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Best Of PCMech: June 2008 » PCMech — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:02:48 +0000

[...] Online Photo Management: What Features Are Important To You? [...]

By: draceena

draceena — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:31:59 +0000

I use both Photobucket and Flickr. I find them both easy to upload to and are great at allowing me to organize my photos into albums or groups.

Another service I use is Imageshack, but I use them primarly as a quick photo upload and share site since they can host pictures without any logins needed.

By: Michael Blight

Michael Blight — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:35:26 +0000

I tried most of the above and didn’t like them for various reasons (eg. I wanted people to be able to get the full res image, but didn’t want to pay; I have many GB of photos, but didn’t want to pay; etc, etc, but didn’t want to pay). So I installed a free web server, opened up the relevant ports, got a free domain from dyndns.org and used their software to update it with the PCs dynamic IP address, and wrote an AJAX application to show the photos and allow tagging. Any editing I do locally on the PC. I don’t have to upload anything anywhere. I like mine better.

Then I got really carried away and installed FTP servers at home and at my sister’s so we now have automated offsite backups of our photos.

By: Robert Plumer

Robert Plumer — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:32:46 +0000

For photo management I’ve used Picasa and Flickr. I like Picasa’s ease of use and quick learning curve. I use Flickr mainly to show off my photo’s. It’s easy to use and uploading is a cinch.Flickr has added some online editing stuff which I haven’t dived into just yet. Usually when editing or touching up photo’s I do it off line with Picasa before uploading them. I highly recommended them both to other’s too most of whom thank me afterward.