People often use photosharing sites (such as Flickr), as a safe back-up of precious photos. You can keep them private (viewable only by you or your family) or public so others can view them as well. These sites also let you categorize and tag the photos so you can find and use them efficiently in the future.
The following is a short video that explains how photosharing sites work:
Online photosharing can be a great thing, as long as the site holding your valuable photos does not disappear. Does anyone know what happened to Phojo.Com? They went offline and my photos went with it. They claimed they were coming back online, but months after their deadline they have not.
But what happenes when you want to download them? do they come back at the same resolution you put them up? Be very careful at how you can retrieve them so places compress the photos and the only way you can get them in the same quality you put them up, is to print them off using their services.
I have used flickr for over a year now once I found out that you can password protect certain or all images. The best thing about it is that I can share pics with family members and friends.
This way they can choose to go through all 1500 pictures of a family vacation to Disney or just pick the best and we dont’ have to bore them silly. 🙂
Doreen: When you use Flickr Pro ($25 a year) you can choose to upload full resolution images to upload and then when you need them back you can get them full size.
I’ve found that my work also benefits from my $25 per year that I pay to flickr. There are times when we write notes on a white board in a conference room, or place cards on a table, or tape cards on a wall, and I want to remember what was there.
I don’t want to type the information (it is already there), so I use a digital camera to photograph the thing, then upload that picture to flickr. I usually attach a few words to the picture in flickr so I will be able to find it later. That has saved me time (no more typing the contents of a white board, only to never use it again), and retained the information I needed.
I would recommend anyone interested in using an online photo sharing site check out Google’s Picasa program and Picasa Web Albums.
Picasa is a free program you download and install on your computer for organizing, viewing, and editing your digital photos. Picasa makes it dead simple to upload photos to their Picasa Web Albums. (Especially the version 3 beta program which can automatically synchronize photos in a album on your computer with the online album on the web.)
http://picasa.google.com/
I am wondering how you feel about Photomax (nuskin). The pictures adn films are saved in the same place, as the genealogy… so they should be ok and never be delated. I dont know about other photosites. I know some photosites were sold and ALL pictures were delated, so people lost all their pictures. As I have understood this is not possible with Photomax… or is it??