Preferred Photo Hosting Service? So what are people using? I’m looking for a cloud-based option that would allow me to share photos with family and friends. I’m primarily a Lightroom...

jwreed50 Loc: Manassas, VA

So what are people using? I’m looking for a cloud-based option that would allow me to share photos with family and friends. I’m primarily a Lightroom user, if that matters.

What do you recommend? I’ve used Flickr in the past — are there better options now?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I like Flickr. At 1000 image for free, it works good for sharing, even with ads on the free accounts. The pro accounts is reasonably (enough) priced if you use it a lot.

TonyP Loc: New Zealand

I cant recommend SlicPic highly enough.
I used the free version for a year or 2 then opted for some more features as views went up (even tho it was only intended for family and friends) so now pay about $1 per week.
Also very helpful and fast help for someone who didnt know what he was doing at first.
And even tho its SlicPic hosted etc you can have your own website address like I have.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

I haven’t used Flickr in years but was just thinking about it again and then just now I remembered that Adobe has some options that are included in the subscription. I’m not sure what the limitations are. I wonder if anyone here has used it.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

TonyP wrote:

I cant recommend SlicPic highly enough.
I used the free version for a year or 2 then opted for some more features as views went up (even tho it was only intended for family and friends) so now pay about $1 per week.
Also very helpful and fast help for someone who didnt know what he was doing at first.
And even tho its SlicPic hosted etc you can have your own website address like I have.

Thanks. That one is new to me.

SlickPic website:

https://www.slickpic.com/

SlickPic Review:

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/slickpic

Mike

TonyP Loc: New Zealand

Blenheim Orange wrote:

Thanks. That one is new to me.

SlickPic website:

https://www.slickpic.com/

SlickPic Review:

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/slickpic

Mike

Hi Mike. Couldnt find a review on that link. Id be really keen to see how they rate though. Cheers

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

TonyP wrote:

Hi Mike. Couldnt find a review on that link. Id be really keen to see how they rate though. Cheers

The link worked for me. And convinced me it’s not what I’m looking for.

jerseymike

jwreed50 wrote:

So what are people using? I’m looking for a cloud-based option that would allow me to share photos with family and friends. I’m primarily a Lightroom user, if that matters.

What do you recommend? I’ve used Flickr in the past — are there better options now?

Dropbox.
You can send a link to your folder with the pictures you want to share.

YNY Loc: Youngstown NY (Western New York)

jwreed50 wrote:

So what are people using? I’m looking for a cloud-based option that would allow me to share photos with family and friends. I’m primarily a Lightroom user, if that matters.

What do you recommend? I’ve used Flickr in the past — are there better options now?

I like and use SmugMug.

ncribble Loc: Albuquerque, NM

If you are a Microsoft user then you have Free OneDrive account good for 5GB and it works excellently.
I subscribe to the use Excel and word on my Mac and this gives me a free 1 TB OneDrive account. One cannot beat the price or the service.

Norm

steve49 Loc: massachusetts

YNY wrote:

I like and use SmugMug.

Ditto here.

mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma

I use Dropbox

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Dropbox (has a free account) is good for sharing photos with friends and relatives. Dropbox can handle any file, not just photos.

Flickr (has a free account) is good for sharing photos with friends and relatives, but can also show your photos to everyone else (you can set permissions to public or private or friends). Also includes forums for exchange of information. Flickr is photos only.

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

jwreed50 wrote:

So what are people using? I’m looking for a cloud-based option that would allow me to share photos with family and friends. I’m primarily a Lightroom user, if that matters.

What do you recommend? I’ve used Flickr in the past — are there better options now?

Flickr isn't bad. I was having a problem sending photos of city parks for a job I was doing for a city. My son heard I was having a problem and told me about Dropbox. He said he used for contracts and other things he did for his company. I went in and being the dummy I am couldn't figure it out. He came over and walked me through it and it turned out to be a really good way to send and share my photos. Give it a look see. Thanks

Tom

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I have been a Flickr subscriber for many years and currently have about 45,000 photos hosted there. I like the hierarchical structure available for organizing photos there. Lightroom also has a function that directly uploads photos from it to Flickr (and to SmugMug) and I like that, too. My church uses SmugMug, so I use Lightroom to process my photos to both hosts.