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Use these online services to enhance your digital photographs. By Mark Frauenfelder

Thanks to the rise of inexpensive digital cameras and photo sharing sites like Flickr, photography is more popular than ever. I've come across a number of useful and free web-based services that make it easier to save, share, organize, and edit your digital photographs.

How can I download many Flickr photos at once?

You can batch-download multiple photos from a Flickr set with a free utility.

It’s tedious work downloading a bunch of full-resolution photos from a Flickr account to your computer, requiring a lot of back-and-forth mouse clicking. Windows users have it much easier: they can grab a copy of FlickrDown ( greggman.com/ pages/ flickrdown.htm), a nifty utility that makes

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it easy to download dozens or even hundreds of photos from Flickr in one fell swoop.

After launching FlickrDown, enter the Flickr username you’re interested in. After the thumbnails load, you can check the ones you want, or select “All photos” (if the user has lots of photos this could take a lot of time and consume quite a bit of hard disk space, so be careful). Then select a directory to store the files in, and click Download.

How can I immediately share photos taken with my cellphone?

Use a Blogger or Flickr account to email camera phone images to your blog or online photo gallery.

Now that the resolution of cellphone cameras is approaching that of full-scale digital cameras, some people are using them as their only point-and-shoot

Photography by Mark Frauenfelder