I just added a link at the top of this page to photos of Sam on Shutterfly. I've only managed to upload her pictures through September or so. That's when I switched to Picasa, and I haven't quite figured out yet how I'll share those in an organized way.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to the fastest and easiest way to manage and share photos?
I am concerned about copyright on these photo sharing sites. I read an article that indicated some of the sites required that they retain copyright of any image you upload. Shutterfly was one of those sites, I believe.
ReplyDeleteDo you know anything about this?
I use (not so often now due to my busy schedule) babababies.com. They allow for the user to set a password and they do not retain copyright. But, the site is specifically for photos of your babes.
I've used Picasa for some time now, and I'm very satisfied with it. I looked for a long time for a product that satisfied my needs, and even many "for purchase" products aren't as good as Picasa IMO. My basic needs were/are:
ReplyDelete1. Organize photos. Picasa is pretty good, though I didn't require anything fancy; I just have them organized by the "default" mode of date. My camera software automatically downloads the raw photo files into subdirectories based on date, and Picasa is setup to look in the main directory and automatically import new pictures.
2. Resize photos for emailing. This was a big one that I surprisingly had a hard time finding. Picasa does this great, and can be setup to export these smaller photos to a different directory, to make it easier to find them for attaching to emails, etc.
3. Basic photo editing. I don't know what I'm missing possibly, but Picasa satisfies my basic needs here - sharpening, color/contrast adjustments, and cropping are what I use.
4. Sharing via the web. Picasa gives you 2GB of space to setup your pictures for free; beyond that you have to pay (pretty sure it's inexpensive, but I haven't used the 2GB yet). You create web albums, probably similar to Shutterfly, and then you can arrange and comment your pictures. You can see what I've done at http://picasaweb.google.com/gregafree. There's a serious lack of Ella pictures there, but that's because we usually send pics via email (my official excuse, and I'm sticking to it!).
rootie, that's a pretty smart way to generate tags. I never add them because it's not worth the time when I can usually find what I want by date or quick thumbnail scan. But that's because I don't have all that many photos and in the past 2 years they're pretty much all of the same subject. :) I have a guess of what you do to share, but I need something FAST. FAST is key. Must be FAST. And EASY.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm sticking with Picasa...I just need to spend a couple of hours getting set up with it. I agree with Greg's points and would also add that I can organize on my computer and then upload with the same structure pretty seamlessly.
I'm going to stick with Shutterfly to print because I've heard their print quality is one of the best out there, and I've loved the products I've bought from them so far. I think I can buy prints from Shutterfly via Picasa, but haven't tried that yet.