Online photo editing app Picnik says "With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos. It's fast, easy, and fun."

The browser based application is quite user friendly and easy to use. It does require that your browser have the most recent version of the Flash plugin installed.

Monoslideshow is an extremely slick, extremely flexible Flash app for displaying slideshows on websites. All the heavy lifting is done by an editable xml file so even Flash novices should have no problem making impressive slideshow displays. Monoslideshow sells for $19.95.

Online application Satellite 1.0 offers a very painless way to build a website around your Flickr feed. Unlike some similar applications I've seen Satellite seamlessly handles individual images, sets, thumbnails and even tags.

Satellite is an online application for displaying a gallery of images remotely from your flickr.com account.

It can be used as an off the shelf website that uses the Flickr API to make calls to your Flickr account so you can take full advantage of Flickr's Organizr and keyword capabilities which are then mirrored on your personal site.

When you upload images to Flickr, your website is automatically updated!

Satellite is CSS based, so you may customize its look and feel by downloading themes or creating your own.

To see a demo of Satellite in action check out Gravityroom.com.

Satellite requires a Flickr account and a php enabled web server.

Tags: photography, flickr, photo sharing

photofront is a cool online application that takes your Flickr sets and turns them into very slick, flash based galleries. The galleries are beautiful, navigation is easy and intuitive and setup takes less than 2 minutes. You select which Flickr sets get turned into galleries so this application makes it dead simple to create very professional, very good looking photography portfolios or just really cool slideshows, much cooler than the default Flickr ones.

photofront is free but the paid version (one time $10 fee) gives you access to pro features like removing ads from your galleries and allowing you to customize gallery titles and subtitles. Well worth the $10.

Tags: photo sharing, photofront, photography, Flickr

Even though I do think the photo sharing market is getting crowded with Flickr clones, wannabes and also rans I try to check out all the new ones I find just in case something really is groundbreaking and cool. It's not often I find something that meets those criteria but Tabblo does. Tabblo is billed as "a brand new way to tell a story with your photos." The Wall Street Journal says "If you want people to see your photos in a more-personalized way, Tabblo is a good service that will change the way you look at online photo sharing."

Tabblo is Web 2.0 and ajaxified to the core and I mean that in a good way. It's extremely intuitive and easy to accomplish the main site objective which is to share photos in a different way. That different way is by arranging photos into tabblos or collages and photo essays with text. The mechanism behind building displays is incredibly easy and powerful. You can choose background colors, layouts, rotate images, do minor image effects (convert to sepia for example). A great example of the flexibility tabblos offer is Title IX from a photographer who was working for the Orlando Sentinel. Title IX is his photo essay representing "a year long personal project" commemorating the anniversary of Title IX. The obvious advantage to this method of display instead of say a Flickr set slide show is the extreme flexibility in layout and design and the option of adding text among images.

In addition to the cool factor of the photo displays themselves it's extremely simple in Tabblo to set privacy controls, integrate your photos from Flickr, upload pictures from popular photo apps like Picasa, tag and search images and all the other things you'd expect from a next generation photo sharing service, like the ability to order prints. In the short time I've played with the service all of the options and tool integrate seamlessly and provide a really great user experience.

Though it's probably not going to replace Flickr as my go-to photo sharing service Tabblo is on my list of useful tools. When I want the creative flexibility to very easily create photo essays and collages (a post-family Christmas photo collage from which family members can order their own prints comes to mind) Tabblo is definitely where I'll turn.

Tags: photo sharing, tabblo, photography

Just because you've spent hundreds or thousands on your camera gear that doesn't mean you don't sometimes miss the old school simplicity of a Polaroid image. Chances are you don't own a Polaroid camera and you're not going to buy one but that's cool because there's an online tool that makes it really easy to fake that Polaroid magic.

Photojojo points out a really cool application for turning photos into huge photo mural posters that you can print on your home inkjet or laser printer. Upload your image file (jpg only) to Rasterbator (or download the standalone version), choose a few settings and presto you get a PDF to print your masterpiece from. Rasterbator has a gallery of cool user sent images of completed projects.