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Why Use a Photo Sharing Service?


Photo sharing services make organizing, storing and sharing digital photos convenient, easy, safe and most importantly–fun. Through online photo albums, friends and family can join by sharing pictures of important events, good times and special occasions.

Photo hosting websites offer other ways to share pictures. You can order unique gifts featuring your favorite photos. You can create luggage tags, mugs, calendars, clothing, tiles, edible chocolate photos or even photo cards with a voice recording. The service will send the gift anywhere you choose.

Many photo sharing services offer the amenities and space where tight–knit groups or communities can come together and share photographs and exchange ideas about photography. You can post your pictures for public view where other members can offer feedback on your pictures and visa–versa. Many sites publish engaging, professional and beautiful images of people and places from around the world for browsing and comment.

In this site, you’ll find articles on photography, news stories and comprehensive reviews on photo sharing services that will help you make an informed decision on which service is right for you. At TopTenREVIEWS – We do the research so you don’t have to.™


What to Look for in a Photo Sharing Service

Photo sharing services should make it easy to upload and share your pictures with friends and family, or post them on the Internet for everyone to enjoy. The best online photo albums offer editing tools, lots of storage space, password protected access, the ability to buy and sell prints, photo gifts and other conveniences.

Below are the criteria TopTenREVIEWS used to evaluate photo sharing services.

  • Feature Set – The top–notch websites offer numerous practical features that help upload, post, share and print photographs, network with other photographers and browse photo galleries by keyword or date.
  • Ease of Use of the Service – Like other Internet–based services, online photo albums should be user–friendly. Anyone should feel comfortable using the service and the tools it provides regardless of their knowledge of computers and the web.
  • Help/Support – First–class photo sharing websites provide adequate help and support in the form of tutorials and FAQs, and offer a number of ways, like email, web forms and a phone number, to contact customer service.
To read the review on dotPhoto, the photo sharing service our reviewers ranked #1, click here.

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Photo Sharing NEWS

November 12, 2007
Microsoft to take on Flickr and YouTube
PC Pro
Microsoft has set its sights on the burgeoning photo and video sharing markets.


November 8, 2007
Photobucket Transforms Online Photo Sharing With Photo Tagging for Sharing Across Social Networks
Business Wire
Photobucket, one of the Web’s most popular hubs for managing personal media, today launched a new breed of photo tagging, giving users the unique ability to share tagged and linked photos across social networks and the Web.


October 30, 2007
Yahoo Messenger Gets Photo, Video Sharing
PC World
In a bid to improve its social networking offerings, Yahoo is adding new video and photo sharing tools to its instant messaging service.


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Photo Sharing Services Review - A Review of the top Photo Sharing Services products

Share Photos, Share Life

Upload, organize, store and share digital photographs easily with a photo sharing service. These specialized websites cater to the professional photographer and people who like to keep in touch through pictures.

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Create Your own Web Page      
     


Batch Photo Uploading                

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