One of my favorites is the compare tool. It’s a magical slider that you can use to see your image before and after applying an effect. I can drag the vertical line to change the area it covers.

Hey look ma! I've got paint on my pants!

• Speech bubbles
• Photo frames
• Appearance items like hair, beards, funky eyes
• Accessories like glasses, hats, e.t.c
• Shapes like, … Oh! There are so many shapes!
• Cool graphic text

Look what I’ve done with an ordinary, boring picture while I was testing

The Bermuda Triangle!

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From now on you will see some acronyms in BeFunky like: SVG, EPS, maybe PDF… I am pretty sure that most of the users here are already familiar with PDF (Adobe’s common document format). Now, I know that I should immediately answer 2 questions:

1) What are SVG and EPS?

2) What do these terms have anything to do with BeFunky?

The world of digital artists, photographers and designers are full of with vector graphics, which are small in size, scalable, standard and portable. They make great use of these features in poster design, logo design, photo editing and digital creativity.

We recently developed a technology, which will be integrated as an update or a special feature to BeFunky and which will allow you to retrieve outputs of some of the effects in vector graphics format, such as SVG, EPS or PDF. For now I can easily say we are sure that the raster to vector conversion capability will be on BeFunky and we will push the limits of this technology as much as we can. Simply, I wanted to announce you that the technology is there and it’s just a matter of time to integrate it and present to you.

Just wait a bit more after BeFunky Plus is released and we will fulfill this need for vector representation of raster images. The academic paper of this algorithm will also be freely available.

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It’s me Tolga Birdal. 5.00 am in the morning, and I am silently deciding to write my first blog entry… Who am I? Then check BeFunky About Us Page. I was looking forward to introduce myself a while ago, but had to wait for BeFunky systems to settle down, and decide on what I should write about. Considering the changes in BeFunky technology now it’s a good time to write, because there are so many news, even I can’t remember what we have accomplished.

During recent months we, as BeFunky geeks, we were working on a new server side architecture that would provide a more stable, faster user experience to you guys. We have discussed many alternatives which were capable of serving hundreds of web requests in a second and simply decided to fly over the clouds. And what the hack is that?

Cloud computing is getting pretty popular these days for its dead-simple manageability and relatively lower cost. However it’s pretty hard to “compute” something in a computer which is not yours (they call the cloud computing units as virtual layers, and something virtual is simply something you only can imagine that you have), especially if image processing and complicated vision algorithms are the case. To put in simple words, a “real” server would do computation faster than a virtual one, both in theory and in practice. That’s why please allow me to say that flying over the clouds isn’t as simple as buying a plane ticket.

BeFunky team implemented a novel, more efficient core library than before, and adapted a new server side architecture that could communicate super fast internally. At the end we came up with a system that could access more memory and utilize the CPU better. This new power now enables us to perform our complicated algorithms even on slower computers. And now we could fly over the clouds… The guys here are pretty excited to share this hilarious experience with you on BeFunky.

It’s amazing how far we’ve come in the last 10 years. With digital cameras dropping in price and hard drive space getting more abundant and a lot less expensive, we can store a seemingly infinite number of photos in a relatively small amount of space. Unfortunately, those memories rarely leave our computers.

Children Playing

Gone are the days where bookshelves and coffee tables are stocked with family albums of captured moments and photos. So wouldn’t it be a nice surprise to throw all of those amazing memories into an album?

A fully illustrated album would make a great gift idea for Grandma and Grandpa who might not have access to a computer. Got a friend who’s graduating? An album featuring all the great times you’ve shared throughout the years can make an awesome grad gift.

By using BeFunky’s Photo Effects, you can make old photographs come alive in an exciting new way.  Let your creative juices flow and get wild with your memories. Get started with BeFunky Photo Effects.