Photo Upload Advice

[lvflamingoz]

Hi All!

I'm sure everyone has a different opinion...I am looking for advice on which website people prefer for uploading their photos to? Currently, all my photos are scattered over different (free) sites: snapfish, kodak, flickr, webshots....to name a few....

We're heading to Disney and I want to put all the photos on one site....and I guess the key things I'm looking for are:

Free
Ability to edit photos
Ability to share w/friends and family
Large amount of storage
Free

Suggestions?????????????????????????????

Ideally, I upload the photos from each day or two of a vacation to a site....and then clear the memory cards for the camera for the next day.

Thanks in advance!!!!!

 

[11290]

Ill make a couple of suggestions but be advised they are not free, reasonable, but not free.

I personally use pbase.com, about $25 per year and is the one I am happiest about. You can make your galleries private, for just the people you want to let see them, or they can be public.

I have also tried the 14 day trial period at zenfolio.com. $25 for 1gb of storage per year and $40 for unlimited storage per year. Very nice changeable layouts, good presentation view and reasonably fast loading of pages. Better system for uploading images than pbase but once you get used to pbase, it is OK.

Just my $.02

 

[MICKEY88]

the 2 most popular sites on this board are

smugmug and zenfolio

great hosting/layouts/easy upload

you can share pics with friends and family or lock folders you want to be private
watermark your pics

key difference between the 2 sites...

smugmug allows ordering prints thru ezprints

zenfolio allows ordering thru ezprints and mpix

if you should decide to try zenfolio you can save 5 dollars by using this code..

XE1-C1X-2JF


I've used mpix for years so I chose zenfolio

 

[Master Mason]

I don't have an answer for you, because of the demand for free.

Having said that, in addition to the sites suggested by the PP, I would recomend you look at Smugmug. For about $35 a year you can have unlimited offsite/online storage, that is backed up regularly, easily organized, some editing tools etc. No ads on your pictures, no need for your visitors to register on the site and subject themselves to spam etc, and no automatic resizing of your pictures.

They also offer a free trial. You can use this code to save yourself a few bucks if you decided to go that way HJwjORAaIC4PY, or they were running a flicker conversion code that was half off, I don't know the code or if it is still running.

Free is wonderful, but for a couple of dollars a month, you get a lot more, and to me it is totally worth it for my pictures.

 

[mabas9395]

Free is wonderful, but for a couple of dollars a month, you get a lot more, and to me it is totally worth it for my pictures.

Ditto to that.

If I was just looking for a spot to host my "MySpace" photos or something like that, I might go with one of the free sites.

But for my family photos, there is extra value with the pay sites. Living in Seattle people often put things this way, at $35 per year that is less than one latte a month. That seems like a bargin to me.

 

[Furgus]

I use Flickr, and I have a pro account. 25 bucks a year for pretty much all the space I can handle. I have been using it since Jan and putting up picutres of my baby daughter almost everyday to share with family. I love it.