Friday 25 May 2018

Best "Cloud" Web Apps to Store Photos

10 web applications, for PC, Mac and Android and iPhone phones to store photos on the internet and save them in the "Cloud" forever

We all use the phone to take pictures, the problem is that these photos must then be stored in a safe place so that even if that smartphone were lost or replaced, the photos remain.

Instead of wasting time and effort in copying photos to your computer every time, it is worth using "cloud" applications that allow you to save all your photos online by uploading them to the internet.

Keeping them online means being safe from any problems and damage to the computer which, we know, is not infallible and can break at any time.

So the question is: which application is the best for storing and accessing multimedia files and photos from any device?

In this article we see the 10 best cloud services to keep photos online so they are visible from other devices, on your computer, on tablets and on smartphones, without the need for transfers or cables.

1) Google Photos

The Google Photos app is the best there is to keep photos online safely, privately, forever and for free without limitations.

If you have an Android smartphone or an iPhone, you can configure the application to upload photos taken with your cell phone online automatically (privately).

Google also accepts and displays RAW images and if you need more space you can buy it.

2) iCloud Photo Stream

Only users of Apple, iPhone, iPad and Mac devices can use the space provided by iCloud.

Photo Stream takes photos saved or taken with iPhone, iPad and Mac and syncs them so that they are available on all devices.

You can share photos with friends who have iOS devices or create an online photo gallery that anyone can watch.

iCloud accepts RAW images but does not support videos.

The limit of iCloud is that it makes no online backup of photos, visible only from a Mac.

Photo Stream is the only way to instantly upload photos in the background from an iPhone without having to remember it manually.

Photo Stream works well, but unlike the others there is no online photo backup and there is no way to display them from a PC or from non-Apple programs.

The iCloud Photo stream limit is 1000 photos (with free account).

3) Dropbox Photo

The Dropbox Android smartphone app allows you to automatically upload all the photos taken with the camera to a special folder.

All images stored and stored on Dropbox can be seen in the photo card that is available on the website.

Dropbox loads all the photos at full resolution and this, in addition to slowing down a bit 'operations, causes a rapid filling of the available space.

Dropbox also allows you to save videos but they are only visible in streaming for 15 minutes.

4) Shutterfly

This application is perhaps the lightest and most immediate to use, able to automatically group photos by date, time, and also by content.

This Life allows you to upload all the photos to the cloud using the app for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, free up to 1000 photos.

5) SmugMug is one of the most popular online services by photographers, which allows you to create a real personal web page, made with customizable graphic styles and with your own photos.

Smugmug there are no free accounts and after 14 days of trial you have to pay the subscription of $ 40 per year also buying an unlimited online space (for photos no larger than 50MB).

Smugmug also provides excellent applications for iPhone and Android phones.

6) Onedrive

Microsoft Onedrive, former SkyDrive is a bit like the Windows Explorer, moved on the internet.

It offers 15GB of free space for all files, plus another three for photos.

Photos can be sorted into albums, viewed as a presentation or even incorporated into websites.

Microsoft has also released clients for Windows and Mac and no frills but functional apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

On Windows Phone the OneDrive app allows you to auto-upload photos to the internet.

7) Flickr: The free space made available by Flickr, almost without limit, is 1 TB for photos.

In addition, Flickr maintains its professional photography site, with applications for iPhone and Android and also with customization filters and editing tools.

Flickr preserves images at multiple resolutions, offers very precise privacy controls and can be integrated into other applications of terse parts.

See how to backup all PC photos on the internet with Flickr.

Video upload is limited to 1 GB and a more modern and feature-rich PC client is expected soon.

Even if not perfect, Cloud Storage is finally a reality and with applications such as Google Photos and Flickr you can keep online forever all the photos of your life or almost, no more risk of losing them and visible from every PC or tablet or mobile phone.

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