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There’s a new Microsoft Office add-in that lets you search for and download online images into Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint (either 2007 or 2010 versions). The images come from Veer, a site that offers an online collection of professional photography and illustrations for purchase. The…

Amit Agarwal recently posted a handy tip to his blog about one of Bing’s perhaps lesser-known features: wallpaper search. When you search for a keyword or phrase using Bing’s image search portal, the options on the left side of the page let you further narrow down your choices by image size: small,…

Believe it or not us 'Softies found some really interesting news stories that did NOT have anything to do with Kanye West or the VMA's. Here's what really mattered at Microsoft Campus this week:Browsers & BatteriesBing images put to good useXbox AnywhereThe Xbox Anywhere Channel 10…

The popular Windows XP PowerToy, ImageResizer, has recently been updated to support Windows 7. Like it sounds, this tool lets you quickly resize a selection of multiple images at once. It’s was typically used in the past to compress photos to more manageable sizes for sharing via email (although…

Matthew Scott of Microsoft Research demonstrates new technology that can make advertising based on image content a reality. In existing online-advertisement platforms, the relevance between advertisers and users is decided largely by textual keyword matching. With this new technology, advertisers…

The Live Search team just announced the addition of a new feature to Live Image Search: the ability to find related images. When you hover your cursor over one of the images in the Live search results, you’ll see a new option called “Show Similar Images.” Click on that and you’ll see a new set of…

Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE), released today is an advanced, stand alone version of the panoramic image stitching feature found in Windows Live Photo Gallery.From the ICE web site:"...shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image…

Behold Photoshop users as In-Depth Image Editing is coming to a computer near you.  In-Depth Image Editing takes the idea of Clip Art to a whole different level.  I stopped by for a demo on how to turn your boring old photos into super creative 3-D popouts. 

  This sample demonstrate simple wallpaper cycler. It expects a folder in which it will find images. Upon startup, it will change the wallpaper, and it will even modify the placement behavior based on the size of the image found. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Easy Time…