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A newly added feature is the ability to import images from any standard web page, images can be imported straight into sets and even information such as image titles are retained.

Today I activated the new faster image processing servers, my early tests show that you should see around a 4X speed increase in all image related operations.

Click here for an example of working with a 24.4MP image.

Integration with other web services is a prominent feature of Digital Photo Gallery, editing images with Pixlr has been discussed briefly in a previous post and now the latest stable update has introduced two way syncing support for your Twitter, Facebook, FTP and Flickr accounts. To make use of the new features login to http://admin.digtalphotogallery.com and take a look at the ‘Services’ page. Linking your accounts only takes a few clicks and the import and export of images is equally as straight forward, if you have any questions just ask.

On the subject of services, DPG development will very soon be entering a feature freeze as a build up to the next phase of testing. Before that process begins, I’d really appreciate your feedback on which other web services you’d like to see supported. If you have suggestions you can email them to info@digitalphotogallery.com or ‘Share an idea’ at http://getsatisfaction.com/digitalphotogallery.

Support for geotagging is back in the admin interface. The process is automatic, simply upload your geotagged images, then click the  icon on the image list or review screen options bar to bring up the map view.

You can now edit your images inside the browser, straight from the DPG admin interface.

Making use of both the Pixlr and DPG APIs the process is as simple as click, edit and save.

Click here to watch a movie of DPG/Pixlr integration in action.

After a lot of hard work things are finally settling in to place. The production servers are up and running and things are entering the final stages of development!

All of the URLs you use to access resources are now becoming permanent, including the address of this blog. If you were subscribed to the previous DPG blog please switch across as the old address will be phased out in the coming weeks.

In terms of image admin there are now two addresses you can choose from:

http://admin.digitalphotogallery.com/ – The stable release branch
http://admin.beta.digitalphotogallery.com/ – The test release branch

Most of the time you will be safest to use the stable address, but from time to time you may be asked to try new features using the test branch.