Picture Library Web Sites and Distribution

You all know that having your own web site is a vital marketing tool.

It's a great thing to have basic knowledge of how to make your own and really good fun to do. But there is another way.

Two companies now offer state-of-the-art ways to both give you your own site and at the same time give you a really powerful way of managing and distributing your images.

These companies will let you store all your images in public and private groups. Once you have your images uploaded you will be able to manage your pictures from any web connected PC. And you'll never have to worry about backing up to CD, DVD etc again, (although, really, you still should!)

digitalrailroad and photoshelter are new providers who will let you easily design your own site for a very reasonable fee.

We are in the process of moving the Scottish Viewpoint library of 600 000 images to digitalrailroad.

A basic single photographer account only costs about £300 a year with digitalrailroad. I can't recommend this enough.

There are hundreds of photographers now using these two companies.

Check them out. Photoshelter is cheaper but not as good as digitalrailroad but will still work well for you.

PS... I don't have any financial interest in either of these companies. But I wish I did!

Cheers,

Adam