Photo sharing is awesome and all, but what about photo organization and backup? I'd like a service/program that takes my "gold" copy of my photos with metadata off my external drive and keeps my albums on Picasa/+ and Flickr in sync.
+1. I can't believe it but I'm having to roll my own photo/video database in 2015. Mostly it's because having Android/IOS/classic cameras is hard to handle with any one photo indexer, and because they are not always complete e.g. I don't see a way in iTunes to pull down media that came in on mms messages.
I have spent the last week trying to work through this issue.
What I came up with was gold copy on an external drive that I manipulate with the Windows version of Picasa. I use it to add tags, geo info and clean up pics. I enable the Sync to Web feature, which keeps Google+/Picasa Web up to date.
To ensure the copy on Flickr is up to date I registered a program called PhotoSync for Flickr that watches folders for changes and uploads pics. This is still a manual process to set up for the most part since it requires a clean sync; I have to delete all Flickr albums and reupload.
I thought I had the solution with PICBACKMAN, which costs $49 a year. It didn't handle the meta data for the photos when syncing with Google+/Picasa Web nor did it dedupe when uploading an album. For instance, I add a new pic to a folder it would upload all the other pics again.
So, to answer your question. My photos are very important to me and I have spent a great deal of time scanning pre-digital ones into the archive. I'd pay $100 a year to ensure my gold copy was synced among services with all meta data included.
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Photo sharing is awesome and all, but what about photo organization and backup? I'd like a service/program that takes my "gold" copy of my photos with metadata off my external drive and keeps my albums on Picasa/+ and Flickr in sync.
Is there such a service/program that does this?
+1. I can't believe it but I'm having to roll my own photo/video database in 2015. Mostly it's because having Android/IOS/classic cameras is hard to handle with any one photo indexer, and because they are not always complete e.g. I don't see a way in iTunes to pull down media that came in on mms messages.
Google+ does that: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2013/09/25/raw-photos-in-the-c...
How much would you pay for such a service?
Good question.
I have spent the last week trying to work through this issue.
What I came up with was gold copy on an external drive that I manipulate with the Windows version of Picasa. I use it to add tags, geo info and clean up pics. I enable the Sync to Web feature, which keeps Google+/Picasa Web up to date.
To ensure the copy on Flickr is up to date I registered a program called PhotoSync for Flickr that watches folders for changes and uploads pics. This is still a manual process to set up for the most part since it requires a clean sync; I have to delete all Flickr albums and reupload.
I thought I had the solution with PICBACKMAN, which costs $49 a year. It didn't handle the meta data for the photos when syncing with Google+/Picasa Web nor did it dedupe when uploading an album. For instance, I add a new pic to a folder it would upload all the other pics again.
So, to answer your question. My photos are very important to me and I have spent a great deal of time scanning pre-digital ones into the archive. I'd pay $100 a year to ensure my gold copy was synced among services with all meta data included.