In the past 18 months, the Internet has undergone a rapid evolution from newspaper-like text and links to wildly colorful, visually oriented screens, spur-of-the-moment pins and stylized glamour shots, as MediaPost.com highlights. Digital images are so easy to create, edit, share, collect and discard that we barely stop to think anymore about the power of a photographic image. Today’s images are delivered and dissected online by photographers everywhere in a hasty race to re-pin, re-post and tag.
However, in the midst of this sharing frenzy, visuals still need to be stored somewhere. Which photo services work better to showcase your work and which are best suited for storage only? Let’s see what’s available.
Best Sites for Professional Photographers
In pro photographer circles, it’s called an online portfolio. Photographers know what they want to showcase, but some lack the tech skills to pull off the right look and feel for their images. Here are a few suggestions via Hongkiat.com for professional photographers to check out:
Folio HD: If you want to wow visitors, try the templates provided by Folio HD. Not only do they showcase your art in splendid high-definition, but they’re also easy to set up and maintain. Like other sites on the Web, users provide a name for the portfolio, and Folio will add the foliohd.com in the URL, according to FolioHD.com. While it’s directed mostly toward pro photographers, anyone working with creative images could benefit from the site. You get 36 images for free to start with.
Zenfolio: Photographers can sell their images online via Zenfolio, using its simple e-commerce interface. According to Zenfolio.com, a $30 subscription gets users their own photo site, blog, and the ability to upload unlimited numbers of pics, while sharing and protecting them with passwords.
FreeOnlinePortfolios.com is a resource for more online photo portfolio sites for photographers looking to showcase and store images at no cost.
Best Sites for Casual Photo Snappers
If you’re just happy to take pics on your camera phone, but are running out of space on your mobile device or computer backup, you might look into online services that allow you to store, share, annotate and print photos. Many options exist for the casual photo enthusiast. Established services such as Flickr and Shutterflyoffer offer terrific new layouts for sharing and storing photos.
If you’re interested in printing pictures for friends and relatives in the coming holiday season, you can use premier services like Minted Christmas card printing to create personalized holiday shots. Minted offers options on format, size, number of photos and more.
Another great digital photo resource is EbizMBA.com, which boasts a near-complete list of all of the major photo storage and sharing sites available on the web.
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