Image hosting handbook

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…

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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…

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Do you know how to save an image? Silly questions, of course you do!Do you know which file format to save your images as? JPG or PNG, you say?Right you are! But what’s the story behind these two formats and which one should you be using? Let’s take a closer look! PNG and JPG: what…

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Everyone does it. And we do it all the time. Sometimes even several times a minute. What am I talking about? Googling images of course! It’s the quickest and most common way of finding a photo. But finding an image of the new car you bought to show to your friends, isn’t the same as…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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With a number of sites appearing offering top free image hosting, it is easy to be sucked into the potential for savings but could they be a false economy? What are the benefits of fronting the cash for premium image hosting? In this post, we take a look at the top free image hosts out…

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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…

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People often think that a good camera is all it takes to take a good photograph. However, a camera is ultimately just a box with a lens on it that lets light in. To capture a truly great photograph a photographer needs to put their heart and soul into what they allow that box to…

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