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Photobucket Launches Top Pics on MySpace

Photobucket’s Top Pics Application Connects Friends through Photos on the World’s Largest Social Network

Palo Alto—April 9, 2008—Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com ), the world's largest standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the launch of Top Pics on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/top_pics), the world’s most popular social network. Top Pics gives MySpace users a fun way to showcase their favorite photos from MySpace and Photobucket alongside those of their friends. Empowered by MySpace’s newly announced Developer Platform (http://developer.myspace.com ), Photobucket was able to easily build, test, and ultimately deploy Top Pics.

Top Pics displays photos in an attractive grid that can be viewed privately on a user’s MySpace home page or by friends on a user’s profile page. The application’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface enables users to quickly find, select and arrange images from multiple sources, including:

* Users’ own Photobucket photo and image albums
* Users’ own MySpace photo galleries
* Friends’ Photobucket photo and image albums
* Friends’ MySpace photo galleries
* Photobucket's vast library of tens of millions of public images.

MySpace first introduced their Developer Platform site on February 5, 2008, beginning a one-month application development period allowing companies, including Photobucket, time to build and test their applications in a secure environment before going live to the MySpace community.

Launching today: integrated image editing on Photobucket

It's the number one feature you've asked for. And now it's here: full editing right inside your Photobucket album.

You can crop, rotate, and flip images. You can remove blemishes, smooth out wrinkles, add fun shapes, play with color effects, or add your face to a celebrity, gorilla, or astronaut. And much more besides.

Your original photo will always be safe. You can choose to save a new copy or overwrite your original.

Click here to take a look at a slideshow of some samples.

How do you edit your images?

Click on an image in your album, to zoom into "full view." You'll see a new "edit image" pull down menu above the image.

What can you do?

Lots of ideas here: Click here to take a look at a slideshow of some samples. And here's a couple below.

In the image below, apply Pop Art (in the Effects tab). Then add a frame by selecting Antique Frame in the Borders tool (located in the Decorate tab). Lastly, add some Text with a background using the Text tool (in the Decorate tab).

In the image below, use Smart Recolor (located in the Geek tab) to recolor the hair blue. Play the embedded help video to learn about this tool. Then, apply Photo Corners (in the Borders tool, located in the Decorate tab).

Photobucket Launches Image Editing Solution Powered by FotoFlexer

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Photobucket Launches Image Editing Solution Powered by FotoFlexer

Advanced image-editing solution will enhance self-expression through customization of online photos

New feature to be sponsored by Toyota

ALTO, Calif., March 6, 2008 – Photobucket, one of the top destinations for managing personal media, today announced the launch of built-in image editing, powered by FotoFlexer, one of the most advanced Web-based image editing solutions. The image editor enables Photobucket users to edit and add effects to their photos. The two companies aim to make it easy for Photobucket’s nearly 40 million monthly users around the world* to personalize and share images on the Web. Starting today, the entire photo-editing feature set is free to all Photobucket users and provides another vehicle for self-expression online.

FotoFlexer’s features are seamlessly integrated with Photobucket, enabling all users – regardless of skill level – easily to edit their images online, within their existing Photobucket albums.

Photobucket users upload up to ten million images to Photobucket every day, and the site currently hosts almost five billion images and videos. Photobucket users can share their images and videos via email, IM or mobile phone, as well as post them on their blog or social network profile.

Toyota is the charter sponsor of the new feature on behalf of the all-new 2009 Corolla. For a limited time, Toyota is putting a smile on the face of Photobucket users by providing digital “stickers” inspired by the Corolla Dream Estate at www.toyota.com/corolla. Funny stickers like chefs’ hats, French maids’ aprons and bow ties let users create their own staff in honor of the new Corolla, a champagne car on a beer budget.

The integration between Photobucket and FotoFlexer includes editing features customized and designed specifically for the Photobucket community such as:

• Basic image editing – Photos can be re-sized, rotated, flipped, cropped,    duplicated and corrected with red-eye reduction.
• Color effect options – Images can be modified with color effects such as sepia, grayscale, blueprint and many more.
• Decorate – Photos can be completely altered into different shapes colors and have designs added, with the ability to turn them into greeting cards.   
• Beautify – Blemishes can be fixed, and wrinkles smoothed.
• Distort – All photo proportions can be distorted in various ways, such as stretching or bulging.
• Hi-resolution mode – Images can be edited in their highest resolution, providing professional-quality image editing for professional-grade images.
• Smart scissors – An object can be cut out of its background with just a few clicks.
• Enhanced border system – Border width can be automatically adjusted with a simple click and drag.
• Preferences system – The image-editing tool can store users’ preferences and most common image-editing needs.

After completing edits, users can either create a new copy or replace the existing photo. Users can then share the photos, include them in remixes or slideshows to share with friends and family or order custom photo prints, t-shirts, calendars or other gear from the Photobucket site.

“FotoFlexer is the perfect complement to Photobucket’s existing features, as it provides a way for our users to do more with their personal media online,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket. “This has been the most requested feature from our users, and we believe the FotoFlexer image editor enables them to complete the lifecycle for managing online photos – putting the final finishing touches and personalizing their photos before sharing them.”

“Collaborating with Photobucket allows us to bring our advanced, free tools to its huge user-base, who are always hungry for new ways to manage their photos,” said Sharam Shirazi, CEO of FotoFlexer. “FotoFlexer allows people to inject their personalities into photos, which is extremely important to Photobucket users who post, link and share their photos both online and offline. We are excited about this opportunity to integrate with Photobucket and we look forward to seeing what its users create.”

Photobucket users can log on and start editing today at: http://www.photobucket.com

Samples of photos, which have been customized by the image editor on Photobucket, can be found here: http://effects.photobucket.com/

The slideshow style for the smart baby in your life

New "Baby Einstein" slideshow style on Photobucket today. Check it out. It's definitely the slideshow style for the smart baby in your life.

We're loving Dalmation slideshows on Photobucket

Who doesn't love their puppy?

And what better way to show off your own puppy love than with the new 101 Dalmations Slideshow style that launched on Photobucket this week. Check it out.

To make one yourself, click on create slideshow in your album, pick images on the left, a style on the right and save. The 101 Dalmations Style from Disney is on the top.

Vote for Photobucket!

Photobucket has been selected as a finalist in the Webware 100 list in the "photos" category. If you love us, click here to vote for us! Thanks so much!

New, simpler slideshow creator ships today on Photobucket

Today, we released an upgrade to our popular slideshow creator. You can check it out on Photobucket of course.

With this upgrade, Photobucket’s goal is to make what is already a very simple approach to creating slideshows even easier.

Highlights of the upgrade:

• 20 new slideshow frames and styles have been added from our friends at Flektor (http://www.flektor.com/)
• Slideshow frames/styles are listed in an icon bar on the right side of the slideshow creator, allowing you to preview styles.
• If you have a free Photobucket account, you'll now be able to add more images per slideshow (up to 30). If you have a Pro account, you can add up to 50 images per slideshow.
• All styles will support titles and captions allowing you to tell a story within each slideshow

Thanks for checking it out

New Valentines Day Slideshow Launches Today

Just in time for Love Day ... check out this new Slideshow style. Check out the Slideshow Creator in your album, and use the "Hearts4" style.

Say "I Love You" in a Photobucket Remix -- Lots of New Styles

New hearts, love and kissable frames on Photobucket's Remix. Click "Create Remix" in your album. Here's a super quick sample showing just one of the many new border frames available:

But wait! There's more. Check out all the new styles and frames for yourself. If you haven't visited Remix in a while, you'll have fun with all the new stuff.

Here are some of the borders you can put around your pictures and videos:

Here are some of the pics you can drop on top of your remix:

Photobucket Launches on Your Mobile Phone

So now you don't have to be too far away from your Photobucket album. We have launched our "WAP" site. That's a tech-y term for a version of Photobucket.com that you can browse on your mobile phone.  To take a look, browse to this URL from your mobile phone: http://m.photobucket.com.

What you get on Photobucket Mobile: View photos in your album on Photobucket -- tell me how. Upload photos and videos from your camera phone -- tell me how. Share photos with friends via email -- tell me how. Search Photobucket's vast library for photos and graphics -- tell me how. View tagged photos and find related images -- tell me how. Browse our daily dose of fun images that we find for our Home page on Photobucket If you want to read more about Photobucket Mobile, go to http://photobucket.com/mobile.

You can visit our FAQ site for more detailed answers.

As always, we want to hear your feedback. Write to us at support(at)photobucket.com, or visit our forums http://forums.photobucket.com.

Oops! You searched to http://m.photobucket.com from your computer browser?

We all did that. At least fifty times. Simply click on the link "Non-mobile Photobucket.com" at the bottom of the screen. Or enter this URL: http://m.photobucket.com/?mobile=false and you'll be all set.

Photobucket will know to go to the right site if you're on a mobile device, however.