Image Sharing Services

Image sharing services are the web platform where a user can publish digital photos and enable them to share it with others both privately and publicly. This task is done by both applications and websites that enable the display and uploading of the images. This service also provides another facility that enables the usage of online photo galleries which are managed by individual users such as photo blogs. The term sharing means the other user can see the photos but cannot download it, and enabled to select various copyright options. The first photo sharing websites started in 1990 from the services which provide order of prints online. Many others photo sharing services are introduced during the year 2000 with the aim of providing centralized and permanent access of photos and video clips. Smug-mug, Yahoo! Photos, Web-shots, Flickr etc were the first photo sharing services introduced. This helps to revenue the functionality and generation. Image sharing services provide the entire online organization methods like the desktop image management functions such as viewing the photos in thumbnails, slideshow etc, classifying the images into albums and can add comments and annotations. Flickr services are one among the photo sharing services that enables different types of data feeds in different format. While these data are fed through the website, some others can customize it to many other parameters such as public photos and videos, group discussions, forum discussion, public favorites, friends’ photo stream etc.