Picture storage & uploads

[admin]

I've been a huge fan of Google photos and now with unlimited (albeit sometimes reduced sizes) photos its an even better deal than flickr.

-Sean

[dh50]

[quote source="/post/12180/thread" timestamp="1434038641" author="@fasteddieb"]
So far, nothing not to like - unless one is concerned about Google having access to their photos.



Uh, yeah...  

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[sandyu]

Test Google.

[charliem]

[quote source="/post/12280/thread" timestamp="1434288754" author="@kybrowns"]https://goo.gl/photos/wn2pkH8BGtKCTNx47

Test Google. [/quote][font size="3"]Scroll back in this thread to a post on June 10 from Fasteddieb. He details how to link to Goggle.
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[sandyu]

will do thanks

[charliem]

[quote source="/post/12286/thread" timestamp="1434292267" author="@kybrowns"]Seems the best I can do with TapTalk which I use reading this forum and my iPhone and Google pictures is just send a link to my pictures. [/quote][font size="3"]I think you are running into the inherent limits of the little screen. I've tried TapTalk and discarded it. I've tried the ProBoards app and it's disappointing too. So far I've had the best luck with Safari, the browser built into IOS, but I've not tried uploading or linking with it. The small screen apps just can't do what the full screen laptops can do. So, when I need pictures uploaded or linked I transfer the images to the laptop and go from there. That also gives me the opportunity to sort, organize, and save the images for future use. The mobile phone cameras are great for catching moments and getting pretty good images, but they're not good image manipulators or data storage devices.
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[daplumbr]

I finally had some time to try Photobucket and it worked fine. For me, it's an extra step because I download all my photos first to my Mac using Apple Photos. Once there, it's a easy process to upload selected images to Photobucket and share them with a copied link into this forum. I was frustrated with the opaque and needless complexity of Flickr and I don't use cloud services like Google Photos as my only storage. Using remote servers is fine for sharing, but I prefer to store my documents and my photos locally on my Macs. There are details to using Photobucket I need to learn yet, but that's no different that learning how to resize, group, and post using any other software. Now that I can use Photobucket, I'll have to restrain myself from "spamming" the forum with all of our award-winning, amazing photos (not). 

[whoofit]

[p]A great feature of Photobucket is how it works with Androids with cameras.

With an Android go to Photobucket.
Select upload.
It asks you for a location.
Select camera.
Snap your pic and it uploads automatically.[/p][p]
[/p][p]I believe that shaves two pretty long steps for most everyone. It's how I took a pic of this exotic camper in Cape Ann this weekend.[/p][p]
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