Time for another MakeUseOf Poll. So far every poll we had was a huge success. tons of votes and comments. Thanks!
Now back to today’s poll. The poll question for today is what photo sharing website do you use?
Are you a Flickr fan? Google Picasa user? Or do use something less popular like recently mentioned Photie (which unlike the popular services offers unlimited stoage space). Tell us about it.
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What Photo Sharing Website Do You Use?
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(By) Aibek, the guy behind MakeUseOf.com
Even though I’m not much of a photo person, I do manage my photos. Mostly just collecting-grouping-tagging-retouching (using iPhoto), and resizing (using now not free anymore ImageWell) to be able to easily send to my friend or use the image for my blog.
I also have a Flickr account but there was only 3 photos inside it. The reason: I personally thought that online photo management process was too troublesome for the happy-go-lucky-shoot-everything amateur photographer like me.
Then comes JetPhoto Studio, an all-in-one photo tool (available for Mac and Windows). This application is a bit unknown because developed by Chinese programmer. But unknown doesn’t mean bad because this app has tons of good features.
Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of pictures in your digital camera which you want to transfer to your PC and store them securely. When you transfer all the pictures you’ll find that the file names are a combination of letters and numbers which do not tell anything about the image. So what do you do ? Obviously renaming them is the solution. But doing it in the conventional way (one at a time) is time consuming, in fact very time consuming if you’ve got 200 or 300 photos. This is where ReNamer comes into the picture.
We’ve covered lots of neat Adobe AIR applications here before, but I found a new one lately that just blew my socks off. This new Adobe AIR application is sure to excite the photo lover in anyone!
DestroyFlickr is a new application that was built for beauty and functionality. DestroyFlickr does its magic by giving you a whole new way of exploring Flickr images. The user interface is absolutely beautiful, with its dark neutral backgrounds, you can view pictures in a new amazing way.
First off, you’ll have to download DestroyFlickr (& Adobe AIR if you don’t already have it).
iPhoto is an addition in Mac OS X which I prefer over the traditional method of viewing and collecting photos in Windows. I highly doubt that merely keeping all your pictures in folders justifies a proper photo “album”. Shucks, there goes the infamous “Mac-ego” again. I apologize for that. But still, my stand remains — iPhoto is a joy to use, it’s a great way of viewing pictures and showing off to your friends by encapsulating it within a gloriously beautiful interface.
It does however (sometimes), turn out to be a pain in the ass.
How many people out there have hundreds, if not thousands, of digital pictures stored on their computers accumulated over years that no one has ever seen? Me! Thankfully, I try to upload most of my pictures to free online photo sharing sites like Picasa and Flickr to at least get some return on the time I spent actually taking all of those pictures.
However, I noticed that not too many of my friends nor my family really care to wade through hundreds of pictures, usually the same scene, just a different angle, because it’s boring. That’s where photo slideshows come in handy. You can make yourself look pretty suave by creating fancy slideshows with customized music, titles, and more using some very easy-to-use and free tools.
I love it when events are timed perfectly. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been contemplating how best to download my photos from my Flickr account before the pro membership expires in March. I kept putting off the task because it wasn’t very appealing to think of sitting at the computer for hours clicking individually on each photo and making multiple clicks to download it. I can think of better ways to utilise my time.
Then today, fate magically intervened and delivered to my RSS reader, FlickrDown. Using the free tool, I managed to download around 2000 original sized photos in about 30 minutes. All I needed to do was point and click.
I have recently begun to move all my photos from Flickr back to my own website. I was encouraged to begin this huge task when I was introduced to the freeware program Web Album Generator.
I figured this would be a good time to introduce it to Make Use Of readers, what with the holidays approaching and your photo-taking likely to increase.
A bunch of really cool and dead-simple tools to add a “WOW” factor to your images. We have mentioned most of them already, here I wanted to put the better ones together.
beFunky - This is by far my favorite tool. With beFunky you can take any of your photos and turn it into a cartoon like drawing. You can either convert it into a black and white sketch drawing or into a colorful animated painting.
And that’s not all, it also lets you do the same for videos. Check out the video below.
