A. Digital Photography Websites
This appendix provides a comprehensive listing of digital photography-related websites. They’re divided into categories and listed alphabetically, based on what each site or online service offers.
Digital Photography Information, News, and Product Reviews
The following are websites for the online editions of popular photography magazines, as well as online-only publications covering all aspects of digital photography:
• Digital Camera Resource Page—www.dcresource.com
• Digital Camera Tracker—www.digitalcameratracker.com
• Digital Photography Review—www.dpreview.com
• Digital Photo Magazine—www.dpmag.com
• Digital PhotoPro—www.digitalphotopro.com
• Picture Correct (Photography Tips & Techniques)—www.picturecorrect.com
• Popular Photography—www.popphoto.com
Digital Camera Manufacturers
By visiting the websites operated by specific digital camera manufacturers, you can learn about their newest camera models, get support or download software updates for your existing digital camera, or access free tutorials for using your specific camera.
The following are the most popular digital camera companies and their respective websites:
• Canon—www.usa.canon.com
• Casio—www.casio.com/products/Cameras
• FujiFilm—www.fujifilmusa.com
• Kodak—www.kodak.com
• Lumix (Panasonic)—www.panasonic.com/Lumix
• Nikon—www.nikon.com
• Olympus—www.getolympus.com
• Pentax—www.pentaximaging.com
• Polaroid—www.polaroid.com
• Samsung—www.samsung.com
• Sigma—www.sigmaphoto.com
• Sony—www.sony.com
Online Photo Services for Sharing Images, Creating Prints, and More
After exporting your digital images from iPhoto ’11, you can share them in an online forum, order prints using a service other than Apple’s photo lab, or create and purchase a wide range of photo products using any of these popular online services:
• CVS Pharmacy Photo Lab—www.cvsphoto.com
• Flickr—www.flickr.com
• Google’s Picasa—http://picasa.google.com
• Kodak Gallery—www.kodakgallery.com
• MPIX—www.mpix.com
• Photobucket—www.photobucket.com
• RitzPix (Ritz Camera)—www.ritzpix.com
• Shutterfly—www.shutterfly.com
• SmugMug—www.smugmug.com
• SnapFish—www.snapfish.com
• Target Photo Center—http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/page.jsp?title=photo_center
• Walgreens Pharmacy Photo Lab—http://photo.walgreens.com/walgreens/welcome
• Walmart Photo Center—www.walmart.com/photo-center
Specialized Photography Websites
The following websites offer some type of specialized service or product of interest to amateur photographers:
• Blurb (www.blurb.com)—An extremely impressive alternative way to create stunning soft-cover, hard-cover, and ImageWrap-cover photo books using photos edited and stored in iPhoto, but without using Apple’s Photo Book service. The free BookSmart photo book design software offered from this site includes hundreds of templates and customizable options that are different from what’s offered in iPhoto; you can use them to create high-quality yet extremely affordable photo books. The BookSmart software works seamlessly with iPhoto ’11, so you don’t need to manually export your images.
• CafePress (www.cafepress.com)—Order hundreds of different photo products and photo gifts that feature images you upload. Mouse pads, T-shirts, tote bags, magnets, photo puzzles, and wall clocks are among the offerings.
• CanvasOnDemand (www.canvasondemand.com)—Have your images enlarged, printed on canvas, and wrap-mounted on wooden frames.
• Cards Direct (www.cardsdirect.com/custom-photo-greeting-cards.aspx)—Design and print customized photo greeting cards using any of the hundreds of professionally designed templates offered on this site. Quantity pricing is available, and the card design selection is far greater than what’s offered by Apple in iPhoto ’11 when it comes to creating and printing greeting cards using your images.
• FotoFlot (www.fotoflot.com)—A unique and ultracontemporary way to showcase your images by having them printed on thin plastic sheets that can be hung on any wall without using a frame.
• Miller’s Professional Imaging (www.millerslab.com)—One of many full-service photo labs that cater to the needs of amateur and professional photographers alike. Order prints, photo books, and a wide range of other products that showcase your images.
• Short Run Posters (www.shortrunposters.com)—Have full-color posters created from your images, for as little as $2 each, with no minimum order required.