I am in the midst of writing an article that is going to compare online photo services plus a few freebie photo clients.
It occurred to me that in order to make for a better article, it would be good to ask the audience: Why do you use what you use and what features are important to you?
Your online options
With online photo management you’ve got several choices (and if I missed any please feel free to mention one or more in the comments):
- Picasa
- Flickr (which connects with Yahoo! 360)
- Zooomr
- Windows Live Spaces
- Photobucket
- MySpace
- .Mac/MobileMe
Your client options
I personally find it absolutely necessary to have a locally installed program to manage my photos so I can tag, categorize and upload to the web easily.
For the ones of note, this is what I could immediately find:
Once again, if you know of any that are readily available for download, please feel free to post a comment or two.
Of the ones listed above, the only one I haven’t tried is F-Spot (although it looks really good).
It also just happens to be that F-Spot is the only one that can connect with the most online services (Flickr, Picasa and so on). And yes, this means Linux scores a win once again for its ability to connect with the most stuff.
Windows Live Photo Gallery will connect to Windows Live Spaces and Flickr.
iPhoto only connects to the .Mac service to the best of my knowledge.
Picasa only connects to Google’s Picasa service to the best of my knowledge.
What do you use? Why do you use it?
Is there any particular reason why you would use one online service over another? Do you even use a photo managing program?
At the present time I’m using Windows Live Photo gallery because it appears to be the only Windows client that will connect up with Flickr easily.
But before I fly out that article – your opinion counts. What do you use?

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