SeenBy.com have announced the launch of their fine art photography website. SeenBy.com boasts a collection of more than 60,000 pieces in the online gallery, which is allegedly hand-picked by an editorial team with years of experience as journalists and photo editors. In addition to featuring artwork with an unusual and modern feel, SeenBy.com offers gallery-grade prints on a variety of materials that can hang frameless, emphasising the natural impression of the photos. Additionally, SeenBy’s photo lab allows customers to produce their personal images with the same technology and quality used by museums and galleries.

Website: SeenBy.com

Photovisi is a free new service that lets you create photo collages easily. At photovisi.com you first select one of the many collage templates, add your photos and then customise the collage by dragging photos around. After the collage is finished, it’s available for download or print on merchandise such as posters and mugs. If you’ve always wanted to create photo collages but did not know how to get started, pay a visit to the website below.

Website: Photovisi

Swains International has introduced shop4filters, the first dedicated website for purchasing your Tiffen filters online. The shop4filters website will include the full Tiffen filter range, and will also feature several ‘centres of excellence’, selected Swains stockists that will provide the same special offers and prices as the website. There is also a range of interesting articles on using filters. The website will also provide great before-and-after shots using the Tiffen filters which will help to show you the effects you can achieve.

Website: Shop4filters

Data Robotics has launched its online Drobo Store into Europe. Business and consumer customers from more than a dozen European countries can now visit www.drobostore.com/eu to purchase the company’s DroboPro, Drobo and DroboShare storage solutions. roboPro and Drobo, respectively eight- and four-drive storage arrays, provide small and medium businesses, creative professionals, and consumers with a hugely simplified storage experience, enhanced by advanced self-monitoring and self-healing features that ensure the highest levels of data protection. DroboShare turns the four-drive Drobo into a network attached storage appliance. All orders taken through the new online store will be fulfilled by Digital River, a leading European online reseller.

Website: Drobo Europe Onliine Store

Flickr has announced it is partnering with Snapfish by HP to “provide Flickr members worldwide with a wider range of photo printing and gift creation options”. Snapfish will now enable Flickr members to quickly transfer, organise, and print photos, as well as create unique photo gifts using their existing Flickr photostream. Not only can members print photos from anywhere in the world, but they can also ship photos to anywhere in the world. Additionally, members in the U.S. have the option to pick up their prints locally at any of Snapfish’s retail partners’ stores, including Walmart, Walgreens, Staples, Duane Reade, and others.

Website: The Flickr Blog

LeicaShots.com is a recently launched website that features a new Leica photographer every day. Every photographer showcases only one example of their work. “Each photographer tells a little bit about the photo he/she submits, as well as telling us why they use a Leica,” says LeicaShots founder Martin ‘Marty’ Buchman. “Our featured photographers have given many interesting reasons as to why they’re Leica shooters.”

Website: LeicaShots

Artphotographyforsale.com is a newly launched online gallery that features a selection of limited run, masterfully produced photography suitable for framing and display in the home, office or public space. The website offers the discerning collector prints offered on Hahnemühle 330 gram fine art paper; both paper and ink meet industry standard archival quality. 24” wide prints are €250, 36” wide ones are €300, whereas 36” tall prints are €350 each. Prices include handling, shipping and insurance.

Website: Art Photography for Sale

Digital River has signed a new e-commerce agreement with Pentax Europe, concerning the launch of an online store and the provision of.a range of e-commerce services to support online consumer sales of Pentax cameras in the UK, Germany, France Switzerland and Hungary.  The Pentax Europe store is expected to launch before the end of this year.

liveBooks, providers of websites that allow creative professionals to promote and manage their businesses online, have announced that they had secured $5 million in funding from strategic and private investors, allowing the company to expand into new markets. This funding has also helped liveBooks to lower the cost of entry into the liveBooks suite, introduce a subscription-based service to “eliminate the need for front-loaded monetary commitments” and launch pre-designed site offerings. The company is now offering an array of pre-designed themes and layout options with subscriptions priced at $39 a month. To reflect the expansion of its business model and offerings, liveBooks have also re-launched their website.

Website: liveBooks

Photo enthusiast Jarle Aasland has set up a website in an attempt to fund a Leica M9 for himself - and possibly another photographer too. “Like many photographers, I’d love to get a Leica M9, but it’s an expensive tool. First I’d have to sell a kidney, and then I would have a hard time convincing my wife that I really need a Leica,” he says. Seeing that it would be a difficult path to trod, he created a website and online store called Leicadream instead. Through this website, he is selling a huge variety of rangefinder-themed T-shirts, baseball caps, bags and other merchandise; and of course accepts donations as well. But he has gone one step further: “If I’m able to fund a Leica M9 for myself (which remains to be seen), I could do the same for someone else,” he says. So if you feel like helping him realise his Leica dream, and/or would like to get a chance to win an M9 for yourself, pay a visit to the website below.

Website: LeicaDream

Online photo service Snapfish by HP today announced it is partnering with Walmart and Duane Reade, the “uniquely New York” drug store chain. The partnership makes Snapfish the largest print-to-store web destination in the USA. Customers can now pick up “lab-quality” photo prints or photo cards ordered on Snapfish.com in one hour from any of the 3,350 participating Walmart stores - and beginning 14 November,Snapfish customers also will be able to pick up prints from any of the 200 Duane Reade locations in the greater New York City area.

Scrapblog has announced QuickMix, a service that helps users create quick, easy, personalised scrapbooks in minutes. Users simply select a pre-built “kit”, provide their photos, and QuickMix instantly produces a unique digital scrapbook tailored to the photos themselves. Users can select photos directly from their Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, Smugmug, MySpace and Webshots accounts through one-click integration to these sites, or upload photos directly from their computer. QuickMix users have full access to all the capabilities of the complete Scrapblog application as well. Through Scrapblog, users can tweak their scrapbook using the application’s online design tools, or add new elements including stickers, backgrounds, music, video, and more. When trying QuickMix for the first time, users will earn 150 free credits to use in the Scrapblog Marketplace where they can choose from recommended premium sticker packs and background packs specifically designed to match their QuickMix scrapbook kit.

Website: Scrapblog

Tradeclips, billed as “the world’s first full-service video, audio, text and picture media sharing site for the communications industries”, has been launched. Tradeclips features include fast, secure upload of all digital media files, including video, audio, text and photo; an established database of every major UK news outlet; monthly hosting payment with no upload or download charges, distribution of multiple media files via Tradeclips’ “Packages” service and syndication of material to existing and new contacts at the click of a button. The service will officially be launched at an exclusive party at the newly re-furbished London Aquarium on 19th November 2009.

Epson has added seven new video interviews to its Focal Points website dedicated to the Epson’s Stylus Pro 900 series professional printers. The list of the newly interviewed experts includes Bambi Cantrell, John Paul Caponigro, Douglas Dubler, Greg Gorman, Jay Maisel, Steve McCurry and Jeff Schewe. The videos provide an insight into how and why these professional photographers use these printers and the UltraChrome HDR ink set.

Website: Epson Focal Points

Shutterfly has announced the addition of Digital Download to its Pro Gallery service, a store front for professional photographers to sell their photos. With the new Digital Download feature, professional photographers can now sell high resolution copies of their images to customers directly from their Pro Gallery account. Shutterfly’s Pro Gallery service offers professionals premium service with web presence, top-quality professional photo printing services, full-service order processing and fulfillment and world class customer service.  Pro Gallery photographers also receive online sales reports, photo storage, and image rights protection.

The UK band Editors have decided to promote their new album in a unique way - they have augmented Google Street View’s London content with their own custom panoramic photos!  Within each location the user can hear music from the album, which was inspired by the mood and magic of London at night. Each of the nine tracks on the album has its own location which are unavailable on the regular Street View. Editors modified version of Google Maps allows users to enter into these locations and make the transition from light to dark so fans can explore the band’s atmospheric vision of London at night. The shots for this projects were taken by photographer James Royall in multiple parts using a 180-degree fish-eye lens, and stitched together using PTGui. .

Website: Editors Custom Street Views

A new company called Livedrive has an online storage and backup product with advanced photo functionality. The Livedrive product offers unlimited storage, and automatically backs up files. Additionally, Livedrive includes JPEG file editing, raw file thumbnail support, FTP access, quick and easy file sharing and more - all within the web browser, making it easy to access, edit, and share from any device. Livedrive boasts Facebook, Flickr, and SmugMug integration, so users can just drag and drop photos from Livedrive easily. Livedrive is also accessible from mobile devices, with special support for iPhone and Blackberry users.

Website: Livedrive

Following on from the success of the CX1 website, Ricoh have now announced the launch of a site dedicated to the promotion of the GRD Digital III digital compact camera. According to Ricoh, the GR Digital website has been developed as a one stop shop for all enquiries and will be in the form of a Flipbook. You can click and drag on the page corners to virtually flip the pages. The GRD III website features full sales information including technical specifications, review feedback from press, and stockist detail for the authorised Ricoh partners. In addition there is a competition for the lucky entrant to win a new GR Digital III worth £529.99. The competition closes on November 30th 2009 and all those in United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland are eligible to enter.

Website: Ricoh GRD III Promotional Website

PicScout today announced a strategic shift from a single source product company to a services company based upon the PicScout Image IRC. Image IRC serves as a fingerprinting index, metadata registry and API connection platform for agencies and image license holders. This means that soon we can look for online images marked with the small “i”, the internationally used icon for information. Pointing to it will reveal much about the image - who owns it, where you can buy it, even more information about the image, and a click-through to use the image legitimately. This is allegedly the first time web-viewed images are getting the attribution of their rightful owners or licensors and enabled with an easy connection to buy and use legitimately.

Legendary British photographer Rankin has joined forces with blindness charity Sightsavers to highlight the fact that women are twice as likely as men to be blind. His striking photographs, produced in collaboration with six world-renowned makeup artists, are showcased on a recently launched Sightsavers microsite. “I can’t imagine what it must be like to be blind and I can’t even begin to comprehend the distress it causes. What is most upsetting is that so much is treatable, and people suffer unnecessarily. With so many women affected by blindness, the work of Sightsavers is of vital importance. They are reaching people who often have no access to help, and taking the inequality out of treatment,” Rankin says. To see his photos and to learn more, visit the website below.

Website: Sightsavers Microsite