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The only way to better experience a special event than through a “dotPhoto Show,” complete with photos, music and narration, is being there. DotPhoto makes it easy and fun to share life’s memories and is the “TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award” photo sharing service.
Through this service, you can securely store and distribute photographs and video to your friends, family or co–workers. However, DotPhoto is much more than an online photo album. You can order custom gifts, build your own personal photo website, sell your pictures to other members or upload and share mobile phone pics with Pictavision.
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Feature Set:
DotPhoto offers a complete package for storing and sharing your photos online—this is truly an all–encompassing service when it comes to photographs. To begin, it has one of the most secure and user–friendly systems for storing and organizing your photos.
This service uses the “Lifetime Photo Locker” on their state–of–the–art storage network. Your locker has unlimited storage space even if you just sign up for the free account. DotPhoto’s drag and drop system makes it easy to organize your photos by caption or date. You can also set the category of each photo making it convenient to find.
You can use the free upload and photo management software dotPhoto provides or the online upload tools to fill your locker with photographs. The locker will also store videos and pics from your camera phone—all major U.S. carriers are compatible. Then you can easily publish to MySpace, Xanga, Ebay, Live Journal or other websites.
This service offers a number of tools to edit and modify your photos. You can fix red eye, crop, rotate, brighten, zoom and more. There is even a tool to add a sound caption with each photo. You can use a number of photos and add sound to create a multimedia slide show.
Through this service, you can create your own webpage to display your photographs.
If you have aspirations of selling your photos online, dotPhoto provides everything you need and there is no start–up fee. You’ll have access to electronic payments and on–line sales reports. You set your price and dotPhoto will do the rest.
This site offers security features that protect your images and your children. DotPhoto allows you to block users from right clicking and downloading/copying your images.
This is a child–friendly service. They do not condone adult content in the public areas of the site. While they do not monitor every uploaded photo, dotPhoto will remove accounts that promote naked or obscene photos in the public galleries.
Ease of Use of the Service:
DotPhoto is well organized with intuitive navigation. There are helps and explanations as you browse the site that will help you to use specific features. The uploading process is step–by–step. Anyone can use this site.
Help/Support:
DotPhoto offers a broad range of support options to their members including phone support, FAQ, email address, a contact form and an extensive online help section. The help section is easy to search and organized into categories.
Summary:
DotPhoto is an excellent, family–friendly service where you can customize and organize your personal photo and video albums. If you’re a professional or semi–pro, you can create your own webpage and sell your photographs online. This is a service anyone can use and enjoy.
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