<p>LilD’s friend spilled some lemonade on my laptop today and fortunately it survived. But it got me thinking of the thousands of pictures I have stored on it. (I have most of my older pictures backed up on an external hard drive and have to add the newer ones to it.) </p>
<p>Do any of you store your pictures on an online storage site? Which one is the best one? Free? or Low cost?</p>
<p>I use SmugMug, which has an annual fee. It stores photos at full resolution, and I like the whole set-up and different options for viewing photos, and keeping them private. Most people like flickr, but SmugMug is more intuitive and easier to use, for me. </p>
<p>I haven’t figured out how to store videos in the cloud, so I’d love recs for that.</p>
<p>Google’s Picasa is free and it provides free photo editing software that is good and easy to use once you get familiar with it. It has a “feel lucky” option that you can click and the software makes all the necessary changes but you can edit a photo with specific options if you prefer. You can make photo albums public or private and send specific people links to see your photos. </p>
<p>I have used Picasa to upload all my photos from my computer hard drive to the photos section of my gmail account. I make the albums private and then send links to people who I want to see the pictures. Some times I let people add pictures to the albums.</p>
<p>I also use Picasa to edit and print pictures when necessary.</p>
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<p>I believe brother (who is much more technologically savvy than I) uses Picasa and Snapfish. I’ve been using KodakGallery for quite a few years. It was free until about a year ago–no annual fee, but they do require you buy at least $10 worth of stuff/year. (Not a burden for me–I often give mugs/calendars/. . . from their site.) (Which reminds me–time to order that Fathers Day present!)</p>
<p>I don’t store photos, videos or other sensitive data/information on the Cloud outside of a few pictures in the private area of my web site that’s used for sending stuff from one family member to another. I do backup onto a 2TB disk at my office and by coping photo and video files to other computers.</p>
<p>I’m considering moving my email off of gmail to something local with off-site (but not net-accessible) storage.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m not so sure about storing “in the cloud” with all of the potential security problems.<br>
I use Picasa but I think its more of an organizer of the pictures on my computer.</p>
<p>We’ve been a very happy member of Shutterfly for years. Our photos have been stored for almost 10 years that we can always access. There is no fee and never has been</p>
<p>+1 to Picasa & PicasaWeb (the online component). I like it because it’s super cheap ($5 per year gets me oodles of space - a reasonable amount is available free) AND because people can download the full resolution pictures for printing.</p>
<p>I was given a subscription to smug mug for mother’s day. Very easy to use.</p>
<p>I thought there were storage limits at Picasa, so I didn’t think I could store my collection there. Anyway, I backup my hard disk on to a couple of different removable drives and keep one at work.</p>
<p>carbonite. it backs it up automatically and there is no limit. but there is a fee</p>
<p>I like Shutterfly. It’s great for sharing with friends and family, too. </p>
<p>I also use CrashPlan and have used Mozy for online backup.</p>