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[T_L_Bryant]

I'm thinking of backing my pics up online and am somewhat bewildered by the plethora of choices.  Also those sites that are set up to let photogs actually sell their pics are interesting.  Do pics actually get sold off of those sites?

[goofy166]

I think the grand daddy of all free storage sites is Flickr, which lets you sell your photos and set them as protected in various ways. Another neat site is Google's Picasa, which works with a desktop application.

One of the oldest and more famous paid site is pbase. I have never seen a good comparison of photo storage sites and if anyone would like to write such an article I would be willing to do a trade for anything in our store.

[T_L_Bryant]

Thanks, I'll check those out, but I don't know if I'm up to writing an article.

[Photgog]

This is not information on online backup... but I just bought a 2 TB external hard drive storage from Fry's electronics for 269.00.  That is a lot of storage... and can be set up as RAID 1 storage which cuts the storage to one Terrabyte but gives you duplication on one storage system. 

Fraser 

[wissa]

i use dropshots for my family pictures, because you can password protect it.

[avwh]

I use zenfolio, which I found much easier to use (both in uploading and using layout templates) than pbase, and is less cluttered than Flickr (and is priced similarly to pbase, IIRC).

If you want to see what a zenfolio gallery looks like, mine is here (lots of bird pics, FWIW!):

http://allenh.zenfolio.com/

 

 

[Chris Rezendes]

goofy166:

I think the grand daddy of all free storage sites is Flickr, which lets you sell your photos and set them as protected in various ways. Another neat site is Google's Picasa, which works with a desktop application.

One of the oldest and more famous paid site is pbase. I have never seen a good comparison of photo storage sites and if anyone would like to write such an article I would be willing to do a trade for anything in our store.

For free, Picasaweb is waaaay better for storage purposes.  You're allowed more storage space and room for much better organization and labeling.  That being said, Flickr is far more interactive, you can send messages to people, you can add notes to pictures (yours or those of others), and you can start or join groups in order to share your photographs and attract similar photographs from others.

I use both, personally.

[riverotter]

Since you inquired about selling photos on sites, I use redbubble.com

I've sold a few images, it's based out of Australia.  The other sites mentioned are good as well.  The only one I use to sell is redbubble.

Here's a link to my portfolio if you're interested: http://www.redbubble...ople/riverotter

[T_L_Bryant]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[johnd]

Do these storage sites ( i use photo bucket) reduce the quality of the pictures you upload?

[cabirds]

Most photo sites will scale the image several different scales, then have an "original" option.

Any scaled image has a reduction in quality. The "original" wouldn't have been reduced.

[LindyFish]

I have been using SmugMug for years.....love it.

[Liam]

I use Panoramio, imgur, and flickr.

[Benjamin DeHaven]

I use Zenfolio to display and sell jpeg edits (keeps them safe as well) and I use Carbonite to back up all my Raws, edited layered tiffs and finished jpeg output. With my actual photography (unlike the mostly awful bird grabs I get on these quick warblers I need help IDing) losing a Raw file would be very upsetting. Losing an edited layered tiff file (300-600mb each) would mean losing an hour(s) of work. I am not aware of any free sites that allow you to upload Raw or large Tiff files. Carbonite is a real load off my mind, it is not free however. I think I paid about $60 for a year of unlimited storage. Not needed for everyone, perfect for some.

Benjamin