Upload Your Photos to the Cloud

 Upload Your Photos to the Cloud

Looking at the title, you may ask why to do this. Well, the most important reason is that you’ll be really sorry if an errant cup of coffee makes its way onto your PC, wiping away years of photographic memories. So creating copies of your digital photos on an online service is a painless way to ensure they’ll be around no matter what happens to your PC. Another reason for this is that it will be an easy way to share the photos with friends and family.

Now that it is necessary to backup your photos to the cloud, then the next question is how, how to upload or backup? There are many good, free choices. To keep things simple, use Picasa, Google’s service. After your initial upload — which may take a while, so set it up before you go to sleep — you will have a full backup of your photo library. And by inviting people to view it, privately, with passwords, you will not have to e-mail photos anymore. Anytime you have new pictures, upload them to Picasa, send a message to your subscribers, and they can view your gallery at their leisure.

For Mac users, Picasa Web Albums can completely integrate with iPhoto. It’s not a sync switch as per Picasa application, but you can export from iPhoto into web albums – also I discovered you can use iPhoto without storing all pictures in a single Library file. For example, you choose Picasa as your default instead of iPhoto, removing the photos from where iPhoto is saving them, and then you will see each album/event has a sync switch. Then is easy, you can just sync the web with your Picasa. If you own an iPhone, then you can use the iPhone app “Web Albums” which lets you post to Picasa web straight from your iPhone, it is really easily.

Beside Picasa, you can use other similar tools like Flickr and Google Docs and so on. Also you can save your photos slideshow to DVD disk for better share or keeping.