Monday, December 5, 2011

Photobucket (Extra Credit)




Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and free video sharing. It used for personal photographic images. Photobucket is a great way to keep all of your images and videos stored in a one place. Users may keep their albums private, allow protected guest access, or open it up to the public. You can upload multiple albums at once. There are many features available on Photobucket that allows you to edit your pictures. Once uploaded, you can change the effects, add words, distort, change the lighting, fix red eye etc. You can have a lot of fun playing around with different pictures. Another feature that is used a lot is the collage feature. You can upload up 25 pictures and create a collage that you can share on over 20 different social network sites. That's what makes this site so popular, it is linked to so many social network sites (ie. face book, twitter, blogger, friendster, igoogle, tagged, etc). Sites like this make it easier to share the same photo on more than one social network site by uploading it one time.


There is also an explore feature, where you can see other people's pictures. These are usually pictures of random things like sunsets, animals, sports, flowers etc. There are many different categories from which you can choose from, but are pictures that you can tell someone took a lot of time and effort editing. You can save them to your computer and make great backgrounds out of them etc. You can see whole albums made by others or even friends. You are also allowed to see all of the recent pictures that were updated.


Photobucket allows you to connect with friends and share photos as well. Similar to Twitter, you can get friends to "follow" your Photobucket account so they can see your pictures and videos. Photobucket makes it easy to find friends because it links you to twitter, facebook, your email account etc, where you already have a friend database. Friends can choose to like your photos as well. You can also see how many views your pictures are getting. This is a great feature in my opinion for people who are into photography and want to see if people are viewing their masterpieces. Allowing friends to view your album or videos makes it a lot easier to share rather than doing it the old fashion way where you had to send the picture to all the people you wanted to see it.


Unlike a lot of photo sharing sites, Photobucket allows you to order prints. You can get different things customized with the picture on it. You can get postcards, calenders, mugs, blankets, canvas, shirts, photobooks for different occasions etc. This site is a one stop shop for all of your photo needs.

Photobucket is a great site with all of you photo and video needs. You can do so much on this website. And even if you don't have access to a computer, there are applications you can get on your phone, and do the same thing. Even if you don't want to upload pictures, you can browse new ones as well as inspirational sayings and quotes. I suggest everyone go out create an account and open up your world to picture editing etc.






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