What makes a photo stand out? Well, a lot of things. But one aspect that often remains ‘untalked’ about is photo editing. Editing your pictures can help bring focus to your image, highlight the product it’s portraying and transform your photo from average to incredible. It’s basically like adding make-up to your photos. Which editing…
Flickr was one of the first online services that bloggers and photographers used to store and share their images. Let’s take a closer look at where Flickr comes from and if it’s still worth using today. Flickr’s origins In February 2004, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake were at the O’ Reilly Emerging Technology Conference to…
Sharing photos: then and now In the early days of public Internet, back in the 80s and 90s, sharing images online was a laborious affair. Do you remember the tormentingly slow speed of your old dialup modem connection?If you don’t, you’re lucky (and young) but if you do, you might remember that getting an image…
Images are important. They serve to educate, inform, persuade and, above all, capture the attention of your audience. That’s why how you manage your images is key to ensuring they deliver the message you’re intending. So, how do you manage your images? In a world with an unlimited choice, it can be hard to know…
10 billion images, that’s how many images Google had indexed in 2010.. with 1 billion pageviews a day. That means that website owners have a lot of potential traffic to gain from Google Image searches. Image SEO is important as it will help your images go up in the rankings on Google so that traffic…
Photobucket is a photo storage and hosting service that allows users to host and link images from its server that has been around since 2003. In the past, this used to be free but since 2017, having amassed an incredible 10 billion photos from more than 100 million users, they introduced high annual subscription charges…
What was TinyPic? TinyPic was a free photo- and video-sharing service. Users could use TinyPic to upload, link and share images online. TinyPic was supported by advertisement next to the images and videos. The service supported the upload and hosting of JPEG (jpg), png, gif and TIFF files. Images that were larger than 1,600 pixels…