 | By Katherine Murray For prolific producers of digital images, there’s one overriding concern: preservation. Online photo services provide a secure place to store and organize hundreds — or even thousands — of images. While none is ideal, some are more useful to the serious photographer than others. |
Cloud storage: heavenly for photographers
If you’ve been snapping digital photos for a while, chances are good you’ve worked through various routines for processing, storing, and sharing your image files. By now, you probably have hundreds stored on various external drives, CDs, DVDs, and leftover thumb drives. You probably share photos via e-mail, Facebook, and maybe even old-school paper prints.
At some point, keeping track of that vast library of images requires a more organized approach than what you’ve been using. Facebook and simple online document-storage services such as Microsoft’s SkyDrive are fine for a small number of images. But where do you put lots of space-hogging photographs?
This article looks at the online photo services provided by Snapfish, Flickr, Shutterfly, and Photobucket. It compares their storage limits, costs, and the tools they offer for managing large numbers of images. All of these sites have one focus: digital photography.
Snapfish: Effective organizing for online albums
A division of Hewlett-Packard, Snapfish (site) claims more than 90 million registered users in 20 countries around the world. Snapfish offers free, unlimited photo sharing and storage plus instant access to professional-quality prints through partnerships with a variety of established retailers such as Walgreens, Walmart, and Meijer.
Given that storing and organizing your images is free, it’s not surprising that much of Snapfish’s homepage is dedicated to all the additional photo services that are not free — books, mugs, calendars, and more — all based on your photos.
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