Photos & Photo Paintings
Photo sharing Websites
Photo sharing for facebook and twitter - http://plixi.com
Stock Photographs from iStockPhoto
Fotopic for free or paid subscription to online photo galleries. I have used the free gallery service for a while before I created my own sites. You can see my Fotopic gallery pictures for an idea of what you can do.
Bonus Print - a UK based site where you can have your digital photos printed into mugs, jewellery and other items (phot gifts). Prints start at 5 pence each according to the website.
Epson photo sharing allows you to store and organise your photos while sharing your albums with friends and family.
Photo sharing by PhotoSite- Create free personalized online photo albums to share your digital photos on the web!
Slide - turns photos into Channels so that you can see pictures on your computer as a series of moving images, you can also invite your friends to see them as well. To read more about this there is a comprehensive guide (FAQ) to slide.
Pbase and as it says "The primary mission of PBase.com is to be the best photo sharing and photo hosting web site."
Fotkie.com free photo sharing.
Webshots from CNET
Definition of Photo Sharing on the wikipedia
Zoto has a photo sharing and photo blog site, everyone is doing it so why not you?
Media Share from Casio
Orange has a photo sharing and printing service for UK customers. The prices look good and you can also share your photos online with your friends.
Photosharing from Ning
Imagestation Sony US site with free photo software to help you organise your pictures.
Pixology site is for webmasters looking for photo sharing and commercial solutions. Used in many commercial UK sites.
Print Button allows you to sell prints of your photographs, create an online digital photo gallery. If people decide they want a print of your picture then you can make money.
Looking for royalty free pictures for a project at a reasonable price then Fotolia may be the answer where you can buy pictures from less than £1 to use with print and web based projects. You can also add you own pictures to make money.
Interesting article on Digital workflow with reference to open source photo editing software
Smug Mug for photo pringing and selling
Photo Sharing Websites
Photography is one of the most popular passtimes and most of us have cameras in our phones or small, yet powerful digital cameras that allow us to create photographs that can be printed out in superb quality. You can of course have your own photo printer that allows you to print quality images at your convenience and relatively cheaply. For large photos of A2 or A3 you will need to spend a fair bit to buy a printer to do this, or if you just want one or two photographs printed in this size then using a photo printing service will probably be the cheaper option.
Another way to use photographs is of course to put them online so you can share them with a few fiends or by making your pictures public so that anyone can view and often print them. You still retain copyright of your images although many people choose to allow others to use and share their pictures under a Creative Commons licence. So you want to put your pictures online, well there is a number of choices for you to consider.
Blogging
Most blogging sites such as Blogger (A Google site) allows you to upload your pictures to your blog so that you can write about your photographs as well as do other things - such as following your favourite blogs and adding Google Adsense to your blogs so that you can earn money from your blog. Blogger connects to your Google account so you can get free e-mail as well as online galleries and use Buzz to make connections with your friends.
Other free blogs include WordPress.com and Microsoft Live where you can get 25GB of online storage for free for pictures and documents.
Of course you may want to have more control over your blog and also want your own domain name for your photo gallery. When you buy a domain name and web space you will often find that your web host will provide you with a number of easy to install scripts to set up a wide range of online software including your own online copy of WordPress blogging platform as well as other popular options.
Photo Sharing Websites
Then there is photo sharing websites that are dedicated to allowing you to store your photos online, one of the most popular is Flickr and if your photographs are good enough then you may also be able to licence them for re-sale through Flickr. Many other photo sharing websites exist and are often connected to a Photo Printing Service, a convienent way of storing your pictures as well as having them printed in a wide range of formats including onto mugs and other gifts. PhotoBucket is another photo sharing site that is used by many people.
If you are a photographer or anyone with a camera that takes pictures that other people like then you can sell them online with many of the photo sharing websites. You can learn more about having your own pictures for sale with PhotoBox.
More Photo Sharing and Gallery Websites
Photo Gallery software includes Coppermine and Gallery. I have used Coppermine on websites and find it very good. Unfortunately so do spammers and while there is a way to put in spam filtering it involves a bit of knowledge that may be beyond many of us who just want to get on with the job of putting pictures up on a website. I used to have examples running on this site of Coppermine and Gallery Photo Galleries however I decided to move my sites to a new server with 1and1 and did not move the galleries. I may add them again in the future if I can figure out how to stop the spammers!
Below are a jumbled list of websites I have found that offer photo sharing, printing and other services for the amateur and professional photographer.
Digital Photo Printing, Storage and Sharing at Truprint
23hq for photosharing, and see some of the latest photos added.
Other resources on Digital Photosharing
Telekorn scripts - a php based photo gallery software. Paid script.
Zoomshare for free online photo sharing
Photoshare.org - Photoshare is a service of The INFO Project helping international, non-profit organizations communicate health and development issues through photography.
AKVIS software provides a range of standalone and Photoshop plugins for both personal and commercial use.
Fancybox - FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.
http://fancybox.net/
Dreamstime for pictures and royality free images
