I use my iPhone and digi camera interchangeably so have photos everywhere (PC, iPhone, memory sticks etc).
I've used Picasa with some success to bring all those together on a PC, but I need to make some available to other people (for some marketing & web stuff) but also for some of our clients.
I've always used the 'old style' approach of emailing them but my new camera default quality is high (12meg ) so email is now a problem.
Please, please can some explain some simple options for uploading and storing photos in albums (ideally online) and can be made (selectively) available to 3rd parties, to twitter, LJN etc ?
Ideally a no/low cost solution, but happy to invest in suitable software.
My brain is hurting...;-)
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Hi Gary
Have you considered Dropbox?
Individual folders can be shared...We use it to share plans of gardens, quotes as well as pictures.
First 5Gb is freee I think.
Nick
Hi,
Personally I use eather dropbox or google drive (both free to some extend).
Geneviève
Have you tried, Apple I cloud.
Alright you need an iphone, but mine synces automatically all on my ipad, and PC when I get in at night.
I also share a folder with a few people (All done from my phone) and these are automatically syned to those people.
Now go on tell me you hate Apple, and work on Android. !
You can use the web albums feature of picasa. It uploads your pics from picasa to your google+ account (if you have one) to store them. Then you have an url to link to them. Or store them in the attachments part of your website if there is enough room and you can edit the site yourself. This is good for putting pics on the web as it links back to your website.
I would agree with drop box. Its free and easy to use. the free option only allows you store a certain volume of photos on there, but everytime you invite a friedn to join drop box you are given an additional 500mb of storage. Its good as well because when you plug your phone or pad into your computer it automatically dowmloads any new images from them.
If the photo's are already in Picasa then it makes sense to just upload them to Picasa web albums
For emailing large pics try Shrink pic its a download that will automatic shrink the file/pic size when you send via email
Stuart, that option intrigues me.
Quickly researching Picasa I can now see you can share albums somehow if you and recipients have goggle accounts. Maybe the solution?
Sometimes hard to see the wood for the trees.
Another 'hat' one has to wear..IT/Web geek !
Stuart @ Eco Garden Maintenance said:
Totally get your frustration.
Personally I use a combination of Flickr (although PRO with a price tag alas and have had gr8 difficulties when sharing links etc); Picasa (Free and so far NO probs) and Dropbox (Free although I ran out of space there recently and like you ended up having to put some on a memory stick - blast!!)
TBH I think the best situation is picasa mind you my phone is an android so it lends itself to picasa. Using an iphone may not be as dependable and maybe flickr would be a better choice
Use picasa and icloud. Have picasa point at icloud photo stream. It's means picasa will pick up the new photos from photo stream yet when you delete the photo from photo stream the photo still remains in picasa. Plus you do not then have to worry about the 30 day expiry with photo stream.
Ensure you have the icloud control panel on your computer, then have picasa point to icloud.
I believe you can tell picasa as to which file size and file type you can upload so picasa would automatically resize whilst it uploads a file.
Also you can create shared or public access files with icloud.
If you have that many pictures I would suggest a backup solution, the likes of a small synology server or drobo drive.
As the weather in the UK has you all snowed in, you could install hackingtosh on your PC which would allow you to use the apple operating system.
Just a thought! ;-)