Picture+Links

**Working with Images:**
These sites offer ways to **display**, **manage** and **change** images on the web. Try [|befunky] as a cool way to change your photos in to cartoons, avatars etc. You can even cartoonise videos.

Flickr is a way to store, sort, search and share photos online. It helps you organize photos you have and offers a way for you and others to share, search and use images for a variety of purposes.

Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you locate and organise all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks, share your photos with others through email, prints and __[|on the web]__: it’s fast, easy and free.

[|Google Picasa Web] allowa you to post photos and videos online, share photos with others. You can set your albums to private or make your albums public and share with the Picasa community. See big photos, scroll through them quickly, rotate and zoom. Have fun with captions and comments. [|fd's Flickr Toys] is a list of different things that you can do with Flickr images that you have already uploaded.

Resizing Images:
Many of the pictures that you take will need to be resized to be uploaded to the internet.


 * [[image:teaching-with-technology:picresize.jpg align="left" caption="picresize.jpg" link="http://gui.picresize.com/picresize2/"]]PIXresizer ** is a free image resizer that easily creates web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all.

[|VSO's Image resizer] is a lovely little free application, which can run off a USB stick (ie no installation). It does a batch resize in a flash, saves the images as a copy by default (can overwrite if preferred), output all files as (say) jpg even though the originals may be a combination of gif/jpg/bitmap etc... great for those without access to photoshop, PSP etc