Friday, March 14, 2008
Photo sharing and storing
If any rare readers would like to share, I'd be curious to know what applications you use for photo storing and photo sharing. I've been using Picasa, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums but I'm not entirely happy with any of them. I tried SmugMug but it was code-heavy and required much to much back and forth to do simple things. I tried MyPhotoAlbum but it doesn't include much customization. Phanfare has a nifty interface but it's expensive and limited.
Picasa for storing is easy to use but bases everything on a timeline. I just don't want to organize everything on when a photo was taken. Plus, there's absolutely no way to change the timeline structure.
Flickr for sharing is easy to use and has collections as well as 'sets' which is very nice. Its batch operations are cool, too. But it requires visitors to register, which many don't like, and it's clunky in a way that's hard to verbalize but annoying as heck.
Ofoto or whatever Kodak is called these days, and Snapfish, are easy to use but again require registration and have so many ads and 'great offers!' that they make me nuts. No collections, either.
Picasa Web Albums is very easy to use but only allows one layer - no collections such as Vacations > Alaska, New Zealand. . . . They don't require registration (good) but the pictures must be one (too large) size (bad). And did I mention they don't have collections?
On a different note, fxfoto is an awesome - and free! - photo editing application for those who don't want to go the hundreds of dollar Photoshop route. Check it out! (Thanks, Cnet!)
Any suggestions will be welcome and most appreciated.
Picasa for storing is easy to use but bases everything on a timeline. I just don't want to organize everything on when a photo was taken. Plus, there's absolutely no way to change the timeline structure.
Flickr for sharing is easy to use and has collections as well as 'sets' which is very nice. Its batch operations are cool, too. But it requires visitors to register, which many don't like, and it's clunky in a way that's hard to verbalize but annoying as heck.
Ofoto or whatever Kodak is called these days, and Snapfish, are easy to use but again require registration and have so many ads and 'great offers!' that they make me nuts. No collections, either.
Picasa Web Albums is very easy to use but only allows one layer - no collections such as Vacations > Alaska, New Zealand. . . . They don't require registration (good) but the pictures must be one (too large) size (bad). And did I mention they don't have collections?
On a different note, fxfoto is an awesome - and free! - photo editing application for those who don't want to go the hundreds of dollar Photoshop route. Check it out! (Thanks, Cnet!)
Any suggestions will be welcome and most appreciated.
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| posted by jau at 9:17 AM
Missy — at 12:19 AM, March 21, 2008:
| posted by jau at 9:17 AM
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Missy — at 12:19 AM, March 21, 2008:
I've been using Zooomr because it let me get a Pro account for free. I need to try the others you mentioned.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing!
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