several users posting to single SM site?

PeterLyons

I'm a pro user, and don't know much about other uses of various photo sharing services, or other levels of subscription on SmugMug.

Anyway, I got this inquiry from a client:

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I've just been to a college reunion and several of us would like to post our photos to a single web site, so we can compare photos, etc. Do you know of any photosharing site that allows this. I'm looking into Flickr; they are geared to individual users only, but have a group feature -- but I think each person can post only one photo to the "group."
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It seems to me that she could open a SmugMug account, and share the login info with several users to do this. Any better ideas out there?

colourbox

I think the Flickr solution will be the best and a group I was in did this. Three of us had free accounts and yet we could post many pics to the group just like the paid members. As long as you are happy with Flickr's capabilities.

jfriend

PeterLyons wrote:

I'm a pro user, and don't know much about other uses of various photo sharing services, or other levels of subscription on SmugMug.

Anyway, I got this inquiry from a client:

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I've just been to a college reunion and several of us would like to post our photos to a single web site, so we can compare photos, etc. Do you know of any photosharing site that allows this. I'm looking into Flickr; they are geared to individual users only, but have a group feature -- but I think each person can post only one photo to the "group."
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It seems to me that she could open a SmugMug account, and share the login info with several users to do this. Any better ideas out there?

Smugmug doesn't really support this directly. The options at Smugmug I know of are:

1. For everyone to give one person their photos and that one person can upload them to their account.
2. Or, they can each have Smugmug accounts, one person sets up a community and then each person creates a gallery and joins it to the community.
3. If you have a pro-account, it has guest access (separate password) that enables upload, but it's more designed for a trusted assistant who knows their way around your site than it is for this purpose (though it could be used that way).

Andy

jfriend wrote:

Smugmug doesn't really support this directly. The options at Smugmug I know of are:

1. For everyone to give one person their photos and that one person can upload them to their account.
2. Or, they can each have Smugmug accounts, one person sets up a community and then each person creates a gallery and joins it to the community.
3. If you have a pro-account, it has guest access (separate password) that enables upload, but it's more designed for a trusted assistant who knows their way around your site than it is for this purpose (though it could be used that way).

Or they can use a plain standard account and our email upload feature, and the site is maintained / managed by one person.

jfriend

Andy wrote:

Or they can use a plain standard account and our email upload feature, and the site is maintained / managed by one person.

That can work fine for a few images. It's pretty inconvenient for lots of images (one per email). You also have to watch out for mail system limits on attachment sizes.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

That can work fine for a few images. It's pretty inconvenient for lots of images (one per email). You also have to watch out for mail system limits on attachment sizes.

Right you are! But, it does work, and is a method to accomplish what the OP asked and it could be used

Thanks John!

PeterLyons

Thanks very much to all of you for the great advice!
I'll pass it on.
:-)

jchin

My church used Flickr for something similar. Everyone had a Yahoo account and they all joined a private Flickr group, then posted their photos into that Flickr group. So even a free Flickr account can have more than 200 photos in a Flickr group just as long as they don't exceed their 100MB upload per calendar month (so they had to downsize their images, which is fine since they were just viewing them online). And it was all free.