
DVD-quality video archive in addition to the streaming version, "so when the Internet gets faster, we can upgrade the viewer experience." The Flash 8 streaming video is exceptionally high quality.We've done it ourselves, setting up some albums on Windows, others on the Mac. Yes, even if you switch from a PC to a Mac, you'll see all the albums you built on the PC from your new Mac. Install Phanfare Photo on a new computer, log in and see your albums just as they appeared on your old computer.Image editing tools are available to fix skew, red-eye, levels and more. Your edits are made to copies of the originals, which remain available so you can revert to them at any time. Not to mention the movie clip in the second row, which plays in the slide show, too, automatically dropping the volume of the music track so you can hear the movie's audio. Note the portrait orientation of the second image (done automatically by the Mac client). Support for iPhoto import at the roll and album level.Lossless rotation joins a rewrite of the Exif orientation field, height and width, the industry standard for auto-rotate on acquire. Drag a photo into Phanfare Photo and, presto, it turns itself right-side up. Auto rotation of images based on Exif orientation information.Not long after our review, the company added an RSS feature to keep your visitors up to date, video support (AVI, MOV and MPEG), camphone support, auto-captioning from Exif data, larger file size limits (which keep expanding), Phriends and Family link swapping without a password, image straightening, Flash conversion of video, auto extraction of Picasa captions, hidden Exif data, international character support, album search engines, improved Web slide show with Ken Burns effect (pan and zoom), new styles, music for slide shows, videos in slide shows and hidden individual photos.

But the Phanfare target has been moving all this time, too.

In fact, it's one reason Imaging Resource was able to produce over 760 photos (some of them panoramas) and over a dozen videos for our PMA 2006 coverage earlier this year. Which is $6.95 a month, $54.95 a year or $299.95 for a lifetime membership. We think that alone is worth the price of admission. It also distinguishes itself by giving you access to your collection from any computer with the organizer installed. Phanfare ( ) is the subscription-based sharing site that stands out from the crowd with its "zero-click" Web publishing, uploading your captioned images and video to attractively designed Web albums in the background while you work on world peace, global warming and raising your heirs. The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletterįor the last week, we've been playing with a sneak preview of Phanfare's first non-beta release of Phanfare Photo for OS X, the software that organizes your images for display on the Phanfare site.

WITH TIGER & QUICKTIME 7 Phanfare Photo Roars on the Mac By MIKE PASINI
