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Four Steps to Protect Your Photos

It may be hard to believe, but it’s true: your digital photos captured with the latest and greatest technology may not last as long as the old film photos you snapped a generation ago. The reason is simple – in the old days, the only way you’d lose your photos is if some massive catastrophe [...]

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Free Photo Fun at PhotoFunia

Looking for a quick, easy, fun and inexpensive way to take your images to another level? Check out  PhotoFunia, literally an online photo fun house with hundreds of one-click photo templates that can do everything from place your image on the side of a city building to snuggling up close with your favorite celebrity. You [...]

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Photo Makeover at InStyle.com

In Hollywood it’s all about the look.  While today’s hottest celebs spend thousands of dollars and endless hours on perfecting that look, you can mimic all of them in seconds at InStyle.com. Using a head shot of yourself you can try on the newest celebrity hairstyles from short cuts and bangs to long party styles [...]

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Photo Mosaics Made Easy at PicArtia

I’m sure you’ll agree that photo mosaics — on large photo comprised of dozens or hundreds of smaller ones — usually produce a very cool effect. You’ll probably also agree that the notion of creating one of your own seems a bit daunting. A site dubbed PicArtia can help you turn the trick in a three-step [...]

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Photobucket Adds “Stories” for Combining Photos and Videos Into Moving Memories

There’s no better way to tell a story today than by combining photos and videos and with Photobucket’s new “Photobucket Stories” feature the story-teller in all of us has a much easier way to accomplish this. Photobucket Stories allows you to easily create and collaborate on living stories by inviting your friends and family to [...]

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Flickr Flames: What's Going on at the Popular Sharing Site?

Yahoo’s photo-sharing site Flickr has come in for its share of lumps lately, and the latest news isn’t all that great either, according to former employee Nolan Caudill: So, Yahoo messed up today. They’ve messed up other days, too, but this was an especially red-letter day amongst other red-letter days, and this is one that [...]

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500px Adds Lightroom, iPad Support

500px Adds Lightroom, iPad Support

Often spoken of as an alternative to Yahoo’s Flickr, the Toronto-based photography community 500px has released a free plug-in to work directly with Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom image management and enhancement software. The site says its tool lets you publish photos to a public profile or a personal portfolio; create and manage portfolio collections; edit titles, descriptions, [...]

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Report: Kodak Looking to Sell Gallery

Report: Kodak Looking to Sell Gallery

We noted before how Kodak has hit a rough patch of financial turbulence and explored how that might impact their popular Gallery online photo sharing service. Today comes word from Reuters that Kodak is looking to sell the service to “photo-sharing websites, rivals, private equity firms and retailers.” Again, this is just a report so take it [...]

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Kodak's in Trouble: Is Kodak Gallery Safe?

Kodak's in Trouble: Is Kodak Gallery Safe?

If you’ve been keeping up with business news, you’ve no doubt heard that Kodak is having some serious financial troubles. While the company has vigorously denied that it will file for bankruptcy, it has had to sell of some its intellectual property and is in serious need of a loan. All of this raises an [...]

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Flickr Dead?

Flickr Dead?

“Flickr is dead.” That’s the provocative title of a post by Thomas Hawk. So who killed Flickr (which, incidentally, isn’t really dead!)? Hawk says Google+ is the culprit, but also that Flickr has “lost its soul” for photo-sharing. So, what do you think? Has Flickr lost its soul?  

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