Flickr help

[Zen]

I want to upload a very large folder to Flickr but can't seem to be able to do it without selecting each photo individually.
There must be a way to do this.

I am using the godforsaken Windows Vista. I hate it.

[Cataboo]

I haven't tried this because flickr gives me hives and I hate it with a passion.

An absolute passion, I tell you.

but, this should put a flickr button in your picasa like that facebook one I sent you:
http://picasa2flickr.sourceforge.net/

[Kalidurga]

Open the folder and then either shift and highlight all, or ctrl and click 'em all. And, yes, that works in Vista.

[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.

[Zen]

Open the folder and then either shift and highlight all,

Ah, the magic shift bar.
That was the missing ingredient.
Thank you

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I don't know if it still does this, but the TE forum will not show my Picasa pictures if I insert them into my posts. It recognizes Flicker photos, though. It's a pain in the butt! Every time I want to include a photo on my TE posts, I have to post it on Flicker instead of my usual Picasa.

[Cataboo]

I don't know if it still does this, but the TE forum will not show my Picasa pictures if I insert them into my posts. It recognizes Flicker photos, though. It's a pain in the butt! Every time I want to include a photo on my TE posts, I have to post it on Flicker instead of my usual Picasa.

Picasa's annoying about this, but I've found 2 workarounds

You either need to be logged out of your picasaweb account - then while in your album and looking at your photo, you can right click the photo and hit copy image location... and then paste that into team estrogen.

I don't know why that doesn't work if you are logged in.

But if you are logged in and looking at your photo on the right hand side of the screen, there's something like "link to this photo" and then there's an "embed html"

if you copy the embed html code, there's a sequence in there that is what you actually want to post on picasa. Actually, I see a new option there, so everyone tell me if you can see the below image - i clicked on embed image and then told it size 400, and then clicked on the button that said image only, (no link) and then copied that text to get this:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BTaSD6AsAt8/Se...0/IMGP3353.JPG

[ClockworkOrange]

I use both but prefer Photobucket.com for putting a lot of photos on.

Have sent you a PM.

Clock

[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

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Actually, I see a new option there, so everyone tell me if you can see the below image - i clicked on embed image and then told it size 400, and then clicked on the button that said image only, (no link) and then copied that text to get this:

I'm seeing the bike image, but i also see the text link above it in your post. Did you intend the text link or was it automatic?