Photography News - The latest digital photography hardware and software news, reviews, articles, tips, techniques and more!

PhotoWorks(R), Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PHTW), an Internet-based personal publishing company and photography community, today announced that it has added Picnik.com’s Web- based photo editing tools to the array of features available on PhotoWorks.com. These tools make it easy for people to crop or rotate their images, fix red-eye, adjust brightness and contrast, and apply additional special effects.

Some of the Picnik special effects features PhotoWorks’ users can now apply include borders, shapes, sepia, black and white, vignette, color boost or soften, and matte effects. Picnik also enables users to add text, resize, crop and adjust exposure to any PhotoWorks’ photo, and is integrated into PhotoWorks wherever users edit their photos.

“PhotoWorks’ goal has always been to give our users creative ways to tell their stories through photography and digital images and share them with others,” said Jeff Few, PhotoWorks senior product manager. “The addition of Picnik’s first-rate, easy-to-use editing tools give our users even more ways to exercise their creativity while preserving their memories.”

Welcome to BlipFoto — the zero-fuss, free website that lets anyone join in and publish one photo a day. Record your life in pictures, improve your photography skills, or just keep in touch with your family and friends. Join the community now and start seeing the world in a completely different way. We warn you, it can get quite addictive....

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.