Tuesday, March 4, 2008

PhotoShelter & Flickr: Intertwined (For Your Benefit)

A brief note that now you can export from Flickr directly into PhotoShelter, and also export from PhotoShelter directly into Flickr with watermarks and all sorts of other protections, ensuring that you're not one of the many people who have had their work stolen from Flickr. This Wired story - PhotoShelter Protects Your Images From Would-Be Flickr Thieves (3/4/08), which reads, in part:

PhotoShelter takes a different approach to image sharing than Flickr, one that’s more suited to the professional photographer. Rather than simple image sharing, PhotoShelter offers the ability to overlay a personal watermark on all your photos, and web galleries can be password protected to limit access to clients...PhotoShelter is not a Flickr alternative, but is geared at the pro photographer looking to catalog, store and sell their images online. That said, some Flickr users who are getting more serious about their images and are considering a possible career shift might want to have a look at PhotoShelter.

And thanks to the new Flickr Importer, using both sites at the same time is a snap.
Thus, the innovations by PhotoShelter continue, with outside-the-box thinking. I wonder what will be next? Automated copyright registration solutions to further protect your images?

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Innovations? Outside the box thinking? Not so much. The host I've been using has had those exact features among many others aimed at pros for a long time now. Catching up is more like it.

Anonymous said...

Hi Chris -
What host are you using? I am just curious because I am researching all of my options for uploading/selling/storing images at this point.

Thanks in advance....

Cheers,
Meg

Tony V. Martin said...

I vote for the online copyright reg at PS. I have been waiting for WEEKS for my online account with the copyright office to activate.

www.tonyvmartin.com
http://tvmphoto.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Easy come... easy go. On the afternoon of March 5th Photoshelter's Flickr Importer was disabled by Flickr. Wired (in the same article you linked to) reported the reason is unknown. As noted on my blog it'll be interesting to hear the reasoning for the shutdown.

Paul Mc said...

Wait a sec...the image quality on flickr is terrible. I don't believe they archive at full size. I certainly don't upload at full size. This makes me feel really weird about PS's commitment to quality. I certainly wouldn't want anyone to use anything of mine from flickr to make a print, the quality would be abysmal.

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