pact software offers not only the best photos but also photography related software tools.

Great news from Photoshelter this week. They announced an upcoming site upgrade for June 10, 2010 with excellent new features.

• Simplified website setup, customization, and management
• Structural changes to help search engines find more of your images
• Shorter URL structure that places your branding ahead of PhotoShelter
• Simpler image gallery management with a streamlined user interface

In particular the changes to support search engines are long awaited. This should solve the current issues with mixing your brand domain name with the photoshelter urls to your galleries. Allowing you to build your brand more effectively.

And even with the Photoshelter basic and starter accounts your brand will now lead ahead of Photoshelter. Up to now these accounts used photoshelter branded pages for displaying your photos and galleries.  From June 10 they will get a single customizable photography website based on a new theme. Providing you with a complete standalone photography website perfectly suited to grow your business, outfitted with all of PhotoShelter's powerful tools for marketing, e-commerce, and client management.

The photoshelter export plugin for Adobe Lightroom is the easiest way to export your photos from Lightroom into your Photoshelter Archive.

The new release is completely rewritten to make it compatible with lightroom 2 and Lightroom 3 beta. It takes advantage of the lightroom feature to add metadata to the catalog. The photoshelter photo Id is now stored with the photo after upload. This allows the creation of a quick collection containing your photoshelter photos. The improved error reporting and integrated logging makes diagnosing problems easier.

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And most important.. it is ready to be extended with new features. What would you like to be added?

I found this book on eCampus. Seems the perfect companion when planning a trip to New York City.

New York City is one of the most unique and popular travel destinations in the world, bursting with historic landmarks, vibrant street scenes, cultural delights, and world-famous icons. If you plan on documenting your trip through pictures, then this is your guide to making the most of your photography in New York City. You'll learn where to find the most interesting views, when to shoot them, and how to recreate the images you see in these pages. All the research, location scouting, and planning have been done for you so you can spend your time in New York City taking stunning photographs. Equal parts photo essay and how-to, "The 50 Greatest Photo Opportunities in New York City" is meant to complement your traditional city guidebook and show you how to capture the memories of your trip with professional-quality images. Also check out the brand new companion website for our "The 50 Greatest Photo Opportunities" series! For updates, tips, tutorials and other news on all things travel photography, visit http://blogfiftygreatestphotos.com.

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