Flickr

Well, I have uploaded a couple thousand photos to Flickr. It was a painless process assisted by a Flickr Uploader software installed on my notebook. The software can do image resizing on the fly but I decided to resize my photos before uploading. I could have uploaded the original image however if I wished but it would have taken days to upload all those photos.

A couple of things I like about my Flickr Pro account -- and they may exist in the free version too -- is that you have access to online photo editing and photo management tools. With the photo editing tool, you could do cropping, colour saturation changes, brightness, contrast, and other useful photo editing functions. The management tools allows you to create collections and sets, and apply three different levels of access permissions on each photo. I could for example create a collection for my trip to California and within the collection, I could create sets for each day of the week or for specific locations and events. Because these photos are of my family, I could make it so only family members can view them. If I had wanted friends to view some pictures, I could also open them up to friends. These can be done one a file-by-file basis or set-by-set basis.

What I don't like about the management tool is, there is no way I could find to select multiple photos in set and apply global changes to them. For example, I may have a family photo set. If there are twenty photos in the family photo set I want to share with friends, I have to open each photo individually and change its permission setting. I thought you might be able to use the Ctrl key to select multiple photos but that did not seem to work.

With Flickr, I have stopped using JAlbum.