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10 Tips for your Perfect Social Profile Picture

Richie Sajan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:10:59 +0000

Your social profile these days can be considered a passport to your professional lives as well. With the number of companies taking to social media for marketing, they don’t want employees who lack in this aspect. And if not the most, then one very important aspect of your social profile is your Display Picture (DP) or Profile Picture.

Selecting the right profile picture would certainly do you a world of good. If done the right way, it instantly creates a connection. And as they say, ‘First impression is the last impression,’ you’d want to make it count.

Here are 10 tips to improve your choice:

Use your-own picture. Photo’s with your spouse/pet/best friend can be shared separately for Pete’s sake!
Use close-up shots, so even small thumbnails can be easily recognizable.
Try as much to use bright colors like white in your picture, as they seem pleasant. However take care not to use too many loud colors.
Try to put up an image in which your face is as pleasant can be. There’s the instant connection for you.
Yes, you may Photoshop your picture to remove the odd pimple or scar. Just don’t overdo it.
Don’t add ridiculous effects on your picture (like cartoonized, magazine cover.) Those are intended for passing time, and let it be that way.
If you are cropping an image having many members, crop it in a way so that any other person in the original image won’t be visible.
Keep updating your image. Don’t use one that was taken years back!
Try to keep away negative objects (like a beer bottle) away from your display picture.
Finally before uploading an image, please ask some close to you, ‘Do I look good in this pic?’

Here’s a presentation from Social Media Hive for your reference:

Hope these tips helps you.

Easily Create ‘Loading..’ Images

Richie Sajan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:53:51 +0000

AJAX implementations on websites are increasing by the day. A little overlooked fact is that sometimes that users having slow connection, may take time to have the inline content loaded on their computers. That is where the ever essential ‘Loading..’ graphics has importance. It tells the user to wait and that their connection hasn’t hung up. So how to create these icons? Yes here’s the solution.

AjaxLoad.info is a site precisely built for this problem. The service which is currently in beta, allows you to create any type of the ‘Loading’ graphics, with customization to your hearts content.

The Generator at AjaxLoad

The first thing you’ll spot after the logo is the generator. It couldn’t get simpler than this. It contains just four options: indicator type, background color, transparent background and foreground color.

The options are pretty self-explanatory. By changing the indicator type you can change the logo of the loading image (see screenshot).

Various Indicator or logos available

So go ahead and try it out now.

Site: http://ajaxload.info/

Blogger Adds Advanced Image Uploading Tool

Richie Sajan — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:01:00 +0000

Blogger finally added multiple image uploading tool to blogger that uses flash for uploading. The other addition is that there is also an option to add images from your Picasa Album’s directly from the image uploader.

Although such image uploading capability was available much earlier in Blogger’s main competitor, WordPress, the recent upgrade in WordPress that gave users to crop scale and edit their image online must have forced blogger to rethink some ideas.

Although this tool has been released into blogger, users can only access this by going to draft.blogger.com. BTW the web-world was all about comments of blogger ‘catching-up to wordpress.’

Search Images by their Exact Size in Google Images

Richie Sajan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:13:53 +0000

Just wanted to slip in a quick tip. Google Images has certainly simplified life by allowing us to search for an image pretty easily. Certain parameters can be adjusted using the ‘Show Options‘, from the toolbar below the search box. One option is for specifying the size of the image. They include Any size, Medium, Large, Icon, Larger than…and exactly.

Of course you could use the ‘exactly’ option to search for the image, for an image to fit your exact size requirement. However an easier and faster method would be to just add the ‘imagesize:wxh’ parameter to your search phrase, where w is the width and h is the height of the image.

Example: imagesize:300×250 brad pitt, shows you images of brad pitt, with the image dimensions as 300 width and 250 height. Certainly save me a lot of time!