Photo Sharing Sites

I'm new to photosharing over the internet. I've gotten tired of sending
large attachments to friends and relatives, and would like to place the
photos somewhere and then let them go look for themselves, and if they
want to, download digital copies (the same resolutions that I have, not
reduced). In other words, it would be a way to transfer digital photos
from me to them. Neither I nor they care about ordering prints or photo
editing tools. If we have the original digital files, we can do that.

I've been looking at places like Flickr, Yahoo Photos, Koday Easy Share,
Snapfish, Photobucket, Picasa, and Shutterfly. Kodak (Ofoto?) seems to
display the largest size pictures on their site, which is nice for
viewing, but I don't think even they work in such a way that I can use
their site to place original for others to download.

None of the sites give enough information, some more than others, and the
only way to see how they operate is to join. I also wonder how these
programs affect my pc. I think Kodak (or Picasa?) drops little thumbnail
or index files in every one of the photo folders it finds on my hard
drive, if I decide to let it search my hard drive.

Should I be looking at something like pBase? I don't mind paying
something reasonable.

TIA

 

Flickr is free with some limitations. If you like it you can pay $24.95
/ year and have the limitations removed. The main limitations are only
being able to easily access the last 200 photos you uploaded, seeing
them at a resolution no higher than 1024, being limited to three albums
(Flickr calls them sets), being limited to an upload bandwidth of 20mb
(no limit on download bandwidth) and seeing ads. If you pay the fee, you
can see all the photos up to the resolution you uploaded them, have as
many albums as you want, limited to 2GB of upload bandwidth and you
don't see any ads.

 

www.pbase.com

You can upload the full res original to your heart's content...at a
reasonable price...and it will automatically create large/medium/small
versions of it so that on-line viewing is easier.

 

Sounds reasonable, and like it might fit the bill.
Thank you

 

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Get thee hence to fototime. http://www.fototime.com

/M

 

Dropload is free, and applies to all files, not just photos. You upload the
file(s) and they inform your friends, who can then download them within a
set time period, after which they will be deleted.

 

I signed your guestbook. Thank you very much for letting me see what the
interface looked like.

 

Wow. Thanks for all the good references. I'll be checking them all out
over the next few days. If anyone has any other comments on the sites
given so far, please add them. Or, if anyone has any other sites to
recommend, please do so.

Thanks again!

 

The option for images to be recompressed in Fotopic can be switched off,
I've been using Fotopic for 3 years now and have got about 1000 images
stored in various galleries on there. It's fully customisable and completely
free up to the 250MB limit, plus more space can be purchased for a nominal
amount is desired.

My main gallery is http://blackpooltrams.fotopic.net

 

I designed ourdoings.com for sharing with friends and relatives, by
people who don't have a lot of time for organizing, at full resolution
if you wish. There's an email update feature that sends HTML-formatted
mail with thumbnails, attachment-free.

Sites that accept uploads of zip files (at least pbase and
ourdoings.com, likely others) do not require you to install software on
your computers. I do have some non-invasive batch files and a Unix
script that can be used to shrink and pack photos for upload.

Good thinking. He who holds the purse pulls the strings. If
advertising is the business model, the site will cater to advertisers
over users.

My site is guilty of you have to join to see how they operate, but you
don't have to provide any credit card, etc. for the first 7 days. I am
designing a demo. Here's the rough draft:


ourdoings.com is for you if

o Your digital photos tell a story.
o You can find them on your computer.
o You want to share them.
o You are considerate of people you share with.
o You want to spend little time organizing.

[Show Me]

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Assume you chose photos to share, packed them in a zip file, and
uploaded that file to ourdoings.com.

You don't have to make such a zip file now. We have stock photos for
demonstration.

If, by chance you do already have photos in a zip file, upload it using
the form below. You can also upload a single JPEG file, or just leave
the form below blank.

______________ Browse Leave blank unless you have photos of your own to
use for the demo.

Start Demo

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_UPLOAD PHOTOS_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

When you upload a photo file, you immediately see thumbnails of all
the files you uploaded. They are not published immediately. This can
be helpful if you upload the wrong photos.

If they were the right photos, you would next go to the draft photos
page. All not-yet-published photos that have been uploaded this time
or previously are there. Look at the links at the top of this page
and figure out how to get to the draft photos page.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

This is the draft photos page. Normally you click on a date on this
page, make a news entry for that date illustrated by its photos, and
continue until you've published all your photos. Digital photos have
an invisible time stamp that ourdoings.com takes advantage of. In
this way your photos organize themselves.

Click on the first date below to start publishing your photos.


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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

Most of the time you'll click on the "new entry" link below. Later
other options will be demonstrated. For now, find the "new entry"
link below and follow it.

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_NEW ENTRY_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

Here you type some text describing what happened the day of these
photos. Notice how much easier this is than captioning every photo.
To speed up the demo, some text is supplied below. Feel free to
replace it with your own text, so long as you leave the date.

Click the "Publish" button below.

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_NEW ENTRY_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

You've published illustrated news! Now find the draft photos link
above and publish the next set of photos.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

This is the draft photos page. Normally you click on a date on this
page, make a news entry for that date illustrated by its photos, and
continue until you've published all your photos. Digital photos have
an invisible time stamp that ourdoings.com takes advantage of. In
this way your photos organize themselves.

Click on the first date below to publish more photos.


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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

This time, like most of the time, the next step is to follow the "new
entry" link below.

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_NEW ENTRY_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

Nothing new here. Just click the "Publish" button below.

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_NEW ENTRY_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

You've published more news and gotten a feel for how timestamps help
digital photos organize themselves.

If you've seen enough of the demo, try the "Upload Photos" with your
own photos.

If you're wondering what happens when photos from different days
should be part of the same news entry, find the draft photos link
above.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

The next date has only one photo. It's connected to what happened the
next day and shouldn't really be published separately.

Click on the next date anyway and you'll learn something new.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

This time you don't want to create a new entry. You want to connect
it to an entry you've already published. Follow the link above for
published entries.


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_New Entry_ _PUBLISHED ENTRIES_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

Find the news entry that should have the photo you just marked. Click
on the date next to it to make changes.


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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

The only change you need to make is to add the new illustration, and
the box to the right is already marked. Find the "Save Changes"
button and click it.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

Having saved the change, you get to see what the entry looks like
below, and if you wanted to make other changes you could click on the
date again. For now, just go back to the draft photos page.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

If you want to see how to split one day's news entry into two for the
same day, click the next date below.

If you've seen enough and want to upload photos of your own, find the
appropriate link above.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

First make one big entry with all the photos for that date. Use the
"new entry" link as usual.
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_NEW ENTRY_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

Click the "Publish" button below.

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_NEW ENTRY_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

Click on the date next to the big news entry to make changes to it.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

Scroll down to the last three photos. Next to each, mark the "Cut
this photo" box. Then click "Save Changes".

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/Photos_ _Personal Info_

The photos have gone back to the draft photos page. Go there.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

As you see, the photos you cut from that news entry are now available
to make another for the same day. Click on the date below to see what
happens.

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_New Entry_ _Published Entries_ _Site Info_
_Upload Photos_ _Draft Entries/PHOTOS_ _Personal Info_

The news entry for this date is shown below in case you want to add
these new photos to it. But this time you don't. Use the "new entry"
link to create a second entry for the same date.