Online Photo Storage

I keep my flickr account here, but have been using a rotten PhotoBucket account for quick stuff to post.

I've been using Dropbox for this. They have a picture sharing thing, but I ignore it. Just drag photos into your public folder, and right-click on them to get a link you can immediately paste anywhere. It's pretty awesome, actually. I hate uploaders and manually uploading.

don't like flickr's confusing interface and charging-money-ness, so only post nice pictures there.
photobucket for quick and dirty uploads
facebook for funny stuff, or party pics.

I am not a fan of flickr at all — I signed up to host some photos a few years ago and was annoyed that I couldn't have more than three photosets. I don't like the way it browses, like when you're viewing a picture you can't just click a 'next' or 'previous' button to scroll through things without using the slideshow feature.

I've uploaded a few nice-ish things to facebook and photobucket but I'd really like to invest in my own chunk of webspace at some point and set up a basic page with simpleviewer. This dropbox thing looks decent though, so I might give it a spin.

ok stet i signed up for dropbox and after two minutes i'm a total convert. thanks for link.

Oh, here, if anyone else wants to sign up for dropbox use this link and we both get extra free space: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTM2MDE4OTk

don't like flickr's confusing interface

Confusing, really? In what way?

I couldn't have more than three photosets

I have to agree that this is a bit of an arse for those without paying accounts. It really is very cheap to sign up to the full flickr, and I've never been annoyed at having to do so, but yeah, it's a bit of manipulation on their part.

when you're viewing a picture you can't just click a 'next' or 'previous' button to scroll through things without using the slideshow feature

Yes you can! In the top-right, there is exactly this functionality, with little preview pictures of what's previous/next in the photostream, and if it's in a set you get previews of what's previous/next in the set.

You guys should use Photoshop. You'll be drooling all over flickr soon. We have to use it for our class. But then I noticed in the course they copied the bit where Photoshop apparently has rights over your pictures! FOREVAH. I mean, it's still yours but they can use it however they want to (and not have to pay you). Ek?

I use flickr. As with everything else I'm exceptionally lazy about organizing my pics. :-(

Have never heard of a file hosting place called Photoshop.

https://www.photoshop.com/

Stet, check it out. Didn't know until I enrolled in the course.

Oh, yes, I knew about that. Hate Flash, so avoiding it like the plague.

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

Yes you can! In the top-right, there is exactly this functionality, with little preview pictures of what's previous/next in the photostream, and if it's in a set you get previews of what's previous/next in the set.

Oh, here, if anyone else wants to sign up for dropbox use this link and we both get extra free space: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTM2MDE4OTk

― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:35 (4 hours ago)

sorry!

don't like flickr's confusing interface
Confusing, really? In what way?

trying to sign in is one example

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/signin.jpg

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

don't even get me started on fucking yahoo sign in

this following was me trying to get them to let me know what my USERNAME was when i forgot it

Hello Ken,
Thanks for writing to Yahoo! UKIE Customer Care.
We understand that you are unable to access your Yahoo! account.  We
apologize for the inconvenience caused and will do our best to help
rectify this issue.  
The Security Question listed on this account is:
What is your pets name?
Please supply us with the Secret Answer you entered at the time you set
up your account. We will then be able to verify and update your
information.
We are waiting for your reply to assist you further.
  
Regards,
Merry
Customer Care - Yahoo! UK & Ireland
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment is confidential
and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the named recipient
only.
Original Message Follows:
-------------------------
Hi,
It's [some date].  Maybe the email form I used mixed up the month and
day.
 Can I have my user ID now?
Thanks
Ken
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Yahoo! UK & Ireland Login Support <
uk-acco✧✧✧@c✧.yahoo-✧✧✧.c✧✧> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for writing to Yahoo! UKIE Customer Care.
>
> A search for your Yahoo! ID using the alternate email address you
> provided does provide a match.
>
> We have reviewed the verification information that you have provided.
> However, we were unable to match the date of birth that you provided
> with the information that was entered during registration or when this
> account was last updated. To protect the security and privacy of all
> accounts, we are unable to provide login or other account assistance
> without completely verifying the account.
>
> Please resubmit your request, and remember to match the information as
> it was entered when you originally established your account, or when
you
> most recently updated your information.
>
> We look forward to assisting you with this account once the
appropriate
> verification information has been received.
>
> Regards,
>
> Customer Care - Yahoo! UK & Ireland
>
> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment is confidential
> and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the named recipient
> only.
>
>
>
>
> Original Message Follows:
> -------------------------
>
> >>REDFRMCON Case ID: 77872888
>
> Hiya, strange you cannot find my account even though your system can
> send me
> emails..
>  if it helps, it's this account. http://flickr.com/people/kenjuggle
>
> if you can at least let me know which email that is associated with,
> it'll
> be great help - even better figure out why it's sending automatic
emails
> to
> this email account.
>
> Thanks
> Ken
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Yahoo! Account Services <
> my-login-h✧✧✧@c✧.yahoo-✧✧✧.c✧✧> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Account Services.
> >
> > We understand that you have forgotten the ID and password of your
> Yahoo!
> > account asscciated with your Flickr account. We apologize for the
> > inconvenience caused.
> >
> > We have manually searched our database for a Yahoo! ID associated
with
> > the alternate email address and verification data you supplied, but
> have
> > not found a match. We are only able to locate a Yahoo! ID by using
the
> > alternate email address currently listed on the account. Please
> consider
> > email addresses you have had in the past, and resubmit your request.
> If
> > there is no match for the alternate email address you provide and
you
> > can not remember your Yahoo! ID, then you will need to sign up again
> > with a new account name.
> >
> > Moreover, Please provide us with the Flickr screen name.
> >
> > Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Account Services.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rhodes
> >
> > Yahoo! Account Services Customer Care
> >
> > For assistance with all Yahoo! services, please visit:
> >
> >   http://help.yahoo.com/
> >
> > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - better than ever!
> >
> >
> >
> > Original Message Follows:
> > -------------------------
> >
> > Mail-Id:
> >
w11.help.sp1.yahoo.com-/l/us/yahoo/edit/general-01.html-1233315351-100
> >
> > 1.  What is your name and Yahoo! ID?
> > ------------------------------------
> >      Name:
> >
> >      Yahoo! ID: don't know
> >
> > 2.  What is the email address where we can contact you?
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >      Email Address: [some email]
> >
> > 3.  What is your date of birth? (mm/dd/yyyy)
> > --------------------------------------------
> >      Date of Birth: [some date]
> >
> > 4.  What is your zip or postal code?
> > ------------------------------------
> >      Zip Code: [my post code]
> >
> > 5.  What is your alternate email address on file?
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >      Alternate Email Address: [some email]
> >
> > 6.  What are you writing about?
> > -------------------------------
> >      Subject: Sign in & Registration - Other not listed
> >
> > 7.  Enter additional information here:
> > --------------------------------------
> >      Hello, flickr keeps sending me messages to my gmail account
about
> > stuff happening on my flickr account, but i don't know what my
> > username is and there appears to be absolutely zero way i can find
out
> > what this username is, as the form on the website asks me
> > 9324903489023849023848902390848203 questions when really all you
need
> to
> > do is email me my username that is linked to that gmail address,
> > surely??  you're telling me every single detail about who has
just
> > become my contact on flickr, afterall.  If you can email that to me,
> > that will be great.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ken
> >
> >
> > "Information Passed In":
> > ------------------------
> > "from_url" : http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/
> > ------------------------
> >
> > While Viewing: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/
> >
> > Form Name: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/general-01.html
> >
> > Yahoo ID: don't know : NOT verified, authorized by CAPTCHA Yahoo
> id
> > from form
> >
>
"https://amt.yahoo.com/amt/dosearch?.token=TJGQPJWDdvxY7jb6GiqNwcCOtV.kb
> > a.M.MmbgueSHOwebPfb"
> >
> >
> > Other ID:
> >
> > Machine: Unknown
> >
> > OS: unknown
> >
> > Browser: Default Browser 0
> >

oh god

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!