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You can now use our upload@imgur.com email address to upload your images. All you have to do is attach any allowed file type to your email and send it our way. You can attach as many images as your email client will allow, and we also accept zip and rar archives with images inside of them. We will then send you an email back with the links to the images.

If you would like the images to show up in your account you can register your email with us on your account settings page. Otherwise they will be uploaded anonymously. Here are the steps you should take if you want to activate your email:

First go to the account settings page:

There is now a new tab on the settings page called Email Uploads:

Enter your email address and click activate. You will get a message that looks like this:

Now check your email and you should have a message from us with an activation link. Click on this link and you will be brought to this page indicating your email has been activated successfully:

Now you can start emailing us your images and they will show up in your account. You can activate as many emails as you want, for example I have my regular email and my phone’s email address, given by my provider, activated. If you would like to remove one of your emails all you have to do is click the remove link on the Email Uploads page:

We’re proud to announce an all new image editor, and our partnership with Aviary to make it happen.

You’re now able to easily crop and rotate your images in seconds, as well as perform powerful actions such as add text, draw, and even remove red eye and blemishes. We developed the crop and rotate tools ourselves, but the more powerful stuff was left up to Aviary and their remarkable HTML5 photo editor called Feather.

Like Aviary’s other apps, Feather is easy to use and surprisingly powerful. Instead of loading your full-fledged photo suite to do something small, it’s now easy for you to do all the typical actions right here on Imgur. There’s no need to create multiple layers, make magic wand selections, add different type of brush effects, etc. We really love it, and we hope you guys do too.

Try it out by checking “Edit” after selecting your images from the homepage. You can even edit your images after you uploaded them by clicking on the “Edit” button right underneath the image. Also, if you have an account, you can edit any image you’ve ever uploaded by by clicking the edit icon.

The guys over at Aviary have also done a nice write up about the new feature. Read it on their blog here.

Cropping

Rotating

Advanced (Feather)

Imgur started on the social news site Reddit.com as a way for people to share their images with the community. Most imgur users are also redditors, so it’s no surprise that there are some reddit specific features built into imgur. For example, when you’re coming to the site from reddit, there will be a link back to the comments on reddit. That feature has been on the site for a while, but here’s a new one that you’re going to love:

The Subreddit Browser

You can now browse all the imgur links that are submitted to any subreddit. For example: http://imgur.com/r/pics, http://imgur.com/r/earthporn, and http://imgur.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu are my favorites.

Give it a try and let me know what you think! The link is imgur.com/r/AnySubreddit.

Update: Sorry guys! April fools is over! It was fun while it lasted, but now it’s time to start thinking about next year. Sadly, this epic feature has been removed.

Here at Imgur, we’ve learned a thing or two about what makes an image popular. We’ve seen it all: babies, goats, photo bombs, Courage Wolf, etc.

But there’s always a trump card. There’s the one thing cute enough, evil enough and furry enough to make any image shoot straight to the top of our gallery. We’re talking, of course, about cats.

(Felis catus)

In an effort to help our users upload the best possible images to our site, we’re bringing you the option to automatically Catify your images! With our patented Automatic Catification technology, you have the ability to add a cat to any image you upload to Imgur.

Let’s take a look:

Just take a look at this picture here. Boring, right?

With our Automatic Catification ability, this picture is solid gold!

Let’s try it again!

Again, this picture just feels like it’s missing something.

Purr-fect!

Select the “Catify” option the next time you upload an image to Imgur, and watch the feline magic happen!

I’m glad to announce a few new features for you this week: individual account statistics, and gallery profiles. Both pages can be found by hovering over your username.

Gallery Profiles

It’s now possible to go back and see the captions you’ve made as well as the images you’ve liked. Also included on this page is your gallery reputation. Gallery reputation is a gauge of how popular you are within the Imgur community. If people like the captions you’ve made and if you’ve had a few images become very popular, than chances are you’re going to have a pretty high reputation. However, if you haven’t uploaded many images and are not participating in the gallery, then your reputation is going to be much lower. Also, everyone can see this page, so stay on your best behavior!

Account Stats

The account statistics page shows you information about your account. How many images you have, how much disk space you’re using, as well as how much bandwidth you’ve used is all shown at the top. You can also find out what your most popular images, albums, and gallery captions are. This page is also private (only you can see it).