Posted by
Cliff
on from the 21st-century-picture-albums dept.
pole asks: "Perhaps my Google skills aren't up to snuff, but I could not find a decent review of various photo sharing and printing services (for amateur photographers) such as Fotki and Ofoto. What services have you been using and what do you recommend? What do your family and friends prefer?"
I used Yahoo's photo sharing features until I got fed up with constantly using up my disk space quota. I did some google searching and found an article (can't remember where) comparing the features of various photo sharing sites which recommended Image Station. At the time (and still, as far as I can tell) they had no quota. That feature alone was enough to sell me on using it. However, it is also quite fast in my experience, as well as user friendly. There is one minor pain that I've run across though. Other people have to register and accept a cookie before they can view any of your shared albums beyond the first shot in the album.
I have not ordered any prints from ImageStation. For that, I use Snapfish. I've been very pleased with their service, though I'm not particularly picky about my prints.
I've tried around some of those
by
prostoalex
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· Score: 4, Informative
Shutterfly - great if you plan to use Internet Explorer to communicate with the site, they have an ActiveX plug-in, where you can select multiple files to upload. Warning though, you will not be able to download your photos in original resolution once you upload them. The only way to get back a high-res photo is to buy a CD from Shutterfly.
Epson Photo Center - one of the few services where you can download exactly the same resolution as you uploaded, so great for storing large pictures. Except that they require Web forms for the photos to be uploaded, and the Web forms they have accept a single photo at a time (maximum of 10-20 per page, if I recall). Might spend your whole evening clicking and selecting, when downloading 1000 new images off your flash card.
Ofoto - nothing too thrilling, pretty much the same offering as Shuttefly without the ActiveX plug in for multiple uploads. Has connections with Amazon, so it's possible to get some promotinal free photos with them if you buy some related items at Amazon. I got 25 free photos with the software I bought at Amazon site.
Yahoo! Photos - 30 megs is a bummer, but if you use other Yahoo! services regularly, might find the site easier to navigate and play with. Although all other guys mentioned above allow unlimited (well, supposedly) hosting and sharing.
i love fotopic
by
linuxghoul
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· Score: 3, Informative
try Fotopic. No ads, 250MB storage, FTP access, can be used with your own domain...the interface leaves a bit to be desired, but still is better than all others i have used. Very geek oriented. I don't understand why so few people know about it, although i think i just took care of that problem;)
am not paid anything by them for this "promotion", just a very satisfied user.
Ghoul2
-- Sigura Non Grata
For the UK
by
fireshipjohn
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· Score: 2, Informative
May I recommend Photobox 200Mb store, public gallery and excellent prints, good prices, fast delivery, ftp and zip uploads. Just a satisfied customer....
Pbase if you don't need printing service
by
remou
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· Score: 2, Informative
Pbase is a volunteer effort that was free until recently. They don't have ads, reasonably fast, use linux....
no printing service though...
Shutterfly works with Linux
by
nixman99
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· Score: 3, Informative
Shutterfly works great with Netscape 7, although I haven't tried uploading files through the browser. I use their Linux file-upload program instead.
PhotoASA.com
by
Majin+Bubu
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· Score: 3, Informative
I use PhotoASA. 50 MB, no limits on image size, you can define codes for access to different parts of your db of photos, nice, no spam. I'd recommmend it.
Slashdot Mirror
PC Magazine did one a while ago...
It's on their website at
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,28639,00.asp
The results were:
3 - Ofoto
3 - PhotoPoint
2 - PhotoWorks
4 - Shutterfly (Editor's Choice)
3 - Snapfish
They didn't give me an option when I registered, then when they spammed me and asked to be removed to the mailing lists they also disabled my account.
Now I just use yahoo groups.
I used Yahoo's photo sharing features until I got fed up with constantly using up my disk space quota. I did some google searching and found an article (can't remember where) comparing the features of various photo sharing sites which recommended Image Station. At the time (and still, as far as I can tell) they had no quota. That feature alone was enough to sell me on using it. However, it is also quite fast in my experience, as well as user friendly. There is one minor pain that I've run across though. Other people have to register and accept a cookie before they can view any of your shared albums beyond the first shot in the album.
I have not ordered any prints from ImageStation. For that, I use Snapfish. I've been very pleased with their service, though I'm not particularly picky about my prints.
Shutterfly - great if you plan to use Internet Explorer to communicate with the site, they have an ActiveX plug-in, where you can select multiple files to upload. Warning though, you will not be able to download your photos in original resolution once you upload them. The only way to get back a high-res photo is to buy a CD from Shutterfly.
Epson Photo Center - one of the few services where you can download exactly the same resolution as you uploaded, so great for storing large pictures. Except that they require Web forms for the photos to be uploaded, and the Web forms they have accept a single photo at a time (maximum of 10-20 per page, if I recall). Might spend your whole evening clicking and selecting, when downloading 1000 new images off your flash card.
Ofoto - nothing too thrilling, pretty much the same offering as Shuttefly without the ActiveX plug in for multiple uploads. Has connections with Amazon, so it's possible to get some promotinal free photos with them if you buy some related items at Amazon. I got 25 free photos with the software I bought at Amazon site.
Yahoo! Photos - 30 megs is a bummer, but if you use other Yahoo! services regularly, might find the site easier to navigate and play with. Although all other guys mentioned above allow unlimited (well, supposedly) hosting and sharing.
try Fotopic. No ads, 250MB storage, FTP access, can be used with your own domain...the interface leaves a bit to be desired, but still is better than all others i have used. Very geek oriented. I don't understand why so few people know about it, although i think i just took care of that problem ;)
am not paid anything by them for this "promotion", just a very satisfied user.
Ghoul2
Sigura Non Grata
May I recommend Photobox
200Mb store, public gallery and excellent prints, good prices, fast delivery, ftp and zip uploads.
Just a satisfied customer....
Pbase is a volunteer effort that was free until
recently. They don't have ads, reasonably fast,
use linux....
no printing service though...
Shutterfly works great with Netscape 7, although I haven't tried uploading files through the browser. I use their Linux file-upload program instead.
I use PhotoASA. 50 MB, no limits on image size, you can define codes for access to different parts of your db of photos, nice, no spam. I'd recommmend it.
Ander
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