Gathering Photos from others.

lsl

I’m looking for suggestions on how best for other individuals to send me photos for a couple of projects that I am working on. Something similar to a common FTP site. The photos uploaded are not intended to be viewed for an extended period of time, just a method to send them to me.

Based on a previous project, email tended to be the most common method; however it just brought my email service to a crawl. Unfortunately, many of the people I encounter don’t know how to upload to their ISP web storage. So I need something simple.

Anyone’s comments would greatly be appreciated.

denisegoldberg

You might consider something like http://www.dropbox.com/.

It's set up to allow sharing of uploaded files. Everyone could have their own account/site and then you can download. Or I suppose you could set up a site and give others the password to it.

--- Denise

rgphoto

Set up the other people with an assistant account to your smugmug page so that they can upload photos to you galleries.

denisegoldberg

rgphoto wrote: »

Set up the other people with an assistant account to your smugmug page so that they can upload photos to you galleries.

In my opinion that gives them too much power on the site. See http://www.smugmug.com/help/assistant-password.

--- Denise

rgphoto

denisegoldberg wrote: »

In my opinion that gives them too much power on the site. See http://www.smugmug.com/help/assistant-password.

--- Denise

I've never actually tried it out. All I know is that you can grant limited access to your account to 'assistants'.

lisap

I've had people e-mail photos to a SmugMug gallery for a couple of jobs I've done. It seemed to work fine and it was simple for the client to do since it was just sending e-mail. Might not be as practical if there are tons of photos though.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/camera-phones
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BradfordBenn

You don't have to do an assistant level, you can just set a password for e-mailing photos to a gallery. More info http://www.smugmug.com/help/camera-phones

lsl

Thank you to everyone for your help. The email option is exactly what I need. I set it up and tested it and it works great.

Thanks again.