Photography Cloud Computing Applications

The book I read to research this post was Photography Applications For Cloud Computing by Matthew Bamberg which is an excellent book which I read at http://safaribooksonline.com

This book is a decent and has 26 fairly short and succinct chapters mostly on different cloud platforms. The original photography cloud sites was Photobucket around 2003. Since then this market has mushroomed and there is a wide variety of different types of photographic cloud computing services. Many people have heard of Carbonite who promote themselves heavily on television etc and they do a free month trial and run a back up service and if you consider the current huge capacities of hard drives a month isn't all that much time in terms of backing up your hard drive contents. Dropbox & Photoshop Express offer 2 GB of free data back up. Photoshop Express is a cut down version of the Photoshop software and lately Adobe have been offering their software suites as a cloud product for around £30 per month. Google has a whole suite of products mostly offered free including Google Drive which I think offers 12 GB of free storage and also they have quite a reasonable photo editing product in the form of Picasa. Another photo editing cloud product is Pxlr which is one of the best cloud photo editing products on the market. Flickr is a popular online photographic storage medium and gives you the chance to show your work to a wider audience. Many people have Flickr accounts and they let you upload 300 MB of photos per month to your account for free. There is a platform called Adobe Revel formerly Carousel that primarily works with iphones and ipods but that allows you to upload and edit your photos. I really enjoyed reading this book and a lot of the sites mentioned can be found by searching for them in Google Search. Something I'm struck by is what good value many of these cloud computing services with the many freebies offered and I think if you do it right you can just use free storage across several free accounts. One not mentioned in this book but worth checking out is Microsoft's Skydrive which offers 15 GB of storage and don't forget especially if you are a business entity Amazon do a complete range of competitively priced cloud services called Amazon Web Services.