a back seat. We also need to focus on training our software developers to code securely but we are presently doing an abysmal job at it. A number of the application layer security vulnerabilities we are seeing in both off the shelf and open source systems are merely new instances already well known vulnerabilities. How long have we known about buffer overflows and SQL injection issues? So why are we still seeing them? For further discussion around some of this, see Brett Moore’s Ruxcon presentation on “same bug, different app”.

As a final note for this section, as an organisation we are really excellent at application testing and source code analysis, but really hate being the ones that break a system 2 days before it is scheduled to go live. The stats are there; design security in at early phases of the project, and the cost and impact of remediation is much less than trying to fix it when you are just about to roll it out, and dramatically cheaper than trying to fix it once in production. We are starting to see a trend towards compliance and security assurance climbing the systems development life cycle value chain. Long may it continue…!

COTS

So who tests vendor products (Common Off The Shelf) for web application security issues before they are rolled into production environments? Particularly where it has previously been deployed into other client sites? Really? How many of you review source code security in code developed by your outsourcer and / or development team?

We have seen the good and the bad in this space. In a number of cases we have tested and broken web applications that are in widespread use around the world, and have found them seriously lacking. This is not necessarily just a plug for how good we are; it is more an indictment on the lack of application security testing performed by other companies that have purchased and implemented these products. Really guys, some of the attacks and exploits were just plain basic…

The message really is to at least do a source code review where possible, or an application intrusion test where you can. COTS systems are not automatically secure simply as a result of how widely they are deployed. If you are concerned about the security of a product, get the developers to release the source code to you for assurance and testing. Based on our findings, at least 20-30% of web applications (either COTS provided or outsourced) have significant vulnerabilities.

What about your outsourced application development? Of course you do realize that you are accountable for poor software security and are performing source code audits appropriately when code is delivered? Seriously though, there is a real lack of due diligence in reviewing delivered systems at either the application or source code level, for which we believe the primary reason is a lack of applied accountability, and (up until recently) this stuff hasn’t necessarily been cheap to test. The other big issue that we find is a general lack of security testing standards, and security standards in application development.

Products and tools are getting to the point where it is possible now to perform reasonable compliance checks and security audits against vendor / outsourcer provided systems without the inherent costs associated with manual source code audits. Measure their performance! Accountability is not something that can be outsourced easily, and reasonable practice is to ensure that your contract with your vendor / outsourcer at least includes your expectactions of web coding standards and practices (or at least review and scrutinize theirs), and to perform some form of compliance checking of these standards against the delivered code. How otherwise do you know whether the delivered application is secure? Blind trust and faith?

Open Source

There has been some significant debate over the security of either closed or open source systems and it is clear that, in the web application security space particularly, there does not appear to be any significant differences. From our code reviews using CodeScan, the numbers of issues found in COTS products and Open Source appear on the surface to be similar.

Across Open Source applications that we have tested with CodeScan, we are finding all of the common suspects; Cross Site Scripting is rampant, and SQL Injection is still there to degrees that are kind of interesting. And these systems are deployed and exploited globally. We will be releasing advisories and statistics against our vulnerability findings in open source web applications, particularly in the ASP and PHP space shortly, so watch this space!

A couple of really interesting issues arise from the use of Open Source applications. While it is an important way to place useful applications into the online space, it is apparent that the degree of security scrutiny placed on the web applications is insufficient. In the main, contributors to these projects are focused on the application functionality and features, and security issues do not get the level of attention or audit that is warranted. A part of cause for this has been a lack of compliance or automated tools that can provide a quick return on the problem; that was one of the driving forces behind our developing CodeScan for our own use in automating some of the source code analysis.

The other really interesting issue that arises from the Open Source community is that a high proportion of development teams globally use “cut and paste” techniques to include functionality into their own application development. This has the advantage of enabling relatively quick software / web application developments to occur, but the other edge of the sword is that it may also duplicate potentially insecure code. How many people really perform source code audits against the code they are importing to determine that they are not actually importing vulnerabilities into their application at the same time as they bring in functionality?

Tools and Trends

Proactive vs. reactive; bugs need to be squashed in development. There are a number of vendors, including ourselves, that are moving away from the more traditional reduction of exposures and issues and more into the prevention of vulnerabilities being developed in systems in the first place. Application vulnerability testing can be applied to production applications, and additional tools implemented to control the visibility and exploitation of software vulnerabilities (intrusion detection / prevention, application aware firewalls, patch management systems, etc), but these are all still reactive in nature. If you are trying to fix software security issues, why not develop it to be secure in the first place? Security At The Source is the only true proactive measure that is going to result in secure systems over time. Addressing security at the source code level with static compile time code inspection systems is likely to be one of the big emerging trends over the next 2-3 years.

Security policy driven testing is also emerging as a requirement trend. We are continuously seeing drivers in being able to test easily for standard and custom security policy in web application development. Why should customers put up with code that doesn’t even comply with either their own or their developers’ policies for secure development?

There is also a big trend away from static application testing prior to production toward incorporating security testing and compliance measurement throughout the software development lifecycle. There have been a number of studies done that identify this specifically, and the cost for repair of bad code in production systems has been proven as high.

“It is about 40-100 times more expensive to fix problems in the maintenance phase of a program than in the design phase.”

There is also a strong tendency now to look at how security can be designed in, and tested as a part of the overall software test environment. Why not start testing code security at the prototype phase? Problems and issues associated with the design are a lot easier to pick up and rectify at that stage. We have seen (anecdotally) significant reductions in the cost of early security testing vs. testing at the “ready to go live” state. All too often the testing at the end will anyway result in a “we will fix the security in the next version” or similar lame excuse, with the security issues either not being addressed, or being exploited in the production state. Not great, but the situation definitely is improving.

Compliance management is probably going to be the next “big” driver for software compliance. Already we have seen more and more onerous regulations controlling auditing and reporting (Basel II, Sarbanes – Oxley) and privacy (Gramm – Leach – Blilley, HIPAA, Australian Privacy Act), ISO 17799, and commerce (MasterCard / Visa AIS program) are driving the adoption of comprehensive IT best practice guidelines, which have as a core the reliable audit and measurement of compliance with minimum baselines. As an example, the MasterCard SDP looks to testing of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities in bespoke or custom web applications. This trend is likely to continue, with compliance driving a number of behavioural changes within organizations and software development.

Final Summary

Today, in this environment, existing vulnerability scanning methods, including manual reviews, are just not going to cut it. Right now, as security professionals, we worry about these problems. As the new and emerging laws settle into established practice, look for security to embed itself firmly with quality assurance staff, application designers, and eventually the programmers themselves, to become more involved in managing software security and ensuring compliance.

Peter Benson is the CEO of CodeScan Labs, and Security-Assessment.com

CodeScan Labs is a sister company of Security-Assessment.com, and is firmly focused on software vulnerability research and subsequent development. Our flagship product is CodeScan Developer, which is designed for use by both developers and auditors in the testing of web application source code for security weaknesses.

http://www.codescan.com
http://www.security-assessment.com

Further resources available at http://www.security-assessment.com/tech-1.htm

Glaciers are receding at a speedier rate than at any decade since records began, reports The Express. Scientists from the World Glacier Monitoring Service, which records 27 glaciers across 11 mountain ranges, approximate that from 1850 to 1971 glaciers receded at a net average rate of 31 centimetres a year. In between 1968 and 2001 the amount retreating jumped to 55 – 95 centimeters a yr. Since then the norm has constituted more than 1m a yr. Last winter witnessed the biggest reductions up until now of 1.3 m.

Worldwide glaciers are disappearing at least as fast as the glaciers in this representative group with possibly disastrous results for close by residents. In the short term there will be many more floodings, and in the future, rivers will run out, resulting in critical water dearths.

Chamonix village, with its big count of glaciers, the results of climate change and the receding of glaciers could be keenly felt. This is perhaps why numerous firms, and families are more knowledgeable of the events and are therefore attempting to undertake steps to restrain their carbon output. Hopefully it’s not too tardy to stay the upshots of global climate change and ensure an environment for our youngsters. So think about how you travel when you go to your ski accommodations.

There are thousands of web hosting services available online, and some of them are more reliable than others. When you are looking at the number of options available, it is easy to become overwhelmed. It is important to look at potential problems with hosting companies prior to using them. This can save you a lot of time, money, and headaches.

You should avoid hosting services which have servers which are constantly down. A good hosting company should be able to monitor its servers and quickly fix problems. Some hosting services may be down as long as a few days, and these are companies you will want to avoid. It is also important to make sure all the features offered by the company work. If your email is down, this prevents you from being able to run your business. This is something you can’t afford, and you will want to make sure you stay away from companies which do this.

Another thing which is important for you to look at is tech support. How long does it take the tech department to answer your phone calls or emails? A good company should answer within a few hours. Some hosting companies take many days to answer your questions, and the answers they give you may not solve the problem. Hosting companies like this should be avoided. You should also look for hosting services which communicate well with their customers. A lack of communication is one of the leading causes of business failure. You don’t want to do business with companies that don’t effectively communicate.

Sometimes when you cancel your account, the hosting company will continue billing you. This is a very frustrating situation, and you may have to file claims with your bank in order to get your money back. Most hosting companies take out automatic payments, and you will want to do research to make sure they stop billing customers once the service is cancelled. When you look online at hosting companies, always look at the price. If it is too good to be true, it probably is. The prices charged should be enough to pay for their service maintenance and other fees.

Any hosting services which advertise unlimited bandwidth should make you suspicious. If you use a lot of bandwidth, you may have your website taken down. Hosting websites which don’t look professional should also raise red flags. Websites with lots of spelling errors or no information about the company are unlikely to provide quality service.

If you’re just starting out on the web, the process of picking a web hosting company to run your site can be daunting and scary at first. With all the technical jargon and features that hosts offer, how do you separate what you need from what you don’t need? In this article we’re going to take you step by step on how to pick a quality web host for your first site. You’ll learn how to separate needed features from fluff, and what to look for in a host with your eye on the future.

What are your needs?

The first step in choosing website hosting is to identify your needs. Take a look at your site and ask yourself, “What do I want to do with this site?” Is your site just a family page to post pictures so your family can keep up with you, is it a personal blog, is it a fan site of some sort, or is it just a site that is dedicated to something you’re interested in? You have to identify what the target of your site is before you can identify the immediate and potential needs your site will have.

Now you should have an idea of what kind of site you want, and you can start looking at various hosts. You’ll want to look at disk space, and bandwidth at first. Disk space is how much space your files are allowed to use up, and bandwidth is the amount of data you can transfer to visitors. To get a better idea of bandwidth, whenever someone visits your page, the page they visit is transferred to their browser. If your page is 200kb in size, you use 200kb of bandwidth every time a visitor comes to that page. For a graphic intensive site, you’ll need more bandwidth then if you just have a lot of text.

So should you choose based on disk space or bandwidth? The answer is both. If you just want to have a site that you share family photos with friends, you won’t need a lot of either. While pictures will take up space and use bandwidth when your family visits the page, you can estimate with a pretty fair degree of accuracy how many times people will visit the pages, so you can calculate how much bandwidth you will need. If, on the other hand, you plan on promoting your site and hoping strangers will visit it, you may want to get a bit more bandwidth since it’s hard to say exactly how many visitors will come.

What about if my site grows faster than I expect

If you’re lucky, your site my skyrocket in popularity quickly. If that happens, it can cause some problems with your provider in the form of extra charges or service stoppage. To prevent unforeseen costs and service stoppage, before you pick a hosting plan you should check a few things. First, what happens if you go over your allotted bandwidth usage for the month? Do they start charging you extra for the bandwidth you go over, or do they just take your website down so users cannot access it? You should also check to see about their policy on plan upgrades. If you find yourself needing more space, more bandwidth, or more features, can you upgrade a plan without extra costs? If you are on a less expensive plan, be sure your host allows you to upgrade to a higher plan by paying the difference between the two plans instead of having to purchase a more expensive plan outright.

As you get more experienced with your website you will have a better idea of what you need from a hosting plan. You can start to try out other providers that either aren’t as big or that target a specific hosting need (Unix hosting for example). Be prepared to pay more for the extra features though, as better plans come with a price tag. Be sure to also look out for deals that look too good to be true – they probably are.

Adrian Titus is a software engineer by day and the webmaster of the Website Hosting Directory by night.

Are you worried about the present scenario of recession, when property prices are falling immensely? Simply don’t worry; if you need to sell your house then lots of energy and proper marketing skills will enable you to perform the task effectively. But before you proceed, follow the specific guide-lines:

Decorate your house in a suitable style by improving the status of damaged furnishings. Repair the doors and windows; enrich the floors with stylish approach.

The garden should be replenished with small shrubs and flowers. Regular trimming of the grass and plants and installing a new water feature will change the look of the garden. Painting the walls at the time of selling will greatly enhance the appetence of the home.

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Replace the old fittings and door knobs in the kitchen and bathroom, since they are the most important places in a house.

Try to complete the task of selling the house yourself; this will enable you to save extra money by not paying commissions to hired agents.

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You can post advertisements that will help you to sell house by using the feature adverts in print media. Take a note of the style of advertisements provided by estate agents. Adopting the features shall enable you to sell your house in a very short span of time.

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Several years ago I spent a nice summer in Europe, visiting great countries like Spain, France and Netherlands. I brought a huge collection of digital photos from this trip and wanted to share them with my friends and relatives. I started to look for the software that can generate photo albums to upload them to my homepage and was quite dissapointed with the quality of the thumbnails pages – even though the pages themselves looked fine – the small pictures were just resized originals, rectangles, the one-pixel frame around them was the best that I could found those times. What I wanted is something like bevel effect or frame effect around the thumbnail and a shadow to make it look more 3D, alive and fancy.

Then I thought that it could be easily done just saving a script in Paint Shop Pro with bevel, frame and shadow effects, and then running batch on all my gallery photos. But I figured out that I can’t create HTML pages along with my generated thumbnails.

So I decided that we might develop that kind of software ourselves. At that times we were a team of software developers that were working on projects for the offshore business. I talked to guys and after some planning we started on this project.

Picture Frame: The main goal was to create nice looking, stylish thumbnails, so we started with a picture frame. The frame looks like a conventional picture frame, so you can specify frame thickness, give it round edges, specify the frame height, light direction, overlay any texture – for example any wood or marble and give it 3D shape. But if you want – you can create all sorts of fancy frames with acid textures and irregular borders – it depends on what style do you want!

Bevel: Another effect I always wanted was Bevel – it is an effect that makes your picture look three dimentional, thus more effective and striking. Also – rounded edges together with bevel give us nice and extreemly good-looking thumbnails. Almost what I wanted…

Mask: But what about other shapes ? Rounded rectangle was not enough for me, so here is where the masks come out ! I was really amazed, I remember, how effective the masked thumbnail looks together with beveled edges, just pick a mask and bevel does the rest. Or create a frame and apply a mask to make irregular shape for the frame.

Also we created many other features like HTML gallery templates, e-mail sending, batch processing and others, here I just wanted to point out why we started this project – we wanted our galleries to look unique, stylish and fancy, and we think we did it ! You can try it yourself – the program is called Photo Shaman.