# Help a newbie with photo/file sharing sites

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-newbie-with-photo-file-sharing-sites/572940>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 28, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-newbie-with-photo-file-sharing-sites/572940 "2011-02-28T17:28:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-newbie-with-photo-file-sharing-sites/572940/1 "2011-02-28T17:28:35Z")

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I have a bunch of vacation photos I want to send to someone (like 400 of them). I’d rather do it online than burn a CD.

I know there are photo and file sharing sites out there, but I’m a total newbie and can’t figure out which site will do what I want. What I’d like to do is just put a zip file of them out there and be able to tell the recipient “just get them from here”. Alternatively, placing them in a picture site and pointing to that would work, too, – _as long as the recipient can download them all at once._ (Someone recently sent me a link to a photo site and I had to download each shot individually – a real hassle.)

I’m not really worried about copyright issues. These are just vacation snapshots after all.

So can anyone recommend a site that can do this for this newbie?

Thanks,  
J.

p.s., I looked at flickr, but couldn’t find anyway to download a bunch at once.

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**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-newbie-with-photo-file-sharing-sites/572940/2 "2011-02-28T18:51:49Z")

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A great way to ease into this is google’s picasa and their photo sharing site. Picasa is a photo storage/simple-editing program available at [picasa.google.com](http://picasa.google.com) which I love.

Picasa also makes it extremely easy to upload to google’s photo-sharing. If you have a gmail account it will associate with that. (And if you don’t it’s very easy to get one.)

In my experience this is the easiest way to do it – I set my parents and uncle up with Picasa and they are total computer newbies but had no problems.

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**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-newbie-with-photo-file-sharing-sites/572940/3 "2011-02-28T18:53:37Z")

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Hmm. Now that I look at it again your friend may also have to have Picasa in order to download them all at once – not sure about that though.