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Image Editing and Image Galleries

Stock Photography

  • Stock Exchange
    http://www.sxc.hu/
    Free stock photos.

Image Editing Tools

  • Photoshop.com
    http://www.photoshop.com/
    Adobe Photoshop Express is a Flash-based image editing web application from Adobe used to directly edit photos on blogs and social networking sites, so that users do not have to download or upload images. Similar to Picnik, the application currently works with sites such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket. Features include a touchup tool, soft focus, black and white capabilities, layering of fixes and effects, storage space, sketch effect, albums, and 3D online galleries.
  • Resize2mail
    http://www.resize2mail.com
    Resize 2 mail is an online resize website utility developed for digital camera owners, webmasters, people travelling or anybody who quickly wants to resize a digital image for email or publishing on a web site.
  • GIMP
    http://www.gimp.org/
    GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.


Image Galleries

  • JonDesign's SmoothGallery
    http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/
    Javascript based gallery creation/animation scripts.

  • Colorbox
    http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
    Colorbox is a light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3. It is installed as part of the core functionality of ModX.

  • Thickbox
    http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/
    ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal. Thickbox is included in the core installation of ModX, but the code is no longer maintained.

  • DF Gallery
    http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2007/06/07/dfgallery/
    DF Gallery is a free flash-based image gallery that can be customized for your needs.

Photo Sharing

  • Picasa
    http://picasa.google.com
    Together, Picasa & Picasa Web Albums make it easy for you to organize and edit your digital photos, then create online albums to share with friends, family & the world.

flickr

www.flickr.com

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by as a photo repository. The Flickr Commons project is a collaborative effort to between Flickr and a number of cultural heritage institutions with the goal to "firstly show [the] hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer."

One thing that makes Flickr a great place to host images is that it allows you to get those images out and display them on your site.

  • flickrSLiDr
    http://flickrslidr.com
    flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You'll receive the HTML embed code in return.
  • Flickr Slideshow
    http://fabiocavassini.com.ar/SlideShowGenerator.html
    pretty much the same as above
  • FlickrShow
    http://www.flickrshow.com/
    Flickrshow     is a lightweight, cross-browser javascript slideshow, providing you with an easy way to display your Flickr images on your own website. It is simple to install and can be used to access images within Flickr groups or photosets, or using a tag-based search.
  • Pictobrowser
    http://www.pictobrowser.com/
    PictoBrowser is a free web application that displays Flickr images on websites and blogs. For customization, you can use the PictoBrowser Builder to customize the look and functionality of your PictoBrowser to best suit your images and your website’s design. PictoBrowser’s Builder Preview lets you see the changes you make in real-time.

 

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