Travel Technology - Yahoo! Photos Question

Anyone else notice that Yahoo! photos is automatically adjusting the orientation and size of certain photos lately?

Example: I am currently uploading some vacation pics and Yahoo! Photos is automatically rotating certian images and adjusting the sizing. I have mutiple photos that are 1600x1200 and are horizontal. Yahoo! Photos is resizing to 800x600 and rotating the images vertical.

Any suggestions on other FREE unlimited online photo storage solutions?

Thanks
DJ

Doesn't google have something, P-something, Picassa maybe? I know I got an earlier version of it, but don't remember if it lets you store pics online. Although I am pretty sure there has already been discussion of this somewhere here on FT.

Walgreens also has some sort of photo site with the hope you will order prints at your local store.

For anyone who wants to do much more than basic photo storage, I always suggest smugmug. Yes, it's $25/year (with coupon - PM me for a coupon code), but it does so much more than anyone else. I tried out a dozen sites, and read about/ruled out about 10 others before I settled on smugmug. "Unlimited" storage (yes, there's probably some limit, but I have hundreds of full-res 6+MP photos loaded), 4GB on bandwidth a month (that's a lot, considering it's usually the mid-rez version folks will look at), up to 50MB video clips, free linking and sharing of 5 different resolutions, lots of password/hiding controls, etc., etc.

To share all you need to do is provide a URL - none of that sending an invite, forcing your friends/family to register. And it's focused on photo sharing, not making money on prints, although their print provider is better than Ofoto and Shutterfly when I've tried them.

The one thing they don't have is a free, limited version. I'll dig up my spreadsheet and notes and edit this to include what I thought was the best "free" site (I vaguely remember it to be flickr)
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Flickr was my second choice, but it depends on whether you want to be able to provide links (on chat boards, eBay, etc.), store full-rez originals, etc. Fototime and photobucket also provided decent free accounts, although fototime was the only one that allowed storage of hi-rez (>250k) photos.

PM me if you want the spreadsheet.

Doesn't google have something, P-something, Picassa maybe? I know I got an earlier version of it, but don't remember if it lets you store pics online. Although I am pretty sure there has already been discussion of this somewhere here on FT.
http://www.picasa.com/features/features-share.php

I think the only way to share them is with their blogger :confused:

Ofoto, now the Kodak Gallery also has online storage

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Welcome.jsp

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Flickr was my second choice, but it depends on whether you want to be able to provide links (on chat boards, eBay, etc.), store full-rez originals, etc. Fototime and photobucket also provided decent free accounts, although fototime was the only one that allowed storage of hi-rez (>250k) photos.

PM me if you want the spreadsheet.
Yahoo bought Flickr a few weeks ago.

I've been using webshots.com for about a year now.... a few of the things i like about it
1) you can store full resolution version of your pictures
2) they store 3 version of each photo you post (thumbnail, screen size, original hirez size) and they are easy to navigate
3) free version (up to like 100 pictures i think) then like $30 a year for unlimited
4) you can link to your pictures - ie - send someone a link to one particular picture rather than sending them to your 'home page' of sorts like some photo sites make you do

you get the idea....

here is a link to my pics at webshots:

http://community.webshots.com/user/zedthedeadpoet

Doesn't google have something, P-something, Picassa maybe? I know I got an earlier version of it, but don't remember if it lets you store pics online. Although I am pretty sure there has already been discussion of this somewhere here on FT.

Yeah, Picasa - it's more of a desktop photo management package - the only online options I'm aware it has are to upload to Blogger or to photo printing websites. Depending on how the upload is implemented, it might be compatible with any blogging software that supports the Blogger API (which many do).

Another alternative if you're more technically savvy is to get your own webhost set up, and then you can run a photo gallery (http://ben-johnson.org/gallery2/) on it for free. I end up paying about $5.50/mo for my webhost package - the software I run for the photos, Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com), is free (GPL) software.

you're more technically savvy is to get your own webhost set up, and then you can run a photo gallery (http://ben-johnson.org/gallery2/) on it for free. I end up paying about $5.50/mo for my webhost package - the software I run for the photos, Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com), is free (GPL) software.

Or you can pay smugmug less than half that amount and have them do all the work ;)

If all you're doing is picture hosting, that is.

I find Yahoo photos (and briefcase too) software VERY flaky. Many times uploads don't actually work (they grind and grind, say they're done, but nothing shows up). Uploads take forever. System goes into "tcp" error all the time.

What's up with these guys?

Or you can pay smugmug less than half that amount and have them do all the work ;)

If all you're doing is picture hosting, that is.

Which I am not. Running a blog, had a separate domain registered for info for the family when I got married last fall (plus vanity e-mail addresses), and, once I get enough free time to get the necessary photoshop work complete, hopefully making a little extra pocket money selling photos.