![]() ![]() ![]() You can retouch photos, crop them, add borders and otherwise get them ready for ordering prints. The slide shows are attractive, complete with crossfades and speed control. SHUTTERFLY.COM This service is free, all right, and it offers unlimited storage. (For a really good time, click the Groups tab and search for “stick figures in peril.”) There are 300,000 such groups on Flickr: collections of Nikon photos, of macro (superclose-up) photos, and so on. (On many rival sites, you couldn’t make your photos public if you wanted to.)įlickr’s Groups concept lets complete strangers collaborate on theme-related collections. For example, 75 percent of Flickr photos have been made available for public browsing, commenting, downloading and subscribing. But its strengths are social interaction and personal expression, like a visual blog. In other words, Flickr’s clumsiness as a peruse-then-print store wasn’t necessarily its fault it was mine, for misunderstanding its talents.įLICKR.COM With 525 million photos posted so far, Flickr may be the largest photo site. It’s at .)Īfter examining eight free photo-sharing sites, I discovered that each specializes in a different area. Therefore, my original wish list also included, “Must offer a mass-uploading program.” But then Zach, my 16-year-old intern, told me that “everyone” just uses PictureSync, a free, elegant, effortless program that can batch-upload photos to any sharing service. (Some of these sites require you to upload one picture at a time, which is like mowing your lawn with toenail clippers. My dream photo site would be free would impose no limits on photo size or quantity would let you order a print with just one click and would let you pick up the prints at a local drugstore instead of waiting for the mail. Maybe, by seeking a better photo-sharing site, I could spare other families the exasperation I put my mom through. My mom wound up spending hours on what should have been a 10-minute job.Ī lot of families are gathering at this time of year - for graduations, picnics and barbecues. The terminology is confusing - quick, what’s the difference between a Photo Group, a Photo Set and a Photo Stream? Worse, it takes seven mouse clicks, two pop-up menus and two dialog boxes to order one print of one photo. Unfortunately, Flickr was the wrong tool for that job.
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