Tech Shout!

AOL Pictures, a product of AOL has been launched. AOL Pictures is a free photo sharing website that lets consumers avail of unlimited online digital storage in original resolution, and has tools that make creating photo albums a much easier task to accomplish.

Formerly known as You’ve Got Pictures, AOL Pictures is an online service which has been bettered to offer a comprehensive digital photo solution for consumers who want to make the work of viewing, sharing, storing, printing and protecting all their treasured images a simpler deal. The service builds on AOL’s infrastructure to offer unlimited and free storage for digital photos in their original resolution, and is on hand free to anyone on the Internet through the AOL.com portal, as well as on the AOL service.

David Liu, General Manager and Vice President, AOL.com, “AOL Pictures is a completely new version of our leading online photo service that first launched in 1998 and continues to handle millions of photos shared via email and instant messages every month.â€? He maintained, “Available for free to anyone on the Web at AOL.com, AOL Pictures gives consumers a complete digital photo experience with benefits like unlimited, free photo storage, and integration with the AIM service and our blogging tools.”

As a special holiday incentive, consumers can order up to 100, 4 x 6 glossy or matte prints free when ordered online through AOL Pictures.

Features of the new AOL Pictures service include:

- Free, Unlimited Photo Storage helps consumers to upload their digital photos where they can be viewed and shared with anyone on the Web, and users can also save photos they’ve received via AOL Pictures to their PC’s hard drive in full/original resolution.

- Enhanced Web-based Design Offers Access From Anywhere and makes viewing images and photo sharing fast and easy, with drag and drop features for simple picture arranging and organization. No special sign-in or registration is necessary for those who receive images or photo albums.

- Improved Image Uploader Tool with Drag-and –Drop Functionality makes transferring images from their computer to AOL Pictures a simpler job for the consumers. Apart from that the consumers can arrange and organize their photo albums too.

- Integrated Photo Sharing within communications features like AOL Mail, the AIM service, AOL Journals and AIM Blogs, and the AOL Member Directory help consumers to share individual photos and photo albums from email, instant messages and blogs.

- Mobile Photo Access allows AOL members access their photos stored on AOL Pictures through their cell phones or PDAs.

- Convenient Printing Options and an Online Print Store make it easy for consumers to print photos using their own home printer or to order prints online. The AOL Pictures Print Store offers high-quality 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10 and wallet-size prints as well as a variety of photo gifts including memory books, calendars, mugs, mouse pads, t-shirts, ornaments and more.

- Updated Image Editor gives consumers the facility to edit and enhance photos by adjusting brightness, correcting red eye, converting to sepia or black and white tones, cropping images and more.

- Slideshow Features include a one-click speed adjustment and ability to expand window to full screen slideshow.