COOL PHOTO WEBSITES Use these online services to enhance your digital photographs. By Mark Frauenfelder ‘Thanks to the rise of inexpensive digital cameras ‘and photo sharing sites lke Flickr, photography is more popular than ever. ve come across a umber of useful and free web-based services that make t easier to save, share, organize, and edit your digital photographs. How can I download many Flickr photos at once? You can batch download multiple photos froma Fick set wth tree uty Its tedious work downloading @ bunch of fll resolution photos from a Flickr account to your computer. requiring alot of back-and-forth mouse clicking Windows users have it much easier they can grab a copy of lickrDown (aregaman.com/ pages/tckrdown hrm). a nifty tility that makes 180 sere? ‘easy to download dozens or even hundreds of ‘photos from Flickr in one fell swoop. After launching FlickrDown, enter the Flickr username you're interested n. After the thumbs load, you can check the ones you want. or select ‘All photos” (ithe user has lots of photos ths could take alot of time and consume quite abit of hard disk space, so be careful). Then select a directory to store the fils in. and click Download. How can | immediately share photos taken with my cellphone? Use a Blogger or Flickr account to email camera phone images to your blog or online photo galery. Now thatthe resolution of cellphone cameras is approaching that offul-scale digital cameras, some people are using them as ther only point-and-shoot Photography by Mark Frauenflder‘option. One nice thing about cellphone cameras is that you can send the photos to your blog or Flickr alley directly, (Uniess youhave a plan that allows ‘unlimited data transfer, you should check to see how expensive itis to email photos.) Topload photos by email toa Flickr account. visit flick: com/account/uploacayerall, where you'l fad a special email address you can use. Use the subject line ofthe email to give the photo a title, and write a {description of the photo in the body of the email How can | arrange my photos visually by the location where they were taken? Plata combines logging. tagging nd one maps ‘A website called Pata (ta com) lets you stick virtual pushpins int a satelite photo map. and then write about the spat nits corresponding “Place Blog” The ultimate goals to give every square inch of the planets very on Placelog, What kind of places get pinned and blogged on Patil? Restau- Fants, for one. Many ofthe restaurants in major cits have multiple eviews, a wel a stories about what happened ta the bloggers who ate thee. In Adation to leaving written descriptions ofa place, you can ada photos from your computer or the ‘web and even upioad videos You can also create ‘your own maps — of your favorite dance clubs, forinstance — and publish them to your personal \webste using Pais MepKit functionally. How can | edit and retouch my photos online? Use Snpshot to make quick adustmentstosnap- shots and other dlgtal images. Photoshop is overklfor people wha ust want toenhance, resize, and acjust tei digital photos. Lately ve been using ance tle web-based photo editor called Snipshot (sni9sh%.9o™) to upload ltl photos and twoak them to my heart's content (One of the nice features of Snipshot sits ability to imoortimages from Flick (or any ether websits) using a bookmarklet, Once you dag the bookmar- et into your browser's bookmark bar. you can gt any web page. clek the Bookmarklet, then choose the photo you want to eatin Sipshot ‘Hore's what you can do in Snipshot: + Resize. Click one ofthe red squares and drag. your mouse, Select a corner square to preserve the size ratio ofthe orginal image (Figure A. + Crop. Drag the crop window around the image. andresize it by clicking and dragging a red square Once you're happy with the erap, press enter or double-click the image (Figure 8) + Enhance. Bring out the color of an image with 2 single click you aren't pleased withthe result, click "Undo: + Adjust. Change the size, rightness. contrast, saturation, hue, and sharpness othe mage + Rotate. Click to rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise + Save. You can save the phato in varity of formats, or upload it to your Flickr account with one click Excerpted from Rule the Web (St Martin's Press, 2007) by Mark Frauenfelder Visit ulsthevebsnet for more tips and tricks. ‘Mark Fraetelder i ecitorsn-cioof MAKE.