anyone help with a good picture sharing website?

[miss missy]

I need to set up an acccount on kodak or photobucket or snapfish or ???? and am looking for advise. I am used to photobucket and kodak. This is for a bunch of parents to share pictures of a trip that our kids went on together. Some kids took very little pictures, some cameras broke, ect. Also we know we are more apt to get pics of our own kids via another childs pics. Kids usually don't get themselves in the pic, ya know. I need help finding the best site to use to accomplish:

-one account for us all to log into and upload to
-need to be able to upload pic in its original size (no downsizing)
-user friendly, since some people aren't too familiar with doing pics online
-how can we order from one account? is there a site that we can do this from or will we have to copy the pic to our own computer and order from our own place?

what problems can you foresee in doing this?

Thanks! I want to make it easy for everyone!

 

[Chikabowa]

If you just want to share online (no printing) I would suggest photo sharing on flickr.

However, it sounds like you want some sort of central ordering system. I would create a master account and e-mail the log in and password to everyone involved. They can all upload their photos at the same time and then order... shipping their particular order to themselves.

I did this with some of my wedding pictures (using shutterfly) years ago and it worked wonderfully. Shutterfly, Winkflash, Snapfish, Kodak... all of these will allow you accomplish those goals. For quality, I personally like mpix.com, but they aren't the cheapest!

 

[miss missy]

If you just want to share online (no printing) I would suggest photo sharing on flickr.

However, it sounds like you want some sort of central ordering system. I would create a master account and e-mail the log in and password to everyone involved. They can all upload their photos at the same time and then order... shipping their particular order to themselves.

I did this with some of my wedding pictures (using shutterfly) years ago and it worked wonderfully. Shutterfly, Winkflash, Snapfish, Kodak... all of these will allow you accomplish those goals. For quality, I personally like mpix.com, but they aren't the cheapest!

Yes, the purpose here is to share for printing, that is why I need a site that will allow large size uploads. There is no other way to share and allow everyone to add theirs, on this one account other than giving them all the login info. I got that part, the only thing I need is a good easy site.

I never heard of mpix, going to go look. I like Kodak a lot!

 

[fhirleighinn]

If you have your own website, you can use something like Gallery http://gallery.menalto.com/

I use it on my website to share pics with others (wife uses Flickr), but It does take some web skills to get it working well. (there are still somethings that I have not been able to do with it), but it does allow for full size uploads.

 

[miss missy]

If you have your own website, you can use something like Gallery http://gallery.menalto.com/

I use it on my website to share pics with others (wife uses Flickr), but It does take some web skills to get it working well. (there are still somethings that I have not been able to do with it), but it does allow for full size uploads.

I dont have a website of my own. I need something easy since a lot of them are not good with computers.

 

[DizzyV6P]

I use adoramapix.com for all my printing. You can easily set-up a free account there and just give the password and login to all the parents to upload and purchase pictures. Great quality there.

 

[handicap18]

flickr is good for making groups so it makes it easy to share with others. This may also include others that you don't know about.

I like smugmug (I've also used flickr and photobucket). I find it easier to set up categories and galleries and you can upload the full res image and its easier to share than flickr IMO.

photobucket is probably the easiest to use but they do resize the images.

flickr is free, but its limited to viewing 200 images at a time and also you get a limited number of groups and images are limited to 5MB. You can pay $25/ year and get unlimited (up to 10MB size images).

Smugmug is a bit more expensive, but it has better security and privacy. Unlimited uploads for images 12MB and under (use this code: eeWMM89aMx1lc and get $5 off). I also think its easier to navigate within an individuals photo gallery than flickr or photobucket.

Snapfish and zenfolio are other places, but I have no experience with them. I believe zenfolio is very similar to smugmug, but use a different company to print the images.

I've had a few people print images from my smugmug site and they've been happy with the results.

 

[MICKEY88]

zenfolio is very similar to smugmug,

the thing that sold me on them is they use mpix as their lab..

 

[miss missy]

thanks guys for the info!!