Week+7+-+Photosharing

This was my first time signing up for an account at photobucket.com. I would have to say that it was extremely simple to navigate the website and create a new account. But if one needs help, I believe there is a tutorial, or a helper guide on the web page. I will be using photobucket again to look for a good graphic for my webpage next week. It was fun...


 * Eli J. Perini**

Week 7 - Photosharing Site Below

I originally attempted to use Picassa because I am a big fan of Google, but I found it to be the precise opposite of user friendly and I didn’t like the fact that the program scans the entire computer for images. So I decided to work with Photobucket instead, and it is much easier to use! If anyone is interested in creating a collage on Photobucket, the following steps describe the process. Begin by going to the album that has the pictures you want to use to make the collage. Double-click on "Edit Images" at the top of the screen. Then click on "Create a Collage" in the dialog box to launch the Collage Creator. Choose your desired layout scheme and then click on "Load Photo" to place a particular image in that area of the collage. Repeat this process until you have added all of your photos, covering the collage area entirely. Select "Customize" in the top section of the Collage Creator to bring up the Image Editor. Add text and select a border for your collage. Click on "Save a copy" and your collage is completed and stored in your computer. Posted by Nicole Schofield

Name Description/Focus/Registration requirements Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard) Global Alexa[1] page ranking Bayimg free image hosting, no registration required, uncensored Unknown Unlimited storage for 547x410 pix reduced images 11,799[2] Bilddagboken Free image hosting, registration required 1,291,500[3] Unlimited storage for 547×410 pix reduced images, also unlimited resolution and size for paying BDB HD users, costing approximately equivalent to $10.5 a year 3,619[4] DeviantART free image hosting, registration required 13,000,000[5] (unlimited) 30MB per image 121[6] Flickr Open (Yahoo! login) 51,000,000[7] 300MB monthly upload limit (15MB per photo)[8], max 200 images viewable (free account[9]). If a free account is inactive for 90 consecutive days, it will be deleted.[10] 33[11] Fotki Free registration photo sharing service and communication portal. 1,250,000[12] 50MB for free, unlimited storage for $30/year[13] 2,905[14] Fotolog Photoblogging. Popular in South America. 15,000,000[15] The free version is ad-supported, and limits users to uploading one picture per day Paying members can upload up to 6 pictures a day 150[16] GazoPa Bloom flower photo sharing service Unknown ? 323,778 ImageShack 6th largest photo hosting service. Registration is required. Unknown 500 images limit and 5 MB per image (Free users), unlimited storage and 10 MB per image (Premium users).[17] 135[18] imm.io Free image hosting, images removed if not viewed in the last 30 days. Unknown No user registration. 17,934[19] Imgur Free image hosting, no registration required. Unknown 250 visible images for free accounts. Unlimited for pro accounts. 88[20] Ipernity Photo/video sharing, Groups, Blog ? Unlimited image display/storage for paying users (200MB p/month upload, only last 1000 displayed with free account) 17,240[21] Jalbum free hosting of galleries created with Jalbum software 340,000[22] 30MB of space given for free accounts, upgrade to 1gb space for €19/year 10,045[23] Kodak Gallery (Closed 7/2/2012) free registration service, archiving photo service for $25/year (Closing-down on July 2, 2012; all accounts being moved over to Shutterfly) 20,000,000[24] used to be unlimited low-resolution, paid users can download high-res images that they've uploaded. New minimum purchase requirements 3/09: $4.99/yr for 2GB or less, $19.99/yr for more than 2GB. (Closing-down on July 2, 2012; all accounts being moved over to Shutterfly) 1,625[25] Lafango Free Registration, customizable galleries & folders. Unknown Unlimited storage 36,194[26] Lockerz free registration service 19,000,000[27] Unlimited uploads for all users; 5MB per image 350[28] Memeo Share Free photo and video exchanging software, files are shared desktop to desktop without being resized. Unknown 1GB is free, Premium account is $4.95 a month 84,797[29] MobileMe Web Gallery subscription service 180,000[30] 10GB (standard level) 921[31] Ovi Share Nokia's multimedia sharing service, formerly called Twango 2,000,000 unlimited, pay per download 1,128[32] Panoramio free registration service 4,700,000 Unlimited provided the photos comply with the Google Earth Photo Acceptance Policy 785[33] Phanfare subscription-based photo sharing Unknown ? 31,830[34] Photobucket free registration service 50,000,000[35] Unlimited free storage, 1 MB per photo and 10 Min per video (With image size restrictions) No size restrictions with Pro account. With a free account, you can use up to 10GB of bandwidth per month. 39[36] Photoshop.com Focused on for managing, editing, storing, and sharing photos online, with personal URL, Photoshop.com Mobile access, tutorials, help etc. Currently US-only, works from any Flash-enabled browser but Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or Adobe Premiere Elements 7 users can also use it directly. Unknown Two levels of membership: the Basic level is free with 2GB space and the option to purchase additional storage starting at $19.99 per year. The Plus level costs $69.99 per year with 20 GB included storage space, and $129.99 per year with 100GB and requires either Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or Adobe Premiere Elements 7 to use Organizer. [2] 35,380[37] Picasa Web Albums free registration service, 500,000[38] 1 GB free storage for photos and videos, then plans start at $2.49/month for additional storage. Photos smaller than 2048×2048 pix (Google+ users only) or 800×800 pix and videos less than 15 minutes in length do not count toward storage limit. Photos uploaded beyond the storage limit will automatically be resized.[39] 256[40] Piczo.com free registration service Unknown ? 1,362[41] Pinterest Invitation only, photo sharing/social networking 11,700,000[42] 60[43] Radar.net Free registration. Radar shut down on May 26, 2010 at noon (PDT). [44] N/A ? 77,065[45] Selfportrait.net ? ? ? 1,632,594 Shutterfly free registration service 2,000,000[46] Free, unlimited picture storage 1,968[47] SmugMug Free search, subscription hosting, $40/year (Standard); $60 (Power); $150 (Pro); too [48] 315,000[48] "unlimited" storage, 12MB per photo (Standard /Power), 24 MB per photo (Pro) 1,945[49] Snapfish free registration service, also provides services for Costco's online photo processing store 90,000,000[50] unlimited, pay per download 2,208[51] Streamzoo Mobile photosocial game, free registration service, unlimited storage and sharing, available on Apple iOS, Android and Web Unknown unlimited 102,707 TinyPic free image hosting, no registration required Unknown ? 168[52] Webshots free registration service 32,000,000[53] One 800×600 image per day 450[54] Woophy free registration service 26,410[55] ? 100,895[56] Zooomr no registration service since 2007; users are no longer accepted 100,000[57] Unlimited uploads and unlimited storage for ALL users. 19,101[58]

Edited by Christina Hart

Using your other social networks to open an account with Photobucket
Do you have a Facebook or Twitter account? Then opening a Photobucket account will be easy peasy. These simple steps will get you up and running in no time:
 * 1) Head over to the Photobucket site.
 * 2) Hit the "Sign up" button on the top right corner.
 * 3) Choose "Sign up using another account" (the choices are Facebook or Twitter).
 * 4) Follow the pop-ups from there.

If you are like me and don't like applications to post on your wall without you specifically asking them to, hit "Skip" on the very first pop-up, when it asks for "Permission to post on your behalf".

Posted by: Emerald Crafton


 * Photo sharing is amazing if used properly!**
 * Licenses:** While the default license on Flickr is All Rights Reserved, many members opt to use [|Creative Commons licenses] on their photos instead. Be aware of the license types that you are using. We don't directly represent the photographers nor are we lawyers so we can't advise you on what is and isn't okay. So if you're using a photo with ARR, make sure it's okay with the photographer first. If you're using a photo with a Creative Commons license, make sure you understand what that license means since this is set by the photographer. Here is how we attribute photos, following the CC guidelines.


 * **Public:** photo can be viewed by anyone, and it may also be included in Flickr search results as well as other public areas on Flickr.
 * **Friends and/or Family:** a user can set their relationship with any contact, and depending on that relationship, the contact can see photos set to the same type.
 * **Private:** no one can view the photo except the owner, users that have guest passes to that image/set/collection, people tagged in your photo, and those in whatever groups to which it's added.
 * **Attribution:** This is up to the rightful owner of the images to decide, which on Flickr means the photographer. While we cannot represent the photographer's preference for how to attribute their photos, we do recommend checking the copyright law for how to attribute properly, which generally could include displaying the photographer's name and link to the photo's page on Flickr. Flickr supports Creative Commons licenses which have a great [|overview of proper attribution] for those licenses.

posted by Danielle Ralston

I tried out Photobucket using the information from Emerald Crafton and found it to be very easy even for me. That says a lot right there because I am really bad when it comes to all this web 2.0 stuff. I really found this site to be very easy to use and get around on. For all the phone people out there that take pictures you should check out the mobile tools that are on photo bucket. All you have to do is click on the spot that says tools then scroll to the bottom of the page. Here is my album http://s1148.photobucket.com/albums/o570/chadnoice/ check out the log picture.

Edited by, Chad Noice.

Creative Commons!
I have been a big fan of [|Cory Doctorow] and boingboing for years, and I think that Creative Commons is one of the best things to come out of my generation. Creative Commons gives artists what they need to share their work and get it out there, while still keeping their name on it. It's not intended to replace copyright, but to give you a little more flexibility with the rights on your work. This link lets you decide which license works best for what you want out of it. A 3-minute video Creative Commons put together to explain the idea

Posted by Rachel Hooper

Take the Flickr tour
If you're new to Flickr, my advice is that before you get too far into it you should take the Flickr Tour ( http://www.flickr.com/tour/ ) The tour explains the basic elements of Flickr and helps you get a jump start on the whole Flickr process. I've found Flickr to be the easiest-to-use photo sharing site.

Posted by David Sweet

I really like Flickr is nice and easy to use I would rec amend it to people to use it.I like how you can invite your friends from facebook to see your pics also by christina vickers

Make your Photobucket page look more attractive. Go HERE. Drag and drop photos and videos to Flickr [|HERE]. Steps to Create an Album on Photobucket, go HERE Associate your photobucket account with your facebook, twitter, myspace or MSN Messenger, go HERE to learn how

Edited by Tom McCarty

=PhotoBucket=

After reviewing several of the options available to me, I chose to go with PhotoBucket. Personally, I like unobtrusive sites that do not ask for your first born in order to sign up. I also do not like downloading random programs that “search” through all of my files looking for pictures to add. I am a bit old fashioned when it comes to privacy. I am sure Google will someday take over the world, but I figure I will hold out as long as I can!

You can go to photobucket.com and create an account. It is fairly simple. Just click the create account link. Once you enter some commonly asked for information, you are in business and ready to add photos to your free account. PhotoBucket is very user friendly. Once you have uploaded photos to your album, a widget appears on the right of the screen asking if you would like to share your album. You can share directly to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or send a link to an email. If you choose the option to send to an email, a dialogue box appears and allows you to customize your email. Personally, I chose to copy the link to my album and send my own email. The link to your album is located at the bottom of that particular dialogue box.

When you are in your album, you have the option to add a password or customize a link to your album. Just to the left of the widget mentioned above is a link with a drop down menu titled “Album Options.” Using this drop down box, you can add a password, customize your album name, and customize your album URL. Take advantage of these options!

The link to my album is [|www.photobucket.com/cis125] and the password is **cis125** for anyone that would like to view it. I uploaded pictures taken from my deck, pictures of Seal Rock, and some pictures taken while flying over fall creek dam, and the coast. Enjoy!

//Edited by Luke Wier//

Here is what I learned.. none of these programs are compatible with Linux and I couldn't download any of them to my Netbook. I had to find a way to bridge the gap. My photo manager is called F-Stop and compatible with Picasa.web on Google+ and this is how I had to load my pictures for this class. I took a few minutes to process, but Linux is a wonderful program and I love how it works on my Netbook.

This is the link to my photo album: []

Posted by Mary Bond

FlickR

If I was one of those people who wasn't on Facebook then I would love to use FlickR for keeping my family and friends updated on the children's photos. I found FlickR a little confusing at first but after stumbling around a little while figured it out. The uploading was easy, just figuring out on the "private and public" was a little hard for me.

Posted by Cheryl Berger

Photobucket. Enjoy your privacy? Some of us are pretty new to posting everything on the internet. So how do we keep some of our more personal items protected? On photo bucket simply open the album. To the right of the album’s title the word “Public” is in blue. The blue print means that the word is a link. Click on the like and an “Edit Album” menu will pop up. Here, you have the option to change the title, add a Description of the album and most importantly choose your privacy settings. Some choices include Public, Private, or password protected. Choose the option that best suits you but be aware that anything a user puts online, protected or not, can be accessed by others with a higher knowledge of the internet. If there is something you do not want the entire world to see, you’re better off not posting it at all. Link to my photos for anyone who has an appreciation for the high desert and sunsets. [|East Beatty's Butte] Edited by Jeannie Snedegar

Picasa-Editing Photos

You can edit all of your photos once you upload them onto Picasa. All you have to do to begin editing is double click the picture you want edited. You will be able to do all of the standard editing techniques such as fixing red eye, cropping your pictures, adjusting colors or even creating special effects. There is also an additional feature that allows you to apply all "recommended" effects to your pictures. Overall, the editing tools are pretty decent for being a free service.

Posted by Rebecca Smith

** Photo Sharing Sites **
Of all the photo sharing sites, I would have to say my favorites are FlickR and Instagram. I like the way you can interact socially while posting pictures on their sites. When it comes to Photo bucket and Picassa, I think they are kind of left in the dark. Photobucket is very useful for getting codes for posting pictures to your Myspace profile, or for sharing otherwise. Photo bucket is similar to imageshack that way. Picassa is new to me, but what I grasp from it is that it's bascially connected to Google+ and you can tag friends, and edit photos for the Google+ social media site.

In photobucket it's fun to edit your photos. In order to do so, you:


 * 1) Go to your album that you want to edit photos from.
 * 2) Click "Edit Photos" tab.
 * 3) Click on a photo you want to edit.
 * 4) Then start editing with the tools that overlay your photo!
 * 5) Last, you can save a copy or replace the edited version with the old version.

Posted by Katie Warren

Flickr makes it easy to share photos. Just click on the “Find your friends on Flickr” Button and with just one short step, Flickr will find friends from Facebook who also photoshare on Flickr. Click other choices to add contacts from Yahoo, Google, and Hotmail, it’s as easy as a click.
 * Easy to add contacts and find friends on Flickr **

Edited by Jan Bardwell


 * I prefer non-personal photo sharing! **

As a person who frequents the internet quite often, I hear a lot of things about the websites that were brought up for imagesharing. Websites like Photobucket are NOT safe to store personal images on. I will repeat that. Photobucket is not safe! There are people called Photobucket Plunderers, who sit there day in and out stealing images from peoples photobuckets. You might think "Well that's silly, why would anyone do that?" Well, there are a lot of "personal" pictures that people try to find a safe place to store online, and photobucket pretends to have a great privacy folder, but in all actuality, it's as simple as changing a couple letters in the URL to access your whole account.

I prefer to use something that doesn't attach a username to it, so it can not give away any personal information about you. They find a picture on this website, and it's just something random, they might save it, but they won't have any information about you! I prefer to use websites such as //Tinypic or Imgur//! I threw together a small album of random pictures I have saved on my computer for you to laugh at. And hope I could get some awareness out to people still using Photobucket. Thank you. []

Posted by Michael Dutra

=Creative Commons and You:=

We're sharing all these photos here and there around the web; further up the wiki you can see a plethora of options available to you. They each have their own unique licenses and sharing properties, which may or may not suit your needs. Having that picture of your dog in a tutu ending up as a comical meme may not be your cup of tea. Sometimes I've wondered if things I've uploaded have been reused, and if so, how.

You need to understand the licensing and know your rights within the bounds of digital distribution before you start sprinkling photos at various websites around the internet. Without this licensing, you have zero control once you release an item onto the internet. Facebook is only reasonably secure with photographs— they were terrible in the past and their security policy is always changing. 50 years ago, someone infringing on copyrighted material only had a limited means of distribution, and were easily caught if this was occurring. Nowadays your photo of your dog in a tutu could be downloaded, stored, used, abused, or reused harmlessly, without your consent or knowledge

Some fancy lads in Mountain View, California, have created a license for this. Creative Commons, prior to common belief, is not the license, but the non-profit organization that researches, creates, and distributes such licenses for free. The idea is that you can conditionally share your artistic (in this case, photographic), mathematical, or scientific work that others can build upon, change, and share. The contributors dictate the rights, so, let's say, you do take a picture of your dog in a Tutu, you can specify that it can't be hosted on any other websites, or used in the popular media, or if it is, it needs to be attributed to you. Let's say down the street, someone's throwing a goofy birthday party and they take that picture of your dog and use it accompanying e-mail invitations without modifying the original image? Perfectly legal. Let's then say someone really enjoys it, and they take it and do a bunch of fancy Photoshop (or other image editing software, I prefer GIMP because it's free) coloring and effects and add it to part of a college of other publicly licensed work, then redistribute it on their DeviantArt, for instance, or their personal website, as long as down at the bottom it has a list of the contributors of the original photographs: Legal. You can also leave the license wide open. I've seen Creative Commons content end up in commercial use, such as newspapers or business flyers along with attribution. Some people like the free advertising: Anytime your art is being passed around with your name on it, that's like handing out business cards. Others will specify that their art is totally free to use, except for commercial purposes, at which point the licensing artist requires compensation.


 * You can basically boil it down to this: Creative Commons doesn't replace a copyright license, it is based upon it and it expands it: It gives creators and contributors the power to dictate how their work disseminates out into the ether of the internet.**

//Fun facts: Creative Commons is governed by a board of directors and a technical board, and Flickr had over 200 million Creative Commons licensed work at last count.//

=//Uploading your photos on Photobucket//= //When you are logged in to your account, see the green rectangular button with the up arrow and says "upload"? It will direct you to the upload page and you will have a variety of options on where you want to upload your photos from:// //**My computer upload:** Click on the green rectangular button that says "Select photos and videos". Browse through your folders in your computer and select the pictures and videos you would like to upload onto your album.// //**Facebook upload:** Click on the green rectangular button that says "Connect to Facebook". Then simply login to your Facebook account.// //**The web upload:** Copy and paste from URL address that the photos you wish to upload is located at.// //**Email upload:** Send an e-mail to your provided Photobucket e-mail address with the pictures you wish to upload.// //**Mobile phone upload:** Send an e-mail to your provided Photobucket e-mail with the pictures you wish to upload from your mobile phone.// //**Webcam upload:** It will automatically turn on your webcam and could take a photo shot directly from your webcam to upload onto your album.// //**Bulk uploader:** It will show a Java version of the uploader which simplifies the ability to select multiple pictures and upload it all at once.//
 * My computer
 * Facebook
 * The web
 * Email
 * Mobile phone
 * Webcam
 * Bulk uploader

//Editied by: Rochiemar Carson//
=//Well, this was a very amazing learning tool for me.I have on two occasions lost my pictures put on my computer. Not saved anywhere. So i am happy to know that joining the Photo bucket site i am able to not only save and organize my photos, make albums and the like, i can retrieve them from any computer.Moving around on this site is way more fun and beneficial than many others i looked at.//= =//Thank you Linda Todd//= //Posted my site to my blog and my forum. I am also connected to Facebook and Twitter.I will add my photo bucket address for anyone interested.// http://s1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii532/drama104/

Using your [|yahoo], [|Google], or [|Facebook] account to login to [|Flickr]

1. Click on the Sign up now Or login with Facebook/Google

2. Select your account type or just login with you Yahoo account and away you go.
 * Posted by William Goss**

I like Flickr its easy to sign up I like how you can use your Facebook or your Google account to log into beside having a yahoo account. I would recommend Flickr to my friends and family. I like how you just have drag and drop the photos into a box to post them. =by Christina Vickers=

=Tips for Responsible Photo Sharing:=

> Consider who will be looking at your photos and set your privacy settings accordingly. > > Carefully read the fine print about photo rights and information sharing. > > Remember that social networks are public spaces with searchable content, so be mindful of where you post and tag photos. Share sites provide a safe and secure place where families and friends can post and tag photos as much as they want, without sacrificing privacy. > Posted by: Danielle Howard
 * 1) **Set Privacy Settings:**
 * 1) **Own it:**
 * 1) **Tag with care:**

This was my first time signing up for a photosharing wesbite and I signed up for FLICKR! I liked it because it is nice to have all your photos on one website and know that you have the ability to make it private or public and you are the only one to access it if you want. You can preview and organize your photos and make captions if you would like. You can edit them and roatate and move the photos. I think I will for sure be using this in the future!

By Jaden Anderson

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[|FlickR] Rules! =

I tried all three photo sharing sites and I likes FlickR the best. It was very easy to navigate and upload pictures to. Creating sets and finding contacts was fun and sharing photos with family was great. The different photo sharing options including who you share your website with was a great option to have. There are many editing options for your photos as well as a way to "tell your story" with pictures. I will definitely be Flicking a lot!! It is fast and easy so go here [|www.flickr.com] and sign in using your Google or Facebook information with one click!

Brenda Dolph-Dory