Which is better, iPhoto or flickr?

well there’s a question! iphoto is the logical starting point for mac users but more advanced users tend to move on to something else….flickr is very well known and possibly the most popular service…to be honest i think the two are interconnectable these days so should not matter strictly, but sorry can’t help you on how…but those in the know say google’s picasa is the best service going and i think i would try that one too…

@tadpole I’m basically trying to find a place ro put all of the hoots that are piling up on my iPhone. I figured instead of throwing them into iPhoto and taking up storage on my computer, I’d find some sort of cloud storage. Trying to decide whether to drop iPhoto all together though.

Flickr’s free account browser only shows you 200 photos. It doesn’t throw them away after 200, but they’re hard to find.

For free I prefer Google’s Picasa Web Albums, and I really like its desktop organizer/uploader Picasa.
http://picasa.google.com/

well for cloud storage you do have apple’s paid service mobileme…it’s not that cheap, and i don’t know if there’s much organization, i think the cloud storage called iDisk is basically just 20GB and you put what you like in it….but it keeps you in the apple family and you could sync it all together so that you could access anything in your mobileme account on any mac hardware you had? for simplicity’s sake might be good, it does free up your mac pc HDand your iphone HD…but you pay for it so…?

I like PhotoBucket, I’ve used it for years. I don’t know how Mac compatible it is, but I’ve never used or been impressed by Flickr, nor have I ever heard of iPhoto, so.

I use iPhoto, which I hate, and TinyPic.com, which I find easy. But I do not store thousands of pictures and ruminate over them. (Mac owner.)

the new iPhoto has it so you can select photos from within it and share them on flickr….

@mrrich724: Is there a way I can upload a photo already in iPhoto as a desktop .jpeg?

Why not just upload them all to Picasa? It might be worth looking into – it’s free, reliable, and superbly functional.

@gailcalled

ooh, i don’t know. sorry. all i know is i take photos with my kodak easyshare (whatever format that probably is), and they go straight into iPhoto when I plug in my SD card. And from there they share onto Flickr.

You’re kinda comparing apples and oranges here. iPhoto is a desktop software designed to help organize your photos that are stored on your local hard drive. Flickr is a photo sharing website.

If you just want to store your photos on your hard drive, iPhoto is a great solution to keep them organized. If you want to upload your photos online to have access from any computer or share them with friends, Flickr is the better option.

At the same time, you can use both services. Flickr eXporter is a great iPhoto plugin that can upload photos from iPhoto directly to your Flickr account.

good point @mhl12

@tadpole I actually have MobileMe. But the iDisk is only 20 gb. I was looking form something unlimited. I take a lot of random pictures and don’t want to have to worry about filling up.

@wyrenyth iPhoto comes loaded onto macs. Yea, vie heard good things about photo bucket too. I’ll have to add that to the list.

@mhl12 I know the comparison is strange. I jut have so many random and various oils that I take but don’t want to delete. They are not quite able to nave organized encase they are really random like a picture of a coffee or a tree, and I’m worried about running out of room on ingot. I have s small hard drive in my MacBook air. I’m not too into the whole sharing fester on any of the cloud sits, just the unlimited storage.

@rguest If you want unlimited storage, Flickr is your best option. $25 a year is really hard to beat. And if you do not wish to share your photos, you can upload them all as private images, so only you or people you invite can view them.

@rguest sounds like you are a serious photo taker!!! if 20 GB is not enough! that is assuming you are not using 19GB of that for mp3s!

the best cloud storage is prob dropbox, accessible online and on any desktop when you download it to there….but you will be paying for big allowances and i don’t know if they do unlimited…

sounds like flickr have a good package from @mhl12 ‘s comments…

@rguest what do you make of mobileme? worth getting overall? i have ipad and desktop…...

MobileMe is amazing. Get it!

I’m admit up front I’m a little obsessive about this, ok?

I use iPhoto for my photos first, for tagging, naming and organization like folders. (And because that way they get backed up on my machine.)

But “keepers” get sent to Flickr & MobileMe for backup.

In no way, do I suggest that all of this is necessary. :)

@netgrrl no I love this answer! So do you store photos in iPhoto at all? I’m worried that my harddrive will get filled up. I have 2,000 random photos and counting on my iPhone that I want to keep, but can’t quite be organized. I’m thinking of getting aperture for editing, but need a place to keep all my pics. How does an external harddrive work? Or is it better to put them in the cloud so they’re always accessible?

At last count I had about 3,000 photos on my iPhone, so that’s how many I have in iPhoto. For me it’s just the easiest way to get my photos off my phone or camera & somewhere I can tag ‘em. You can set up keywords in iPhoto, then make smart folders based on those keywords. It makes organization pretty easy.

As far as hard drive space, if I had a smaller HD I might be concerned. But I have 1tb in my computer and my time capsule so it isn’t something I’ve given much thought to.

Flickr makes a good backup source because if by some chance you did lose them off your HD & backup, you can download them at the original size.

(You can also upload to Flickr and MobileMe directly from iPhoto, which is handy.)

@netgrrl yes sounds like a great little system you’ve got going…

@rguest i would choose cloud storage above a HD, for convenience…if you are a mac fan with mobileme i would use that and as @netgrrl says organize them etc via iphoto and flickr plus idisk…sounds like a good solution..

sounds good..thanks guys!

@netgrrl so you store in both flickr and mobileme? Is there a reason for that? Also, I’ve got a timecapsule too, but havent used it for external storage at all. Do you store photos on your timecapsule?

I just uploaded a small album from iPhoto to Flickr, which I find much easier to navigate and send to friends. Milo having a typically rough day.

@rguest Time Capsule backs up my entire HD so that’s photos too.

The Flickr/MobileMe thing just evolved. I was using Flickr 1st. I had a .Mac account from way back I never used much. At some point it became so easy to export from iPhoto to MobileMe I just started doing it. It’s overkill, I know. It’s just very little work on my part. Set the folders & let it update.