Online Photo Tools
March 13th, 2008
I am giving a workshop in early April on using flickr. It’s the last in a digital photography workshop series at my library, because, after people learn how to use and take nice pictures with their digital camera, the flickr workshop will show them one option for doing something with those digital pictures.
I thought I’d get a jump on preparing for it, by compiling a list of websites I’d like to mention in addition to flickr - not just online photo sharing websites, but websites that let you edit photos, sites that have free archives of photos, etc.
In the process of working on it, it occurred to me that it’d be worthwhile to post it here, too. It’s a long list, but certainly not all-inclusive, so if your favorite isn’t listed here, please share.
Photo Sharing:
- flickr.com - my favorite photo sharing website
- Webshots.com - Photos for social networking
- PhotoBucket.com - Photo hosting and sharing
- Snapfish.com - Sharing and printing photos
- Picasa - Google’s photo sharing service
- KodakGallery.com - Kodak’s online photo service
Photo Editing:
- Picnik.com - editor linked with flickr
- Splashup.com - very similar to Photoshop (perhaps not for the novice)
- PXN8.com - easy-to-use editor
- Phixr.com - easy-to-use editor
- Fotoflexer.com - easily add effects and distortions to photos
- ShrinkPictures.com - resize photos
- Graphita.com - add word balloons, captions and objects to photos
Image Archives:
- Creative Commons - photos with creative commons license
- PublicDomainPictures.net - all types of photos
- U.S. National Archives - historical and other government photos
- NASA Earth Observatory - earth and planet photos
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - sea, air and other science photos
- Great Images in NASA - historical NASA photos
- DK Clip Art - travel and other photos from the DK books
- morgueFILE.com - royalty-free photos
- Wikipedia list of public domain image resources
Other flickr-related Information:
- List of flickr mashups
- Pictobrowser image gallery
- 7 things to know about flickr [pdf]
- Video explaining online photo sharing, from CommonCraft
Also, this list will probably change a bit closer to the workshop.
[March 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am | permalink]
[...] Army Librarian offers a lightly annotated list of photo sharing and editing tools, and some photo archive sites. I’m not familiar with some of the sites — maybe you, [...]
[March 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am | permalink]
You might also want to take a look at Zooomr.
[March 14th, 2008 at 3:15 pm | permalink]
Irfanview is also a great, light photo editor. Very easy to use.
[March 15th, 2008 at 8:56 pm | permalink]
Make sure you mention that TechSoup is giving away free Flickr Pro accounts (with a small service charge that I don’t totally understand) so libraries that want an account but don’t want to pay (much) can go try it!
[March 19th, 2008 at 2:32 pm | permalink]
You might also want to talk about the metadata that’s in digital photos.
Many lawyers know about the metadata in MS Word or WordPerfect files. However, few know about the potentially valuable metadata that’s in digital photos.
I have a posting on it in my blog. http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000111.html
[March 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am | permalink]
Pixamo.com is worth noting- advanced tagging features, photo imports from other sites, strong privacy controls.
[March 28th, 2008 at 2:37 pm | permalink]
I see this has hit two library blogs, so you probably already know about it, but in yesterday’s USA Today was the announcement that Adobe Photoshop is going to have a basic photo editing suite available through a web-interface. Pretty darn cool, and potentially a nice thing to add to your final list of resources.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-03-27-free-photoshop-express_N.htm
[April 9th, 2008 at 12:58 pm | permalink]
[...] some great photo-sharing and photo-manipulating opportunities out there on Web 2.0 Here’s a link to a colleague’s blog (Brian Herzog @ Chelmsford Library) which lists some good [...]