Picassa photo management lets you geotag your photos using a map view. To tag multiple photos in the same album, click Map Photos, and then drag your thumbnails onto the map. For instructions on how to tag single photos, and entire albums at once, read Google’s Picassa Help.
Mobile blogging (or moblogging) is blogging directly from a cellphone. For example, Flickr provides a unique email address that will simultaneously add photos to your Flickr stream and your personal blog. Blogs from ten major providers are supported, including WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type and Live Journal. Simply snap a photo (or record a video) with your cellphone’s camera, and send it to your special Flickr email to publish it on your blog.
Rasterbator is a free service that creates huge mural-size images from any picture. Simply upload an image, and then download and print the resulting multi-page PDF. Re-assemble the pages and you will have an extremely cool looking poster that can be as tall as sixty-five feet. If your original image is more than a megabyte in size, you’ll want to download the free Rasterbator Windows utility instead of using the online service.
Google’s Street View is now live at Google Maps for five cities (San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami) with more cities coming soon. Street View is a 360-degree street-level photograph that has some people upset about privacy concerns. Here, for example, is a view of a San Francisco restaurant I dined at over the long Memorial Day weekend. Google retorts that all photos are taken from public streets, and therefore they are not violating anyone’s privacy. What do you think?
For photos that need a quick fix or for those times when you do not have access to photo-editing software, here’s a crop of three photo-editing websites that allow you to edit your photos using only a browser: Picnik, Phixr and Pixer.us. For even more photo-editing sites (including a few that don’t start with the letter “p”), read Master New Media.
Replacing someone’s head in a digital photo can be just for laughs, or it can fix a group shot that would otherwise be ruined. The following Photoshop tutorials show you how: Replacing a Head: Photoshop Tutorial by Janee and Tutorials Photoshop: Changing Heads.
Disappointed with photos you’ve snapped with your cell phone? Here are three pointers for improving them. Use the entire frame, don’t just focus on the center. Adjust the brightness level if the image on your display seems too dark or too light. Place your subjects off-center for a more interesting layout. For more tips, read CNET’s Capture Great Shots with your Phone .
EveryStockPhoto.com is a search engine for Creative Commons photos. Although it is your responsibility to check the licensing terms at the host site for any photo you wish to use, most of these will be free for non-commercial use, and many may also allow commercial use. To learn more about Creative Commons, watch the explanatory videos.
Adding a picture to a MySpace comment isn’t that hard if you know a little HTML. Here are the basic steps. First, upload the picture to your MySpace account (or somewhere else on the Internet.) Second, figure out the URL of the uploaded picture. Third, add the appropriate HTML to your MySpace comment. For complete instructions, read Ask Leo’s “How Do I Put a Picture in a MySpace comment?” ( http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_put_a_picture_in_a_comment ).
Demand for online photo and video hosting is being fueled by the proliferation of digital cameras, cell phones with cameras, and the popularity of social networking sites such as MySpace.com. Photobucket and Flickr are two popular services that offer free photo hosting.
