Dropbox for photo-sharing? or alternative?

Bloodrayne · 25 Mar 2017 at 17:23

Hi

I'm currently looking for somewhere to host/share my photos online (with family and the like), and quite liked the look of Dropbox as a potential way to do things.

Has anyone had experiences with them? Are they recommended, or do other alternatives do the job just as good? I've tended to use Picasa on my computer as a way to sort/view photos, so not sure if I should stick to Google?

It's a fairly hefty chunk of images that I would be uploading and adding too (100GB+), but I'm not against paying for the service - but anything with a decent iOS app would also be great.

Cheers,
BR

Scam · 25 Mar 2017 at 18:08

Flickr give you 1tb free nowadays. It's all catered towards sharing photos. I view Dropbox as more of a filesharing service rather than photos. It's a bit like sharing a folder with your folks to browse 'manually', rather than giving them a nice gallery to thumb through. I'd go for Flickr if you want to send out links to nice galleries/albums.

Bloodrayne · 26 Mar 2017 at 07:52

Cheers - that sounds good, will take a look at Flickr, I had an account ages ago but certainly didn't have 1TB of storage!

coolsurfer · 29 Mar 2017 at 00:27

I've not used Flickr but I have Dropbox Pro and it's great for sharing photos. There a view pics on this site that show how it looks when you share the link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2032507/the-simple-practical-way-to-share-a-dropbox-folder.html

Essential they get thumbnails and can view/download the pictures in full res by clicking on them.

Personally find it easier with Dropbox as you know that everything contained in your local Dropbox folder is being backed up in realtime.

Efour · 29 Mar 2017 at 04:47

Google drive. Done.

Ok apple user, no idea.

Semple · 29 Mar 2017 at 08:12

Google Photos platform is quite nice, the only downside is if you choose for the unlimited photo storage, then they get compressed. So you may want to keep the originals elsewhere.

Luke · 29 Mar 2017 at 09:05

Another vote for Flickr

Scam · 29 Mar 2017 at 13:07

coolsurfer said:
Essential they get thumbnails and can view/download the pictures in full res by clicking on them.

This is a good reason NOT to use Dropbox for photo sharing. I don't want everyone being able to download my originals!

Bloodrayne · 2 Apr 2017 at 12:36

Thanks all - sadly my my email account seems linked to some older Flickr account I had set up and I've been going around in circles trying to fix that today, added to the fact that it wants me to set up a Yahoo account means that as nice as it looks I may look into others again.

Dropbox looks good, and I would only be sharing the files with a controlled friends/family group, so no real issue with people downloading the pictures (they're not exactly high quality art...) - I used Gmail/Picasa/Drive so it may be that Google Photos will actually make the most sense though (it has an app that looks reasonable too), just so long as it doesn't try and force Google+ on me...