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Don’t miss the deadline! Our friends at Stockvault.net are still accepting entries for The Best Stock Photo of 2007 competition, with a top prize of $1000!*

Entries are welcomed from photographers of all ages, skill levels and location. Remember that some of the best photos in history came from amateur photographers with basic equipment, so if you have a great photo, do try your luck. If you don’t enter, you don’t have a chance!

To the delight of its 3.6 million monthly viewers, online photo sharing site SmugMug today announced bigger photo display sizes and astounding video capabilities. Holidays bring crazy, funny, once-in-a-lifetime moments (blame it on the eggnog) that we shoot and record as a vivid chronicle of our most treasured times. Now SmugMug displays these photo and video memories in all their glory, giving customers SmugMungous XLarge, X2Large, and X3Large photo viewing options and up to 1280x720x24p HD video.

Plinkme was developed to provide bloggers, article writers and content republishers with a means to easily and very quickly add a photo to their content to make it more visually appealing - simply by copying and pasting some JavaScript into their page. Plinkme is also a service for photographers to showcase their work, get them exposure and generate links to their site.

We believe this service will give serious amateurs and professional photographers a means to get their pictures into the public eye; Plinkme automatically provides a link back to the photographer’s own home page as well as their plinkme gallery whenever and wherever the photo is published.

In return every time a photo is used, a link to the page publishing the photo is shown in the photographer’s gallery. Plinkme visitors can view other content used with a particular photo or a particular photographer’s photos.

Dreamstime.com, a global community microstock photo agency and distinguished leader in the industry, has linked up with StockVault.net. Now in the vault—professional quality photo images offered exclusively by Dreamstime.com.

Dreamstime.com will offer high-quality, low-cost stock photography images via its link on StockVault.net. A platinum microstock agency, Dreamstime.com will make available its entire library of photos as part of the StockVault search engine to offer the best-of-the-best print quality images and photos for commercial use. This exclusive, innovative agreement will enable Stockvault visitors to search over nearly two million images from more than 30,000 contributors based in 172 countries to find a picture perfect.

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….