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With Picasa, you can preview and see every image on your PC by folder in a quick and easy manner. That means you could view them in selected batches and in slideshow formats. You can crop, correct red-eye, alter color, straighten, fill light as well as fix contrast with its more-fun-bit effects! This is all done by simply pressing at the various pretty buttons. The neutral color pickers, color temperature, highlight and shadow pickers are other innovative features that Google gives away for its users.
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Apart from the above features, Picasa also permits you to post up your Web albums as part of Google services, certainly. With these services, Picasa allows you to email your photos, print them out, make cool collages, order prints as well as post them on Google. If Google fixes its troublesome tutorials and makes its Web Album more attractive and appealing, I'm sure that Picasa will just be something you can't live without.
Pikeo
Image sourcePikeo is not a newly-invented website as it has been around for quite some time. Its name tells you that it's quirky thing that has albeit limited, appeal and an unusual stuff the internet users could expect for. However, it is fundamentally a photo sharing website. It means a lot for the travelers to share their travelling experiences via photos and geotagging with the world. The feature of geotagging allows you to easily tag your photos with locations and keywords to identify them quickly when you search through the photos which will definitely save your time from the hassle of browsing a large image file. The integrated slideshow and trip daily are pretty interesting features you will find when using Pikeo. In fact, Pikeo shows your photo location in the map in the most interesting and attractive manner.
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The start page of Pikeo is packed with the wonderful stuffs that might have intrigued you to give it a try. It gets you some time to load and timed out before you are prompted for a registration. When you log in, you will be greeted with your user dashboard and a fairy interesting site. You will see a nice sidebar with a scrollable view of Pikeo's blog and urging towards Orange's users to access this site via the mobile interface on its left.
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Well, this very mobile-friendly website is currently in a beta version. As long as you could surf through your mobile, you will find Pikeo usable. It has two facets- the Web experience and the mobile experience for Pikeo. However, I found the latter is fun, the former less so.
Webshots
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Here, you will first see the promising name and the cute icon. Its member starting page gives you a great pick of what everyone is taking photos of and a close-up of featured photos as well. You might now love the person who invented the digital camera as you can have so many spectacular pictures at your fingertips even if you just have a glimpse of moment.
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Webshots is cute, cool and fairly straight to the point. Thankfully, its sign up procedure is relatively simple as compared to Frickr. Currently, Webshots has over 584 million photos, which is considered a huge amount, come to think of it.
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If you choose to pay US$29.88 a year for stock photos that aren't the usual boring bits of stock, you get unlimited downloads of the available Pro Shots. Nevertheless, when you download the photos for your own use or for other commercial purposes, you have to contact the photographer individually. Most people find this to be troublesome and indeed, if you are asked to contact the photographers themselves, sometimes it would be a shame for certain persons, really.
Like Pikeo, Webshots is all mobile support. Its mobile version is pretty simple and faster to download as compared to OVI. This is certainly a plus for those who want to have an easy and a quick mobile experience.
OVI
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Formerly, OVI was called Twango. Then, Nokia has rebuild it into more features from being merely a photo and video sharing space to an all encompassing space to push its N-Gate and music platforms.
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As OVI is powered by a Java app, you are requested to have Java installed on your system prior to the use of this website. The upload speed will depend utterly on your internet connection. You can email your photos to your OVI account, but prior to this, you need to add the originating email address to your address book. If neither of these options appeal, then Window XP users can use the Window XP Web Publishing Wizard.
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OVI is a website that you can upload various types of media. They don't limit users to merely photos or video, and perhaps, this is the beauty feature of OVI. That means you can share anything here, but its drawback is that you can't post anything larger than 100MB. With the 100MB limit, OVI makes its website less likely to be a dumping site for an illegal file sharing. Some users may have cried foul to find such limitation. Apart from this small catch, OV1 is the wonderful website for you to upload as many files as you desire and as often as you wish. You can even upload every RAW still on your camera, which is obviously a photographer's dream.
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Nokia N73, N95 and N82 users will also be able to make use of Nokia's Share Online 3.0 that matches the users' need to access to OVI interaction in a relatively simpler manner. If you are not a Nokia user, then you can use the Shozu app on your phone to upload to OVI instead.
OVI has made its website simpler to embed your images from your channel onto web pages. These channels mark the strength of OVI- it is easy for you to create more channels as you wish, even it allows designating privacy options for your media channels. OVI offers its users with the widgets and various means to display the media files, including tickers, Flash, JavaScript and slideshow, which are obviously trying to persuade you to make use of it. OVI also offers tons of features besides its little fault for an incredible price- free of charge!
