I'm planning on scanning a load of my old photos to keep the images safe if our shipment sinks or some other disaster might happen
Just wondering about who others use for online photo storage and what sort of capacity is available

I use a couple of on line storage sites. www.kodak.com is good. American site, but easy to share the phot's with people.

Check out www.photbox.com They are a UK site which have an exellent 'Style Book' where you upload the photo's and paste them into pages of you design, with text boxes so you can write a description/story. The finished quality is amazing, VERY good in fact, it looks just like a published magazine.

Hope this helps.
Neil.

I use Picasa web albums

You can now buy 10GB USB sticks. Load them onto a few of these and take them with you in your hand luggage.

I bought a 5GB one off ebay for about £15 a couple of months ago, and they are always coming down in price.

It might be better, if you have loads to do, to get them done properly at a photo shop, as scanning them makes them into huge files, usually bitmaps, whereas the shops will convert them to JPEG, which are much easier to handle and store.

If you have the software, you can do it yourself, but it will take a fair whack of time.

I use this one for photos and videos.

http://photobucket.com/

Flickr works well for me... The link is in my sig. If you want to store lots at full res and be able to retrieve them at full res tho expect to pay for the service..

Webshots

I also use Picasa, its run by Google.

I use shutterfly, and it seems OK

http://www.shutterfly.com

Depending on how many photos you have to store...it could take you a heck of a long time to upload them all.

I use shutterfly and photobucket.

Alternatively, you could...
1. Copy them onto CD
2. Copy them onto Memory Sticks
3. Get a portable hard drive - and copy the entire contents of your hard drive (which is a good idea anyway).

this site...premium membership gets private photo albums...

but http://www.imageshack.us/ is also pretty good....there's basically loads of sites, but if you've got gigs of stuff, it'll take a while to upload...and might as well just look for online storage sites and there are loads if you do a google

I also use Picassa. Its free and they give you plenty of space (more than a gig if I remember correctly). You can also mark albums as private so that only people you select can view them.

Most scanning software should allow you to store as JPG rather than BMP. The other thing is that it's not worth scanning photos as a really high resolution. Photos are only printed at something like 150 dpi, so you don't need to scan any higher. I think I leave mine at about 300 dpi. You might need to check those numbers or experiment yourself to make sure, but you certainly don't need to do it at something like 1200 dpi which would give a huge file and picture.

and if you want to resize pics to make smaller files, convert to a different format or whatever then a free pic editor like Irfanview which is probably one of the best free batch converters out there.