These days we all seem to have digital cameras and take endless amounts of photos. Some great, and some not so great, but even so we often want to keep these photographs and even sometimes we want to share them with friends and family. Perhaps one of the easiest, and most economical ways of doing this is to use Flickr.
With digital cameras getting better and better all the time in terms of the quality of photos that they take, the file size of each of these photographs can also increase rapidly. My camera (a Panasonic DMC FZ7 just in case you are wondering) takes photos that are on average around 2.5mb in size. This means that your hard drive can rapidly fill up clogged with photos. I think all of my photos are taking up around 9gb of space and that is just since 2003.
The other thing that we all want to do these days is to share our photos with friends and family, so that we can share our treasured shots with those closest to us. Both of these photograph habits led me to look around for a service that would allow me to store my photos and also to share them with others.
After searching through a number of different sites, I came back to the first that I found called Flickr. This is a Yahoo company and they have produced a truly wonderful service. They offer a free service that does have some restrictions in the number of photos that you can upload and also the number of people that can view them. However I opted for the paid service which I thought was very good value for money. For £12 per year ($24) you get a unlimited space. This means that you can upload as many photos of whatever size you like. You also get unlimited bandwidth which means that the limit of the number of people that can see you photos is endless. These two things are what make the service brilliant.
But what makes it even better is the functionality that Flickr provides. You upload your photos and then they are stored however you want them to be. You can create sets or galleries of events and even collections of different events and the interface for doing all this is really easy. They also allow you to embed your uploaded photos into other sites in various different sizes. All the photographs on my blog are hosted on my Flickr account. Not only this, but your friends and family (or anyone if you like) can comment on your photos. You are in complete control of the privacy settings that your photos have so you can restrict your photos so only you can see them, your friends and family or indeed so that anyone can see them, it really is up to you.
Equal Design believe that this is a great service at an excellent price and you could do a lot worse than use Flickr for hosting your photographs and sharing them in the Internet.
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Mark Wilkinson’s Blog - Penny4Them
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