Online Photo Editors
Fauxto - Advanced online
photo editor with an interface similar to Photoshop’s
XmgImg- Image hosting
service that provides an interface for users to manage, edit,
and share their images online.
OnlinePhotoTool
- Edit pictures taken from your hard drive as well as images
that are already on the Internet.
MyImager - Upload images
from your computer and from anywhere on the web and edit them
freely with the dozens of tools and filters available.
SnipShot - Edit photos
from your hard-drive, your Webshots account, or your Flickr
account in one place, and then save them back to any of those
locations.
Pixenate - Online photo
editor with many special effects. You can also integrate Pixenate
on your website and allow visitors to edit images.
Phixr - Edit your pictures
and directly upload them to Flickr, Fotopic, Livejournal, Photobucket,
Fotolog.com, Buzznet and Dropshots.
Pixer.us - Edit your photos
online within your browser, add special effects and save them
in the most popular formats.
Picture2Life - Edit
pictures available on the Internet or taken from your hard disk.
You can also import images from popular photo sharing sites.
Cellsea
- Upload pictures from your PC or from an URL. It provides over
15 ways to correct color, exposure, and lighting problems.
Preloadr - Photo editor
with good image manipulation functions that is connected with
your Flickr account.
Picnik - Photo editor with
many interesting features which is directly connected to many
photo sharing sites.
Pixelmator - Pixelmator
is a photo editing service for Mac users. The design is superb
and intuitive. There are selection tools, paintbrushes of various
size and shape, retouching tools, layering and much more. You
can enhance photos, analyze colors, add text, create stylized
scenes with halftones and image blurring.
Photo Sharing
Zorpia - Zorpia is like Myspace
with some more photo features, you can upload you photos and
share them on your profile.
Clickfriends -Document
your life with your own digital photo essay, then share it with
friends and family through ClickFriends.com. Now you can have
the same site take care of your online photo albums and your
Facebook or MySpace photo albums. Just upload your photos to
the ClickFriends site, and then have them exported to your profile
on your preferred social networking site. It“s free and easy
to sign up.
Snappages - Snappages.com
provides space for you to save and organize your photos, your
online friends from virtual communities, and your events in
one well-designed web page. It combines various web concepts,
including online storage, file sharing, and Facebook-style friend
communication.
Photorgy - Photorgy is
photo uploading/sharing tool which works with AIM. Photo albums
can be shared and owned by any number of friends, family members,
and colleagues.
SlideShare - SlideShare
is a content sharing site where you can host and display presentations.
Maybe you would use it to show your professional work, or just
for personal photo sharing, power point presentations about
your latest entrepreneurial idea, or graphics you designed.
Zoomandgo - Contribute
your travel photos, videos, or general advice to the Zoom and
Go site, and they will reward you with cash. The site has a
system of points which can be awarded to the content you submit
according to what kind of content it is (written reviews receive
less then photos, and videos receive the most).
Zooomr - Store, share, sort,
sell, and search all your photos and those of other users at
Zooomr. Users can post comments on individual pictures, therefore,
gaining feedback on the photo, as well as gaining insight into
the other photographers who use the site. Photos can be shared
for free, or can be sold through the site.
BurstCast - Burstcast
offers space for you to upload pics from your camera phone either
by MMS or by e-mail, right from the phone. On the site, you
can choose for your photos to be made public and shown on the
home page (but it“s either all or nothing; you can“t have
some photos be public and some private).
Mostrips - The photo sharing
site is designed to let you create albums to be easily shared
on mobile phones. It“s a useful way to send work if you are
a photographer, or a head shot if you are a model or actor.
Or it can just be a fun way to share photos from your vacations
among friends and family.
DPhoto - DPhoto is a photo
sharing service which offers well-designed graphics and a professional
appearance. With DPhoto you can share your photos with friends
and family in an ad-free, secure site.
Invitr - Invitr is a Flickr
related application which simply extends your sharing capabilities.
With Invitr you can share your Flickr photos with non-Flickr
members; so photos that have been categorized as private can
now be sent and shared with anyone you choose.
DigitalRailroad
- Digital Railroad is aimed at aiding professional photographers
connect with more fans and even help them connect to content
providers and media companies who are looking to buy their work.
ContakMe - Contakme is
a new site where you can upload an unlimited number of photos,
create albums, and rate other people“s photos.
Flickr - The most popular
photo sharing site. Upload photos, create sets and join one
of the greatest communities of professional and unprofessional
photographers.
Picasa - Google’s
answer to photo sharing. The main application is a download,
but there are also web albums.
Free Photo Hosting
Photobucket - one of
the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst
MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social
networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB
of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size.
ImageShack - The most popular
image hosting service. Upload images up to 1.5 MB and embed
them in any web page.
AllYouCanUpload-
There is no limit to the image size you can upload. You can
also upload up to three images in the same time.
ImageHosting - Upload
multiple pictures at one time. The maximum filesize you can
upload depends on what account you registered.
TinyPic - Upload pictures
and videos and embed them anywhere. The direct link for your
picture or video will be tiny (e.g. http://tinypic.com/1)
TheImageHosting
- Upload multiple images at once and zipped image files. Maximum
file size allowed is 1 MB.
BayImg - Free uncensored image
hosting provided by the Pirate Bay. The max file upload size
is 100MB and you can can upload about 140 different formats.
XS.to - Upload your images and embed
them anywhere. You can also delete images you previously uploaded.
Max file size allowed is 2.5 MB.
ImgPlace - Upload up
to five images at one time. Maximum file size allowed is 1.5
MB
FreeImageHosting.net
- Register to host your images for free. Maximum file size is
3,000 KB.
FileHigh - The free “Economy”
account lets you upload up to three images simultaneously and
the maximum size for each file is 512 KB.
VillagePhotos -
Upload pictures straight from your browser and host them online.
1 GB monthly data transfer.
ImageVenue - You can upload
up to five images in the same moment. The maximum file size
allowed is 1.5 MB.
ImageCross - Free MySpace
image hosting. You can upload images up to 2 MB in size.
SmugMug - SmugMug is a
photo uploader, editor, and community portal all in one. You
can upload and share your photos, then store the photos with
up to four backup copies of each photo in three varying states.
Photography Blogs
Digital-Photography-School
- Darren Rowse’s photo tips.
Thomas Hawk - Zooomr’s
Thomas Hawk on photography, Zooomr, Flickr and general tech
news.
PhotoCritic - A site
for photography criticism, with the intention of allowing photographers
to critique each others’ work and share opinions, suggestions,
and professional tips.
FlickrBlog - While it’s
not exclusively a photo blog, but from time to time the Flickr
staff will pick a few photos and feature them on the blog and
the users see this as a big honor.
DPreview - practically
the only resource you’ll ever need for digital cameras;
incredibly in-depth and timely reviews of most models available
on the market
Shutterlog -
some great photos here with attention to detail.
Chromasia - no words,
only great photos
Stuck In Customs
- blog by one of the greatest DRM photographers on the net
Black and White
Photography - great photo blog focusing on B&W photos.
Mashups
Flappr - A slick
Flash-based Flickr interface that lets you do most of the actions
you can do on Flickr.
FlickrVision - displays
Flickr updates from various users on a Google Map.
Retrievr -
an unbelievable mashup that delivers photos based on your drawings.
Flickr Logo Maker - Turns
any text into a Flickr-style logo.
Spell with Flickr
- this tool enables you to write text in letters based off Flickr
images. Not all that useful but fun.
Tagnautica
- a slightly weird visual way to browse through Flickr images.
Captioner -
adds comic-style captions to your images.
Fastr - a
“guess that tag” style game; you are presented with
a series of images and you must guess their common tag.
PictureSandbox - Searches
the Flickr archive (as well as that of YouTube and some other
sites) based on the type of license; great tool for finding
images you can actually use in a project
FlickrFling
- presents an RSS feed through Flickr images. Completely useless
but works as a fun experiment.
Colr Pickr - One
of the most useful Flickr Mashups; enables you to search Flickr
photos based on their color. Works surprisingly well.
FlickrBall
- a six-degrees-of-separation scavenger-hunt game (yes, Kevin
Bacon is mentioned), using Flickr thumbnails and tags for clues.
Photo
Tag Mashup - Retrieves a number of Flickr images in a simple
interface based on a tag you provide
Flickr
Sudoku - a Sudoku game based on Flickr images.
Mobile
SnapZone - An online
service that lets you upload your photos directly from your
mobile via a wireless connection. Snapzone allows you to free
up space on your phone”s memory while also giving you
an instantaneous way to share your images with friends. SnapZone
is also a community site, so if your friends join you can use
it to share your pictures easily in one place.
Fotochatter - network
that enables you to share mobile pictures with your friends,
as well as receive images from your buddies on your phone
Radar - creates picture conversations
- you send your pictures to Radar and your friends can instantly
see them and comment on them
Shozu - Mobile uploading
to photo sites including Flickr.
Photo Mixing and Slideshows
Slide - create slideshows
easily and embed them on your site or social networking profile.
RockYou - offers several
free services, including slideshow creation, photo hosting,
photo enhancement and more.
Scrapblog - An online
service that lets you upload your photos from many of the popular
photo sharing websites and mash them up with hundreds of stickers,
shapes, text and YouTube videos to create a digital scrapbook
Vuvox - Vuvox lets you create
online animated and interactive slideshows using a range of
effects, theme templates and designs
Mixercast - Mixercast
lets you mashup your photos and movies into animated, interactive
slide shows and throws in ag ood library of stock photo, video
and licensed music to use as a soundtrack
Flektor - Flektor has a
great set of tools for adding transitions, text, stickers, effects
and overlays into movies made out of your photos and online
videos
Photo Printing/Book Creation
Snapfish - Snapfish is
run by HP, they let you store and share your photos for free,
and prints are cheap with highest quality at 12Ā¢ each. You
can also have things like mugs and cards made with your pictures
on them.
Fotki - A photo-sharing
and hosting site, you can share you photos with others or use
it with your blog. It has some unique features like FTP access,
and users can choose to sell their photos. There is an integrated
printing service that lets you print at many different sizes
at good prices.
KodakGallery - Kodak
Gallery is owned by Kodak (no surprise there), like the other
they let you store and share photos and then make prints and
have custom gifts made.
Shutterfly - Shutterfly
not only lets you store and share photos and then have them
printed, you can also pic up your prints right at Target stores.
Moo - Moo currently has partnerships
with many social networks including Flickr, Vox, and Bebo, you
can print small minicards and notecards with the photos you
have uploaded to these sites.
Photo Search
PicSearch - image search
with some interesting options; for example, you can choose to
search only black and white or color photos.
YotoFoto - a search engine
which claims to be indexing over a quarter million Creative
Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’
images.
Google Image Search
- a resource so commonly used it doesn’t need a special
explanation; still one of the best ways to find images of any
kind on the web.
Pixsy - Image search engine
that’s striking a lot of partnerships. Also provides PixsyPower,
a custom video and photo search for your own site.
StockPhotoFinder
- a search engine specialized in finding stock photos.
EveryStockPhoto
- this site is indexing over 1 million completely free photos
from various sources.
Stock Photos
iStockPhoto - royalty-free
images for low prices; there aren’t any completely free
photos here, but photo quality is above average
Fotolia - Another cheap
royalty-free image provider, with nearly 2 million photos in
stock
SXC.hu - one of the best (and
biggest) repositories of completely free stock photography on
the net.
MorgueFile - provides
completely free photos; no registration required to download.
PixelPerfectDigital
- 5000+ free stock photos
StockXpert - the commercial
arm of Stock Xchange; offers cheap but quality royalty-free
material
Alamy - Alamy is a search
engine for stock photos which boasts millions of images from
thousands of photographers, picture agencies and national collections.
The site does the editing and classification of the images.