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It took a while but Digg finally has an images category available for contributions and sharing with other Diggers. Digg became more photogenic as the social media site finally tucked an image-dedicated section into the site. Kevin Rose tipped Intel as the sponsor for the Images section in his Digg the Blog post.

Submitting an image works as it does for stories and videos, but with a couple of differences. First, when suggesting a picture from a page full of images, Digg's crawler looks at the page and presents up to ten images from it.

The submitter then selects the image from those thumbnails and continues the process. To help limit duplicate image submissions, Digg will integrate technology from Idée Inc to assist.

Image sharing and storage site Photobucket added Digg buttons to its site to match the Digg Images launch. They also have a dedicated page featuring the most popular images as voted on Digg.

On an administrative note, Rose also detailed some changes to the categories Digg users see and visit:

Now you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg! Categories will be consistent across the board, which means you can view all media types in a given topic, or view one media type at a time (e.g., only images under the "sports" category).

We’re also excited to support the launch with new categories. "Offbeat" will be its own category, with new topics, and we’re adding a whole new "Lifestyle" category with topics like Autos, Food & Drink, and Travel.

As always, if you don’t want to see a particular topic or media type on Digg, you can click the customize button in the navigation to filter your view.

Digg's various changes are live on the site today.

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