Online Photo Sharing

1. Online Photo Sharing By Justin Binks

2. Online Photo Sharing in a nutshell… • Provide online storage/backup of photographs, videos and other images. • Allows you to share images and videos with friends, family and others. • Allow you to view images and videos posted by other users.

4. Advantages • Well established community • Provides extensive options for viewing photos taken by others through use of the ‘explore’ page • Photos can be given multiple descriptive tags to help sort them into groups • Includes content filter for image browsing • Extensive privacy settings at multiple levels • Provides downloadable image uploader • Can be associated with blogs and social networking websites • Affiliated with picnik.com – a good quality online photo editing website • Ability to add friends • Email / private messaging system available for communication with other members • Ability to subscribe to other users photostreams using RSS • Photos can be located on a map of the world to show where they were taken • Can be accessed by a variety of other web applications which can be used to manipulate your images • Photos can be organised and viewed according to a number of different properties: sets, tags, geoplotting

5. Limitations Here's what you'll get with a Pro Account: • Unlimited photo uploads (20MB per photo) • Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max) • Unlimited storage • Unlimited bandwidth • Unlimited photosets • Archiving of high-resolution original images • The ability to replace a photo • Post any of your photos or videos in up to 60 group pools • Ad-free browsing and sharing • View count and referrer statistics Compare that to what you get with a Free Account: • 100 MB monthly upload limit (10MB per photo) • 3 sets • Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images • Post any of your photos in up to 10 group pools • Only smaller (resized) images accessible (though the originals are saved in case you upgrade later)

7. Advantages • Large community of users • Allows upload of both images and videos • Photos can be tagged according to who or what may be present • Allows for the creation of group albums which allow several users to contribute to a shared album • Provides multiple upload options, including ability to upload from mobile phones, websites, and via email • Includes extensive editing tools • Includes features for creating slideshows and picture stories, as well as a scrapbooking utility • Provides a variety of codes for each photo which can be used to post photos on message boards, in blogs and in emails and instant messages • Includes a share function which can be used to post photos to popular social networking sites • Multiple albums can be created to allow more extensive cataloguing of images and videos • Includes an applications feature, allowing photo manipulation by other websites and programs

8. Limitations

9. Free account has very limited access to services Extensive and well organised database of shared photos Geoplotting allowing you to see where photos have been taken Unable to upload video content with a free account Community-oriented environment Free account provides all features, with less far reaching limitations Easier access to photo manipulation features Greater focus on storage and photo manipulation, as opposed to community Allows video upload of up to 5 mins length Manageable group albums can be created and added to by multiple users More limited in ability to search for photos by other members vs

10. Click here to begin the sign-up process

13. Teaching Applications • Primarily a tool for teacher-use • Useful for keeping a record of photographs, images and videos taken in the classroom • No image manipulation software required to edit images, can be done through the website • Slideshows and photo stories can be used for a variety of teaching and learning purposes including presentations and story making • Scrapbook feature could be used to create fun and fancy covers for workbooks and assignments … and much, much more!

14. Other Interesting and Related Sites • Woophy – www.woophy.com • Another photo sharing community, aiming to create a photographic overview of the world. • Fine tuna – www.finetuna.com • Website which allows you to make notes and comments on images and then send them to others via email or weblink. • Kyolo – www.kyolo.com • Interesting site where you can add speech and thought bubbles to images.