Questions about resources on the World Wide Web or about photography-related web technologies, including those related to promotion of a photography business.
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Why does photoshop import every third frame of a gif? [migrated]
I have a 90 frame gif and if I file-import-videoframes-to-layers it will make 30 layers and the .gif will end up flashing too much.
Any ideas?
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What are some Chinese/Asian photo sharing websites similar to Flickr?
What are some Chinese/Asian photo sharing websites similar to Flickr? I want to upload some of my photos to one ow two of these websites with Chinese description and share with Chinese/Asian friends.
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Is there a web application that can notify you ahead of time if a certain weather forecast is predicted for a certain location?
In other words, it would be a site where you can "subscribe" to certain locations and then have the service email you if the weather forecast matches the kind of weather conditions you are looking ...
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What is a good photo and video host site [duplicate]
I am looking for a photo and video hosting site for private/family use. I currently use Picasa Web/SkyDrive, and with Picasa Web moving into Google+ I don't like the photo interface and SkyDrive has a ...
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Why choose Digital Medium Format over high end DSLR? [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand why the company I work got a medium format Phase One camera to take photos for their website. The person who ordered it has left, so we don't know their reasoning, but I ...
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How can I find a compact camera with an ultra-wide lens?
I'm looking to buy a compact camera, and having a very wide angle is important to me. I know that review sites often list the real focal length of the lens, but what I'm looking for is something that ...
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Is there a way to make a photo look good for the web but not for small prints?
I work at a professional photography studio and was given the task of creating a photograph that would look good on social media websites. At the same time, the image cannot look good for printing of ...
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Is there a photo print provider I can use to offer a “Buy a print” feature on my own website?
I do host my own photo gallery online and want to share my photos with my community. It should be possible to purchase copies of my photos online. So I asked myself if there is a service provider for ...
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Best Unsharp Mask settings after resizing photos for imagemagick
I'm resizing photos uploaded to a photography gallery and have thus applied an unsharp mask to attempt to preserve the photos original sharpness. The settings I use are:
radius: 0
sigma: 0.5
amount: ...
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Where can I buy stock photographs to use on my non-profit website [closed]
I am looking for images of people meeting, talking, on computers and off, with cell phones, outdoors, indoors for use in a young educational website and am willing to pay $10 - $20 each. Its hard to ...
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Have you found “From Portfolio to Profit Engine” helpful?
This is not a pitch and I am in no way affiliated with the author of the e-book/training package, From Portfolio to Profit Engine. My difficulty is that I cannot find any online reviews of it other ...
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What's the fastest way to get thousands of photos from camera resized and uploaded to web?
Currently, for shooting sports events, my workflow contains following sequential steps:
shoot at location (JPEG for smaller files and minimum post-processing);
batch resize all photos into a size ...
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Wedding photography business website software [duplicate]
I have been running my own wedding photography business for a couple of months.
One thing I'm struggling with is how to create my website so that clients can purchase packages and photos from me.
I ...
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What's a good web system for sharing photos amongst co-workers?
I work for a company where we quite often are doing internal events, seminars, and party's. This offen ends up with quite a lot of pictures, from both the company dSLR but also coworkers that bring ...
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Is there any site with photos of photography masters?
Is there some online collection of really great photos of great photographers, maybe with some comments giving hints on the reason of their greatness?
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Would you use an online RAW image processing application? [closed]
I'm just curious, if there was a web-site/web-portal related to RAW image processing what features you would prefer to use on it:
RAW image processing (from different Cameras)
Implementing different ...
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Crowdsourcing sites for scouting photography locations
I was wondering if there is a website where people can share the best spots to take pictures from (of course, this would mostly apply for outdoor photography). Essentially, a map with dots indicating ...
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What sites exist for posting client proofs?
As I'm doing more and more photo shoots, I'm looking for a site in which I can post proofs for clients to look at. I would use Flickr, however the images can be downloaded and I obviously don't want ...
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I'm a Designer and Programmer who wants to create some software for photographers [closed]
I've been wanting to use my skills to do some sort of service for Photographers for a while now and thought I'd finally ask.
My initial idea was to create a service that would let you create a ...
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Does Flickr recompress JPEGs after upload?
Does Flickr recompress JPEGs after upload? I know that if you upload a TIFF, for example, Flickr converts it to JPEG. But do they also compress incoming JPEGs?
I've read some complaints about the ...
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What solution should I use for cataloging photos for private sharing?
I'm seeking a solution for cataloging many thousands of images. Each photo will be tagged and categorized to become searchable by a small group of private people. I've considered any combination with ...
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Where can I find posing guides & resources online?
What resources are available online to give ideas for poses. Is there some type of catalogue of common poses?
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What's the best website for showcasing my work to the public?
Wondering which website is more popular for posting own photography art and maybe get some feedback from community in other words a way to carry photography to mass public. FB is not the right place.
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Online viewer for panorama photos?
Are there any better services to upload wide (10K pixels wide) than flickr? I would like to see some kind of 'fit to screen height' and zooming functionalities.
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Where to Store Large Photos to Access Them With my Website
I want to develop a small website that shows all my personal photos as a gallery. My hosting provider limits me in storage. Let's say I have 20GB of photo data.
Where can I store my photos so I could ...
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What are some reasons to not display EXIF data when sharing photos online?
I notice that some photographers choose to deliberately omit the information pertaining to how the photo was taken when sharing online.
There's a communal value in learning how other folks staged a ...
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good free photography web hosting [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the best website for showcasing my work to the public?
Hi this is my first post. I am looking to build my own website to display my photos in a professionally ...
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What is a good pre-built website platform for displaying my photos?
I know many of the people develop their own web sites, and that's fine if you want to invest the time. Unfortunately, I barely get time enough to take photographs, so I would rather get something out ...
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What should I look for when choosing a stock web sites to sell through?
I was reading Are stock photo sites a viable source of income? and thought I might give it ago.
However what are the things to look for when choosing a stock photo sites to sell on taking in to ...
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Fast, Unlimited Photo/Video Hosting
I'm looking for a paid photo and video hosting site that provides unlimited storage and unlimited video length and is above all FAST for uploads and photo management.
Additional features of interest ...
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Is there a way for various online photo services to import the same keywords/tags added in Lighroom?
Flickr seems to import the keywords (tags) correctly. Why won't these automatically import into other online sites when I add a photo? (namely 500px, Fine Art America)
I manage my tags in a document ...
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What is a Picasa alternative for posting to a website?
My love/hate relationship with Picasa just permanently tipped to hate I'm afraid. For no reason I can discern Picasa decided I didn't really mean to add yesterday's photos to an album and right in ...
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What are the options for showing clients their proofs online?
I'm looking for a solution to show clients their photo proofs online. I would like something that can integrate with my website, meaning basically I just want to host it on my site so I can use the ...
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Is there a site for browsing a ton of photographers by location and skillset?
I'm looking to hire a photographer for a tech / fashion shoot in NYC. I'm very particular on the style that I'm looking for and I'm hoping someone here can point me to a site where I can do some ...
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A website that can help me in choice of new lens?
Is there any website that can help me to choose the best lens?
I would like to find a website where I can specify a range of minimum focus distance, a range of maximum focus distance, range of ...
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The best location for pro sound clips and pro clip art images? [closed]
What is the best location to get for free or buy pro sound clips and pro clip art images?
I need 25-50 such images per each category of interest. For example, the category is "Restaurant" and I need ...
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What are the main advantages of purchasing Photoshop over the free online version?
What are the main advantages of purchasing Photoshop (subscription or one off payment) over the free online version?
I am aware that:
Internet Access it required
The "heal" tool is not fully ...
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What is a simple and effective method to sharpen for web output in Photoshop?
In Photoshop, I've got a master PSD image file with all mask and adjustment layer treatments, but no sharpening at all. I save for web and create a JPG at 1200px. Now, I bring that file back into ...
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How to resize an image for web display?
I'm building some websites for a friend of mine, and putting them up on my
home webserver. This server is pretty simple and my network connection ain't that
good so the images take pretty long to ...
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Online Printing API?
tl;dr: Is there a way to have SmugMug-like + printing service integration
hosted on your own website? (The API to the printing service is the piece I am missing)
I am looking for an automated ...
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How secure is Flickr's “disable download of original image” feature?
In the Flickr privacy settings page there's a setting entitled "Who can access your original image files?". If I set this to anything other than "Anyone" (e.g. "Only you" or "Your contacts"), is it ...
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Wordpress plug-in for a photoblog?
I use Wordpress for my photo-blog site and currently use Yet Another Photoblog plug-in to help manage uploading the pictures.
Are there other similar plug-in's that might offer more features.
I'm ...
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Where can I host my pictures for free without giving up rights?
I want to host some pictures at low cost (less than flickr). I have come across Shareapic and Imgur. However, imagur strips the meta-data off of uploaded images, and I couldn't find much information ...
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How can I ensure proper color rendition with browsers on wide gamut displays?
When editing for the web, everyone will recommend you to use sRGB, since a lot of browsers don't offer color management, and most browsers will interpret all images as being sRGB anyway.
This is ...
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What software shows the most accurate version of a photograph for web viewing?
I have a photo (photo_A.jpg), taken on a post-sunset beach, for which I want to reduce some noise. I do so using the luminance noise reduction technique from Adobe Camera Raw, open the image in ...
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ASP.NET C# Web Project Photo Merchant Site [closed]
I am looking for a open source package site that I can use to host photos on and have them purchase through paypal for example. I don't need a complete site but if one exists with the below core ...
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What image dimensions are used for 500px?
The name is 500px.com, but what is the image resolution for which to optimize before uploading your photos there?
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How do I compose an image for use as a browser background or wallpaper on a widescreen monitor?
I want to use some of my images for the background of a web page in my browser and for computer desktop wallpaper on my widescreen notebook.
When I use a (landscape oriented) picture as is (in a ...
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Why does my photo look great in Lightroom but show sharpening halos on my web site?
I haven't over sharpened my photo — it looks great in Lightroom and Photoshop CS5, but when I upload it to my webpage, it has horrible ghosts/halos around much of the subjects. I have tried it with ...
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Is it possible to embed a clickable url in an image? [closed]
Is it in any way possible to add URLs or hyperlinks to photos? It's for adding to a web page. I know there is an image map option. But is it possible using any tool to directly add it to the image?
