March 19, 2006

Curious George: photo gallery on a website I am looking for a way to share photos via my website. I have used Flickr, but without paying for the Pro account one cannnot download/view the original full resolution of the photo. I would like people to see the photos at full res. I checked OSWD for a good template but the designs coupled with my poor skills in setting up the page was not a great help. I tried Pixelpost but could not get past all the technical stuff setting up a database. Ideas? Am I too hopeful, and should I shell out for a pro account?
posted by T AL Z 18 years ago
  • Sorry I did not use the "Extended Description"...my bad.
  • what about putfile.com?
  • Have you considered Photobucket? I am not sure exactly what your requirements are, but Photobucket has worked very well for me.
  • Another happy 'bucket user. It depends on what size your pics are; there's a limit in the bucket, afair. And what monthly usage you're expecting.
  • I have a flickr pro account, while I could be wrong, but there is nothing preventing a free membership or a non-member from getting any of my full res images. As a free-member there are size limits (according to the FAQ), but I can't remember. Overall, I have been pretty happy with the service, and I like the community. If you would like to see if you can get full res images here is my URL. I checked by looking at my account when I was logged out and I could see them and get them. I can put limits on who can see, and download pictures, but I don't. The thing I like about flickr is what while there is a upload transfer cap (3GB pro). There are no download transfer limits.
  • I often hotlink to my images on my free Flickr account. Works fine. Here's an example.
  • I want to do the same, but the only way I see how is to use that Flickr badge wizard they have which is very inaccessible and inflexible. All I want is a URL, no strings attached - is that so hard? Photobucket is much better, but my bucket is full, guess I'll have to make another one...
  • If your primary need is to have a place to put low resolution photos to embed in blogs, ebay, etc., then maybe it is. With my flickr account, I dump 4MB photos from my 20D, they are converted in to 5 additional image sizes each with a unique URL. There is a requirement that users linking-out photos acknowledge flickr with a link back; those terms suit me as I want people to look at my pictures. There are no limits on the size of my account, nor on how much outbound traffic they generate. With photobucket, there seems to be no way to add a description to a picture, nor anyway for others to comment on my pictures, and it has outbound transfer limits and caps file size. Pay $25 to store one gig of photos of no more than 1MB each? For me. that is limiting. And, given the original question about full resolution images, I bet T AL Z might as well. The other interesting thing about flickr, is if there is something you want to do, they give you APIs to extend the tool. Find a tool limiting? Write your own, or find someone else who has. As I see it, photobucket and flickr have some features and goals in common, but there are big differences, too. To call one better is to compare apples and pears (they are related, but different).
  • If you just want the URL from a flickr photo, here's how to get it (self-linking for example purposes): 1. Upload your photo to your flickr account. 2. Select the photo from all your photos. 3. Above the photo is an "All sizes" button -- clickez-vous. 4. Select the size you want to show on your blog. 5. Copy and paste the URL flickr spits out below the photo (it will end in .jpg) to your blog. Et voila!
  • The specific example, is that I have a bunch of photos that are 1544x1024 and the largest size Flickr offers is 1024x679. I would like to offer the full original size. I like Flickr too, but it's too bad the free account only allows 3 sets...hard to stay organizewd that way.
  • Those are really, really big photos. Does photobucket store at original resolution? What about imageshack? You'll need something, presumably, that will shrink the image for your blog but link to the larger original. Maybe someone clever could write a plugin for your blog to do that, if you can find the storage.