Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Flickr and Other Photo Sharing Sites

If you haven't yet organized your digital pictures online, this is a wonderful opportunity to explore what is available. There are lots of free sites as well as some that have a fee for more options. Most of these sites allow you to organize your photos in folders or albums and edit your photos as well as share them. Five years ago, Gary and I renewed our wedding vows at the Colorado Renaissance Faire, then headed to a family reunion in Pennsylvania. We were looking for some way to share our photographs with friends and family and discovered SmugMug http://smugmug.com/. Google's Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ is another site that you'll want to check out.

By far the largest and most famous photo sharing site is Flickr http://www.flickr.com/. There are tons of options on this site and you really just have to take some time to explore. The Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons is a great place to find copyright free photos. Be sure to take time to play around with Flickr Toys http://bighugelabs.com/. Tons of fun!

Enjoy!

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