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Photo sharing, storing service on the web

March 25, 2009

I was looking where to store photos on the web. Because my external hard drive after 3years of using broke down, I decided to store all my photos in the web.
I’m not a photographer, so not so many pictures taken per year.
I had one major criteria for service. The service must allow store pictures in original format, and allow them download later as I saved them in original format. So, no clipping, compressing and etc.
Second – it could show slideshows. It’s very useful, if you want to show them for your friends and family.
Third – unlimited storage.
So now I’m using flickr Pro.

  • Flickr Pro – payed, but cheaper than to buy another external hard drive. Stores pictures in original format. Nice slideshows.
  • Picassa – limited storage, compressed pictures, no slide show. Good, if you have gmail, so you can use same credentials.
  • Microsoft live – that’s a good candidate. Stores pictures uncompressed, slideshow. But limited total space to 25Gb. I whish I found it earlier.
  • Facebook – awful. Compressed pictures, no slideshow. Good just to store pictures to show for friends. You can integrate Flickr into Facebook.