We all have online products and services we grow to like, and for me one of these services, as I have written in the past (here and here), is Zenfolio. I like that they are constantly improving and upgrading their services,  and they have recently made additional changes to their services that I thought are worth mentioning here and why I like them.

1. They recently launched a photo lab in UK, which gives you options to sell your prints globally and accept payments in 18 different currencies and via Paypal. This is actually useful as internet is a global market place, and I have sold prints and licenses in foreign jurisdiction before (although I do wish they had an option to accept payments in rubles for my Russian friends and family).
2. They also recently launched a feature that lets you embed slideshows (as I am demonstrating above) of sets you have on Zenfolio directly into your web-site, or a blog. While this is not a particularly unique one-of-a-kind feature you can’t find elsewhere (Flickr, for example, let’s you do that), it’s how you can use it that matters. For example, Flickr is famous for their Terms of Service, which do not allow you to use Flickr “for commercial purposes.” They explain further that “if we find you selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your account.” Much has been written on Flickr forums about how Flickr staff on some occasions deleted accounts without a warning, and it is not an area that I want to mess with, when I am interested in promoting myself or any of my photography products. Zenfolio does not have these limitation and presents itself as a resource for photographers to promote their work, and sell their own products. If for example, you would like to promote a recent project you’ve completed (I’m about to use that feature when we launch the new DMU Magazine I been working on), you can easily create a slideshow and embed it on your web-site. In fact, you can take it a step further, and create a whole embeddable portfolio based on these slideshows, as explained on Zenfolio blog here.