Make your smartphone a better camera.When it comes to photo editing programs,jimmy choo wedges shoes on sale us there’s really one name in town: . The photo editing program has been around for over 20 years, across more than a dozen iterations, advancing the art of advancing your photos, one tweak at a time. Adobe for Android and Apple iOS devices puts the basic features of the popular editing program literally in the palm of your hand.Reviewed.comA screengrab from the editing interface of Photoshop Express.Reviewed.comA screengrab from the editing interface of Photoshop Express.The apps have slight differences to them (the iOS version is clearly superior, as we’ll touch on in a moment), but we were impressed by the collection of image editing tools on board in both versions, which let you edit photos from your phone or from an online account at Photoshop.com.The Express version we’re reviewing here is free and comes only with a modest variety of the popular filters found in the full Photoshop Touch app (which is really meant for tablets rather than phones). But it does have a fairly powerful collection of editing tools to adjust exposure, saturation, tint, black white, brightness, and contrast. This lets you make some pretty wild changes, simply by drawing your finger across the image.As well designed as it is, we’d like the interface to be more intuitive. Once you open a photo for editing, you’re merely presented with eight icons—four each on the top and bottom of the screen—without any text telling you what they actually do. Tapping the icon obviously reveals its function pretty quickly, but we imagine that the interface will be totally foreign to novices who, for example, don’t know what the Photoshop crop symbol looks like.The iOS version has about the same interface as the Android version, but it does feature a few more filters. Both versions have a soft focus filter, for example, but the iOS app also has noise reduction, sketch, and sharpen filters. The iOS version also has an in-app camera feature, which the Android version does not. (That means you can take photos from within the app, while you can only edit photos after the fact in the Android version.)For iOS and Android alike, we wish Express included a few more of the digital filters that are commonly used (and overused) in full Photoshop. Even something simple like a posterization effect (emulating the look of the Obama “Hope” poster) seems missing, especially considering its presence in other photo-editing apps for Android and iOS. When it comes to the drastic effects a program like Instagram can have on an image, Photoshop Express does pale a bit in comparison.For the price of $0.00 you can’t complain, though, and all in all Photoshop Express is a helpful tool for making slight edits to contrast, tone, saturation, and brightness in an image. Since it’s free, it really can’t hurt to have it in your arsenal when you need to make edits on the go, and everyone should give it a shot,cheap christian louboutin sale
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A Maryland official was indicted Friday for misusing his police protection squad, jimmy choo flats shoes on sale us including making them wait while he had sex with a county employee in parking lots, using the officers to conceal his affair and having them do errands such as emptying his urinary catheter bag, prosecutors said.Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold was charged with four counts of misconduct in office and a count of fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary, state prosecutor Emmet Davitt announced Friday.”These abuses will not be tolerated,” he said.Leopold, 69, said Friday he will vigorously fight the charges and looks forward to having his side of the story heard.”When all the salient facts are known, I’m confident that we will prevail,” the Republican said in a telephone interview.The indictment alleges a systematic use of the officers as political campaign workers for his re-election campaign. Leopold regularly required them to place and check on campaign signs, often for several hours a day, throughout 2010 when he ran for a second four-year term.Leopold’s assistant chief administrative officer suggested in the summer of 2010 that the county executive spend about $2,000 in campaign funds to pay people to place campaign signs, but Leopold refused, according to the indictment.Officers also drove him to areas where he is accused of removing campaign signs of his Democratic opponent, Joanna Conti, prosecutors said in the indictment.Leopold directed a police officer to be present at a fundraiser and collect campaign donation checks. He directed on-duty executive protection officers to create dossiers on political challengers, including Conti and Carl Snowden, the indictment said, noting that police did not consider them to be security risks, the indictment said.”Wow,” Conti said when asked Friday for comment on the allegations, adding that if they are true she believes Leopold should step down. “He’s a J. Edgar Hoover. Again, that is a misuse of county resources.”In the second half of 2010, his sexual encounters with the county employee happened up to three times weekly during regular work hours in the parking lots of Annapolis-area businesses, the indictment said.Leopold, who is not married, is accused of using the officers’ personal cellphones to call the county employee and requested a second officer to be on duty when attending events with her to conceal the relationship from his longtime live-in girlfriend, prosecutors allege. When he was hospitalized twice for back surgery in 2010, he had the officers work more than 170 hours of overtime — costing the county more than $10,000 — to make sure the woman would not try to see him, according to the indictment.Prosecutors alleged that he made the police officers and his appointments coordinator empty his urinary catheter bag for him while he recovered from surgery.Leopold declined to talk about the indictment’s specifics, but said the grand jury process can be manipulated and controlled solely by the state prosecutor.”While it would be inappropriate for me to publicly comment on the allegations, the citizens of the county can look to my decades-long history of valued public service and assure themselves and have confidence in the fact that I’ve always placed the taxpayers’ interest above all else.”Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. jimmy choo booties shoes on sale us This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Psychiatrists studying the feelings of guilt or abercrombie and fitch online store shame associated with close combat say the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are influencing changes in the “bible” of psychiatry in the USA.By Jae C. Hong, APThe criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, which affects many returning combat vets, expanded to include persistent and recurring guilt or shame.By Jae C. Hong, APThe criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, which affects many returning combat vets, expanded to include persistent and recurring guilt or shame.The section of the ‘s manual for diagnosing mental illnesses that outlines the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder — an illness afflicting 15% to 20% of returning combat veterans — is being expanded to include symptoms of persistent and reoccurring guilt or shame.”We’ve seen … thousands of young men and women coming home terribly impaired emotionally by the war, and it certainly has gotten us thinking about what the consequences are (of combat),” says David Spiegel, a member of the association’s working group that is rewriting the section.STORY: STORY: The has treated more than 200,000 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan for PTSD.The triggers for PTSD have traditionally been linked to witnessing or experiencing violence or life-threatening events. Sufferers include victims of rape, domestic abuse and traffic accidents, as well as combat.The illness can lead to recurring nightmares, feelings of isolation and withdrawal and numbness to the world.Those revising the psychiatric manual say it is clear that PTSD is also characterized by distorted feelings of self-blame. In the chaos of war, this can include reactions to the unintentional killing of innocent people, Spiegel says.The revisions provide examples of symptoms that result from moral hazards: “I am bad,” “I’ve lost my soul forever,” and “the world is completely dangerous.”USA TODAY reported in November that a preliminary study of more than 200 Marines involved in intense fighting in southern Afghanistan found the leading cause of PTSD was moral conflicts faced in combat, more virulent than fears of death., executive director of the VA’s National Center for PTSD, who worked on the revisions, says the war influenced the changes, but rape and other traumatic events that cause the illness also played a role.Psychologist and neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda, a professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York who does extensive research with combat veterans, says the new criteria for PTSD can reduce stigma about seeking care.”What sometimes happens is that people miss the diagnosis because (patients) don’t have one or two symptoms that are not listed,” Yehuda says. “The more symptoms that we can list that really capture the post-traumatic state — the one that really causes a lot of difficulty in readjustment — the better off we are.”abercrombie and fitch cap for sale

Facebook wants friends on .Leon Neal, AFP/Getty ImagesThe logo of social networking website ‘Facebook’ is displayed on a computer screen.Leon Neal, AFP/Getty ImagesThe logo of social networking website ‘Facebook’ is displayed on a computer screen.At a splashy event, the social-networking giant pitched “Premium on Facebook” as a new way for advertisers to pay to mingle ads across the pages and mobile phones of Facebook members.”It is going through a massive evolution starting today,” said Mike Hoefflinger, Facebook’s director of global business marketing, speaking at the .
gucci outlet online store Facebook advertisers will now be able to distribute ads to fans of companies in news feeds, the right-hand column and in a log-out message. These ad forms — what Facebook calls “compelling stories” — will also hit the news feed on its mobile app.To non-fans, the ads will only be targeted to the right-side column. Facebook had previously begun allowing brands to advertise to their fans’ news feeds.Along with Premium, Facebook also launched new pages for businesses that include Timeline features.Facebook’s advertising push comes as growth in advertising sales is slowing. The company, which is preparing to go public this spring and raise $5 billion in its initial public offering, will be under increased scrutiny from .”The stakes get a little higher as they move toward their IPO,” says eMarketer analyst Debra Williamson.Facebook’s worldwide ad sales grew 104% in 2011 but are expected to climb just 52% to $5.8 billion this year and only 21% to $7 billion next year, according to eMarketer.Facebook’s new ad program is an important step toward catering to ad agency interests, says Rich LeFurgy, a former chairman of the . gucci wallets for cheap “It’s a concrete demonstration that Facebook wants to have a presence with Madison Avenue,” he says.Facebook’s mobile advertising has so far been a missed opportunity. More than half of its 850 million members are mobile visitors. mobile display advertising could soar from $630 million in 2011 to $5.3 billion in 2016, estimates researcher IDC. Facebook is the only one “that can challenge Google in mobile,” says IDC analyst Karsten Weide. “It’s going to shake up mobile display (advertising) for a couple years.”