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What web service should I use for a photo-a-day project?

Asked by deusexmachina (170points) January 18th, 2009

My roommate is doing a “photo-a-day” (for a year) project with one of her friends. I initially suggested flickr, but the free version only displays the last 200 pictures taken.

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asmonet's avatar

Instead of hosting individual images, most people who take on this project do so by saving the pictures and then making a movie out of them set to music.

If the photos aren’t of her, but of other things, look at some artist communties like deviantart.com where all mf her images could be arranged in a gallery.

Besides those options, she could buy her own domain and set up her own gallery online, which is incredibly simple. :)

ben's avatar

@asmonet good suggestion.

If you’re simply looking for a “free” flickr, you could check out zooomr.com. Also, if you’re not needing high-res, you might do well with a super-simple blogging service like tumblr.com. Yeah, that might be good.

asmonet's avatar

@ben: Thanks! :) I didn’t even think of a zoomr.

And I’m mad at you and Andrew. Just you know, you’re currently preventing me from doing my Sociology homework. stupid Awesome Fluther.

exitnirvana's avatar

www.fotologue.jp has a nice, professional set-up. Although it is based in Japan the service does provide an english-speaking option upon registration. Oh, and did I mention its free?

Wordpress.com is also nice as far as blogging is concerned. I use them myself and their set up is incredibly simple that allows for super easy image uploading and posting.

ark_a_dong's avatar

Like exitnirvana, I was going to suggest setting up a blog.

deusexmachina's avatar

@exitnirvana fotologue.jp seems pretty awesome, but I can’t register! It just sits there after I hit “submit”—oh well.

Blogging is definitely a fine idea, though the service would have to have image upload capability. tumblr looks good in that regard.

Thanks guys!

ssteward's avatar

Flickr is really nice – I’m a big fan – and it’s easy enough to work around the 200 photo limit on the free account. Just give every one or your photos a unique tag such as “xxdeusexmachinaxx”. That way you can retrieve all you photos by searching in everyones photos with this tag. You can then do a slideshow of the results in chronological order.

I guess is all depend on what you want to do with the output. Slideshow, movie, annotate each one, etc.

exitnirvana's avatar

@deusexmachina hmm that’s lame, I tried re-registering to see and it seems its doing the same to me as well. :shrug: well it’d definitely worth it if you can get past that snag. Sorry ‘bout that!

pekenoe's avatar

Picasa at Google, 1024mb free storage, no lame 200 pix limit, way better than Flicker. Downsize your pix to 100kb each, that gives you room for 10,000??

pekenoe's avatar

My Picasa gallery Pix

deusexmachina's avatar

Wow, Picasa is basically exactly what I need: the ability to do slideshows within an album! :D

pekenoe's avatar

I’m not sure why everyone overlooks the Google goodies, but they sure miss a lot of neat stuff.

Glad you like it.

deusexmachina's avatar

@pekenoe There just so many… I forget what I have signed up for :D

pekenoe's avatar

@deusexmachina me too until they tell me that user name is taken already :-) I love Pekenoe, it’s the only one in the world, knock on wood.

steelmarket's avatar

Pay a little and open an account with SmugMug. Unlimited number of photos, images sizes as large as you wish, loads of customization options for your “site”.

mcbealer's avatar

@steelmarket ~ smugmug is beautiful! I’m thinking of switching from flickr…

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