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What are the best online photo manager solutions?
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Best online photo manager solutions
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Platforms
Tethered capture
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Lightroom
$9.99/mo
Windows OSX
Yes
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Google Photos
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Flickr
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Dropbox
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Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, Windows Phone
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Mylio
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Lightroom
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Lightroom
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Lightroom
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Intuitive interface that's streamlined for a photographer's workflow
At a high level the interface is organized into broad groups of tools called workflow modules. Modules like "Library" for asset management and "Develop" for manipulating the photos. Each module displays only those tools that are needed for that task. This allows you to separate concerns between tasks and reduces interface clutter. When you're, for example, developing the image, you're not bothered by interface tools relating to exporting it. Within each module tools are grouped in a logical manner. Develop module, for example, will group tools relating to basic image adjustment, lens correction, and effects. And there are a plethora of keyboard shortcuts that improve the workflow speed even further. At all times you can easily navigate between images you're working via arrow keys, quickly compare images before and after making edits with \, or see side by side comparisons with y.
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Platforms:
Windows OSX
Tethered capture:
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Excellent asset management capabilities
Lightroom allows, for example, organizing images based on folders, color labels, flags, rating, keywords, GPS location, it can automatically create smart albums (albums that automatically update based on set rules) and it can be set to automatically backup, rename based on set rules, apply default processing, add keywords to images on import. It offers that functionality in an intuitive way and allows extensively customizing layout, behavior and workflow of managing assets to better suit your needs.
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Google Photos
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Google Photos
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Google Photos
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16
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8
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The web version lacks certain features available on mobile apps
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Can search photos
Text in photos, the content of the photo, and so on can be automatically searched. So one doesn't need to categorize to later find photos. Manual categorization is still possible.
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Can be a little messy
No option to archive photos which already in albums.
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Can automatically back up phone's photos
Any images taken with your phone can automatically be backed up to Google Photos. And the first time you run the mobile app it will also help you back up any existing images and videos you might have on your phone.
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Backup and Sync app is not available for Linux
The alternative is to install gphotos-sync snap.
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Free unlimited storage
Google Photos comes with free storage for images up to 16Mp and videos up to 1080p which means that most users need no longer worry about storage space.
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Slow video upload
Video uploading is very slow, because of that not a good option to backup videos.
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Non-destructive built-in photo editor
Any photos that you edited can be undone to original copy.
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The website has performance issues
The site tends to lag and file uploads can sometimes fail.
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Simple sharing
Any picture or selection of pictures can be sent to anyone, even if they don't have a Google account. Photos will also give you a list of recommended photos to share.
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Doesn't backup in the background
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Smart shared libraries
Google Photos allows inviting other users to shared libraries. It has a feature that allows auto-adding all photos and videos or only of specific people to the shared library which is really useful for sharing with families or a close group of friends. It also allows the invitee to save those photos straight to their device automatically as if they took it.
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Files may be compressed if you're using the unlimited storage option
All images exceeding 16MP and videos exceeding 1080p will automatically be compressed to that size or lower. Meaning high-res images and videos won't work with the unlimited storage option.
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Uses AI to create fun content
Google's AI automatically generates fun animations, collages, styled photos and stories every now and then which can be shared saved and shared to your device very easily.
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Not a lot of free storage space for high-res content
While there's a free unlimited storage plan, it's limited to 16 megapixel images and 1080p videos. Uploading full-resolution content, if you opt out of free unlimited storage plan, is limited to 15GB that comes with a Google account which is shared across all Google services. Increasing that storage space costs about $10/mo per 1TB of storage.
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Send images and videos to Gmail and YouTube
If you linked your Google drive with google photos, then you can easily attach any of your Google Photos in an email message.
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Flickr
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Flickr
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Flickr
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Cons
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Can be set to auto-upload images
Flickr has an app on Windows, OSX, iOS and Android, called Flickr Uploadr (available for download in the tools section) that can automatically upload images to Flickr. It can even pull images from external drives and other cloud storage services such as iCloud.
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No support for lossless file formats
Photos can only be saved as .jpg, .gif (non-animated) and .png files.
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Built-in image recognition
Flickr will automatically attempt to figure out the contents of a picture and tag them appropriately. This will allow you to look for, for example, all images of flowers, bridges or butterflies.
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There are limits on file sizes
Images can't be more than 200MB a piece and each video can't take up more than 1GB of space.
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Dropbox
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Dropbox
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Dropbox
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7
Pros
3
Cons
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Low bandwidth
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Pro
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Easily backup photos from mobile
Users who install the Dropbox app on their mobile app will have the option to backup their photos taken with the device. Which makes for an easily accessible way to see or share ones photos on any device (due to the availability of apps and website).
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, Windows Phone
Offline access:
Yes
Versioning:
Yes
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Con
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Not secure
They don't apply end-to-end encryption, files are visible to admins, governments, etc..
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Available free storage can be increased with referrals
You get extra free space for you and your friend if they sign up.
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Expensive
Beyond 2GB or so, Dropbox requires an expensive annual subscription. Better to spend your money on some quality NAS and a separate software program to manage the photo library.
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Easy to use
You can use Dropbox via website, by installing a desktop client that creates a folder that you simply drag and drop files into, or with their mobile app. Everything synchronizes across all devices used and cloud storage. And Dropbox offers easy methods of sharing whatever is within it.
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Mylio
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Mylio
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