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Flickr alternatives

Cerulean

Cerulean

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Greetings,

Flickr is awesome and great, but I want to expand my mind through experience on alternative services (paid or free!). I would like to avoid using Google+ as it doesn't come across as a Flickr-like service even though it can be used for photo storage.

I like Flickr in that you can have albums (or sets as they call it), make them public or private (with a private shareable link so that as long as someone has the link they can view photos in said album without needing to login or have a user account), that I can upload full sized 18 MP photos all the way up to 132 MP (rare that I get that high, usually it's between 25 - 60 MP I think if I ever take panos; only hit this limit for 1 photo out of probably 5000 photos), and that users can download the full original resolution version of the photo for free / without needing to login and pay for it.

This is for a church I go to; I am part of the media team. We have to explore our options, and like with 500px, we're afraid that using the $25/plan "Plus" plan photos from 500px that are 'unchristian' might appear and lead people elsewhere -- thus at least in the case of 500px might have to try out their $75/year "Awesome" plan and use a subdomain on the church's own domain name.

Looking for alternative but similar services to Flickr. I'll start it off:

 
500px IMO is the next best thing, but its got it's flaws (more subjective than anything) and in turn I've ditched it. If this is for a church group though, I will not recommend 500px. They can't filter their content properly, and you dont want your audience to be constantly exposed to nudity. I dont mind them certainly, but members of your church will.


Another alternative which I havent used is 1x.com

All other alternaives (like smugmug) are more personal portfolio based websites as opposed to photo sharing websites.

zenfolio is an example, and squarespace is great for creating a custom site.
 
I set up 500px after swearing off Flikr, since Flikr's new terms appear to discourage new serious amateur and professional photographers from joining.

But Flikr should work, though setting up a 500px account for $75 and linking to your domain does sound reasonable for an organization.

I really like Squarespace, but I'm not personally ready to pay for that yet; I'll have to see as I get more experience and develop my talent.

Let us know what you come up with!
 
I think Smugmug and Zenfolio are your best bet ATM. I'm currently using Smugmug for my personal site and I'm quite happy with it. I think I'm only paying $60/year for that too. Hell, if you go with smug, try and use this code: Kvsi1SRrrJxIk and you should get a discount or something. Not sure.

It's relatively customizable, although from what I hear not as much as Zenfolio. I haven't tried Zen, however, so I don't know if that's true. A few people I know actually jumped ship from Smug to Zen for that reason, so it's an option worth exploring.
 
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