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