Muse
Lifer
I've been doing this for a while, but it's not without problems from my perspective. It works, if you can figure it out... which I haven't exactly done. I have several albums up on the cloud that I've uploaded from one or another of my machines. I can and have shared them with select groups of people (an organization, my family) at one time or another. I've done this by bringing the photos (JPGs) into Picasa and diddling with Picasa's features, which are to me befuddling much of the time. Picasa wants to scour your HDs and make a nice nest of your photos, unless you instruct it to not do so. You can manually import photos into Picasa, if you turn off automatic garnering of your photos.
You can upload photos to your cloud, or albums. What you get is to me confusing when I try to put a link in, say, an Anandtech thread to include a photo in the thread. It's doable, but not obvious to me why sometimes the photos are tiny, sometimes not, sometimes truncated. Not really user friendly, IMO, the GUI you get when dealing with your photos/albums online or locally with Picasa is opaque!
Now, I'm wondering one thing right now: I have Picasa installed on two of my PC's, not on this one. I figure from this machine maybe I don't have to actually install Picasa, that there must be a way to gain access to my cloud collections and individual photos, get URLs I can send to people or include in forum threads, get links I can post privately.
My original posting site unfortunately went down (http://fox302.com/index.pl). The photos I posted up there, I have, I suppose, but they aren't on the cloud anymore. Alternative ideas for image hosting appreciated. I haven't ever paid for this. It's not something I do a ton of, but occasionally I want to include a photo or set of photos in a thread and once in a while I like to upload an edited photo shoot, usually for a set of people to access.
You can upload photos to your cloud, or albums. What you get is to me confusing when I try to put a link in, say, an Anandtech thread to include a photo in the thread. It's doable, but not obvious to me why sometimes the photos are tiny, sometimes not, sometimes truncated. Not really user friendly, IMO, the GUI you get when dealing with your photos/albums online or locally with Picasa is opaque!
Now, I'm wondering one thing right now: I have Picasa installed on two of my PC's, not on this one. I figure from this machine maybe I don't have to actually install Picasa, that there must be a way to gain access to my cloud collections and individual photos, get URLs I can send to people or include in forum threads, get links I can post privately.
My original posting site unfortunately went down (http://fox302.com/index.pl). The photos I posted up there, I have, I suppose, but they aren't on the cloud anymore. Alternative ideas for image hosting appreciated. I haven't ever paid for this. It's not something I do a ton of, but occasionally I want to include a photo or set of photos in a thread and once in a while I like to upload an edited photo shoot, usually for a set of people to access.
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