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A Photo Storage Site
The easiest way to store and share your photos
is with an online photo album site. There are many to choose
from, and your choice of site would depend upon your application.
There are photo communities, photo blog repositories,
file storage services, printers that will store your photos,
photo album sites supported by advertising, and paid-subscription
sites that allow you to license your images.
Many sites are free, which is always a great
price. But watch out for restrictions. The sites may have
limits for image file size, storage space, and duration of
storage (e.g. your photos may get deleted after 90 days of
non-usage).
For a monthly subscription, you can often
upgrade to a "premium" service, which may increase
the size of files you can store and reduce the amount of advertising
you endure. Some sites permit printing and licensing, so you
can make money off your photos, similar to stock photography.
Once you've opened an account, you can "upload"
your photos (i.e. transfer/copy them to the site) either from
a web browser or by using some software provided by the site.
You can arrange your photos in groups or folders (such as
"Our Trip To Italy") and even add "tags"
(keywords embedded in the image file) to assist with searching.
Make Your Own Web Site
Instead of putting your photos on some company's
web site, you can put them on your web site. This takes more
work and requires more knowledge of programming and software,
but the result is more individual and professional.
First you'll need somewhere to store (or
"host") your site. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider)
may offer this, or you can sign up for a paid account with
a hosting company. I pay about $25 a month to host the site
you're looking at right now. For about $25 extra per year,
you can get your own domain name. I couldn't resist getting
AndrewHudson.com.
Once you have a site, you'll need to design
some pages. For Apple users, you can use iPhoto with a .Mac
account. There are sophisticated web-page design programs
such as Adobe GoLive or you can "code" a page using
"HTML". Design and test the pages on your computer,
then "upload" them to the "host" and instantly
your photos are available on the Internet.
Store and share your photos with these online photo album
sites:
AlbumTown Free Online Photo Album Sharing
Buzznet A blogger's site with photo sharing
Flickr Photo Sharing. Store, search, sort and share photos.
Owned by Yahoo!
Fotki Photo Sharing And Printing
Fotolog Photo blog community
Fotopic Photo gallery, prints and gifts
Glowfoto Galleries and photo blogs
ImageShack Image hosting service
Magix Online albums
MyPhotoAlbum Online Photo Album. Share and print
One True Media Video, photos and music
Phanfare Online Photo Sharing with no advertising
PhotoBox Shore and share digital photos
Photobucket Free Image and Video Hosting
Picasa Web Albums photo albums from Google
Ringo Photo Sharing Made Easy
SmugMug
Zooomr Photo sharing with GeoTags
Webshots photo sharing community, owned by CNET
Include text to describe the pictures so your
site will get found on search engines such as Google. Include
an email address and/or phone number so you can be reached.
You can include copyright info if you like (e.g. Copyright
Jane Doe 2006).
Don't fret about people stealing your images
-- magazines and other companies respect copyright rules and
besides, an image on the Internet is usually too poor quality
to be printed properly.
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