Raizlabs, Boston MA - Did you know that the ink used in personal photo printers costs as much as $8000 per gallon? Many of today’s modern desktop inkjet printers sell cartridges that cost $30 or more and only provide 15ml of ink. The new version of PicMe Photo Sharing introduces one-step photo ordering, making it easy to order high quality prints at home for a low price right.

The new functionality bridges the gap between the ease of desktop printing and the complexity of online ordering. The new software will allow you to order prints from any photo in your own collection or any photo that has been shared to you. In addition the software also allows you to order photos from any plug-in that’s enabled through PicMe Photo Sharing including Flickr, Picasa and Facebook.

PicMe Photo Sharing provides a unique one step checkout process allowing you to quickly place orders at an affordable price and ship your photos around the world.

“A lot of people don’t realize that printing 4×6 prints at home can cost upwards of $.60 each. PicMe Photo Sharing prints cost just $0.19 each and shipping will be under $2 for most orders.” said Raizlabs founder Gregory Raiz.

Traditionally if you wanted to share a large collection of photos such as wedding photos you would have to get them all printed. With PicMe Photo Sharing you can share hundreds of photos with friends and family and they can choose what photos they want to print. The process is simple and produces great looking prints.

Once photos are ordered they are uploaded securely for fast printing. Orders usually arrive in about a week. Raizlabs, the makers of PicMe Photo Sharing, chose EZ-Prints as their photography lab partner. EZ-Prints has been a leader in online photo printing, and has partnered with many other online photo services. PicMe Photo Sharing can now bring the quality of their printing solution to photos ordered right from your desktop.

PicMe Photo Sharing uses a unique one page checkout making it quick to get the prints you want with no hassle. The initial release supports 4×6, 5×7, 8×10, 9×12, Wallet prints as well as premium luster paper. The PicMe Photo Sharing software is free to use and allows people to easily share large collections with friends and family. Premium versions of the software are also available for as low as $9.95/year.

PicMe Photo Sharing is a product of Raizlabs Corporation and has been designed from the outset to be a simple and friendly photo product for non-technical individuals. The software is available from http://picme.raizlabs.com

PicMe Photo Sharing today released a minor update to it’s photo sharing product line to enable support for Google’s Picasa Web Albums. Picasa is the third online provider now supported by PicMe Photo Sharing adding to the previous support for Flickr by Yahoo and Facebook. The new update is made available for free and will auto-upgrade any existing users of the software.

The new online service provider makes it easy to move photos between all three online service providers. Photo collections can be moved easily uploaded and downloaded between Flickr, Facebook, Google Picasa and the built in PicMe Photo Sharing service. The new service makes it very easy to upload entire photo collections and works seamlessly with the rest of the PicMe Photo Sharing product.

Companies looking to create additional plug-ins for PicMe Photo Sharing can contact Raizlabs for additional information.

Las Vegas PMA 2008 - Raizlabs has released PicMe Photo Sharing 2, a free photo application that makes it easy to share photos directly with friends, upload images to websites and organize a lifetime of memories.

The new version of PicMe Photo Sharing is the fastest way to view and share photos with friends. It uses a patent pending 3D view that can display hundreds of thousands of photos in physical stacks. This allows users to browse collections of images very quickly by flipping through photos. Unlike most programs that use grids or folders to display collections PicMe displays each collection as a stack of photos. This unique technology allows for quick navigation through large collections of photos.

PicMe Photo Sharing includes tools to allow for basic adjustments to photos such as rotating and adding captions. “We want to put the focus back on the picture. Instead of the software behaving like a digital darkroom, we put the emphasis on viewing and sharing images.” said Gregory Raiz, founder of Raizlabs. Unlike other photo management programs, PicMe Photo Sharing emphasizes the ease of digital photo sharing. The tool makes it easy to invite friends, create groups and share stacks of images with people right from your desktop.

PicMe Photo Sharing is a desktop application so it can do many things that websites can’t. Currently a lot of people use email to share photos and there are a number of problems that make this cumbersome. When using email to share, people must compose a message, address it to your friend, search their computer for photos and attach one image at a time. When the message is received it can clog up the recipient’s Inbox and it can also be difficult to view the photos. PicMe automates this entire process. Simply drag and drop a stack of photos on an icon of a friend. The software will then automatically upload the images for easy viewing and send an email notifying your friend of new pictures. This makes it easy to share entire collections of images, not just one or two.

The new version of PicMe Photo Sharing also works with electronic devices and media such as digital cameras, digital picture frames, USB thumb drives and photo CD’s allowing you to import photos from your device or media directly to your computer. When importing photos from cameras or media, PicMe Photo Sharing will help organize the photos into stacks. The software will recognize pictures that were taken on different days, and stack them accordingly. Holiday photos won’t get mixed up with birthday photos. In addition to helping users import photos from their cameras, PicMe Photo Sharing also allows users to update their photo frames with new photos shared to them from other users or online services.

PicMe Photo Sharing not only allows you to share with friends, groups and digital photo frames but it also allows you to share with online services. The new version has additional plug-in support and allows users to view friends and contacts in services such as Flickr and Facebook. This means that you can view stacks of photos and collections of images from existing online libraries. Each plug-in allows you to see the friends and contacts associated with that service and easily browse and view collections of photos that you care about. There is no other application that can go from Camera, to computer and then to online services and friends as easily as PicMe Photo Sharing.

PicMe Photo Sharing works with Microsoft Windows © computers and is available for free at http://picme.raizlabs.com. An email registration is required. Users can also upgrade to a basic paid account for $9.95/year allowing them to share 5000 original quality images. A higher end account is also available for $24.95/year, and this allows sharing of 15,000 images. For Apple and Linux users a basic web application is available for viewing shared photos. The software is available today from: http://picme.raizlabs.com.

Raizlabs, the makers of PicMe Photo Sharing released the new version of their software at PMA2008, a worldwide conference of photo products in Las Vegas. Raizlabs will be demonstrating the product this week on the convention floor in booth U246. Press Images are available here: http://picme.raizlabs.com/press.html

Later this month Raizlabs will be in Las Vegas to release the next version of our revolutionary PicMe photo sharing product. PicMe Photo Sharing will get a major upgrade resulting in a number of new features. PMA2008 is the worlds largest photography conference and expo.

Our new software will continue to make it easier for people to share, view and discover 1000’s of images right from their desktop. The new version adds the ability to work with hardware devices including digital cameras and photo frames as well as improving the core functionality of sharing and viewing photos on your own computer. PicMe is the easiest and fastest way to share photos right from your desktop.

Significant improvements have been made to the plug-in system creating a one-of-a-kind photo experience working with services like Flickr and Facebook.

Come see us at PMA in Las Vegas. We’ll be in booth U246

We’re happy to announce that we have a web version of PicMe released. The web version of PicMe allow you to see the photos that have been shared quickly and easily from a web-browser. You can now share photos with users on a Mac PC or whatever. The web version allows you to see all your contacts and share photos that you have received.

The web version of PicMe makes use of the 3D stacks interface allow ou to easily see large collections of photos and quickly scroll through those collections.

The web version like the desktop version is free to use for the first 200 photos and is just $9.95/year for 5000 images. The software is free to try online. Signup for PicMe then head over to our 3D web gallery.

The web version is built in Adobe Flex giving us a dynamic and interactive user experience. Images are all displayed at high quality resolution of 1024×768 giving you a high quality viewing experience every time.

We released a new version of PicMe this week. We’ve dubbed it ‘the butter build.’ Why? Because performance on large collections is as smooth as butter. We’re now scrolling and viewing stacks of more than 25,000 photos with no noticeable delay. To upgrade just launch PicMe, when it asks you if you want to upgrade just say yes.

We’ve released a new version this week that includes a Facebook plug-in. You can find it on the plug-in menu. Once you login you can easily publish your photos to Facebook. Just drag your photos to the Facebook icon along the left. If you click the icon you can view all your photo albums as stacks. Let us know what you think.

You like photos right? You probably spent over a hundred bucks on your camera. It’s got bells and whistles and megapixels to spare.

Then you use email to share photos. You’re my friend so I’m asking you to stop and try something better.

Email just isn’t designed for photos. Your pictures are large files and email is designed for text. When you send your photos in email you either have to:

• Compress your photos. - I get poor quality photos

• Send large attachments - This clogs up my inbox

Email can be ok for sending one or two photos but now the pictures are stuck in email, you can’t view it, share it, print it. It’s hard to enjoy your photos.

There is a better way, it’s called PicMe Photo Sharing. It’s easy and fun to use. It allows you to easily share photos with friends in high quality. Best of all you’re not limited to a few photos, you can easily share hundreds or even thousands of images.

Sign up now, it’s free. So enjoy

We’re really excited to have our first public version of PicMe available for limited download. Here’s what you can expect:

• View your entire collection of photos using our 3D stacks technology.
• Share hundreds or even thousands of photos with friends and family.
• Add contacts and groups so you can easily share with your entire family or just a particular friend.
• View your Flickr collections (add the Flickr plug-in)

Enjoy!