Sharing Your Group Vacation Photos With Flickr and Picasa
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You’ve been away for the best group vacation ever, you’ve all taken tons of photos of each other, but then you go back to different parts of the world and you never quite get around to emailing around copies of your photos. Plan ahead and avoid this scenario by setting up a group folder on a photo sharer like Flickr or Picasa, and you’ll all be able to relive the highlights of the trip and laugh at the crazy photos you took on the last night.
Photo-sharing websites are easy to use, free for a basic account and have all kinds of useful features for storing, managing and sharing your holiday photos. Here’s an overview of two of the most popular sites, Flickr and Picasa:
Flickr is a massive photo storage website that’s now owned by Yahoo. The homepage shows amazing stats that around 2000 photos are uploaded in the average minute; and in total there are hundreds of millions of photographs online. But don’t let that scare you, because Flickr also hosts groups, so you can easily create a very manageable little corner for photos from all your group trip members.
When you start a group on Flickr, you can decide if the images that are uploaded will be public, invitation-only public, or completely private. As well as having an area for a group pool of photos, Flickr groups also have a discussion group for chatting amongst yourselves.
Picasa is a similar photo storage site, and this time it now belongs to Google. The Picasa Web Albums section of the site is where you can upload and share your photos. Unlike Flickr, you’ll have to download the Picasa software first, but this is quickly done.
An important difference here between Picasa and Flickr is that Picasa doesn’t have a dedicated group sharing tool the way Flickr photo pools work. But you can still decide the privacy level of your photo albums and send the link to traveling companions who want to see your photos.
Now that giants like Google and Yahoo have taken on the majority of the photo sharing market, there are quite a few perks for users. When I signed in for Picasa Web Albums, for example, I used my Google account and that meant that Picasa automatically uploaded the photos from my blogspot.com blogs, since they’re also owned by Google. That cuts down on doing things twice, and it’s a few simple clicks to turn my private photo album now into a page my friends can see.
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