| The internet offers a wide range of functionalities, and | | | | individual album you have created. |
| media where you can store your photos and albums, | | | | There is also an automatic interface to create a slide |
| be it personal, professional (that is if you are a | | | | show of a particular album. With a few clicks the user |
| professional photographer), or, amateur. | | | | can create a slide show of the pictures in the relevant |
| It doesn't matter if you are a rank amateur or a | | | | album and post it to a blog, or even send it by email to |
| professional or someone who is trying his/her luck with | | | | friends. |
| his/her first digital camera. The results may vary but | | | | Flickr is a photo uploading site owned by Yahoo. You |
| keep at it; you could slowly improve your talent for | | | | can sign into Flickr using your Yahoo login identity and |
| capturing moments on camera, and become so good | | | | password. Flickr has improved a lot, of late, and has |
| that you could turn into a professional. | | | | easy uploading features. Once uploaded, photos can |
| Professional photographers are sought out for | | | | be added to blogs with a few clicks. The text that will |
| shooting events, modeling portfolios, advertising photo | | | | accompany the photo can also be added on Flickr, |
| shoots, and as personal photographers to the stars. | | | | thereby avoiding additional work. On flickr there is an |
| They have celebrity status and move around in high | | | | uploading tool that can be downloaded for free which |
| society and in the company of celebrities, as they are | | | | is a good add-on software interface. Flickr has also |
| the people who make the images of film stars and | | | | gone multilingual and is available in English, Chinese, |
| models. | | | | Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and |
| How to get started? | | | | Portuguese. |
| You can start taking photographs with a basic digital | | | | Photobucket is another photo uploading site with simple |
| camera. Learn a few things about angles, lights, and | | | | interfaces. You can create albums, and can also |
| composition. The following books would help: | | | | upload movies on this site. But the size of the movie |
| 1. Introduction to Digital Photography | | | | should be below five minutes' duration. It also displays |
| 2. Digital Photography Digital Field Guide | | | | the URL of the photo. In case you would like to display |
| 3. Step-by-Step Digital Photography | | | | the photo elsewhere, copy the URL and paste it |
| Once you have taken a few photos you can upload | | | | where you want it to appear and the photo will be |
| them to the web. You will find a lot of websites | | | | displayed there. This obviates the need to upload the |
| offering free and paid space to upload your photos. | | | | photo to the site manually. |
| One advantage of doing this is that you can show | | | | G2bux offers unlimited uploading of photos on its |
| your pictures to friends and have them comment on | | | | photos module unlike the other websites mentioned |
| your photography skills. | | | | here, which have strict limits to the number of photos |
| Gradually you will come to know where you are going | | | | that you can store in them. The website also offers |
| wrong and what needs to be done. Also, friends and | | | | users the freedom to create any number of albums to |
| visitors on these sites will comment on the next step | | | | store photographs. There is also a functionality to |
| you have to take, the type of equipment to use and | | | | search photos by tags, and also to edit photos and |
| give you tips and techniques of the trade. Take these | | | | albums. |
| suggestions with humility and humor and don't be | | | | The best part of uploading photos to G2bux is that for |
| disheartened by rude or indecent comments. Just the | | | | every photo uploaded user gets 1 G2point which when |
| fact that they can comment anonymously will make a | | | | accumulated can be exchanged for cash. This is in |
| lot of people try to provoke you. That's just an | | | | addition to free uploading of an unlimited number of |
| accepted part of life on the internet. | | | | photos. Besides users can write a bit about |
| Picasaweb is owned by google and offers 1 GB of | | | | themselves in the opening page, and give the |
| free space to upload your photos, videos, etc. There is | | | | background of their personal and professional lives. |
| the added facility of making slideshows, which is a cool | | | | John P Matthew is a business writer, blogger and web |
| feature useful for uploading a series of pictures to a | | | | content writer. He finds working on online media |
| blog. It comes in handy when you have to put up | | | | challenging and has contributed his writing to various |
| pictures of an event and don't want to flood your blog | | | | online forums. He is one of the founding members of |
| with it. | | | | two writing-related message boards Caferati and |
| Picasaweb has an interface with the Picasa photo | | | | Shakespeare and Company. At present he is with To |
| uploading software using which you can upload photos | | | | get more details, please visit . Please feel free to write |
| automatically to picasaweb. Photos can also be | | | | feedback on this article. |
| uploaded from the picasaweb online website to each | | | | |