Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Nikon recently updated its my Picturetown, the photo storage and sharing website, with Mapview functions and supports of more file formats. Read More…

Google just revamped its Picasa Web Albums photo sharing site with many new features including a very interesting face-recognition feature called “name tags” to help users to find and label the people in their photos and automatically find similar faces in your photo collection. All you have to do is enter a name or choose from your contacts. Read More…

The all-new Flickr uploader 3.0 is available for download. There are numerous  improvements from the previous version.

• You can now add titles, tags and descriptions to photos, add them to multiple sets and adjust each photo’s privacy settings.
• You can reorder your photos before uploading by simply dragging and dropping them.
• By selecting multiple photos, you can replace the titles of the selected photos, add to existing individual photo descriptions, add to existing individual tags.
• You can work offline. You can close the application in the middle of the process and restart from where it is left.
• You can start an upload and immediately add more photos and start to tag and organize them, all while the first batch of photos is being sent to Flickr.

Many people are happy with the new Flickr uploader and I am one of them. However there are also some reports of errors and bugs in this official Flickr uploader 3.0 discussion thread.

Nikon is currently promoting its my Picturetown as a “secure, simple, and smart” photo sharing service. Many registered Nikon users have received emails with an offer of 20GB free storage until March 1, 2008 ($2.99/month afterwards). Check out the new features, and take a tour.

Designed to work with Nikon’s Wi-Fi capable digital cameras such as the COOLPIX S50c and the new COOLPIX S51c, my Picturetown makes it easy to share photos via email, and wirelessly upload and archive your photos on-the-go. They also include a six month of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service with your purchase of a COOLPIX S51c.

Please note that the service is for US and Japan customers only. Two account types are offered: Free account with 2GB storage, and Gold account with 20GB storage.