Online Photo Storage

i set up that yahoo account hastily because they fucking forced me to have a fucking yahoo account in order to use flickr and i was in a hurry to log in (probably after spending 2 hours finding the fucking sign in link in the first place see above) none of the security questions were any good so i probably typed some bullshit answer to the pet question (i didn't have a fucking pet) thinking it's no problem as they will surely tell me my USERNAME if i do it from my alternate email address. USERNAME! and i would have KNOWN THE FUCKING USERNAME AS IT WOULD BE THE SAME AS THE URL OF THE SITE IF IT WEREN'T FOR FUCKING YAHOO FUCKING UP THE FUCKING THING IN THE FIRST PLACE

i happened to have remembered that username about a month later, no thanks to yahoo who would have never told me that piece of fucking top clearance security info.

Haha, okay ken, I guess I'm just so used to that front page that I automatically know where to click. Fair enough.

I think I know what you mean, the little box on the right, but I only see a thumbnail of the next/previous photo. I'm thinking I'd rather have a facebook-like thing, where the next/previous links bring up full-sized photos rather than scroll through thumbnails.

Hmm, maybe we're talking at cross-purposes here, I'm not sure. With the facebook thing you just click a text link that brings up the photo, right? With flickr, you see what's next/previous in the thumbnail, then click that to go to whichever full-sized photo you want to see next. So I find it better than facebook as you have an idea of what you're going to, instead of clicking text blindly. The scrolling through thumbnails is also a bonus, as you can skip a photo or two if you so desire. Or am I missing something about the facebook functionality?

In other photoshop news, there's a version control plugin out as well. Should probably start a software thread.

I will be truly impressed if they've figured out how to diff .PSD files. Version Cue does not and thus does not store deltas.

Found the link for it: http://pixelnovel.com/timeline

Each time submitting a new version of a Adobe Photoshop file Timeline uploads only the difference. Not the whole file again

Intriguing!

Oh, wait. You have to use their storage?

At least this might pressure Adobe to implement it officially...

just signed up using yr link, stet

testing 1 2 3 ...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/821832/IMG_2072.jpg

cool!

this really is a 1000x better than pissing around with flickr

I don't have a problem with Flickr - we've got nearly 6,000 images on there (many private or friends & family).

It's not perfect - in fact, using a private set as an online contact sheet for a wedding turned out to be an enormous faff, partly because Flickr did something odd with the ordering of images, partly because I still had to relate the tags added by the choosers to my own filtering in Lightroom. The whole thing would've been better served by just exporting that chunk of the LR catalogue to a collection* and giving that to the Happy Couple for them to go through during the 30 days of a LR trial installation or something.

(* - I don't really know if this is feasible and, yeah, someone should start the software thread)

i gotta say that whole oh are you using your yahoo sign in or your flickr sign in period was pretty lame

I don't need to log in, as I CLICKED ON REMEMBER ME. That said, when they switched to that yahoo thingie, I fuxored up: I couldn't remember my yahoo account. so now I now have a stevie.nixed one. haha

Basically, I like that when viewing photos in fb, you just have to click the photo (or 'next') to see the next photo. I don't mind that I don't get a preview. It is nice that flickr gives the option to skip over photos and see them in advance (via tiny thumbnails, anyway...), but refreshing the entire page when you click on a new picture is bad bad design. Anyway, most of the things I dislike about flickr are probably nitpicky and weird, because enough people like it to suggest as much.

I mean, someone else using flickr won't stop me from having a look through their photos, but it's unlikely I'll use it again for my own.

yeah the 3 sets limit is a bit of a turn off from flickr. they should restrict free access another way, limit photo size maybe.

They changed the 3 sets thing in the last week or so, I think.

I have <3 for flickr. It's fine.

thanks for the dropbox link, that looks really useful. btw, the board description is lol, well done whoever.

I use Photobucket, and have done for years, for crappy photos or stuff I just want to stick on forums as jokes or whatever. I treat Flickr much more as... a storage place for photos I'm proud of / want to keep /show off.

Flickr took a bit of exploring to get used to, but it's so much nicer than Photobucket. I've been a bit put-off lately by a couple of guys with nothing but pictures of big dongs in their photostreams adding me as a contact (presumably because of my snow-cock photo?!), but other than that, it's great.

I got a pro-account for free by sweet-talking an acquaintance who uses BT internet or whatever and thus has loads of email addresses of the right kin to hook up; five minutes fiddling sorted it out. Smashing!