In previous installments, we showed you how to correct and enhance your digital photos, so by now they're looking as spiffy as possible, which means they're ready to share! If you want to get your photos out to your colleagues and loved ones ASAP, there is a plethora of good ways at your fingertips to do so via the Internet. Most photo-editing software applications and mobile apps offer built-in tools for sharing pictures via email, photo sharing sites, and social networks.

If you can't wait to get to your PC, some cameras (and memory cards such as Eye-Fi) and all smart phones now let you do so right from the same device that snapped the photo. Starting with the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3 SEE IT, some digital cameras now come with Wi-Fi built in. This lets you upload photos and to Web sites from the camera—assuming you're near a wireless hotspot. The latest significant entry in this group is the Canon EOS 6D, the first full-frame DSLR with built-in Wi-Fi. In between those options you have the Sony Alpha NEX-5R, NEX-6, and Samsung's NX line, which also come with Wi-Fi capability on board.

Camera phones make direct Internet sharing easiest of all. If you have an iPhone See it at Amazon UK, it couldn't be simpler, since the camera roll lets you send photos to SMS, email, Facebook, or Twitter with the tap of a button. Apps such as Instagram let any smart phone share to its own mobile photo social network and even let you gussy up your photos before sending to that. But the disadvantage of direct camera to sharing is that you can't make all the wonderful adjustments and embellishments we've covered in previous articles in the series.

Even if your camera doesn't have built-in Wi-Fi, you can use memory that does: The remarkable Eye-Fi SD memory cards can wirelessly transfer photos from your camera to your home computer, phone, or tablet, add GPS data to images, and supports both standard JPG and Raw image formats. The card can send photos directly to popular photo-sharing sites or transfer them to your smart phone, from which you can email or share them in other ways, including SMS.

Share in Email
Attaching photos to emails and sending them to your contacts has been the go-to way of sharing photos for many. For a while, e-mail was indeed the largest photo-sharing service on the planet. But people are starting to wake up to better options that don't clog your recipients' inbox with hundreds of megabytes. If you still want to use email, Outlook.com lets you share photos via email without attachments. Instead, the photos are uploaded to Microsoft SkyDrive, and your recipient can view them without having a large attachment in her inbox. If you use another email service, you can use YouSendIt to accomplish the same thing. Your recipient gets a download link instead of a large attachment, but won't get an online gallery like SkyDrive's.

Yahoo Mail has a sidebar option that uses Flickr (see below) for a similar function, and AOL Mail has a nice photo email previewer. Unfortunately, Gmail's new email composer has a Photos option, but only lets you attach one photo at a time, and the old message composer only allows traditional large attachments. In its defense, you can now attach up to 10GB and multiple files with Google Drive, which will display the photos online and offers commenting and downloading.