When it comes to choosing the right photo sharing Web site for your photo albums, it is important to make sure that you are choosing a site that you will be able to work with for awhile. After all, it takes great effort to upload all of your photos online - who wants to have to move them to a new site once the upload process has already be done once?
This article will not recommend photo sharing Web sites; you should decide which site is right for you based on your experiences. However, this article will give you some information about the sites that are available online.
Price
While many people might use a photo sharing site to simply upload photos for others to view, some photo sharing Web sites offer exceptional rates for photo printing. Snapfish, for example, not only allows users to upload photos for sharing, but the service also offers printing for only $.09 per photo. Photos arrive by mail so you never even have to leave the house!
Many online photo sharing Web sites are free for users. However, there is a price to print photos and other merchandise. Plus, when you first sign up with a service, you can usually get your first 20 or so photos printed for free!
Additional Products
One of the most valuable aspects of some photo sharing sites is not only that users can upload their photos for friends and family to view, but users can also use those photos to make products. For example, with Kodak Gallery, you can upload photos to your online photo album, then take your favorite photos to print on a mug, T-shirt, greeting card or other product.
Here's a snapshot of just a few of the products that Kodak Gallery lets you make:
Advanced Options
Many photo sharing Web sites offer advanced options for their users for an additional fee (usually the fee is under $30.00 per year). These advanced options may allow users to do such things as upload photos from a camera phone, use a password to keep all of your photos private (a valuable feature), allow full-resolution uploads and downloads, and provide users with a unique Web address that they can give to their friends.
If you are considering investing in a photo sharing Web site and would like to truly have control over your account, it may be a wise idea to pay a little extra for the peace of mind and features that are provided through the advanced options. After all, if photo sharing is truly something you enjoy, paying a little extra could be well worth the cost if you get so much in return.
