Poladroid is a free and light-weight application which allows you to turn your snaps or photos into Polaroid style photos.

When you start a Poladroid application, it loads on your desktop. All you need to do is to drag and drop pictures to the Polaroid, it will start the processing automatically. A rotating dotted circle shows the image file is processing. At the initial stage the Polaroid image is darker and it becomes brighter as the time goes. When it finishes the processing, a cross mark is added to the Polaroid image and it makes a beep sound. It will take a minute or two to complete the process.

Following image shows some of the samples that I made using Poladroid.

Features:

• Easy to use
• Drag & Drop
• Generate High-resolution pictures (400 dpi)
• Ready-to-print with a Polaroid design
• Random and realistic Polaroid-like colors variation
• and more…

Download Poladroid

Talon is a Firefox Add-on developed by Aviary which allows you to screen capture inside Firefox and also edit the captured image online using Falcon Image Markup. Using this add-on, users can quickly capture the selected region or entire web page, save captured images to desktop or even edit the captured image directly in Aviary’s applications.

Once installed, it provides an option in the right click menu as well as on the tool bar. You can take a screen shot of the page or a region and if you are logged into the online account of Aviary, you can even edit the captured image. You can also save the captured images to desktop.

In addition, this add-on also provides another option to directly edit background images or any images on webpage with Falcon online image editor.

It will open Falcon Image Editor and you can do some basic image editing with this editor.

There are several add-ons for Firefox which allow you to take screenshots but the Aviary extension is super easy and best of all you can directly edit the image and save it to your desktop.

Download Aviary Firefox add-on: Talon

SnagIt is a screenshot program that operates under the Windows operating system. It is distributed by TechSmith, who also distribute Camtasia Studio. SnagIt replaces the native Print Screen function with additional features. It contains most features needed by technical writers.

I think every professional blogger will be using this software to edit images, add interactive text and designs to attract readers.

TechSmith offers old version of SnagIt 7.2.5 for free to download with legal software key.

Go to http://www.techsmith.com/Covermount/covermount.asp?ID=8 and download Snagit 7.2.5 version, request for free license key in the right side of the page. You will be receiving Snagit 7.2.5 software key with 50% offer for full purchase of SnagIt 9.1 which costs around $24.95 USD.