Flickr help

[tulip]

Speaking of...

I want to store all of my photos on something like Snapfish/Picassa/Flickr, etc. I definitely do not want my photos to be accessible to anyone but the people to whom I give permission to view them. I also want the option to get prints made (Snapfish has a good printing service I believe). Are there major differences between these and similar services?

Your experience and opinions matter (to me!)

[Cataboo]

All of those will let you set security so that only some people can see your albums. I've never really tried snapfish, I (as said above) absolutely despise flickr, and really like picasa.

Picasa allows you to organize photos on your harddrive and select which ones you want to upload to their webalbums. When you upload photos to their album, picasa resizes them smaller and they won't be fullsize on their web albums. So it is not permanent full sized archival. I think flickr might store full size photos.

Picasa when the photos are on your harddrive, you just highlight the pics you want to print, and click order prints and it will pull up a page that will allow you to choose which photo printing service to use.

My current favorite photo printing place is adorama.com. they do have an archival function where they will store however many full sized photos indefinitely for you - I think if you pay extra you get more space. But you can also share albums from them. Adorama uses kodak endura archival quality paper - and the lustre paper is just spectacular. On thickness of the paper and quality of the print, it really just blows all the other places I've tried away. Periodically they have sales where it's $.99 cents for an 8x10 or $1.99 for an 11x14 or $5 for a 16x20 or $10 for a 20x30... usually when they have a sale, they allow you to "pre-buy" a bunch of photos, so you can print photos later at that price.

[tulip]

Thanks, Catriona, that's really helpful. I'm not sure Picassa would work for my purposes. My squeeze and I live a few hours apart and want some way to combine all of our photos of our joint adventures so that we can each view them and print them from our respective houses. We also would want to share some of them with family, but we don't want them to be pulled up by anyone googling Bike Friday in Arizona, for example. So if Picassa pulls them from your hard drive, then I wouldn't be able to pull his and he wouldn't be able to pull mine.

I will definitely look into Adorama. I have some really nice photos that I want to print photo-quality and frame and hang on my walls.

[Cataboo]

picasa only pulls them from your harddrive if you tell them to - they do upload copies to the web.

Flickr might be want you want to use, as I had a friend that just got married and made 1 flickr account, gave all the friends the name/password - and had them upload all the picks they took from the wedding to flickr. And her rational was that flickr kept full sized photos on their database.

I mentioned to her the other day that photobooks were on sale at winkflash & i'd buy her a few if she wanted - then she gave me her flickr account info and seems to expect me to go through all of those pictures and make her a photobook. Little does she know that I DESPISE FLICKR WITH A PASSION and don't have time to go through 30 of her friend's photos of a wedding I wasn't at and try to piece it together temporarily to make her photo books.

but maybe I'll decide I love her enough to brave flickr.

[Cataboo]

tulip - another thing to check out if you want to make nice prints - propicsexpress.com

They make prints that basically look like they're on canvas. They print on paper and then fuse it to canvas so that the texture shows through. THey can be really cheap $5.99 for frame 5x7 & $10 for frame 8x10's... I think it's like $40 for a 16x20 and maybe $20 for a 11x14. They run specials periodically.


I've done a bunch of prints like this, sometimes I keep the original frame, and sometimse I replace them. Zen's seen some, so you can get her independent opinion of them.

Here's some pics I took in spain - the heavy wood frames are ones that I replaced the frames the prints came with:
http://picasaweb.google.com/EyeofCatriona/PropicsSpain#

Other random ones:
http://picasaweb.google.com/EyeofCatriona/CanvasPrints#
http://picasaweb.google.com/EyeofCatriona/Canvas#

cpq.com is propicsexpress parent company, and they do large framed prints. At some point they had a $50 special on like 20x20's and a $50 off coupon for new photographers, so then I ordered this - it's up at annapolis rocks:

[Kalidurga]

I don't do any printing, but I like Photobucket's options for archiving and displaying images. You can create nested folders and password protect them at any level, and when you click on an image it can be zoomed to the actual image size. That's the thing I really dislike about Flickr, that they dictate image size. I also like that I can set different backgrounds in Photobucket, because I prefer to see my images against black rather than the white background at Flickr.

The one thing that I really like about Flickr that Photobucket doesn't seem to offer, though, is the ability to set a Creative Commons copyright for your images.

[HelenOster]

I will definitely look into Adorama. I have some really nice photos that I want to print photo-quality and frame and hang on my walls.

When someone sets up a new account with AdoramaPix (which is FREE!) they get 25 free prints. Many people use these free 4x6s to order some prints on all the different paper types. We usually recommend that you print something that you have already seen in print, that way you can compare. The only paper type we don't offer in a 4x6 size is the Silk, but if you'd like to email me with your mailing address, I can pass it along and see that you get some samples.

Generally, the silk paper is very well suited for any kind of portraits, especially formal portraits like wedding shots. It delivers lovely skin tones and has a very delicate texture to it. It's more matte than our Lustre paper. The Kodak Endura Supra Lustre has a slight sheen to it, not as much as the Metallic or Glossy, but it's a good all around paper, a very fine surface texture and closest to "semi-gloss."
The Supra Matt(TM) might be a good choice also, nice rich blacks and good detail with no texture to the finish - it depends on your subject matter, and personal preference. Set up your account and order some prints for free and see for yourself.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything else you need.

[Kalidurga]

Holey instant, omniscient customer service, Batman!

[Cataboo]

Lol. I once complained about the quality of some prints I'd had made at adorama on fatwallet.com.... Then I got a PM from the director of adorama's photography service offering to reprint everything I didn't like for free. and wanting to know which photos weren't printing well so that he could fix that for the future.

While I knew they checked in on their feedback & comments on fatwallet, I didn't know that mentioning them on another forum would summon them from the depths of their printing presses to comment.

[Cataboo]

Speaking of...

I want to store all of my photos on something like Snapfish/Picassa/Flickr, etc. I definitely do not want my photos to be accessible to anyone but the people to whom I give permission to view them. I also want the option to get prints made (Snapfish has a good printing service I believe). Are there major differences between these and similar services?

Your experience and opinions matter (to me!)

Someone just posted their experience with snapfish:
http://forums.goingprepared.com/view...p=37969#p37969

[tulip]

Thanks, Catriona. Shutterfly is the one I could not remember the name of. Y'all have given me great resources to go study. I'll let you know what I decide on, just in case someone is looking for the same thing.

[Cataboo]

Alright, I'v been playing with this stuff.

You can tell picasa to upload the full sized images to the web gallery. Adorama has a button where you can tell it to print images from yoru picasa web gallery, your smug mug one, and your flickr one.


I installed the adorama button for picasa to upload images straight to adorama. And I must say it's absolutely horrible and giving me conniptions. Fix it.

*grr*

[Zen]

My brain hurts.

[Irulan]

testing from picasa, right click save image as...

[Cataboo]

testing from picasa, right click save image as...

You can manually upload photos to picasa web from your browser without downloading picasa. Just go to picasaweb.google.com, log in with your gmail account if you have one, make one if you don't... and click the upload button.