After a good research i'm now able to list almost all the websites which prints and door delivers photographs, customised calendars, mugs, t-shirts and many more things. SO now you have a host of websites to serve you. Check and judge yourself and find for yourself which one is most suited for you.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
Zoomin - A brief synopsis
Zoom.in is a new entrant to the online photo printing service in India and as well in the US. Apart from photo printing they also offer picture sharing and unlimited space for your online photo storage needs. Following are the features offered by the site
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You can edit your photo in zoom.in.
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Tag your photos and organize them.
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You could share your album to your friends.
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You can import your address book from Yahoo, GMail, MSN, AOL, Outlook, etc.
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The entire site is neatly designed with bright colors and has an easy to use interface.
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The prints are shipped very next day.
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Zoom.in is currently giving out 25 free prints on sign up after you verify the code you receive on the mobile number you have given during sign up.
Zoomin vs iTasveer - Online Indian photo printing websites
This is the Web 2.0 era wherein companies’ bank on user generated content to push their businesses. Its like people having the raw material and companies having the financial power combining themselves to deliver a final product. And hot on the heels are the new services like iTasveer, Pic Square and ZoomIn. These services enable the user to share their favorite photos and even print them. For the time being, we’ll be concentrating only on two services, ZoomIn which is relatively a new one and iTasveer. Let’s get a basic overview of what these websites offer and who has an upper hand on whom.
The core service offered by both these websites are same. And the main source of revenue for them is from users placing orders for their prints. This is a new concept in India as the conventional photo studios rule the roost. But to encourage users to use their service and print their photos from them, ZoomIn currently gives 20 (4X6) prints free and iTasveer gives 15 for the same size. This means that, you have to pay only for the shipping.
Storage Space: The disk space allocated on both the services is unlimited which can help you dump all your photos from your hard disk to their servers. Pretty Neat! However, there’s one catch found on iTasveer. If you again want to download all the pictures, you can download images not more than 100MB per month. That is the only restriction they have.
Uploading: Both the services are again at par. Uploading on both these sites is a breeze and they also support other photo sharing services like Picasa and Flickr.
Ordering: Here, ZoomIn is a clear winner. Ordering photos on ZoomIn is pretty easy and fast because of the AJAX based interface. On the other hand, iTasveer seems pretty cluttered and confusing for a first time user. However, one thing to be noticed on iTasveer is the cropping tool. This tool, which is absent on ZoomIn makes it handy that only the relevant subject comes in the print.
Pricing: Well this is the most important criteria. iTasveer’s prices are a tad expensive in comparison of ZoomIn. But the 4X6 prints which is the normal size for a family album is 50 paise cheaper than ZoomIn. This saving is not much but it can save some bucks for you if you’re ordering in bulk. The shipping price charged is also neck to neck with ZoomIn charging Rs. 25 whereas iTasveer charging Rs. 30 for a order.
Product Variety: iTasveer’s store clearly says it all. They print photos even on T-Shirts, Mugs, mousepads which lacks on ZoomIn. I am sure ZoomIn must be thinking to expand their product portfolio with something better and competitive.
As it’s said that nothing’s perfect in this world, neither of the services can be termed as perfect. It just depends on the user on how he uses it. In some points, ZoomIn won the accolades and in some iTasveer. As more and more players spring up, this service factory will be interesting to monitor.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Picnik: The Best Online Image Editing Tool
Picnik.com, the most popular online photo editing suite, has added some new features today. That includes support for Picasa web albums and ability to add frames and rounded corners to your pictures.
With Google making the Picasa API public, Picnik can now load and save photos to and from your Google Picasa Web Albums account directly. Earlier, this feature was available only with Flickr images.
Even will all these nice photo editing features, Picnik and others will be under tremendous pressure to innovate as Adobe is gearing up to change the rules of the game.
Vuvox: Create Stunning and interactive multimedia presentations
Vuvox creates extremely impressive Flash presentations from your videos, photos, music like you've never seen before.
To create your own Vuvox presentation, simply collect the media files into Vuvox from your hard drive or pull them direct from the web (Flickr, YouTube, PhotoBucket, etc), choose one of the 3D styles and publish.
The final presentation will look stunning though it took only couple of minutes if not seconds to create it from scratch.
In one of the styles, your pictures and videos appear on the branches and leaves of a tree and they grow as you add more media. Another style reminds me of the Microsoft Coffee computer table - you move, resize and rotate pictures on the computer screen with your mouse instead of your fingers.
Each presentation can be viewed directly on the Vuvox website or you can embed them in web pages. If you have to showcase you portfolio to clients, look no further than Vuvox. Presentation does matter.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Your search for image stops here: Getty Images
Website address
http://www.gettyimages.com/
Tagline
The world’s leading provider of imagery, films and digital services.
About
Getty Images offers royalty free and copy righted image. Getty Images is the best in its field. “The world’s most powerful distribution platform, gettyimages.com enables you to search, purchase and download the finest photography, illustration, film and editorial images; commission world-class assignment photography; and efficiently create, manage, share and distribute your marketing materials - all in one place. Gettyimages.com serves an average of 2.3 million unique visitors each month with over 2.3 billion thumbnails and 161 million page views. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s visual content is delivered digitally.”
Registered Users
There are many advantages, if you become a registered user. Firstly and most important for people who are looking for free images, the Getty Images Logo (watermark) will be removed from images. Secondly, I don’t know if they still do it, but when I first registered, they sent me several big posters via mail. It’s worth it, believe me. Thirdly, you can “add items to your shopping cart, images to your Lightboxes, film clips to your Clipbins, and submit image and film research requests.”
Products and Services
- Creative Imagery (Contemporary photography, illustration and images.
- Film (Commercial quality cinematography)
- Editorial Imagery (News, sports, and entertainment.)
- Photo Assignments (Award-winning photographers covering every style of assignment photography.)
- Media Management (On-demand digital asset management)
Image Collections wholly owned by Getty Images: All Sport, Digital Vision, Hulton Archive, Image Bank, Photo Disc, Photographer’s Choice, Reportage, Stone +, Stone, and Taxi.
Image Collections distributed by Getty Images: 3D Clinic, Altrendo Images, America 24/7, Asia Images, Aurora, Beateworks, Blend, Botanica, Brand X Pictures, The Bridgeman Art Library, Deximage, DK Stock, DK Images, Food Collection, Food Pix, F Stop, Gallo Images, Illustration Works, Image 100, Image Source, Lonely Planet Images, Medio Images, National Geographic, Panoramic Images, Photo Alto Agency, Pix Land, Queerstock, Robert Harding’s World Imagery, Rubberball Productions, Samba Photos, Science Faction, Stockimage, Stockbyte, Stockdisc, Thinkstock, Time & Life Pictures, Visuals Unlimited, and Workbook Stock.
Posted by: Kuldip GarhwalPhoto.net – Photography @ its all time best….
Well the name of the website speaks it all. Cool website of stock photography. Lakhs of photographs to filter and search from. Either search by popularity or by the photographer. You have few options but massive and mind blowing results. You can spend your whole life downloading those lovely pictures. Before you go for some serious work on the images available there see for the copyright and policy problems.
Great one stop website for all your imaging needs and jobs. Handy interface also. It has got reviews and tutorials on the latest gadgets, cameras, and developments in the photography industry. Probably it has got a forum also. I think you’ll be able to fulfill all your photography needs here.
So go shooting and a cheesy clicking:)
Posted by: Yogesh Goel
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