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We're pretty excited. Shwayze has chosen Photobucket to provide his brand new songs "Polaroid" and "Corona and Lime" on Photobucket's remix. His new album Shwayze is in stores now.
The music is exclusive to Photobucket, and is only available for a limited time.
So go ahead and build a remix today and add his music.
To get your creative juices going, here's a remix we made to Shwayze's Polaroid track:
If you're at the DNC in Denver this week, join our DNC Group Album! Upload your pics by mobile phone by emailing to dnc@m.photobucket.com.
We'd love to see what you see!
Target guests can take advantage of new, innovative online photo-sharing tools while Photobucket users gain convenient in-store print pickup
MINNEAPOLIS & DENVER (August 26, 2008) — Target and Photobucket, the leading stand-alone photo and video sharing site, today announced the agreement that offers expanded online photo services for Target guests and new in-store print options for Photobucket users.
Beginning today, Target will offer print-to-store services to Photobucket users through www.photobucket.com and www.target.com/photo. After creating a free account on Photobucket, users can upload and organize their photos, edit their images and order prints for pickup – in about an hour – at most Target stores nationwide. Photobucket also enables users to organize videos; create slideshows and group albums; customize unique photo gifts; and share photos with friends and family through e-mail, IM, social networks, blogs or mobile phones.
"Photobucket has emerged as a leader in online photo and video sharing," said Mark Schindele, senior vice president, Target. “The site has an active community of more than 22 million monthly visitors in the U.S. Through this collaboration, our guests can now combine Photobucket’s creative tools with the convenience and quality they have come to expect from Target Photo.”
“Photobucket is thrilled to provide people with more easy ways to enjoy and share photos and easily get prints,” said Alex Welch, president, Photobucket. “As much as people love the convenience of going online to store and share photos and videos, there is always the need for great prints to capture special memories.” Welch continued, “Target is a world-class retail organization. We share a goal of bringing fun and convenience to our customers, and this relationship will extend that experience to photos – both online and off.”
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Pick up prints at Target®, or have them mailed to you
Now you can print from Photobucket, and pick up your prints at any of the more than 1,600 Target® stores around the US.
When you click on 'buy prints' in Photobucket, you are given a choice: either print to Target, or have your prints (and other kinds of photo goods) mailed to you at home from our trusty online photo store.
For our customers outside the US
The online photo store, powered by our friends at QOOP, is your only choice. QOOP ships pretty much anywhere in the world on our behalf, and they do a mighty fine job.
We hope you enjoy the added convenience of picking up your prints at Target.
Today we're launching the integration of a complete online scrapbook system on Photobucket, powered by Scrapblog -- the supreme masters of online scrapbooking.
So if you've always had scissor and glue envy,and you wished you could make a scrapbook but you're just too busy, your problem is now solved!
Scrapbooks on Photobucket are incredibly simple. Just drag and drop photos right onto the page:
You get to choose themes, backgrounds, stickers, text -- go as far as you want. You can save your scrapbooks on Photobucket and share them. And you can 'post' them as self-running slideshows on your social network profile, Web site or blog.
Here's what they look like when you post scrapbooks as a slideshow -- this one shows a variety of themes. If you make a scrapbook, it'll probably just use one theme. (Or not. Up to you!):
It's the only way to scrapbook!
To try it out, go to http://photobucket.com/scrapbooks. You'll need to log into your Photobucket album to be able to access your Photobucket pics.
Some of the feature highlights:
To see a slideshow of some of the amazing styles and choices available with, click here.
Photobucket Launches Digital Scrapbooking in Collaboration with Scrapblog
Powerful and Easy-to-Use Scrapbooking Service Offers New Self-Expression and Storytelling Options to Photobucket Users
San Francisco, Calif. and Miami, Fla. -- August 21, 2008 – Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com), the leading standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the addition of online scrapbooking, powered by Scrapblog, http://www.scrapblog.com, the leading service for creating and sharing scrapbooks online. Scrapblog’s easy-to-use application is now seamlessly integrated with Photobucket, enabling Photobucket’s more than 46 million unique users around the world to transform their photos into personalized digital scrapbooks, without ever leaving Photobucket. Users can share their scrapbooks via email or IM, post them on a personal blog or embed them on asocial network profile.
Through this collaboration with Scrapblog, Photobucket users will have more creative freedom to express themselves and tell stories with their photos. The Scrapblog application allows users to create scrapbooks from scratch or choose from professionally designed themes that provide an even quicker way to get started. In addition to themes for events such as vacations, holidays, sports, weddings and more, themes for popular television programs and films such as Disney’s “High School Musical 3,” among others, are also available.
Users can drag-and-drop photos directly from their Photobucket albums into Scrapblog’s web-based application where they can be cropped, resized and moved to customize the chosen layout. Pages can then be personalized with thousands of creative elements including backgrounds, stickers, text, decorative frames and more. No software downloads are required and the finished scrapbooks are saved in the user’s Photobucket album. Starting in September, users will also be able to print their scrapbooks into high-quality books, greeting cards, postcards and other products.
“Scrapbooks have traditionally been an important part of how people have kept and shared memories offline for many years, and bringing that capability online to Photobucket gives users even more options for enhancing their lives and expressing themselves digitally,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket. “We are excited to partner with Scrapblog and be the first photo and video Web site to integrate a digital scrapbooking feature directly into the site, making it easy, convenient and accessible to everyone.”
"At Scrapblog, we are passionate about enabling self-expression and storytelling around photos and videos," said Carlos Garcia, founder and CEO of Scrapblog. "Since Scrapblog launched, Photobucket users have been coming to Scrapblog.com to create stunning scrapbooks. We are thrilled to make Scrapblog's online scrapbooking service more accessible to all Photobucket users and allow them to preserve and share their memories in a fun and creative way."
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One of the coolest themes in Photobucket's new built-in scrapbooking is the High School Musical style.
Here are some pics showing some of the things you can do with this exclusive scrapbook style.
The folks at Blingee work well with Photobucket pictures, so we wanted to give them a shout out here.
Search Photobucket from Blingee, find a picture to Bling and you're off! Blingee wants to see what you can do, so check out Best Artistic Blingee, Best Funny Blingee and Best Pet Blingee. Only a couple days left on those competitions, so you'd better move fast. And they are always adding new competitions.
There are almost two million animated stamps on Blingee, so the creative possibilities are endless.
Here are a few Blingees we made. Let's see yours!
Today we're featuring two special albums: one for McCain supporters, and one for Obama supporters. In addition, we've added some neat lapel pins and 'lawn signs' in our image editor that you can use to enhance your own pictures.
http://photobucket.com/mccain_08 and
http://photobucket.com/obama_08
So check out the albums and upload a pic of yourself declaring your support for your candidate!
(You need to have a Photobucket account to add a pic or video to a group album. To read more about it, see these blog posts.)
Click "Edit" next to any image of yourself. This launches the Photobucket image editor. Click on Decorate, then Stickers and you'll see all the stickers available:
You can add both lapel stickers, lawn signs, and other text if you want:
Are you a political activist with a Web site or blog?
Then be sure to add a link to these group albums on your blog or Web site. Get your supporters to show themselves in the group albums. Just add one of these links below, and we'll do the rest:
http://photobucket.com/mccain_08 or
http://photobucket.com/obama_08
