Played some more with Flickr and I am rather impressed with it. I have tried two or three photo upload sites and this is by far the best. I have tried:
- Epson online site. Neglected this for months now.
- Drupal image module, i.e. this.
- Photobox private archive. This is where I get my prints done and they give me 50M more space with every order. I'm up to 250M. My photo archive on my laptop is 1G.
Compared with the above Flickr offers a lot more features and, although it has adverts it is not blatantly trying to sell prints. This is important to me if I want to let friends or relatives look around. It just seems rude for each picture to have price tags on it.
Flickr highlights:
- Drag-and-drop windows upload utility. I can drag photo's from Paintshop Photo Album onto this and upload them, easy, cool. Ease of uploading is important: PPA displays the images clearly and I drag them to upload them. Much better than fiddling with the file open dialog box.
- Organizr utility, an online version of Paintshop pro Photo Album. This is java or flash or something and is quite well done, more like a windows app than a web app.
- Calender organisation.
- Post from email, including mobile phone.
- Anyone in the world can see my pictures and that is cool.
Flickr is free up to 10Mbytes per month and only displays your last 100 pictures. Upgrade to 1G/month and limitless pictures is $40 a year.
I do recommend Photobox for prints: they come in a day or two and the quality is superb: they make 'photo-quality' inkjet photos look very poor.
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