It's a well known fact that using a few carefully placed photos or clipart images on your website or blog can make it much more appealing to it's readers. But no matter how attractive you think your images are, they always tend to look a little bit flat on the page, don't you think.

Well not any more...

I came across this great site just the other day, called Polaroize, that gives you the power to make all of your images so much more interesting. It does it by adding an effect that makes them appear as though they are somehow completely seperate from the page itself and are sitting on, or floating above, it.

Here's an example below of a really boring (but also very sexy) photo of myself, as I would have normally added it to a blog post or web page in the past:


Original photo

And below is exactly the same photo, except that I have edited it using the Polaroize website:


Polaroized photo
I'm sure you'll agree with me, that the second photo looks much more interesting than the first one... and yet the only changes the Polaroize website made to the image, was to add a white border, slightly rotate the image to the left and then add a drop-shadow to it - all with just a couple of clicks of my mouse. Now it kind of looks like a photo taken with a Polaroid camera, don't you think.

It's so easy to create this effect for your own images using the Polaroize website. Simply click here (or click on the image above) to go to the Polaroize website now. Then click on the 'Browse' button to select an image from your computer and then hit the 'Upload' button to generate your new image. Once your new image appears on your screen, right-click on it and choose 'Save Image As' to save it to your computer. Viola... how easy was that!!!

What do you think of the Polaroize website? I'd really like to know. Will you be using it yourself, or not? If you do decide to use it to spruce up your blog/website, then why not pop a link in a comment so we can see what you've done. Do you know of any other sites that let you do cool stuff with your images? If so, then please share them with us!