WC Oct 1993
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I use Flickr for my truck photos, I have had a few small problems but I like it. it does cost me about $25 a year for my 2700 photos, you can post 200 shots for free
200 shots free? $25 is a lot of money to a poor country boy like me. I'm currently storing 1,102 'shots' and 44 videos on one Photobucket account and it's not costing me anything. I have close to a dozen accounts with them and am paying exactly $0.I use Flickr for my truck photos, I have had a few small problems but I like it. it does cost me about $25 a year for my 2700 photos, you can post 200 shots for free
You're not alone! I felt the same way but after playing around with it and seeing what this does and what that does I've gotten fairly comfortable with it.Well I have just made the jump from the old to the new, and as a barely literate computer user I feel like someone cut holes in my parachute.
With the free version of Flickr your uploads are limited to 300MB of photos(up to 30MB per photo) and 2 videos per month. You can post more than 200 photos, but they will only show the most recent 200. The older ones will still be there just not shown. I guess when I hit 200 I'll have to decide if I want to pay the $25 or not. With my current internet speed I won't be uploading much anytime soon anyway.
....I may wait for a little while until I hear more about other Alternatives....keep them coming.Not only the problem of reloading the pictures onto a new server, but you will lose all that are posted every where, on forums, blogs etc, due to the address of the picture changing. I don't want to go back and try to find even my most recent posts that contains pictures and reload them.
I wonder also about this modern computer aided designing world. I work part time in the limousine world, so I get a chance to experience a variety of new vehicles. I really have to scratch my head and ask what were these young designers thinking of when they become possessed with changing all the buttons and displays in these vehicles EVERY year....and many of these changes are NOT fully proofed out, and I'm sure it is an extra economic issue, both present and future parts inventory wise.After having another look at PB and puzzling about why they would take a site that was so easy to use and make it complicated and laborious, I wonder at the motives, what would possess them to do this, especially in the face of all the complaints and disatisfaction that has been expressed and have come to an opinion. Being of a cynical and suspicious mind when organisations do something which is glaringly obnoxious to it's members and dress it up as a great beneficial advance, it always seems to be about money and how they (govt's do it all the time, doesn't matter of which political persuasion) can squeeze more out of it's members (populace). At the moment PB hosts a massive amount of free storage (take note J-W) which must be a financial burden.
Isn't this Picasa site owned by Google?New-ish guy around here, but had to chime in on this discussion. I don't use any of the mentioned sites, never have. Have any of you tried PicasaWeb.com? Not real sure how it compares to Flikr or Photobook, or any others, but I have used it for years and have never had any issues. All you need is to establish a Gmail email address and that's it. Also, with Picasa you can download and install a desktop uploader for PC and Mac, so you can skip having to log onto your web browser at all if you want to.
Just providing an alternative, since there seems to be some unhappy campers in PB land.
Happy modeling.
Chuck
I would think that Picasa has some photo editing tools themselves, that is if I read a few things correctly about them, a smaller edited image can be made, while Picasa retains the original photo in a 'hidden file'@beiland - Yes, Picasa is a Google product, which is why you need a Gmail account in order to log in. I don't know how well Picasa works in relation to other Photo sharing sites, as I have not used anything else. All I know is that Picasa is very simple to use and easy to understand, for me.
This is an image that is posted in one of my Picasa Albums, and then a link to that web album... just to give you an idea of it's structure.
Sorry - can't figure out how to input the code to re-size the image.