Hi,
I want to share photos with my friends and family non-publicly. They should be able to view them and download them if they want. What would be the easiest way for this? Any good or bad experiences here?
Thanks
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MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 1TB HD & 256 GB SSD inside
Do your friends and family also have a mac or iPad/iPhone, or a Windows / PC? Then you could use Shared Photo Streams: See: iCloud: iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ
For further information:
iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams
Shared Photo Streams would let you stream selected photos from your Aperture library directly to your friends's devices. Alternately upload your photos to an ftp-server and share the download link, for example, if you have a Drop Box account, you can share the link to folder in your Pictures folder.
Flickr is designed exactly for this. Simply upload them to flickr and tag them so they are limited only to people whom you invite to see them.
Thanks to you both. My friends and family members are using the whole variety of devices and software from Android tablets to regular PCs to Linux Netbooks. I don't use Dropbox but I use iCloud, Flickr and 500px at the moment.
Terence, that sounds interesting. Could you give me a hand how to do the invitation? When I upload and create a flickr album within Aperture, I can set the name, privacy ("Only me") and photo size. But I can't find a way to invite someone...
I use a plug-in called Flickuppr:
this allows you to set a number of different permissiosn - public, private, friends and family etc - and then you can assign people to each category as you prefer on the Flickr site.
http://www.flickr.com/help/with/privacy/
has details on that.
Best way to share photos with friends?
