Google Picasa vs Flickr

[LemonScrub]

Hello,

i want to backup my photo's to the cloud, and only have them backed up to the cloud, not local.. which is the preferred place, picasa or flickr.. i see since google launched google drive, the price for storage on picasa went from $5 / year to $2.49 / month.. The one advantage i can see picasa having over flickr is that you can also use your picasa storage for docs and files as well.. So which to choose?

 

[Elimentals]

If you have an Android device, use Google+ and instant upload feature on the device. (Just copy them in batches onto your phone)

Any photo's uploaded via this method does not consume your Picasa Available space and you can still use Picasa to manage em

 

[DJ...]

I'm very new to this but use DropBox as my cloud storage and upload to PicasaWeb if I want to hotlink the pics to my blog or share them with people. Not sure if I'm doing it right though - I just know it works for me so far...

 

[LemonScrub]

If you have an Android device, use Google+ and instant upload feature on the device. (Just copy them in batches onto your phone)

Any photo's uploaded via this method does not consume your Picasa Available space and you can still use Picasa to manage em

I will be using my iPad to upload, i currently am using the free 1GB space with my gmail account, and use Web Albums app on the iPad to upload

 

[goga]

Hello,

i want to backup my photo's to the cloud, and only have them backed up to the cloud, not local.. which is the preferred place, picasa or flickr.. i see since google launched google drive, the price for storage on picasa went from $5 / year to $2.49 / month.. The one advantage i can see picasa having over flickr is that you can also use your picasa storage for docs and files as well.. So which to choose?

Give Zenfolio or Smugmug a look.

May be a bit over the top - depends on what you're looking for (just basic cloud storage, or something more suited
to photos).

Zenfolio at $60/year - unlimited storage, raw/jpeg/video etc, offers neat gallery setups, and you can choose to download a full gallery in zip form if you need to "recover" data. Neat iPad/iPhone apps too.

 

[bwana]

Since you're using the iPad why not take advantage of the iCloud photo backup? iirc you get 5gb to start with and it's seamless.

Otherwise. . . Dropbox is pretty good and the free gb you can earn by various methods soon add up. When I signed up for Skydrive they gave me 25gb free storage.

For me cloud backups are a pipe dream at the moment the pipe is too small and the data too expensive.

 

[DerekH]

I'm very pleased with flickr, also have a Picasa account but not as user friendly as flickr.. I'm not using any of them as online storage, but rather as display windows..

 

[gregmcc]

I use picasa and store all my pics in the cloud. Picasa is nice but has some annoying features like duplicate contacts when you sync to google contacts.

 

[Rouxenator]

I use Flickr to show off how talented I am
For just getting pics onto the interwebz I use either PhotoBucket or imagebam

 

[bwana]

I use picasa and store all my pics in the cloud. Picasa is nice but has some annoying features like duplicate contacts when you sync to google contacts.

I'm at the point where I'd never be able to stop uploading 24/7 to get everything up to the cloud!

 

[Paul_S]

if you're trying to backup large numbers of photos then an external hard drive which is kept off site is going to be much more affordable over the long run than cloud storage.
If you're a casual snapper then a few GB's will probably be enough but if you're into your photography and you have a high resolution digital camera (>10MP) then you're going to be better off using hard drives for storage.

For example:
20000 18MP JPEG photos at 6MB each uses 117GB of storage
5000 18MP RAW photos at 25MB each uses 122GB of storage
Total storage space required: 245GB

A 500GB Dropbox account will set you back about R412 ($49.95) per month!
A 2TB hard drive on the other hand will cost R1200 which means that the hard drive pays itself off in three months and provides four times the storage space.
Over a 5 year period the 500GB Dropbox account will cost R24720 so you'd be saving over R23000 by using a hard drive.
Google Drive is R165 ($19.99) per month for 400GB which is cheaper than Dropbox but you're still going to pay a lot over a 5 year period.
Skydrive is the cheapest but is limited to 75GB.