Not buying a Chromebook? Google provides a wide range of plans you can choose from, but be careful where you go to upgrade. There are ways to add to this limit outside of a paid plan - for example, purchasing a Chromebook will often give you additional storage space for a couple of years. Google currently provides each of its accounts with 15GB of free storage, which includes everything stored in Google Drive, Google Photos (not counting the photos stored as “High quality”), and Gmail. If that doesn’t suit you, you can store photos in “Original quality” - up to a point.
Videos will be kept to a maximum of 1080p (data such as closed captions could be eliminated to save space). This is how it works: Under its “High quality” plan, Google will store an unlimited number of photos for free as long as you allow them to be compressed to 16 megapixels (according to Google, photos that size can be printed without issue up to 24 x 16 inches). You can get the same deal (except for the discounts) via its monthly plan for $5.99 a month.Ī lot of consumers are looking to Google Photos as an alternative to Flickr - and it’s not a bad one, especially if you’ve got a lot of family photos and you don’t mind not storing the originals. On its annual plan, Flickr is now charging $50.24 yearly for unlimited storage without ads, and adding advanced statistics and discounts from a number of companies, including Adobe and (of course) SmugMug. If, of course, you feel you can afford it. So if you’ve got a lot of information and comments associated with your photos, it might be easier for you to stay with the service and simply pay for the privilege. The problem for committed Flickr users is that, while they can download their images and the data that goes with them, images and associated data are downloaded separately and could be difficult to reassociate. What has everyone so upset is that Flickr limited its free plan to 1,000 photos if you’ve got more than that and don’t switch to a paid plan by February 4th, you may lose any photos that violate that 1,000 count (starting with, according to Flickr, the older ones). Flickrįlickr isn’t going away, by any means - its merger with SmugMug has ensured that. What follows is a quick list of some of the top cloud services for photographers to store, show, and even sell their work - starting with Flickr itself. You can also back them up to one of the popular cloud storage services, but again, most of those aren’t ideal for exhibiting your photos. Unhappy with Flickr’s new policies? If you’ve decided you’re done with Flickr, and have downloaded all of your photos, you now have a decision to make: where do you put them now? You can, of course, simply keep them on a hard drive, but that isn’t ideal, especially if you want to be able to share your work with family and friends, or exhibit it for sale or reuse.
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