Monday 14 April 2014

The Benefits of Online Photo Galleries

Have you ever considered using online photo galleries? Some people are reluctant to use them because of privacy concerns. However, the risks are usually minimal if you do not label the photos with your name and most galleries have privacy settings to control who sees your photos. Further, the benefits of using these online photo galleries can outweigh the privacy concerns.

One major benefit of using online photo galleries is the ability to share your photos with friends and family easily. Sharing paper photos costs both time and money. You have to get them printed, you have to buy envelopes and stamps, and then you have to mail them out to anyone you want to share them with. With online galleries, you can share them without any hassle. In fact, many of these galleries are free to use. You can upload them to the gallery and save both the time and money it takes to send them through the postal service.

The other major benefit of these photo galleries is you can back up your photos off-site. This means that you will always have a copy of your photos stored at a location separate from your house or computer. That way, if your computer happens to crash or your basement or store room floods, you have not lost all of the photos of your precious memories. All you have to do is find them online and print them out again.

Since most online photo galleries have privacy settings and are password-protected, you can control who gets to see your photos. Further, most of these sites lets you label or "tag" the photos with whatever words you wish. Therefore, if you do not wish for a photo with your or your kids' names all over the internet, all you have to do is change the privacy settings on your account and label the photos with a different tag. So, the next time you want to share your photos with friends and family, consider sharing them on a photo gallery website or app.

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