PhotoBox now allows you to upload, mount and frame your favourite images. Photobox has teamed up with YourFramer - in just six steps PhotoBox customers can create bespoke framed prints. Orders are turned around within 14 working days and arrive complete and ready to hang.

ShootLive enables sports photographers to get their action pictures to a customer within minutes. ShootLive will be trialled at David Beckham’s planned debut for LA Galaxy against Chelsea today. ShootLive will allow pictures to appear on authorised sites and devices within minutes of the kick-off of a football match.

The New Zealand Tourism Board are running a competition with the main prize of a 10 day, £5000 holiday for two to New Zealand. Ten Canon cameras are also up for grabs. You just need to interpret New Zealand’s urban soul via photos, videos or words. The deadline for entry is 5pm, Tuesday July 31st 2007.

iStockphoto has just joined CogniSign’s xcavator.net visual search portal. 1.8 million photos from over 38,000 contributors from iStockphoto have already been added to the portal. Visual search allows a user to look for similar images within databases containing millions of images - just like a human can look at a few dozen manually. iStockphoto joins Photovault of San Francisco who initiated xcavator.net’s Beta test.

Shutterfly’s Summer Memories promotion will give away 5 million prints to customers. Shutterfly will randomly select 25 daily winners from its customer base and reward them with 1,000 free prints each. In addition to the daily winners, 3 grand-prize winners will receive 10,000 prints each. Shutterfly has also launched SummerMemories.com, to inspire the Shutterfly community to tell their family stories.

Scholarships are now up for grabs for the Kubota Image Tools “Digital Photography Bootcamp”, a 5-day workshop for professional photographers worth $2,195. “We want to recognize and assist photographers who are working on a very limited budget—yet who still find time to give back to their communities.” said Kevin Kubota, Idea Guy of Kubota Image Tools.

DWF START is a new free forum-based service for photographers who are planning to start careers in wedding photography. Application for free memberships to DWF START are now being accepted. Digital Wedding Forum has also changed its name to DWF Pro, and currently boasts 4,400 members.

The We Speak Image fashion campaign challenges 17 European fashion designers to create a collection inspired by photos taken by their fellow countrymen. Members of the public can upload their most creative and iconic images, with the most popular given to a leading fashion designer. The resulting garments will be showcased at London, Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks. Canon will make a donation to Red Cross Societies across Europe for each image uploaded.

ScanCafé is a new photo scanning and restoration service that allows customers to pay only for the digital images they wish to keep (minimum purchase of 50%). Professional color correction, cropping, scratch cleansing, and red eye removal are included as part of ScanCafé’s basic photo scanning service. “We started ScanCafé to help people preserve their most precious memories…we’ve created an easy, safe, and low-cost photo scanning service that allows people to share those photos with friends and family and preserve them for future generations.” said Sam Allen, CEO of ScanCafé.

The UK photo storing, sharing and printing website Photobox has just passed the 2 million member milestone. Commenting on PhotoBox’s growth, Mark Chapman, UK Managing Director said, “We are delighted to have achieved such outstanding results. The combination of the PhotoBox service and an increasingly web-savvy audience has undisputedly helped us reach 2 million members.”

The Travel Photographer of the Year website have announced a new series of overseas photography trips, including tuition from photographers Chris Coe, Nick Meers and Chris Weston. Trips include an eco-adventure in Honduras, safari in Northern Tanzania and landscape and travel photography in Switzerland. The courses are organised by specialist travel companies African Safari Roots, High & Wild, Intrepid Travel and YokmoK Adventures.

Sharpcast Photos 1.1 includes viewing and sharing group albums from mobile phones, plus interactive slideshows for blogs and MySpace. Sharpcast are also offering up to 110 free prints for Yahoo! Photos customers who sign up. Sharpcast Photos version 1.1 is available for free at http://www.sharpcast.com

American Photo magazine have announced this year’s Editor’s Choice of everything and anything photography related, which includes the soon to be released Sigma DP1 (pictured).

“It happens every year, but it’s worth repeating that there are more products and product categories than ever in this year’s Editor’s Choice. All that coverage required a bigger-than-ever team of experts. In addition to regular AP contributors Jonathan Barkey, Aimee Baldridge, Steve Pollock, and Jack Howard, the group included several trusted colleagues from Popular Photography & Imaging, including Dan Richards, Debbie Grossman, and Pete Kolonia. Their combined authority makes this year’s Editor’s Choice the go-to guide for buying your photo equipment.”

Website: American Photo Editor’s Choice 2007

You can now get your images critiqued for free by pro photographers Harry Benson, Colin Finlay, Gerd Ludwig and Peter Read Miller at Kingston Technology’s ‘Icons of Photography’ website. “Commenting on these submissions was a great exercise for me personally and I was genuinely impressed with the overall quality of the images. It’s great to be a part of a program that encourages interaction and learning among those who share a genuine love of photography,” said Harry Benson, world-renowned photojournalist.

Win a Nikon D200 and 17-55mm lens, worth over £2,000, in the AOPOPEN contest. Awards will be presented for the judges ‘Best in Show’ choices and the ‘Public Choice’ winner. The AOPOPEN exhibition showing the finest images runs from 22 August to 28 September 2007 at the AOP Gallery, London.

Total Training Online is a new library of video tutorials for learning Creative Professional software applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator. “Total Training Online marks Total Training’s continued commitment to providing top-notch educational resources to Adobe users. We’re pleased that Total Training is making its entry into the online video training market with its exceptional in-depth video training content to help customers quickly get up to speed and make the best use of the new Adobe Creative Suite 3.” said Caleb Belohlavek, director of product management for Adobe’s Creative Solutions. A sneak peek of the premium product to be rolled out later this month is available at www.totaltraining.com/GUEST.

Flickaday allows you to take one picture of yourself every day and share it with your family, friends or the whole world. Nothing more, nothing less. All you need is a web cam and an email address. The photos are automatically compiled by Flickaday into a movie for everyone to watch and can be embedded on blogs, web sites, myspace pages, etc. Go on, share your ugly mug / beautiful visage (delete as appropriate) with the world!

Website: Flickaday

INXS.com wants to send you to the Hammersmith Apollo in London for the INXS show on Thursday, 21 June! Your job…to be Rock Photographer for the night! Win a trip to London for you and a guest with three night’s hotel, roundtrip airfare and tickets to the INXS show at the Hammersmith Apollo in London on June 21. Guido Karp, a renowned rock photog, will take the winner under his wing and into the photographer pit during the show. Plus, the winner and guest get to go backstage to help out with a photo shoot and meet INXS.  All you have do for a chance to win is enter your contact info; the sweepstake is open to anyone 18 and over. The contest ends June 11 and winner is confirmed on June 12.

Website: INXS Rock Photographer Contest

The 6th Ricoh Caplio and GR Digital Photo Contest is open to all owners of a Ricoh compact digital camera. The theme is “Delightful moments and scenes”, and the contest runs from May 30, 2007 to August 19, 2007. A total of 34 photos will be chosen as winners from among photos submitted, including a grand prize winner. The main prize is a Ricoh GR DIGITAL camera and accessories.

xcavator.net is a visual search portal targeting the stock photography industry. Visual search allows a user to look for similar images within databases containing millions of images based on color and key features. “The visual search capabilities, combined with keyword filtering, create an unbeatable intuitive experience for the user browsing Photovault’s inventory”, said Vern Krutein, President of Photovault.