Share photographs

The division of photographs (or division photo , Engl.: photo sharing ) consists of the publication on Internet of Photographie S in a centralized and shared way, i.e. a waiter is used to store and post the images of many users, the Web site then taking the form of a gross Communauté. A big number of sites general public appeared, which allow this division with functionalities and different models of use in the way of organizing and of consulting these images. It is a practice appeared in the middle of the Années 2000 with the commercial development numerical general public of the cameras and access Internet High banc.

Models of incomes and use

One can coarsely cut out these sites in two categories: paying sites and free, and inside this subcategory, to distinguish the advertizing sites from the sites of pulling.

The model dominating in France is the last: the site of pulling of digital photographs which proposes also photo division. These sites propose with their users to create albums to divide their photographs n the other hand possibility for these users of making pullings starting from the sites in question. The offer of service is thus a counterpart with the promise (relative) to make the developments at the shelterer/laboratory. On these sites, the stress is laid on the possibilities of pullings (paper, poster, objects), the parcel deliveries and the quality of pulling. The conservation of the photographs in division is sometimes conditioned with several corresponding clauses.

The paying model is represented in France by the site YamaFOTO.com . Among the English sites, one finds PBase or smugmug . These three sites propose to lodge photographs, to present them in a specific design, without the distraction of publicity or photographic pulling. It is also possible of poster of the comments. YamaFOTO.com proposes in addition to seeing its photographs in diaporama full screen. These sites offer also sometimes stronger guarantees of conservation of the images to the users who directly regulated a subscription to them.

The free model remunerated by publicity is that which made the success of sites like Flickr, in addition to the quality of the tools of this site. In French, one will find a whole of similar functionalities and an offer on Pikeo, Atpic or Pictotron. In exchange of a generation of traffic and posting of publicity, the users see themselves offering a whole pallet of tools to divide and enrich their photographs. Here, the division of photographs more ludic than on other sites, and is opened more with all the other visitors. Pikeo proposes for example the localization of the images on a very precise chart of the world and an portable application to send photographs since its photo mobile towards its Pikeo account. The free model is also represented by a new site French ComBoost, available in French and English, who offer new functionalities such automatic creation of albums to format pdf loans to be printed, or the possibility of inserting its diaporamas in a site or a blog, with the manner of the vidéos YouTube or DailyMotion.

Recently, of the software of division Peer to peer of photographs such as KoffeePhoto appeared with the development of the access permanent high banc. This software has the disadvantages of their qualities: it is necessary to be connected all the time and to launch the application of division all the time to divide its photographs. On the other hand, one is limited only by the size of his hard drive and the photographs are available on its hard drive constantly, thus not requiring a connection Internet for their visualization.

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Sites of division:

Software of division:

KoffeePhoto

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Classification of the sites of division

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