Here’s the latest addition to the Web 2.0 bandwagon - befunky - a quick & dirty way to cartoonize your favourite snaps in a jiffy.
The site sports a simple flash interface that allows you to upload your snaps (either from your Desktop or by direct capture through a webcam) and convert them to cartoon caricatures. There are a couple of easy-to-understand parameters like Sketch, Colour, Warp and Goodies which can produce widely varying end-results. You can crop or rotate the picture once you’ve uploaded it, adjust the brightness & colour levels, apply different warp brush sizes as well as do a multiple variations of flipping & layering. You can even add frames, modify facial features (hair, lips, eyes etc.), throw in accessories like jewelry, eyeware & hats and top it up with some custom funky text. The resultant pictures are really cool! Here’s a simple example with the most basic effect applied.
Soon to come is a new feature that’ll allow you to transcend the boundaries of static pictures and apply the same effects to videos as well. Oh Yes! Full-length running videos. Ain’t that awesome?
The site sports a comprehensive Tips & Tricks section which gives you creative tips on how to best utilise the toons you’ve just created, which range from personally branded merchandise to e-cards and ways to spice-up your costume parties. All in all a very easy-to-use and useful web-application that can find a large audience - specially in graphically challenged people, like me 
Can prove to be a viable option for those who don’t have access to Adobe Photoshop and it’s plethora of filters.
Found via: System Hacks
This comes in rapid succession of the last review of Web 2.0 Badges. No sooner had I posted it, I stumbled upon another free online Web 2.0 Badge Generator called freshbadge - and this one offers far more in the way of features. The basic idea is all …
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Nope ! You don’t need any expensive graphics editing tools. Nor do you require to perform painstaking and complicated procedures to generate those ultra-cool reflective Web 2.0 style badges. You can do all of that online under less than a minute and for free with Web 2.0 Badges.
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This tutorial was created for an opensource site named AntiLost that a couple of my friends and myself had tried to launch a while back. While the site never really took off (and has been torn down long since), some of the material that were hosted there still remains with me. I was going through them yesterday and discovered this …
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Ever come across those neat graphics of directional arrows and wished you could have them on your site? They can be used for anything from grabbing attention to indicating download links.
Look no further. Here is a step-by-step tutorial that should get you on track, and enable you to create custom graphical arrows.
The tutorial is based on Inkscape, which is an …
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The lack of trust has always been a big issue on the Internet and with the emergence of new collaborative services revolving around Web 2.0 it has only taken a hike for the worse. With every dawning days more and more people / concerns are stepping into the world of blogging, sharing, publishing or selling online - but there’s virtually …
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