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Photo Software and Online Services
Fraz
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I'm trying to find the best option for photo management software and an online service to go along with.
The only services I've used are photobucket and now Flickr (no specific reason why), but I'm wondering if there are better options out there (like Picasa?).
As far as photo management, I'm currently using Windows Live Photo Gallery, but I've messed with Lightroom, which is a little too complicated for my purposes.
What do you guys or gals use and why?
The only services I've used are photobucket and now Flickr (no specific reason why), but I'm wondering if there are better options out there (like Picasa?).
As far as photo management, I'm currently using Windows Live Photo Gallery, but I've messed with Lightroom, which is a little too complicated for my purposes.
What do you guys or gals use and why?
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I use a flickr pro account, myself. Main reasons included my fondness for the interface and the number of other photographers I already knew who used the service.
Important question: What's your budget for both of these things and do you want the ability to sell prints or customize how your gallery looks through the online service?
Especially if you already gave a google/gmail account, Picasa is very easy to get started with.
I use flickr pro just to upload pics for friends/family to look at. most people I know use facebook for this, but I'm not into the 640x480ish size picture you get on facebook.
Something to consider - By uploading any image to Facebook, you are giving Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. If you're just putting up snapshots of a friend, then it's not a big deal, but if you are a photographer and put up any serious works it most definitely is. Stock photogs in particular will get hell from their agencies if they start giving out free licenses to the images the agencies are trying to sell for them, as this is something their contract very likely disallows.