photo sharing
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Photo Sharing
The Problems
Digital cameras and smart phones produce
hundreds (thousands) of photos – small
tsunamis of images.
Photos are very demanding. They need:
Naming/tagging/descriptions
Editing (fixing/cropping/culling)
Storing (high res photos can be space hogs)
Sharing with others
Select peeps (relatives/close friends)
Larger groups (includeing acquaintances)
Everyone (public)
What you want
Photo sharing options that are:
Efficient (fast)
Reliable (no loss of photos)
Intuitive to use esp. at the beginning
Easy for others to access and use and return
to
Attractive and/or clean or not unattractive
Affordable and/or free
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flickr
Free for 1 GB (200 photos)
Share videos (1 min. maximum)
$25 per year for unlimited
26 million users (2010)
Huge photo sharing community – mostly amateur photographers who chat amongst themselves.
Everyone loves it (except for me)
Yahoo offshoot
Uploading isn’t difficult
Organizing is not intuitive and is maddeningly cumbersome
Nice slideshow with lots of options
flicker … cons
No batch downloads
Editing pictures isn’t straightforward – links
and title captions don’t always work or stick
No thumbnails (lot of scrolling and no view all)
Cannot give multiple images same name
No export from iPhoto
No email notification if someone comments
No control over images on your home page
Privacy control possible but hard work
Why isn’t a set called an album?
flickr … structure
Collections
Top tier
Sets
aka Albums
Galleries
Galleries are a way to curate up to 18
public photos or videos of your fellow
members into one place. It’s an
opportunity to celebrate the creativity of
fellow members in a unique way i.e.
around a theme, an idea or just
because.
picasa
Free for 1 GB of photos and videos
$25 per year 25 GB, $50 for 100 GB
More of a social community
500,000 users (2010)
Everyone loves it (except for me)
Google offshoot
Uploading isn’t difficult
Organizing is easier than Flickr … a cleaner
interface
You can edit photos
Basic slideshow
picasa … cons
Facebook wannabe (Circles)
Could end up expensive
Quality of photos?
smugmug
Photographers site
Everything is absolutely beautiful
Support Heros are beyond terrific
And you pay for it
$32 year for basic w/unlimited photos
$48 year for your own domain + unlimited hd
videos
$125 for professional photographers
smugmug
Limited community – your photos may not be
discovered (if you care)
imageevent
$25 year for 1500 images (one time additional
fees for 1500 extra images)
Public galleries separate – you have to go to
them to see them (as opposed to Flickr/Picasia)
Albums and sub-albums
Organizing is super straightforward and logical
Unlimited video
Slideshow is OK
Sharing is super easy
Editing captions in thumbnails is quick and easy
imageevent
Not at all beautiful
Uploading can be sluggish
Slideshow not as beautiful
Back to thumbnails in a stupid place
mejuba
Free for unlimited photos and videos
Transfer photos from other sites (Picasa/Flickr)
Straightforward
Pretty easy to use including organizing
Album structure more like Image Event (pc-ish)
mejuba
Ugly
No community
Difficult to share
Slow loading
No support
Transferring photos not so easy
You get what you pay for …
This is where it’s at IMO
The structure forces you to choose select photos
And to add some fun, witty, interesting comments
Your friends get involved
You wouldn’t upload 2000 holiday pics from your
cruise to Alaska
Privacy – it barely exists (even if you think it does
or try to make it so)
Finding photos can be a challenge
SocialSafe
http://www.socialsafe.net/
Cheap!
$3.50 year for 1 profile
$7.00 for up to 4 profiles
This makes facebook work for me …
I can search for a ‘story’
Their support is incredibly responsive and
nice (George and Pascal)
SlideShare
SlideShare is awash in slideshows
showing you how to use the various photo
sharing sites http://www.slideshare.net/