Sharing Photos Online

There are literally hundreds of sites that will help you share photos online. Your choices may depend on if you're also using a photo editor or a media management application (photo organizer).

I've got a few different processes that tend to work best for me, but really, it's all about personal preference, and what path you may have started down previously.

I use Flickr for *internet safe* photography. Photos that don't involve kids. I have friends and colleagues on Flickr. The Flickr community is outstanding for social media, sharing interests and gaining feedback.

I use Picasa for some photo management and easy editing, and have recently started using Picasa web albums, simply because it's built in and easy to use. I have family, and private albums on Picasa. Picasa is fantastic to be able to really control access, but there's not any emphasis on sharing or social media.

I now use Picnik quite a bit, it's agnostic between my computer photos and those that are already uploaded to Flickr and Picasa WebAlbums. Picnik is an extraordinarily rich photo editor, and it's browser based, so there's no fighting between my windows and my MAC computers. With Picnik, I can pull out a Picasa photo, do some edits on it, save it to Flickr, or even email it to Floobergeist and have it auto-publish.

 Now with the Mac, it looks like I'm going to have even more options - with iPhoto and Aperture and Mac's iWeb features.

It's going to be a busy spring.