OT: sharing photos online solutions

[Mentalguy2k8]

I'm looking for something I can set up where myself and one or more other people can select photos on our devices and share them with the others, with all the devices (Windows & Android) having the same automatically-synced set of photos without any intervention.

Let's say I take a photo and select to share it, it then automatically (perhaps with a notification) appears in an album on the other person's device without them having to visit a website, and they can do the same for me. Maybe having the full-size pics stored online would be better and just a thumb gallery held on the devices, so each device wouldn't get full up, I could just download the images I want to keep, for example.

I have a domain with "unlimited" webspace and script capabilities, but I don't mind paying for a "cloud" service & apps for the devices if there is a suitable service out there. Google+ photos? Dropbox? Can you sync 2 or more people's photos this way? Anyone else done anything similar?

[stuart noble]

Picasa/Google+ works well enough for me. Some slightly quirky aspects but basically pretty good.

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 13 November 2013 15:49 Mentalguy2k8 wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Share a dropbox/flickr/google account?

[Mentalguy2k8]

I must admit I haven't used Google+ since I first got this phone, and realised that the (preinstalled) app is set, by default, to upload *every* photo and video you take. I didn't trust it much after that and wasn't interested in the social side, but I've seen that the Google Photos thing offers a lot of storage and all photos up to 2048x2048 aren't counted towards that figure.

[Mentalguy2k8]

Can you add users to a Google Photos account? I know you can send links to albums but not sure if you can allow others to post/view automatically.

[Dave Liquorice]

Of course the NSA and GCHQ need to know what you are up to.

I don't blame you, the default for all these things should be not to share ever, even to your own "private" 3rd party cloud space, then share with your private cloud, share withe selected others, and only then as a third posistive action required share publicly.

If I hadn't looked through the Viewranger settings I'd not have noticed that the default access for uploaded GPS track logs is "every one, every where".

Dropbox might do what you want, but would require stuff that you want to share to be copied/moved into the dropbox folder. The "share" feature in some apps may support dropbox so you don't have to dig about in the file system.

[stuart noble]

If your friends have gmail accounts, you add them to a "circle". Once you create an album and share it with that circle, you (or they) can add more photos to it. A bit of a jumble but works well once set up.

[Bill Wright]

If you use Dropbox's facility for sharing (every 'member' has the password) it would do it I think. We use it for sharing plans and documents. It pops up on everybody's screen when a file is added, removed, or edited.

Bill

[Muddymike]

I'm looking for something I can set up where myself and one or more other

Dropbox does it for me.

Mike