Easy Thumbnails program—useful for making your digital photos smaller. Smaller photos take less time to load on a website, or in an eBay listing. Also, you can more easily email your photos to people if they are thumbnails. It really is an easy program. You can’t do a lot to adjust colour with this. You can turn images around, lighten them and that’s the most of it. To easily adjust photos, including cropping and red eye, with a free program, see Picasa.
Picasa is great for adjusting your digital photos, found in the Google Pack. It is a pretty program, easy to navigate and once you download it, it automatically finds all your digital photos that you have on your computer and imports them into Picasa! You can do some funky things with your photos and none of the changes are permanent. Then, you can export your photos to My Pictures or directly into an email or put them on your Blogger blog, and more. Google made this program, so it’s a goodie. In just 10 minutes of playing around, you can get the gist of how this works.
Photobucket lets you create a photo album for free. Then, you upload your digital photos to it and it gives you different codes to use for different things. It can give you a URL that you can just enter into an email and when you send that email, people can click on the URL or link and it opens up a webpage that is just your photo. OR, it can generate for you an HTML code to put in eBay auctions. eBay only gives you one free photo per listing. This way, you can enter lots of photos into your listings and they’re all free! Photobucket is really easy to use and you don’t have to tell them where you live, what your phone number is and what you like to eat for breakfast.
Optimize your photos easily with the 30-day free trial download of WebGraphics Optimizer. Even if you don't know how to optimize photos manually, you can just click "IntelliOptimize" and it will give you a new copy of your photo that will look the same but load in less time on your Web site.
Upload photos and videos SOOOO easily with DropShots! You can receive a code for your video that you can then embed within the pages of your website. You download a little piece of software to your computer and when you're ready to put some photos up, you just click on the little camera icon at the bottom right side of your computer and a little box will appear. Then, just drag and drop your videos and photos into the box and they will automatically be formatted and uploaded to your website. Then, if you want to send friends and family (or customers) to your site, you just give them your URL that will be drophots.com/WHATEVERyourLOGINnameWASthatYOUchose. I LOVE DropShots!
