Easy Way to Share Photos
Jerry
asked: I have photos on my phone, and I want to be able to display them on the
Web so anyone can look at them. I’ve looked at services like Flicker and
Google+, and they’re too complicated for me. Is there some brain-dead simple
way to share photos publicly without having to do any work at all?
There are certainly a ton of
photo-sharing services out there (not to generalize, but it seems that the
millennials feel the need to share every detail of their lives in the public
eye, something we baby boomers have a hard time with). Pinterest
(pinterest.com) is one of the most popular, and its apps for phones are simple
to use. It isn’t really what Jerry was looking for, however—he wants to be able
to create online photo albums that his friends and family can peruse, and he
doesn’t want to have to upload each photo individually.
We’ve mentioned it our favorite
solution here several times in the past, but it continues to do the best job,
with the least effort, as far as we’re concerned: Dropbox. Not only does
DropBox make it simple to share files, it handles photos specially,
automatically creating an online photo album for the photos. You simply create
a new folder inside the Photos album in your DropBox folder, and DropBox
creates a nice display of the images in the folder as a photo album online.
Another great alternative is Copy.com, a newer file-sharing service. Copy.com
doesn’t require you to place your photos in a special folder—if it detects that
a folder contains photos, it provides a nice user interface for viewing the
photos. Both services are free, and using either of the following links gets
you some extra free space when you sign up. For DropBox, use http://db.tt/61wCYxV. For Copy.com, use https://copy.com?r=YMHsL9. Both services
do a great job displaying photos publicly without any extra effort on your
part.
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