Best Family Picture Organization Services/Tools/etc.?

I have 4 family members and trying to figure out how to capture all the videos/pictures generated from their iPhones, iPads, etc. as well as photos loaded onto laptops. I want one place to upload them all and one place to actually organize them as a family versus a single account for each member of the family. We do have Office 365 Home but I find the OneDrive photo upload process takes forever on the iPhone and that it only uploads when you leave the app open… so I consider it unreliable… I want the full image uploaded and stored as we do print pictures (people still do that!) sometimes and I can edit the original not a trimmed down version. 

What tools/services are people using? We use Macs and Windows PCs at home as well.

 

Thanks,

 

Kris Arthur

Conversation 7 comments

  • 5812

    19 December, 2016 - 9:57 am

    <p>I use Google Photos for all that and just share the photos with people in the family who would want the copy of those photos. It awesome!</p>

  • 5530

    19 December, 2016 - 2:06 pm

    <p>I use both onedrive and google photos – they both work pretty well. I give the edge to google photos because of speed and virtually unlimited storage space.</p>

    • 341

      Premium Member
      19 December, 2016 - 2:40 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#31164">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/FalseAgent">FalseAgent</a><a href="#31164">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>I just hate paying Google more to store the raw images of the files (I have more than the 15 GB of free storage) plus I need full sized pics.</p>

      • 5812

        20 December, 2016 - 8:27 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#31168">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/krisarthur">krisarthur</a><a href="#31168">:</a></em></blockquote>
        <p>You get 100 gb for $2 a month. It’s only the cost of a medium coffee per month. For off site backup and if you want you can use it for google drive as well which I do. $2 is almost free.</p>

        • 341

          Premium Member
          20 December, 2016 - 1:52 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#31237">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/Nicholas_Kathrein">Nicholas_Kathrein</a><a href="#31237">:</a></em></blockquote>
          <p>You are right… glad I posted on the forums… I kept thinking it was free or $9.99/month. For $24 a year it’s almost a no-brainer. Thanks!</p>

      • 341

        Premium Member
        20 December, 2016 - 11:05 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#31168">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/krisarthur">krisarthur</a><a href="#31168">:</a></em></blockquote>
        <p>Do you just link all the family members into using your gMail&nbsp;account or does Google allow you to share a few accounts for the photo piece only?</p>

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