Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - Photo-Sharing Advice Wanted!
Alternate title:
I'm Home, But My Brain Is Still On Vacation...
...which is why my computer time the last couple days has been spent reading other peoples' blogs rather than writing on my own. I have caught up on all my HSB friends' blogs and will do non-HSB blogs tonight or tomorrow.
Isn't that exciting? Yeah, I thought so. Just hold on, I'm going to ask for your advice in a minute here.
Before I read blogs, I finished downloading and playing with my 600+ vacation pics. (Having two big memory cards & a laptop with me was great, as previous vacations have generally been limited to under 200 photos.) And I know you'll ask me to post some, and I'm not making any promises, b/c posting photos is time-consuming. Besides, since we were at a family reunion, many of the pics contain other people's children, and I hate to post those w/o permission and I hate to ask.
All this talk of photos brings up a question. One of my cousins asked if I would post my pics on a website for everyone in the family to view. This is where I could use some advice. What do YOU use for photo sharing? I have a photo-bucket account which I use for posting pics here on my blog, but it is a private account. I don't care to make it public. I could give my relatives my password, but I'd rather not. That would give them access to all my folders, and the ability to play with the pics. I doubt anyone would abuse it, but my photobucket folders are for MY use and I really would rather keep it that way. I'd rather just grant access to specific folders, but I don't think I can do that. SO... I'm thinking I should open another account, either in photobucket or another program like flickr, shutterfly, or snapfish. Do any of these programs have a way to make certain folders accessible ONLY to certain people, W/O granting the ability to mess w/the pics? (Not that I think anyone actually would. I just don't want viewers having the same access to my photos that I have.) For example, i could, if I wanted, make my blogposts (all of them or certain ones) viewable only to my friends or HSB users, etc, instead of everyone in the whole world, but that still doesn't mean those people would have the ability to post on my blog. Kinda like that.
Even if you aren't sure about my specific question here, let me know what you use to let friends & relatives view your photos. Do you like it? Is it better than others you've tried? Can you do it w/o making your folders viewable to the general public?
Thanks!!!
Oh, and I have no intention of sharing all 600+ photos on whatever site I end up using. I will pick and choose 60-100.
Well, for the 2nd straight day I am still in my jammies past noon, so I need to put up the puter and get in the shower. Yesterday was mega-laundry day, and today is unload-unpack-&-put-everything-away day. (If you're wondering how I did laundry w/o unpacking all the suitcases, the secret is to put everyone's dirty laundry into one suitcase before heading home.) No more puter til it's done. Or so I say.
OK, when I get back to the blog tonight or tomorrow, I hope to see lots of photo-sharing advice. My relatives will be grateful, and so will I.
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