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Sharing Photos

by Community Connector Community Connector on ‎05-06-2011 02:49 PM

 

Want to share your latest photos with family and friends, but don’t want to deal with the hassle of sending e-mail attachments or physical duplicates?  There’s an easy solution for that: photo sharing websites.  These online services allow users to upload their favorite images, sort them into albums and categories, caption them, and make them available for anyone to view.

 

 

Facebook

 

As I mentioned in an earlier article, Facebook has its own photo sharing capabilities.  Users can upload as many as 200 pictures per album they create and can create as many albums as they wish per account.  You can also restrict access to individual photo albums by changing their security settings, just like your main profile page.  Photos can even be posted on other people’s Walls, as well as be sent in private messages.

 

Facebook Help Center - Photos

 

 

Picasa

 

Picasa is a free image organizer, viewer and photo sharing service supported by Google.  Just like Facebook, it can be used to sort your photos, label them and post them online for your friends and family to see.  Picasa also allows you to create a collage of your uploaded photos, resize them, and combine them into a movie you can post on YouTube.

 

In order to use Picasa, you’ll need to download an application from http://picasa.google.com/ and install it on your computer.  Once you’ve done so, the program can then scan files and folders you designate for photos to be uploaded.  It can even upload video clips and add geographical data (longitude and latitude) to your photos.

 

Picasa – Getting Started Guide

 

 

Flickr

 

Flickr is an image and video hosting service provided by Yahoo!  It offers users several different ways to upload files, including by e-mail, web browser and smartphone app.  Flickr also offers two kinds of accounts (Free and Pro) that feature different monthly upload caps and file restrictions.  Free accounts have a 300MB monthly upload cap, but this restriction does not apply to Pro accounts.

 

Similar to other photo sharing services, Flickr provides you the ability to label and group your photos, search your collection using key words, and restrict who has access to your photos.  It also includes an RSS feed feature and geographical tagging capabilities.  There’s even a visual representation of everything you’ve ever uploaded to Flickr called a photostream.

 

Flickr – Tour & FAQ