Where to Store Photos?
Jul 13th, 2008 by Collagist
How and where do you store your photos?
In this blog post we want to cover the topic of photo storing. For storing photos you have two options: 1.) Store on your local computer and 2.) Store online
Of course, each of these options has its advantages and disadvantages. First, we want to write a little bit about the tools and options that are available to the users and in the coming weeks we would like to write a little bit in detail about these tools/software and what you can do with your pictures. We would like to remind you to do more with your pictures. And you would ask, do more? what do you mean by more and we would point you to Photo Collages, Posters, Canvas Prints… See, we want you to come back and use our services and we are pretty sure you will like what you get. 
Ok, going back to the topic of photo storing. We believe that having a plan to organize and use the above options is a great way to share and access your photos. Storing to your local computer is by far the easiest way but not always the best way to share, print, and work on your pictures. The picture transfer from your camera or memory card to the computer is the fastest way that is possible out there. But, this does not offer you many tools, particularly for the MS Windows users, in terms of reducing the image sizes, tagging and emailing or sharing with others.
The good news is that there are many tools that are available out there, for free, to make the photo organization and management easy for everyone. Some of the tools are Shutterfly’s Studio, Google’s Picasa, Adobe’s Photoshop Album, PicMe Sharing by Raiz Labs, and more. We particularly like Picasa. PCMag once wrote an article about Picasa to explain what is good about Picasa.
Picasa also offers options to store pictures online but you need to have Google Account. There are many other options that would let you store photos online for free as well for a fee. Some of these services are Flickr, Photoworks, WebShots, phanfare etc.
In the coming weeks we would prepare a list of all these services to make choosing easy for you. Until then go out there and take pictures and enjoy them.
Collagist
I always store my files locally. I upload them to my web server and keep a copy there. I use light box on the web page for browsing them online.
I store my photos on my local computer. It is easy to transfer them to my PC and have come up with a naming scheme for my folders and photos which is working for me for now. As far as the tools are concerned, I use Irfanview (it is for free and it is a great tool) to browse and prepare small versions of file etc. (Irfanview website: http://www.irfanview.com/).
SD
SD – yes. Irfanview is a great tool as well. Particularly the batch conversion/rename feature is a great boon for someone who wants to manipulate a large number of pictures. You can even create slideshows with Irfanview.
there is no point in saving pictures on the computer. I always use flickr and post my pictures on myspace.
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