PHOTO INFORMATION & TUTORIALS

• Digital Imaging Basics
• iPhoto 5
• iPhoto 3

PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Picasa is software that makes it easy and fun to view, organize, edit and share the digital photos on your PC. Picasa won't delete your pictures or put them online without your permission. You can cut, crop, resize, straighten, or touch up your photos with a few clicks. Picasa also allows you to create photo CDs, screensavers, movies, or even upload your images to Picasa Web - which gives you 1 GB (1024 MB) of free storage, all free of advertisements or fees! If that isn't enough storage space, you can pay $25 per year to upgrade that to a whopping 6 GB.
Picasa is not available for Mac (you have iPhoto) but Google has released plugins for Mac users to that they can use their Picasa Web Album accounts in programs like iPhoto.

ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.

ONLINE PHOTO EDITORS

• Splashup - Advanced online photo editor with an interface similar to Photoshop’s
• SnipShot - Edit photos from your hard-drive, your Webshots account, or your Flickr account in one place, and then save them back to any of those locations. Very streamlined and simple.
• Picnik - Photo editor with many interesting features which is directly connected to many photo sharing sites. Cool effects, pretty fun.

PHOTO SHARING

• SlideShare - SlideShare is a content sharing site where you can host and display presentations. Maybe you would use it to show your professional work, or just for personal photo sharing, power point presentations about your latest entrepreneurial idea, or graphics you designed.
• Flickr - The most popular photo sharing site. Upload photos, create sets and join one of the greatest communities of professional and unprofessional photographers.
• Picasa - Google’s answer to photo sharing. The main application is a download, but there are also web albums.

FREE PHOTO HOSTING

• Photobucket - one of the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size.
• ImageShack - The most popular image hosting service. Upload images up to 1.5 MB and embed them in any web page.
• AllYouCanUpload- There is no limit to the image size you can upload. You can also upload up to three images in the same time.
• SmugMug - SmugMug is a photo uploader, editor, and community portal all in one. You can upload and share your photos, then store the photos with up to four backup copies of each photo in three varying states.

PHOTOGRAPHY BLOGS

• Digital-Photography-School - Darren Rowse’s photo tips. This is an excellent blog covering all sorts of advice for photographers.
• FlickrBlog - While it’s not exclusively a photo blog, but from time to time the Flickr staff will pick a few photos and feature them on the blog and the users see this as a big honor.
• Shutterlog - some great photos here with attention to detail.
• Chromasia - no words, only great photos
• A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania - Landscape Photography & photoblog by Kathleen Connally. A+

PHOTO MASHUPS

• FlickrVision - displays Flickr updates from various users on a Google Map.
• Captioner - adds comic-style captions to your images.
• PictureSandbox - Searches the Flickr archive (as well as that of YouTube and some other sites) based on the type of license; great tool for finding images you can actually use in a project
• Colr Pickr - One of the most useful Flickr Mashups; enables you to search Flickr photos based on their color. Works surprisingly well.

PHOTO PRINTING/BOOK CREATION

• Snapfish - Snapfish is run by HP, they let you store and share your photos for free, and prints are cheap with highest quality at 12¢ each. You can also have things like mugs and cards made with your pictures on them.
• Shutterfly - Shutterfly not only lets you store and share photos and then have them printed, you can also pick up your prints right at Target stores.

PHOTO SEARCH

• Google Image Search - a resource so commonly used it doesn’t need a special explanation; still one of the best ways to find images of any kind on the web.
• Kitzu - A search engine for education media kits. Search for a topic and get edu-friendly media!.
• EveryStockPhoto - this site is indexing over 1 million completely free photos from various sources.
• MorgueFile - provides completely free photos; no registration required to download.
• PicSearch - image search with some interesting options; for example, you can choose to search only black and white or color photos.
• YotoFoto - a search engine which claims to be indexing over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’ images.