Obtaining client photos
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Obtaining client photos
For those of you producing shows as a business, what method do you use to obtain client photos. With 3MB per photo common these days, email is out. Do you have them provide a DVD, use FTP sites, other methods? Just curious as to what's working for others and wondering if I should plan on having an FTP site.
Thanks,
Mark
Thanks,
Mark
Re: Obtaining client photos
Check out Microsoft Skydrive
25 GB of free storage on Windows Live With SkyDrive, it's easy to store and share your files and photos with almost anyone.
http://skydrive.live.com/
25 GB of free storage on Windows Live With SkyDrive, it's easy to store and share your files and photos with almost anyone.
http://skydrive.live.com/
- anitaemile
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Re: Obtaining client photos
I work with dropbox. Very easy to use. Client need to install dropbox also, but that's a piece of cake.
Anita.
Anita.
Re: Obtaining client photos
Hi,
I have used dropsend couple of times free of charge for personal use. Download speeds and upload speeds are pretty good. Most of these services are free upto certain limits. For a nominal monthly fee, you can upgrade for better service and storage capacity. Pl check out couple of them by sending from and to yourselves and see how the service is. you want simple, clear and clean instructions to the client. you will be a better judge by trying each one. Some free services may have lot of advertisements.
http://www.dropsend.com/index.php
ram
I have used dropsend couple of times free of charge for personal use. Download speeds and upload speeds are pretty good. Most of these services are free upto certain limits. For a nominal monthly fee, you can upgrade for better service and storage capacity. Pl check out couple of them by sending from and to yourselves and see how the service is. you want simple, clear and clean instructions to the client. you will be a better judge by trying each one. Some free services may have lot of advertisements.
http://www.dropsend.com/index.php
ram
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Re: Obtaining client photos
I use www.mailbigfile.com
I've been using it mostly to send my shows for people in Brazil tha sometimes have a hard time with photodex site.
To send pictures, all you have to do is to zip them into a folder. I used it for months for free, wich will be great to your clients being that they probably will use it just this time...
But recently I upgraded to the pro account just to get some more speed. Although the upload and download are kind of slow, you can keep working with the PC absolutely normally while you wait.
Cristina
I've been using it mostly to send my shows for people in Brazil tha sometimes have a hard time with photodex site.
To send pictures, all you have to do is to zip them into a folder. I used it for months for free, wich will be great to your clients being that they probably will use it just this time...
But recently I upgraded to the pro account just to get some more speed. Although the upload and download are kind of slow, you can keep working with the PC absolutely normally while you wait.
Cristina
Cristina
Re: Obtaining client photos
Wow, great tips everyone. Thanks.
Anita - I use DropBox all the time to keep my own systems sync'd but have found the install puts some other off.
I've also used goaruna.com to share with others but I think you need to open a free account to upload.
I'll check out the options offered here. Thanks again.
Mark
Anita - I use DropBox all the time to keep my own systems sync'd but have found the install puts some other off.
I've also used goaruna.com to share with others but I think you need to open a free account to upload.
I'll check out the options offered here. Thanks again.
Mark
Re: Obtaining client photos
I have always used You Send It, but nice to know about the other sites...cheers Jan
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Re: Obtaining client photos
Well, it looked like MediaFire would be ideal until I discovered that sharing MY folder only permits someone else to DOWNLOAD, not upload. So the client would need to create a MediaFire account as well, like DropBox?
The Microsoft app requires IE so that's out.
YouSendIt appeared to upload only one file at a time so client would have to be able to zip their photos into one file.
None of these are ideal. I was hoping for something like a web-based FTP with a typical split screen: client file tree on one side and my FTP site on the other. There are Windows apps to do this but then the client would have to download, install and run a new app - eck.
So perhaps having clients zip photos into a file and uploading via YouSendIt or a non-account free upload site seems like the simplest solution? Any other comments or suggestions on this for a professsional-image solution?
Thanks for your feedback,
Mark
The Microsoft app requires IE so that's out.
YouSendIt appeared to upload only one file at a time so client would have to be able to zip their photos into one file.
None of these are ideal. I was hoping for something like a web-based FTP with a typical split screen: client file tree on one side and my FTP site on the other. There are Windows apps to do this but then the client would have to download, install and run a new app - eck.
So perhaps having clients zip photos into a file and uploading via YouSendIt or a non-account free upload site seems like the simplest solution? Any other comments or suggestions on this for a professsional-image solution?
Thanks for your feedback,
Mark
- Barkingmad
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Re: Obtaining client photos
bellzerr wrote:The Microsoft app requires IE so that's out.
Mark
I use Microsoft skydrive and I never use IE, - I use Firefox.
Shaz BMad
"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood." Henry Mille
"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood." Henry Mille
Re: Obtaining client photos
Thanks Shaz, I'll give it another look. Their website said it requires IE. I should have known that they meant "a browser."
Mark
Mark
Re: Obtaining client photos
So Shaz, I took another look and it appears that for someone to upload to a folder in your account, that you have shared out to them, they must also have an account?
Mark
Mark
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