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Online Photo Hosting

September 26, 2006

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.

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Photo CD Cover

June 22, 2006

Got photos? Got CDs? How about creating a cool CD cover from your own photos? This fun tool from Flagrant Disregard will create a personalized, printable page that integrates your photo and text into a CD or DVD cover that you simply print, cut, and fold. You can upload a photo from your own computer, [...]

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ESP Game

May 23, 2006

How do you teach a computer to categorize and label photographs and other images? Identifying objects in a picture is easy for a person, but very difficult for a machine. A graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University has a found a way to solve the problem by garnering the help of hundreds of thousands of [...]

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Protecting Online Images

March 7, 2006

If you post pictures to your website, it’s nearly impossible to stop others from stealing them and using your pix on other sites. But you can do a few things to deter image theft, such as branding your photos with your copyright and URL, and posting your copyright policy on your site. Read more at [...]

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Hardcover Photo Albums

August 9, 2005

Making a hardcover photo album from digital photos is fun and easy with this crop of tools: My Publisher (my personal favorite at ), Kodak EasyShare Galleryand Apple’s iPhoto Books. For a more detailed review of all three products, read The Mossberg Solution.

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Digital Photo Organizer

January 18, 2005

Picasa from Google, is a free Windows download for organizing digital photos. It eliminates the need to manually organize photo files, and replaces it with a powerful thumbnail search system. Picasa also includes editing tools for cropping, rotation and red-eye removal. For sharing photos with friends online, Picassa integrates with Hello.

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Changing the Default Graphics App

April 6, 2004

Although Picture and Fax Viewer is the default graphics viewing application for Windows XP, you can easily change this. Open Windows Explorer, and then right-click on any picture file. Select Open With, and then (even if your graphic program is listed) click on Choose Program. Now highlight your graphics program, and check the box titled [...]

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Royalty-Free Graphics

March 30, 2004

Royalty-free photographs for your website do not have to be expensive. PD Photo offers thousands of free, public domain photos. IstockPhoto has 85,000 royalty-free photographs and illustrations with prices starting at just fifty cents per image.

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Photo Sharing

December 2, 2002

Although it is easy to email one or two digital photos, it becomes cumbersome when you have dozens of pictures you want to send. The easy way to share photos with friends and family is an online photo album. Here are three sites that offer free online photo sharing: Yahoo! Photos, Ofoto, and Club Photo.

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