Which photo hosting site. I have used Flickr but stopped when I had used up my free space. Is there a good totally free site or will we have to pay something. What other sensible options are there for storing photos?
Exceptionally tight on cash, Steve, or is it the principle? Flickr's only £20 or something for the year for the upgrade.
Can't see beyond Flickr myself - exceptional VFM [i]provided[/i] you use it a lot (pretty much every day in my case)
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Not relevant to Steve's thread.
Photobucket?
You get loads more space on photobucket. I think I currently have approx 400 pics uploaded and 10 short vids and used 14% of my free storage. Not sure how the image quality compares to flickr, flickr photos and vid used to take a bit longer to upload (not necessarily an indication) and it seems popular with enthusiasts and pros. The bulk uploader is easy to use on photobucket and you can organise into as many albums and sub albums as you like.
Broke, broke, broke Kit, Happy New Year by the way. Don't really know anything about these things. twenty quid aint much I suppose but if I can get the same thing for free. I'm happy putting my stuff on Facebook but the good lady isn't so keen on using Facebook.
Are photos on the likes of photobucket avaliable for all to see or can you set it so only friends can see them. Principally thinking of pics of the kids.
Yes there are various privacy options, you can definitely make a whole album public or private, stop people from using your images etc. I'm not sure exactly how the private thing works and whether you can allow certein people to view. So, on your specific question I'm not sure, but if there is no specific option, I'm sure there is a way you could do it ie give you immediate family your password to view albums/pics that are set to private.
You could get a Wordpress blog. The (free) basic set-up is 3GB of storage. It also has the potential to be a nicer way to publish them. You can have one page per image with as much or as little text as possible, and some simple scripting/paging could easily allow users to link/navigate your 'site'.
Hadn't thought of a blog.
Picasa? You get 1gb free, then it's $5 per year for another 20gb. You get various access options for privacy etc as well.
Broke, broke, broke Kit, Happy New Year by the way.
And to you! Sorry to hear that you're in poor financial health. The only way is up, as they say - chin up and see you around!
Another vote for Flickr. It doesn't cost all that much for the space and functionality it offers. Privacy options are good as are links from smartphones and from Flickr to Facebook (if you want it).
What I [i]would[/i] like is some way of retaining Flickr tags on my own PC. I've not yet looked to see if there's a tool that does this.
I use Photobucket and it works fine.
Never used anything else so can't really comment on how good it is.
If you have BT Broadband the pro account is included au gratis or if you can get an @btinternet.com email address that should work too
I really don't like flickr's layout and the way photos are presented - all just seems overly fussy.
I use picasa web albums as someone mentioned above. I also use Picasa on my computer to view and sort images for upload - it's really very very good & is so easy to upload images to the website.
I've had Fotopic, which was fine except linking to photos in the forum was a pain and often didn't work.
Picasa, I don't like as it seems to take an age to load the photos and I get bored waiting.
Flickr has been good to me and I was using a Pro account until their customer support demonstrated there incompetence.
Now I use Zenfolio which is fine except for smartphone connection, they do iPhone but not Blackberry like what I have, but it cost 100 dollars per year.
I think there is discount if you use this referral code: 9DQ-FX3-DQC
Why not open several email accounts and have several Flickr accounts? If cost is important I assume that means you have the time to set up and administer several accounts.
I don't mind paying for Flickr if its the best tool for the job, just don't want to spend money if I don't have to. Too much damned choice out there.
I'd go for Flickr then.
Easy to organise.
Batch uploading.
Counters.
Groups to get lost in.
Help forum.
Etc, etc...
I would recommend Zooomr but they are not taking any more registrations 🙁
However, that BT recommendation above works 🙂 I now have a PRO account.... [sort of free] but hey, I did'nt know it existed :-).
=== HOW TO ===
"Flickr won’t tell you that this is the case, nor will BT Broadband. But it is the case. I’ve been taking advantage of this situation for the past few years now. What you need to do is to change your login email on flickr to use the Yahoo / BTinternet email address you got given with your BT Breadboard account (the email address is actually a Yahoo account, even though it says @btinternet.com). Use your existing flickr account, just change the email address from you that it uses, to your btinternet one, and log in using that one from now on. That should then show you as a “pro” user. "
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SGMTB are now on Flickr 🙂
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/
Thanks for that, we use BT for our breadboard so might try that.
steve you can have a look at my photobucket here [url= http://s647.photobucket.com/home/Hoppy66_photos ]Hoppy66 photobucket[/url]
. Basically, I have a default album where everying is uploaded into. Then I move stuff into the albums I created (you can have sub albums aswell). When others view it, photobucket starts by showing them most recently uploaded. I'm no computer geek and have found photobucket easy to use and organise.
The uploader is easy and quick, also bulk uploader is easy to use.
linking pics to STW is easy
I presume you just want it for family and friends and to post the odd pic on here?.
Like I said, all I have on there now is 14% of my capacity.
You can maybe compare the quality of photos and video by looking in my old flickr, some of the photos and videos are in both, so you can see how they both play for picture quality. This is probably a good example, there's not much difference even on full screen:
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoppy66/3918663455/in/photostream/ ]flickr vid[/url]
[url= http://s647.photobucket.com/albums/uu197/Hoppy66_photos/?action=view¤t=P1010749-1.mp4 ]photobucket vid[/url]
Thanks for that. Need to ask my other half to edit her pics a bit more seriously. Would need anything like as much storage if she could learn to use the delete button.
I use photobucket for some stuff, but prefer Flickr for "proper" photographs (although it used to be better before they changed the "view all sizes" thing).
Picasa for me.
Used Photobucket, but our network has changed at work so I can't log on. Can get on Picasa and it's great.
Another vote for picasa. After 2 years I'm not much over half into my free space with 111 albums and a couple of thousand images. Nicer interface than flickr too, all it lacks is the social networking side of things (if you want it) that flickr is good at.
I've never paid for the Pro package on flickr, and stopped being a BT broadband customer about 18months ago and I still have a pro account for some reason.
Even if I did have to pay for it I'd struggle to see past Flickr, I like picassa to manage pics on my macbook but don't like the look & feel of their online albums.