Best website to publish Photos to share with friends and family?

[evident]

I really have no idea what subforum this should be in but I figured this one would have alot of serious photographers who upload their pics to share with people.

So, why do you prefer smugmug over flickr, or picassa or whatever you use?

I dont mind paying a small fee. I've been going on alot of trips recently and made great use out of my new G11 and all of my friends and family have been dying for pics. I would like to have a place to upload them to share with everyone. having photos being close to original size would be nice too. It needs to have a simple interface for people viewing the site. having it easy for me to upload would help too of course!

So can you guys tell me what you use to upload your photos and why?

 

[corkyg]

I guess this forum is as good as any. I have used SmugMug for several years. Why? It allows me to post and edit albums designed to be viewed by a large circulation (my college classmates.) It allows me to easily manage, caption, and organize things the way I want them, and then link them to our class website. It is very user friendly.

When I started using SmugMug, Picassa and Flikr did not exist, and soon things get too big to change easily.

I believe our Mod, Fuzzybabybunny, also uses SmugMug.

 

[bobdole369]

I like flickr a lot. It's what my wife uses, she got me the pro acct, and thats been that. Never tried the smugmug or picassa.

 

[xchangx]

I use smugmug as well. Lots of customization opportunity

 

[twistedlogic]

I believe smugmug is geared more towards making your own photo page. Like mentioned above, its really customizable. Also smugmug offers you the ability to sell prints and take care of your sales.

Flickr is more of a social sharing site. Free members are offered 1024X768 res and 200 photos, and if you decide to upgrade you have access to the full res originals.

Try them both,

Edit: Flickr Pro acct - $25/year
SmugMug - Standard: $39.95/year • Power: $59.95/year • Pro: $149.95/year

 

[angry hampster]

I love my Zenfolio site. I use it for proofing and selling prints. It's already paid for itself, but it isn't terribly cheap.

 

[alfa147x]

I use flickr for its social network but I have my own website running gallery2

 

[randomlinh]

flickr for social sharing, that's it. almost photoblog like really. I really hate that you can't pick a larger default size though.

smugmug for sharing with family/friends/business. highly customizable (tho, I also have a pro account). easy to lock out access to different groups (I can create a subset of galleries for friends, one for family, and some galleries can overlap between the two). I also like the people for the most part. They are pretty open to how they run it in a broad sense.

I'd like more control on how passwords are handled, almost as if i had a sub-smugmug site and could dole out usernames for certain groups of pics, heh. But thsi is getting nit picky insane.

zenfolio is also a nice alternative, i find browsing it faster than smugmug actually.

picasaweb is actually pretty good too, especially with it's picasa integration. it fails a bit if you have a LOT of pictures (in the sense it'd be cheaper to go w/ smug/zen)

 

[evident]

i signed up for smugmug. there's a coupon for 50% off it was nice but it was down for scheduled maintenance yesterday. hopefully try it more this weekend

Use coupon code: SMugSHot

 

[Davegod75]

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