How do you share photos?
There are tons of ways to share photos (and videos) on the web. I currently use three main sites to share my photos, each for different reasons.
- Picasaweb – I’ve been using google’s photosharing the longest, largely because I didn’t want to deal with getting a yahoo id. Which isn’t that tough. I like the album nature of picasaweb, and put most of the photos that I take onto there, treating it like as a bit of a cross between a backup and a social network.
- Flickr – I recently broke down and created a flickr account. It’s been pretty fun. There’s much more of a streaming nature to it, and Flickr seems great for highlights. I’ve been putting my favorites onto there, so it ends up having a lot less pics than my picasaweb. Here’s an example of a flickr photo.
From frolf at dabney - Facebook – while Flickr is somewhat social, it’s not social like facebook. I’ve been putting fun pictures onto facebook. Pictures of people, events, stuff that I want to share with friends. This is more likely a facebook selection:
From broomball 2008 - blog – However, if you look at either image it links back to my picasaweb. That may change in the future, at least for flickr pics, but for now it’s really easy to put picasaweb shots into my blog. My blog isn’t really a photo site, photoblog, or photostream. I don’t think of it that way. I use photos to augment stories (probably should do it more).
So each of the sites provides its own value. Picasaweb is a bit more encyclopedic. I’m using picasaweb to provide my blog pictures. Flickr is a bit more photo-centric, either looking at quality shots, quality subjects, or both, or whatever feels good. I guess in my case it’s the latter.
Facebook is more social. It is album-oriented like Picasaweb, but it puts photos in your friends’s and acquaintences’s faces. While I don’t mind people clicking around my public photos at will, I’ll be a bit more selective about what goes onto facebook. I’ll probably not put 500 photos of a mountain on there, for example. But I might do that on picasaweb.
I’m lazy with my picasaweb photos. Pretty much everything goes up there. I relatively few photos. While with flickr and facebook I choose what to upload, with picasaweb, I choose what not to upload. Sometimes. For example, this photo would never sneak through onto flickr or facebook.
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| From frolf at pier 12/08 |
There are other photo sites out there. Do you use something different? Why do you use the tools you use?
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6 Responses to “How do you share photos?”
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The great thing that I remember about Picasa was the easy photo-touch-up interface. It was much better than Flickr's pay service. Unfortunately, you can't really use Picassa or that interface with a Mac, so I had to give it up.
For social groups and just a great amount of searchable content, you can't beat Flickr…which is how I found you. :)
Yeah, that's part of it. I've never used the picasa tool (iPhoto, F-Spot, Gimp). But I keep most of my library on picasaweb, which is a similar service to flickr, but less social, more album-oriented.
I definitely agree with the social/searchable/groupable nature of flickr though. I'm pretty new on it, but having a good time.
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