photo album upload query

[lobelia321]

Oh wise techy-savvy flist: how can I upload my holiday photos to show to friends and family? I have a Mac.

What, in your experience, is the easiest and most elegant solution??

Comments

[calligrafiti.livejournal.com]

I like flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/) When I started using it I was on a fairly old mac, and I found the interface reasonably intuitive and the upload time surprisingly good. You can tag your photos, give them captions, and create sets. There's a free version and a "pro" version. The free version was good enough for vacation photos and whatnot for me for three years. I've only upgraded to pro ($26/yr) because I want more sets than the free version offers.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

So this is me marketing before I get even paid for it, if I ever do - but there is this nifty little, free software called mikogo which lets you share your desktop with other people. I might get a job with them so I tried it out myself and it's great. You can really see the other person's screen in real time. So you could just click through the pics on your pc and the friends and family could watch. I didn't try this myself but apparently, you can also file-share with it.

[msilverstar]

That looks brilliant for business conferencing, and I will definitely give it a try. But I think photo-sharing is more of a server-based thing, because with this, the desktop goes away when the system shuts down.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

That's true, of course. It's more for the option of not having to upload them painstakingly to something like photobucket or something and instead have like a dia-show.

[abbylee]

I also like flickr, although I'm not really a photo sharer.

There's an upload tool specifically for Macs, as well: http://www.flickr.com/tools/mac_howto.gne

You can choose who can see your photos, and even only let specific logged in users or users who you give a secret URL see your photos. As a free user, you can upload 100MB of photos + 2 videos a month, which resets each month and with no limit on how many you have uploaded in your entire history. The negatives that I notice are that (1) free users can't display their high-res photos to others, only resized versions (that should still be good enough for what you want) and (2) if your account is inactive for 90 days it will be deleted.

I generally recommend Picasa to family members for photos, because the software is pretty easy and yet reasonably powerful. They have mac software and an iphoto plugin: http://picasa.google.com/mac/ which make it easy to upload to their web albums tie in http://picasaweb.google.com/
where you get 1GB of online photo/video storage for free.

[2am-optimism.livejournal.com]

Sorry - this has nothing to do with your post whatsoever, but I've just seen this at ontd and thought of you :)

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/38716037.html

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yessss!!

[msilverstar]

I am so bad at uploading photos, I'm waiting to see what people recommend!

photo album upload query

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

flickr! been using it since 2005 with minimal complaints. get a paid account, it's cheap enough.

b.x :)