1. You definitely need to build your projects correctly in Eclipse and Maven can help you resolving the dependencies correctly so that you project can reference to its repository for building the project. You need to run following two commands:

• Setting a classpath variable for maven repository i.e. M2_REPO, You can run this command from any directory

  C:\>mvn -Declipse.workspace="eclipse_workspace_location" eclipse :add-maven-repo

• Setting the project’s .classpath files according to the dependencies specified in pom.xml, You need to run this command at project build folder so that it can check all the dependencies accordingly. In case your pom.xml has child projects it will also set .classpath file for all those as well.

  C:\project_build_folder>mvn eclipse:eclipse -o

2. Use m2eclipse plugin for managing for project. Visit m2eclipse.sonatype.org for more details related to installation, features etc.

I still remember when I took hours to create a digital collage using my college pictures and also took help of one of my friend (a Graphic designer) in it.

I came across this website which does the same thing real quick and in few simple steps. Visit www.rollip.com for trying it yourself. It gives your original picture a classic look and you can choose the effect you want while converting your picture into a Polaroid one. For the complete set of steps which any one need to follow can be found at http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Polaroid-Using-Rollip.Com

I am not writing much as the steps are really simple and any one can experience it really quick. Usage is really simple and results are really cool. I suggest this for collage pictures for sure. I am very soon gonna make my own collage at home using this website

See What I created there http://www.rollip.com/share/0936-8bc1bc8c-9ca6-11de-9cef-0030485ac562

1. Edit pictures online – www.picnik.com
2. Optimize images for web – Image optimization/format conversion
3. Resize your photos/pictures Online – www.webresizer.com
4. Adobe Photoshop Express – Beta

This one is close to www.picnik.com in functionality and features or probably more evolved. The website is based on Flash technology which lts you edit your pictures in many ways:

a. Basic Fixing like Resize, Crop, Red-eye, Rotate, Flip etc.
b. Effects like Invert, Gray scale, Painting , Bronze etc.
c. Decorate like Text, stickers, draw, erase etc.
d. And some are advanced like Layers, distort, Beautify and Animations.

You can also pick your picture from one of the picture sharing networks like photobucket, facebook, myspace, picasa, flickr etc. These types of integration makes it more useful as people generally keep their pictures on such networks.

This application has also been selected as one of the 10 Best Application UIs in 2008 by http://www.useit.com/alertbox

Happy editing!!

I have already written about few of them in previous posts like

a. photoshop.com
b. webresizer.com
c. smush.it

These are for general purpose picture editing and fixing. There are many more with some serious editing and some are for creating images online like www.pixlr.com/

Here i am trying to cover a website which i came across recently and found very useful in both sense, simple and advanced at the same time. Go to www.picnik.com and check it out.

Few basic things which i liked most:

1. No Registration required to experience it
2. Its integration with few popular image sharing, publishing & online community services like Myspace, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, photobucket, webshots etc.
3. Very clean and clear interface while editing your image
4. Last but not the least its loading (When the flash application loads before you can start your photo editing.). Quite interesting slogans while loading the application which gives a nice impression while waiting for application to load.

There are enough features to edit image which you can experience on picnik:

1. Rotate
2. Crop
3. Exposure
4. Red -eye
5. Sharpen
6. Refine colors