Are there any good online photo sharing sites like Picasa that offer more precise sharing options?

Picasa is great but the one thing I don't like is that an album is either public and available for all to see or private and only "shareable" via email invitation. Yahoo is similar but it adds an option that allows you to give access to Yahoo members in addition to the all public and email invite options. Can anyone recommend a site (doesn't have to be free) that would allow me to set up a list of users by email address or even just a password on an album that I could share with people?

Asked by amazingplace 60 months ago Similar questions: online photo sharing sites Picasa offer precise options Arts > Photography.

Similar questions: online photo sharing sites Picasa offer precise options.

You didn't mention Flickr, which is probably the most popular right now It's the one I'd most recommend, but you might also want to try myphotoalbum.com/. I'm less familiar with them, but take a look at it and see if it meets your needs. But I think Flickr is what you're really after.

Here's a little more info:flickr.com/Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means.

Professional photographers and graphics designers often tend to prefer Flickr over other services. The more professional images are harder to find on sites like Photobucket or Webshots. OrganizationFlickr allows photo submitters to categorize their images by use of keyword "tags" (a form of metadata), which allow searchers to easily find images concerning a certain topic such as place name or subject matter.

Flickr provides rapid access to images tagged with the most popular keywords. Because of its support for user-generated tags, Flickr repeatedly has been cited as a prime example of effective use of folksonomy, although Thomas Vander Wal suggested Flickr is not the best example of folksonomy. Also, Flickr was one of the first websites to implement tag clouds.

Flickr also allows users to categorize their photos into "sets", or groups of photos that fall under the same heading. However, sets are more flexible than the traditional folder-based method of organizing files, as one photo can belong to many sets, or one set, or none at all (the concept is directly analogous to the better known "labels" in Google's Gmail). Flickr's "sets", then, represent a form of categorical metadata rather than a physical hierarchy.

OrganizrOrganizr is a web application for organizing photos within a Flickr account. It allows users to modify tags, descriptions, and set groupings, and to place photos on a world map (a feature provided in conjunction with Yahoo! Maps).

It uses Ajax to closely emulate the look, feel, and quick functionality of desktop-based photo-management applications. Because of this, Organizr greatly simplifies the batch organization of photos, which is more cumbersome with the web interface. Access controlFlickr provides both private and public image storage.

A user uploading an image can set privacy controls that determine who can view the image. A photo can be flagged as either public or private. Private images are visible by default only to the uploader, but they can also be marked as viewable by friends and/or family.

Privacy settings also can be decided by adding photographs from a user's photostream to a "group pool". If a group is private then all the members of that group can see the photo. If a group is public then the photo becomes public as well.

Flickr also provides a "contact list" which can be used to control image access for a specific set of users in a way similar to that of LiveJournal. In Fall 2006 Flickr created a "guest pass" system that allows for private photos to be shared with non Flickr members. For instance, a person could email this pass to parents who may not have an account to allow them see the photos otherwise restricted from public view.

This setting allows sets to be shared, or all photos under a certain privacy category (friends or family) to be shared. Many of its users allow their photos to be viewed by anyone, forming a large collaborative database of categorized photos. By default, other users can leave comments about any image they have permission to view, and in some cases can add to the list of tags associated with an image.

Interaction and compatibilityFlickr's functionality includes RSS and Atom feeds and an API that allows independent programmers to expand its services. The core functionality of the site relies on standard HTML and HTTP features, allowing for wide compatibility among platforms and browsers. Organizr uses Ajax, with which most modern browsers are compliant, and most of Flickr's other text-editing and tagging interfaces also possess Ajax functionality.

Images can be posted to the user's collection via email attachments, enabling direct uploads from many cameraphones and applications with email capabilities. Flickr has increasingly been adopted by many web users as their primary photo storage site, especially members of the weblog community. In addition, it is popular with Macintosh and Linux users, who are often locked out of photo-sharing sites because they require the Windows/Internet Explorer architecture to work.

ArchivingWith an active free account users only have access to the most recent 200 images he or she has uploaded. Older images are not deleted, and are still accessible via their URLs (e.g. Linked from another website); however, they will no longer be accessible to tag or edit from the user's Flickr account. If a user decides to upgrade to a Pro account, then they will regain access to the photos older than their current 200.

LicensingFlickr offers users the ability to release their images under certain common usage licenses. The licensing options primarily include the Creative Commons attribution-based and minor content-control licenses.As with "tags", the site allows easy searching of only those images that fall under a specific license. Integration with Yahoo Web SearchSince August 2006, web searches for some terms, such as "Funny pictures" have displayed some flickr results.

Sources: http://www.flickr.com/ .

Flickr, totally Flickr is the best sharing site I think, geared to techie types and normal users. Gh quality photographers and lots of ways to get seen. Free memberships available and about $25 a year if you pay and then you get unlimited uploads.

I use it: flickr.com/photos/jaxphotograpjy I hope that helps you.

Here are a few you can try snapfish.com" rel="nofollow">snapfish.com allows you to upload as many photos to a album and when you want to share you just click share photos and you have to input the e-mail addresses. Also another is kodakgallery. Com I havent tried thier photo sharing feature yet but its one you can try.

And you don't have to order photos from these places or anything :) hope that helps! Sources: snapfish.com" rel="nofollow">snapfish.com & kodakgallery.com .

Photo sharing You might try Picture Trail picturetrail.com or Photobucket photobucket.com Flickr flickr.com Webshots.com .

1 newbie134923, regarding your answer "You didn't mention Flickr, which is probably the most popular right now":Thank you for the information. I signed up for both flickr and myphotoalbum to try them out. It looks like flickr requires someone to be a member to view an album if the album is private.

I am going to try and work with myphotobucket for a while to see how that works out for me. Thanks again for taking the time to answer my question.

Newbie134923, regarding your answer "You didn't mention Flickr, which is probably the most popular right now":Thank you for the information. I signed up for both flickr and myphotoalbum to try them out. It looks like flickr requires someone to be a member to view an album if the album is private.

I am going to try and work with myphotobucket for a while to see how that works out for me. Thanks again for taking the time to answer my question.

Does Picasa offer same services as Snapfish.

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