Newest ideas on photo hosting
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 11:26 am
Hi,
I've read through the threads here on photo hosting, but the posts are really old, and I know there are new options out there - hence my new query.
To post photos/trip reports here, I've been compressing them to get them down below the mb limit for uploading - which has the result of making each photo both smaller, and more pixelated.
I'd like to switch to a photo hosting site that might allow the following...
1. Copying and pasting directly from the given photo-hosting site to this website, without compressing or compromising the quality of the photos. And I want the photo to show up directly on this site, inline on my trip reports...I don't want each photo to require a link from here to another site.
2. Easy download for friends. Let's say I post 200 photos for a given trip on my chosen photo hosting site. A friend on the trip might want to download and save 20 of those photos for him/herself. I'd like for that download to be easy for that person.
3. No resizing or particular difficulty required for the upload from my computer to that photo-hosting site, either.
4. Password-protected, although to be honest I'm not super-concerned about copyright issues, etc.
5. Lots of space, I'm thinking that I'll need 5gig to start, maybe more as trip reports add up?
6. Free or low-cost. Some sites (Snapfish) require an annual purchase such as prints; that I don't mind.
Has anyone used basic cloud storage that is not necessarily meant just for photos, but that works well for this purpose? My Google Drive has 15 gig of free space, so it's tempting to use that.
- Elizabeth
I've read through the threads here on photo hosting, but the posts are really old, and I know there are new options out there - hence my new query.
To post photos/trip reports here, I've been compressing them to get them down below the mb limit for uploading - which has the result of making each photo both smaller, and more pixelated.
I'd like to switch to a photo hosting site that might allow the following...
1. Copying and pasting directly from the given photo-hosting site to this website, without compressing or compromising the quality of the photos. And I want the photo to show up directly on this site, inline on my trip reports...I don't want each photo to require a link from here to another site.
2. Easy download for friends. Let's say I post 200 photos for a given trip on my chosen photo hosting site. A friend on the trip might want to download and save 20 of those photos for him/herself. I'd like for that download to be easy for that person.
3. No resizing or particular difficulty required for the upload from my computer to that photo-hosting site, either.
4. Password-protected, although to be honest I'm not super-concerned about copyright issues, etc.
5. Lots of space, I'm thinking that I'll need 5gig to start, maybe more as trip reports add up?
6. Free or low-cost. Some sites (Snapfish) require an annual purchase such as prints; that I don't mind.
Has anyone used basic cloud storage that is not necessarily meant just for photos, but that works well for this purpose? My Google Drive has 15 gig of free space, so it's tempting to use that.
- Elizabeth