Collaborative picture hosting sites?

[Locut0s]

Ok so I'm looking for something that I'm not sure exists.

A few weeks ago I took it upon myself to scan in all of my grandfathers slides, negatives and photos. Been meaning to do something like this for a long time. This is something that is going to take quite a while since there are probably thousands of photos over the years. I have no problem scanning them in but I have no idea how to organize them. All of that knowledge belongs to the rest of my extended family.

So what I'm looking for is a site that can host photos, preferable a LOT of photos and if possible even high rez ones. But more importantly than that a site that would allow people to collaboratively tag, rename and comment on the photos. I would just give my extended family the URL and they would do the work of naming and commenting on the photos. Otherwise it's just a jumble of photos with some very rough organization.

Does such a site exist? The closest that I can think of is Photobucket which I'm already on. But it's awkward for most of these tasks.

 

[vshah]

create a google account just for this purpose, and upload the pics to picasa. give everyone who wants to help with the project the login info for that account.

 

[lxskllr]

Setup an sftp server on a spare computer.

 

[Locut0s]

create a google account just for this purpose, and upload the pics to picasa. give everyone who wants to help with the project the login info for that account.

I'm ashamed to admit that I've never used Picasa. So I'm assuming it has this collaborative aspect to it? One issue would be the 1GB limit. The images are 20MB TIFFS on my HD, so I would OF COURSE resize and compress them for upload but I wonder how much I would have to to get all of them into that 1GB. I could rotate them in and out too I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Locut0s]

Setup an sftp server on a spare computer.

Yeah that's an idea. But if it came to that I would just write my own wed site for it. I've thought of doing that anyway. Lots of hosting sites out there offering several TB of space or unlimited space and lots of other goodies.

 

[vshah]

I'm ashamed to admit that I've never used Picasa. So I'm assuming it has this collaborative aspect to it? One issue would be the 1GB limit. The images are 20MB TIFFS on my HD, so I would OF COURSE resize and compress them for upload but I wonder how much I would have to to get all of them into that 1GB. I could rotate them in and out too I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion!

photos under a certain resolution don't count against the picasa space limit. it doesn't have specific collaboration, but you could simply have everyone use the same account in order to get read and write access to the albums.

Here is how it looks:

• Google+ users: 1 GB of free storage space, photos of a maximum dimension of 2048×2048 do not count against the limit. This basically means that Google+ users can upload as many photos to Picasa as they want, as long as the photos do not exceed that resolution.
• Google users: Users without a Google+ account get the same free storage space but a lower maximum resolution that users can upload for free. The resolution that does not count against their photo hosting space if the maximum resolution is not larger than 800×800 pixels.

So as long as you get google + on the new account you make, you're all set.

 

[Ichinisan]

Windows Live Photo Gallery integrates with Windows Live SkyDrive and you can authorize other users to organize / modify the albums.