Publish your creativity on real U.S. Postage

Make every letter a special delivery with your own customized photo stamps printed by Zazzle! Add your own photos, designs, business logos, and text to design your own postage that can be sent through standard U.S. Mail. Perfect for wedding announcements, birthday invitations, holiday cards, and promotional advertising. Makes a unique and useful gift for friends and family.

POW!!

Innocent

Pink Delight

Butterfly Beauty

Choose from 7 denominations:

• $0.26: postcards
• $0.41: First-class, 1 oz
• $0.58: 1 oz mailings, unusual shapes
• $0.58: 2 oz mailings
• $0.75: 3 oz mailings
• $0.92: 3.5 oz mailings
• $1.31: 4 oz mailings
• $4.60: Priority Mail (up to 16 oz)

Zazzle Custom Stamp Sizes:

• Large
• Horizontal: 2.5″ x 1.5″ (image: 1.7″ x 1.2″)
• Vertical: 1.5″ x 2.5″ (image: 1.2″ x 1.7″)
• Image aspect ratio: 5×7

• Medium
• Horizontal: 2.1″ x 1.3″ (image: 1.4″ x 1.1″)
• Vertical: 1.3″ x 2.1″ (image: 1.1″ x 1.4″)
• Image aspect ratio: 3×4

• Small
• Horizontal: 1.8″ x 1.3″ (image: 1.1″ x 1.1″)
• Vertical: 1.3″ x 1.8″ (image: 1.1″ x 1.1″)
• Image aspect ratio: 1×1

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Have you ever wanted to completely brand your Twitter Profile but didn’t either have the time or know how to do it in Photoshop or Gimp? With MyTweetSpace you can easily do that.

Smushit is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images – without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.

At Photoshop Express you can quickly and easily accentuate your photos with easy-to-use options for resizing, cropping, sharpening, and more. Make your photos pop with fun, eye-catching effects and enhancements. Then share your photos in My Gallery, where you can create customized photo displays, or upload them to your Facebook page, blog, or anywhere else online.

FlickrShop is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to upload images to Flickr photo sharing website directly from Adobe Photoshop. No need to save your image to a temporary file, no more switching between applications – just open your image, tweak it in Photoshop and share it with the world via Flickr.

CutMyPic is an application that allows it’s users to upload a picture, crop it, round the corners, and add a drop shadow, all in a couple of clicks. You can then either save it or send it to a friend. The site focuses on simplicity and speed.

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Udorse is a visual endorsement engine. Udorse empowers each of us to endorse the items and places in our photos that we want to help support, and share with our friends. It’s as easy as tagging a person.

OutWit Hub contains dozens of recognition and extraction features to ease your Web searches and organize your collections. Automatically browse through pages, collect and format the information you seek, display full screen slideshows on any topic in a single click… and find your golden needle in the Web haystack.

With BAAGZ‘ simple, integrated user interface it’s easy to store and organize your favorite things online in a format that can be easily retrieved, shared and searched by you and other baagerz. Easily create an infinite number of baagz, each representing the content that interests you most. Bring your baagz alive by adding personal and public content from around the Web, including shortcuts to your favorite Web sites, custom wallpapers, RSS feeds, images, videos and more.

ScanDigital gives you your photos on CD/DVD as well as in your own free and unlimited online gallery. You can organize your photos, share with loved ones and order reprints and other great photo products. ScanDigital offers free Shipping, free digital optimization using our proprietary process, and the fastest turnaround time, Guaranteed.

With Steekr you can:-Store your music ,your pictures, your videos and all your personal files online. -Play and listen to your digital files directly in your browser. -Share your files with your friends or relatives.

Ikbis is a photo and video sharing service geared for the Arab audiences around the world. With Ikbis, you can upload and organize your photos and videos that you have taken with your digital camera or mobile phone. Moreover, you can share your photos and videos with friends and family, interact with other Ikbis users and rate photos and videos.

Pikeo think that pictures tell better stories when you can give people some idea of where they were taken. Pikeo lets you look at your pictures along with a map showing the scenes of your crimes. Pikeo also helps you organise your pictures in smart albums based on what, where and who information (called tags). You can decide which of your pictures you want to share with your family, friends and everyone else, and which ones you want no one to see.

Create and customize professional-looking galleries using advanced Web interface. Organize and structure your photographs so that you and your visitors can easily find them and view. From standards-based IPTC tags to full EXIF support your photographs show every detail including captions, titles, file and exposure info, searchable keywords and categories. Zenfolio gives you powerful tools allowing you to be efficient and organized.

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Making sense of all the online photo services can be just as difficult as picking out a camera and lenses. With all the options out there, it’s important to choose the right site for backing up and printing out your precious masterpieces. Whether you’re looking for a photo community, a place to develop your shots, or just a site to share your photos with friends, there are plenty of options to pick from. But choosing the right site to upload your all your photos to is a big decision since you will spend a lot of time and potentially money once you go down a path. So choose your path wisely.

Here’s a comprehensive look at the best of the best for sharing and printing photos on the web:

flickr is made for snap happy photographers. From the simple uploading interface to the Organizr tool, the folks at flickr designed the site for photo sharing. You can easily exhibit all of your photos to the public or control who sees them with convenient privacy settings. You can also track how many people have viewed your pictures. But one of the best aspects of flickr is the community. Like other social networks, flickr allows you to connect to your friends and see their photostreams and see their new pictures whenever they upload them. It also allows friends and visitors to leave comments (and even highlight portions of the picture to leave mouse-over callouts on any photo!). Spend hours looking through tags of photos to find anything and everything a person could take a picture of. Flickr makes it easy for bloggers to add their pictures to their blog (except for Xanga users). It unlike all the photo printing sites, flickr even allows people to download your files which makes it a great tool for archiving files. On top of that, it allows your friends and anyone else to download different sizes of your picture files, including the high-resolution originals! Sharing photos has never been easier since flickr came along. Now you can get prints of your pictures! If you are connected to friends you can also print out their photos as well. There are also a few printing services like Zazzle that you can use.

Shutterfly was one of the original online photo services along with Snapfish and Ofoto. It has continued to stay independent unlike its competitors (Snapfish was owned by District Photo and now is owned by HP; Ofoto was bought by Kodak). Shutterfly has the most user friendly interface of all the online photo printing services and makes organizing and editing photos simple and easy. The desktop uploading tool is a bit buggy, but usually can get the job done. Shutterfly prints come out with relatively accurate colors and pretty good quality. Although the consensus is that Ofoto has better quality prints, comparing them side by side, Shutterfly is comparable. The slideshow feature loads quickly but at lower resolution than the Kodak EasyShare Gallery (Ofoto) does. Shutterfly is a great service for sharing photos online. For new members you get 15 free 4×6 prints.

Ofoto was bought by Kodak which has changed the name to the Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Ofoto quickly became the leading online photo service with high-quality prints and competitive pricing. The Ofoto interface is less intuitive than the Shutterfly interface. Editing and organizing photos is much more complicated on Ofoto. You also have to register and log in to see other peoples photos which can sometimes be a pain. But once you login, the updated slideshow presentation loads quickly (photos are now pre-loaded in the background) and they are at higher resolution than they used to be. But Ofoto’s strength is in the processing. Backed by Kodak, Ofoto has continued to perfect the process of printing digital photos. This is a very compelling reason for DSLR owners who want to print large photos with accurate colors and sharpness to use the Ofoto service. 4×6 prints run for about $0.25 each.

Snapfish started off as an online film processing solution. It was bought by District Photo and recently sold to Hewlett Packard. It has built a similar offering to Shutterfly and Ofoto, but the prints are not quite as good as the big two online printing services. They have tried to differentiate themselves with mobile camera phone photo printing, a service that the others have not quite fully adopted yet. For new Snapfish members you receive 20 free prints. For existing memberships Snapfish pricing is extremely competitive and now offers 4×6 prints for only $0.12 each.

Other Services

Photo Sharing/Hosting:

• PBase
• Zoto
• Smugmug
• Photobucket
• Fotki
• Webshots
• ImageEvent.com

Photo Printing/Publishing:

• PhotoWorks
• Picaboo
• Winkflash.com

Desktop Photo Slideshows:

• Slide
• FilmLoop
• Tubeshow

Photo Licensing and Selling:

• Fotolia
• Digital Railroad

Online Storage:

• 25 Free Gigs at MediaMax

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