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FotoNation.net www.fotonation.net, the FotoNation spin-out company for Internet imaging products and services for the digital photography market, announced today that they are supporting the “America at Home” book project. In association with Nikon, FotoNation.net is providing 100 Nikon COOLPIX S51c Wi-Fi digital cameras to the professional photographers involved in the project. Produced by Rick Smolan, the creator of the well-known “A Day in the Life of America” book series, “America at Home” is expected to include several million photos—the most extensive record of American home life at the beginning of the 21st century.

Each of the 100 professional photographers involved in the “America at Home” book project will receive a Nikon COOLPIX s51c featuring Nikon’s newest Wi-Fi sharing technology, which allows photographers to instantly send images wirelessly via email or upload photos to Nikon’s new my Picturetown photo sharing and storage site (www.mypicturetown.com) powered by FotoNation.net.

PhotostorePowered.com is a specialized link directory and blog for websites using Photostore, a web based software package that enables you to publish and sell your photographs, images, and artwork online.

The PhotostorePowered directory is organized into five categories: Event Photography, Photo Sharing Websites, Posters & Prints, Rights Managed Photos and Royalty Free Photos. Browse by category or use the search feature to located listing based on keywords.

Online video and photo sharing service Phanfare (www.phanfare.com) today announces a special offer for current customers of Yahoo! Photos. Yahoo! Photos recently informed their customers that their photos stored at Yahoo! Photos will be deleted at the end of the summer. In response, Phanfare is offering Yahoo! Photos customers the opportunity to move and save their photos from Yahoo! Photos to their own Phanfare Web sites known for family-friendly, private, secure, advertising-free albums. As an added bonus, current Yahoo! Photos customers will get six months free service when they move their photos to Phanfare*.

SmugMug (www.SmugMug.com), a premier online photo sharing and photo storage application, just announced new privacy and photo viewing features entitled SmugIslands, which means users can be an island with their photos. By overwhelming customer request, SmugIslands gives members the option to select whether their photo galleries are hidden or found by search engines like Google and Yahoo!, or the internal search capabilities within SmugMug.

Image Abstraction offers High Resolution Backgrounds, Patterns and Textures to Photoshop Artist and Designers. These images have been manipulated using Photoshop and a variety of plugins to create some interesting effects. You can learn more about the software used on their About Page.

I launched another website this week, FreePhotoClips.com, that provides free photo objects (aka Photo Clips) for personal and non-profit design projects.  I’ve masked each image on it’s own Photoshop layer which makes it a snap to incorporate it into any background regardless of the color.  These are perfect for Web Pages, Blogs, Powerpoint Presentations, Newsletters and most any other multimedia project.  As of this post I have 20 photoclips in the gallery.  I’ll be adding more every week.  I hope you find the site to be a useful resource.