Hello, I have been using picasaweb for several months to publish my photo, until recently I get totally pissed off because picasaweb strips off color profile tag from my photo! That made me suddenly stunt for a while when I saw my lifeless online photos from my macbook.
The reason why I didn't want to use flickr is because they strip off EXIF information from photos, but picasaweb just strips off the most important information of a photo. Another thing I don't like about flickr is the user interface, in picasaweb you can just navigate between photos freely and also zoom in and out instantly using AJAX, while you have to go into slideshow of flickr to navigate photos without clicking. Other than that you can download full size photos of a whole album using picasa while flickr does not. All these make photo publishing hard using flickr, although it might be good for sharing. And one last thing is that you need to pay for a flickr pro account to actually get the convenient capacity for a photographer.
While for photobucket the interface is still quite sux and the storage and bandwidth limitation is not much better than flickr. And it strips EXIF information too.
So can anyone suggest me an alternate photo hosting website that I can host my photos?
As an alternate I would want to host the photo on my own website, and doing so I need a good php or ruby or perl photo gallery software. I also need such software to build a website for my photography society.
The basic features I need is the following:
- No stripping of any information in either resized or original photo, including EXIF and color profile.
- Printing information of shutter speed, focal length, model, etc directly when viewing a photo.
- Ability to resize to smaller size photo and also retain the original size photo.
- Allow to directly download the whole album.
- Preferbly AJAX for navigating between photos, or at least HTML prev and next buttons.
- Good if can have slideshow
I found all these basic features are indeed very hard to find, especially the first requirement. Too bad that picasaweb is just one step close to my perfect..
For paid services its ok for me as long as it meets those requirements, but I would prefer buying a software than buying a hosting if that's the case.
So if anyone turns out to have a good website/software to recommend, do tell me!
Thank you very much!
The reason why I didn't want to use flickr is because they strip off EXIF information from photos, but picasaweb just strips off the most important information of a photo. Another thing I don't like about flickr is the user interface, in picasaweb you can just navigate between photos freely and also zoom in and out instantly using AJAX, while you have to go into slideshow of flickr to navigate photos without clicking. Other than that you can download full size photos of a whole album using picasa while flickr does not. All these make photo publishing hard using flickr, although it might be good for sharing. And one last thing is that you need to pay for a flickr pro account to actually get the convenient capacity for a photographer.
While for photobucket the interface is still quite sux and the storage and bandwidth limitation is not much better than flickr. And it strips EXIF information too.
So can anyone suggest me an alternate photo hosting website that I can host my photos?
As an alternate I would want to host the photo on my own website, and doing so I need a good php or ruby or perl photo gallery software. I also need such software to build a website for my photography society.
The basic features I need is the following:
- No stripping of any information in either resized or original photo, including EXIF and color profile.
- Printing information of shutter speed, focal length, model, etc directly when viewing a photo.
- Ability to resize to smaller size photo and also retain the original size photo.
- Allow to directly download the whole album.
- Preferbly AJAX for navigating between photos, or at least HTML prev and next buttons.
- Good if can have slideshow
I found all these basic features are indeed very hard to find, especially the first requirement. Too bad that picasaweb is just one step close to my perfect..
For paid services its ok for me as long as it meets those requirements, but I would prefer buying a software than buying a hosting if that's the case.
So if anyone turns out to have a good website/software to recommend, do tell me!
Thank you very much!