Flickr recently upgraded the benefits of both their free and pro accounts. The free accounts got limits increased a bit, but the truly exciting stuff was saved for paying members. Now you’re no longer limited in your upload quotas! This was my biggest pet peeve with the previous featureset. I’ve got gigabytes of pictures of Julia that I wanted to upload for relatives to browse through, but I had to do it piecemeal each month. I was always careful to leave a bit of quota left over for new pictures from the current month as well, since we take pictures often and the relatives want to see the new ones too.
I’m sincerely tempted to dump the entire picture archive into Flickr as an off-site storage mechanism. My only real caveat is that we’ve been using the now discontinued Adobe Photoshop Album to organize our pictures, carefully tagging them so as to make finding pictures easier later. There is no existing mechanism for leveraging those tags when uploading to Flickr, so it would require a lot of work to perform the same organization. Were I to have enough time it would be tempting to utilize the Flickr API and a bit of reverse engineering on the Adobe file formats to extract the tags for each photo from Photoshop Album and upload and tag them at the same time. Maybe even create sets on the fly, too. Tempting indeed.
