Online gallery and photo management software
I need to find a decent gallery software and photo/video host that works with it. Any ideas?
I tried Picasa, but Google limits you to 1 GB of pics online and the uploading interface within Picasa isn’t wonderful. I’ve got about 600 MB right now just on my hard drive, and probably another 800 MB on an external.
I like Zooomr a lot, too, but its interface is still a little clunky and it was down for almost two months when an upgrade went bad. I also don’t care for its long user page URLs. I would prefer a subdomain or a first-level directory. I really like its OpenID login, though.
I don’t want to use Flickr because of its affiliation with Yahoo!. It’s not that Yahoo! is bad, I just don’t want to be yet-another-Flickr-user. However, Flickr seems to be about the top dog right now.
Photobucket doesn’t have the management for which I’m looking, or at least I don’t think it does.
I’m looking for something with albums, data reading from EXIF, license management (can specify which photos I want to be paid for use), and an offline album management tool like Picasa.
I used to use SPGM, but got annoyed because it doesn’t do thumbnails on-the-fly. I had to use Gallery Mage to generate, but I couldn’t upload from it because I use only SFTP on my server and Gallery Mage can only do regular FTP.
Facebook is out because of the long URL for public albums and its downscaling of the pictures without being able to see the original. Yeah, I could TinyURL it, but then I’d have to remember 10 random characters.
Ideas, folks?
Manoj Nair:
Hello Colin,
So all you gotta do is browse through all the newly uploaded folders and walla!
17 June 2007, 8:04 amIf you are using SPGM and are worried about having to create thumbnails, you can use the webmin plugin which can be downloaded from the plugins section of the SPGM website. Here’s what to do after installing webmin. Upload the images to any folder using FTP. After you are done uploading, simply browse to those folders through webmin and webmin will automatically create thumbnails for you.
Colin Dean:
Interesting. I hadn’t heard of that plug-in. Of course, it’s been ages since I updated SPGM–I designed the True Blue theme on the SPGM site the last time I had it installed, and that was in high school 4 years ago.
I’ll definitely have to check it out.
18 June 2007, 8:49 amColin Dean:
It would let me choose a license for the picture. Meaning, I can say that anyone can use a picture but not commercially, or perhaps no one can use a picture without paying me for its use no matter the use.
Anyway, several years later, I use several photo hosting services, but Facebook and Flickr are probably my top used ones. See my Social Connections page’s Media section for links.
7 April 2010, 7:02 am