Overview Of Photo Sharing Services

Convenience is perhaps the single most important factor when considering which free photo sharing site will suit you best. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of services to choose from and the average new-comer might be forgiven for finding themselves a little bewildered as to which one is best for them. At first glance most services will seem to offer very similar features, some obviously being for advanced than others. A standard feature set of any service that you are considering should contain all of the following:

• Multiple uploads including zip support
• Album / folder organisation
• Groups, public & private access
• Search facility
• Tags
• Unlimited storage
• Free accounts

Convenience And Ease Of Use

Once you've managed to figure out that all the services on your free photo sharing site shortlist meet the basics of the above features, it's time to look a little for closely at how they work for you. As already stated above, convenience is arguably the most vital ingredient when making the decision of which service to choose. Albumsnaps, for example, is known amongst its loyal members for its ease of use and concise feature set. When you use an online service it's vital for most people that the interface is self-explanatory. Confusion is the last thing an user wants to be faced with.

More Advance Features

Features may vary widely between photo sharing services and should also be an important factor in your decision. You might be a professional photographer who likes to tweak your photos once they been uploaded to you account, and the degree to which you can tweak varies a lot. Albumsnaps provides a relatively simple feature set in this case, but others may provide you with a complicated set of tools to edit every detail of your pictures. Caution should be taken here. It's all very well a site providing an entire editing suit, but does it over complicate the user-interface and make the end-user experience confusing? Surely fine editing of photos is better left to professional software like the GIMP and Adobe Photoshop? These tools are designed to give you the power to fine-tune your images. Photos sharing sites, in my opinion, should concentrate on the job at hand and provide a straight-forward intuitive service for sharing images.

Conclusion

At the end of the day whichever site you choose to provide you with your image storing & sharing needs will boil down to personal preference, but in my (shamelessly biased) opinion, you are very likely to feel at home with the service from Albumsnaps.

Rich Birch

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