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Please recommend me a photo sharing site.

I've spent a couple of hours looking at the big photo sharing sites but I'm sort of confused as to which one I should go with. I'm mainly going to use it to share photos with friends and family. Nothing public. I've looked at the following sites:
Flickr
Windows Live Photos
Picasa Web Albums
Photobucket
My ISP's own photo sharing.
Here is my criteria:
1. When inviting friends, they should not have to sign up before viewing photos. Most will not bother signing up. I should be able to send them a link via email and then when they click on it, it should just bring them to the gallery.
2. When I upload new photos or update an album, the site should automatically notify my friends and family via email that something has changed.
3. Possibly have friends upload their own photos to the same album or new album. I could create a public user id on that site so that my friends and family can log in using that account. Rather than creating an account of their own. Couple this with #2 above, I think it would work well.
Can somebody recommend a photo sharing site that can do this or anything that is close enough to the criteria above?
Thanks in advance.

you wanna so much
maybe if you have a server and make your own you can give all this offer to your friends.

I use both flickr, ms photo sharing and googles Picasa
all of them are free and works for my needs

I've decided to use Windows Live Services because it does most of what I need... and also because I have a hotmail account. Those of my friends that have live or hotmail accounts can be on my "network" and they receive updates of new photos that get uploaded by me and vice versa. they can comment on my photo and I've given them permission to upload their own photos - like when we go out to a dinner party and they have pics of me, they can upload it to my album.
Those that don't have a live/hotmail account are still able to view my album, but they will not be able to add additional photos.
With the addition of Windows Live Photo Gallery, I don't even need to open a browser to upload photos, I can do it all from within that app. I found that it uploads to flickr accounts too.
Nice, I think Microsoft has done a decent job with these Live services.

with the program gladinet cloud desktop
you can access your live dirs such as photo sharing as a drive
Z in my computer
I use that to easy navigate files around using total commander

Rudegar said:
with the program gladinet cloud desktop
you can access your live dirs such as photo sharing as a drive
Z in my computer
I use that to easy navigate files around using total commander
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Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.

This might sound obvious, but have you tried facebook?
So many people have a facebook account these days that you shouldn't particularly need to worry about them having to sign up just to view your photos, and it should do everything else you need.
Alternatively, flickr is probably your next best bet.

iammorris said:
This might sound obvious, but have you tried facebook?
So many people have a facebook account these days that you shouldn't particularly need to worry about them having to sign up just to view your photos, and it should do everything else you need.
Alternatively, flickr is probably your next best bet.
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Actually, yes, I've tried facebook. The problem with it is that I haven't figured out how to share photos with specific people (like family only). If I upload some pictures of my kids, it seems like your entire friend list can view these photos. Not good considering that I have some friends who are just acquaintances.
I've been playing around with Windows Live and the more I use it the more I'm liking it. The Windows Live Photo Gallery (an install to your PC) makes uploading photos so easy. Also, the web interface for Windows Live Services looks very good... unlike Google's.
The one thing that I love about Windows Live Photos is that you can share photos with people who are not a part of Windows Live. You basically send out a specialised URL to an email address and that person just clicks it to view the photo gallery. People who are on Windows Live and are a part of your network have even more options. They get instant updates on when you add photos or comment on a photo. Not only this, Windows Live is about permissions. When you setup an album, you have several options on who you want to share it with and what they can do with it (ie. upload their own photos). I don't think anyone else has this kind of functionality.
The other thing that I just discovered with Windows Live is that if you have a camera phone (who doesn't nowadays) and you have a data plan, you can actually upload photos to specific albums from your phone. All you do is enable the feature in Windows Live and for each album assign a keyword + secret word. This keyword+secretword combination makes up a unique email address. Hence, once you've taken the photo, just email it to the unique email address and it gets put into your album automatically and instantly. All the people on your network will get notified of a new photo. That's pretty neat...
Microsoft has really done a good job with their Live services.... now, if only they could get the Live calendar to sync to my WM device OTA... then I would consider becoming a MS fanboy.

ckl...that's very good info on windows live! I'll check it out since it sounds a lot more flexible than the Flickr I'm using...

I've always been a big fan of Picasa. It's one of the Google services that's being integrated with mobile devices along with PC and Mac platforms. So not only do you have online access, but also mobile/desktop access. I likey :].

[Q] cloud

Hi
Guys i ve been recently to many countries on a trip where i took many pics... its some where around 8 gb.... i want to send all these files to my dad...
So is it possible that i can sync all these files onto my dads laptop from my phone....
P.s. i also have a copy of these files on my box storage(grabbed when they were offering the 50gb space).... but its not letting me download multiple files at a time....

If by box you mean dropbox, then just setup and use the camera upload feature. Go to setting in dropbox and turn the camera upload on. Have your dad download and install dropbox on his computer and then just give him your account information. The pictures should automatically sync to his computer if you have set everything up correctly.

[Q] Dealing with thousands of photos

Since the camera is insanely great on this phone I have racked up thousands of photos over the past few months.
It takes me a long time to do the following:
- Sort the photos on the phone's gallery into manageable events (because the phone sometimes mixes my work/home photos etc)
- delete bad photos from the phone's gallery
- log into G+ and go through the thousands of photos again, sorting them into albums again.
- delete the pictures from the "auto-upload" section of G+ (I treat this kind of like the gmail inbox and like to empty it out once in awhile)
It's a crazy number of steps. I do want to keep auto-backup, because I do find it very useful to be able to share photos and albums so effortlessly. Also, when I want to wipe my phone, I don't have to worry about backing any of them up, because I know they are all backed up already. Also, I don't want to miss out on any auto-awesomeness. So I don't really want to turn it off.
So how do the rest of you deal with your thousands of awesome photos?

I don't have near the number of photos you have, just between 150-200 at a time. I have set Dropbox for auto upload and after taking a few snaps I go into the gallery, delete pics I don't like and share to FB or Twitter some of them right away. Synching only via Wi-Fi allows me to delete bad ones when I took plenty
When I reach an unmanageable number of photos on any phone, I just keep the ones I really like and store the remaining on my HDD and the cloud using SkyDrive.

ajua said:
I don't have near the number of photos you have, just between 150-200 at a time. I have set Dropbox for auto upload and after taking a few snaps I go into the gallery, delete pics I don't like and share to FB or Twitter some of them right away. Synching only via Wi-Fi allows me to delete bad ones when I took plenty
When I reach an unmanageable number of photos on any phone, I just keep the ones I really like and store the remaining on my HDD and the cloud using SkyDrive.
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I have it set to only auto-upload when im on wifi and plugged in, which I figured would work great. But it turns out I'm on wifi for about 80% of my photo-taking. And when I'm on wifi and I plug in, its because my battery is dead and I want it to charge... not the best time to be uploading hundreds of images.
I suppose I just have to delete them quicker, but with this camera, there are so many good ones that I don't want to lose. It's also not as easy with the sense camera as it is with the stock google camera. In the camera-roll view you could just swipe photos down to delete them.
I guess what is really annoying me is that I want to keep up a gallery on the phone, and one on google+ photos, and they don't sync like they should. If I sort photos on the phone, google+ should mirror the sorting. But it doesn't, it just dumps them all into one huge auto upload folder. So you end up with a messy phone gallery, or a messy google+ gallery, or you maintain both.

Actually deleting photos from Picasa permanently... HOW?

People are fooled by the numerous videos on Youtube on how to remove those annoying Picasa photos from being seen on your device. But all those videos show the exact same instructions which only remove the photos from syncing to that device. It does not delete them. Once you buy a new phone, those photos will show up again.
I would like to know where they are coming from. and delete them permanently.

All photos backed up from your phone are in Google+ Photos. If you delete them there it will ask you if you want to delete the photo everywhere.
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heyjoojoo said:
People are fooled by the numerous videos on Youtube on how to remove those annoying Picasa photos from being seen on your device. But all those videos show the exact same instructions which only remove the photos from syncing to that device. It does not delete them. Once you buy a new phone, those photos will show up again.
I would like to know where they are coming from. and delete them permanently.
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Use an app called Picasa Tools. From there you can change the albums to Hangouts. Select and delete the pictures you want.
I'm guessing that any Picasa gallery app would work?

There are a few ways to delete from Picasa.
1) open google photos. delete from there. It will warn you that it will delete pictures even off of your device, however.
also remember to open the side menu and empty the trash, they don't get deleted immediately.
2)go to your google + photos on an actual computer. you can delete them through there without worrying about them being deleted from your phone. However, if you have auto backup on, it'll just reup them again anyways.
to change what gets uploaded, open the side menu in google photos, go down to "on device" and uncheck(disable the cloud icon) the folders you don't want backed up. if you don't want any backing up, make sure you turn off the photo syncing in your google account settings on your phone. (settings - accounts - google - *your account* - uncheck Sync Google + Photos) Then clear the cache on your gallery app and reload the app, it'll all be gone.

If they keep reappearing try this: Get on a desktop computer > sign into google account > go to picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos?noredirect=1 and delete the actual photos at the source.
It will give a huge list of the places that the photo is being deleted from! Caution: this deletes the photos from EVERYWHERE including blogger posts, etc

Question about Gallery app

Hi All,
New to the Note 5, but I'm enjoying it a lot. One thing I can't figure out is how to show my dropbox and google drive/photos pictures in the Gallery app. On my moto x and nexus 6, the gallery app shows pictures from all cloud services.
I have auto upload and sync enabled in both dropbox and google photos, but my Gallery app only shows pictures that are stored locally, like those I took on the phone's camera.
Is there a way to get my photos from those cloud services to show in the Gallery app?

Same here.. On note 4, everything was in one gallery..

I haven't tested because i do not want my drop box photos showing.
1. Make sure you have the drop box account added from the market. (I came from a Note 3 and drop box was automatically installed but it is not with 5).
2. Go to settings > accounts. Click the plus to add an account. It will show you all your aps. Drop box will not be highlighted, select it.
3. When you select and re-sign in, you will be asked about photo uploads.
4. Make sure you have sync turned on. This is the step I did not do.

scramer said:
I haven't tested because i do not want my drop box photos showing.
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This does not make the Gallery show Dropbox pictures. If you read my post, you'll see I already have camera upload and sync on.
Thanks anyway.