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Flickr etc won't work since.. - actually, Flickr is a great solution. Just get an Pro account for $25/yr which comes with unlimited uploads and unlimited sets.

by raghus 18y ago

Flickr etc won't work since.. - actually, Flickr is a great solution. Just get an Pro account for $25/yr which comes with unlimited uploads and unlimited sets. You can even set up Flickr uploading to upload lower res files right from your DSLR biggies and get the whole upload done much much faster. You can tag each others photos and pick the best by favoriting etc. add comments, ask questions etc. There's much you can do with Flickr - I'd definitely look into that option.

jgamman 18y ago
thanks for the tip, i'll spend some time investigating this but still 25$/year...
- brlewis 18y ago
  Problem with the tip is flickr favoriting doesn't work so well for letting a group pick a good subset of a large batch of photos. Favorites are more for letting your friends know great individual photos you've discovered as you wander flickr. More apropos to what you're doing is ourdoings.com's option (on by default) to let anybody move a photo between the "featured" and "more photos" sections for a given entry. Make an unlisted site just for your friends, tell them to click on the "Edit" tab and volunteer. Once you approve them, everybody can upload, etc., so it's a nice group site. It's integrated with Clickpass (a YC startup), so registration is trivial. You can edit photos after uploading thanks to integration with Snipshot (another YC startup). If $25 is a lot of money, maybe you should make your site public rather than unlisted. That way you could collect tips with tipjoy (another YC startup). Public sites are also the only ones that can use Disqus integration, until such time as Disqus supports private comments. OurDoings is the only photo-sharing site with Disqus comments.
  - raghus 18y ago
    Hey, you forgot to say that Disqus is also a YC startup ;-)
    - brlewis 18y ago
      Caught! ;-)
- raghus 18y ago
  If you're ok with not being able to see each others' original out-of-the-camera-full-res files, you can 1) first use Irfanview to batch resize them down to 600x400 or something. Irfanview is so much more lightweight than Adobe CS and does batch resizing beautifully. 2) upload the small sizes to your free Flickr a/c (100MB max/month) 3) still get all the goodies of favoriting, commenting, discussions etc.

by raghus 18y ago

jgamman 18y ago

thanks for the tip, i'll spend some time investigating this but still 25$/year...

brlewis 18y ago
Problem with the tip is flickr favoriting doesn't work so well for letting a group pick a good subset of a large batch of photos. Favorites are more for letting your friends know great individual photos you've discovered as you wander flickr. More apropos to what you're doing is ourdoings.com's option (on by default) to let anybody move a photo between the "featured" and "more photos" sections for a given entry. Make an unlisted site just for your friends, tell them to click on the "Edit" tab and volunteer. Once you approve them, everybody can upload, etc., so it's a nice group site. It's integrated with Clickpass (a YC startup), so registration is trivial. You can edit photos after uploading thanks to integration with Snipshot (another YC startup). If $25 is a lot of money, maybe you should make your site public rather than unlisted. That way you could collect tips with tipjoy (another YC startup). Public sites are also the only ones that can use Disqus integration, until such time as Disqus supports private comments. OurDoings is the only photo-sharing site with Disqus comments.
- raghus 18y ago
  Hey, you forgot to say that Disqus is also a YC startup ;-)
  - brlewis 18y ago
    Caught! ;-)
raghus 18y ago
If you're ok with not being able to see each others' original out-of-the-camera-full-res files, you can 1) first use Irfanview to batch resize them down to 600x400 or something. Irfanview is so much more lightweight than Adobe CS and does batch resizing beautifully. 2) upload the small sizes to your free Flickr a/c (100MB max/month) 3) still get all the goodies of favoriting, commenting, discussions etc.