Shoebix is shutting down where to download photos free

Gordon wants to be able to backup his photos to the cloud and share them with family. Leo says that ShutterFly is great because it stores full resolution copies of his images, and then if his family wants a copy, they can buy prints directly (he can even get a piece of the pie).

Leo says there's a ton of great free options including Flickr, which provides 1TB of free online storage. Google Photos is great because they offer face detection and sharing options. Zach can also create and print photo books for as low as $10.

Leo says Google Photos is a great place for this. He could share an album with anyone in a couple of different ways. There's 'read-only', where people can see the photo or click the sideways ellipses and download the image or movie. He could also set up an album that people can contribute to. Then at the event, he could tell people to submit photos to that album.

DaVon's friend takes a lot of photos and he wants to find an easy way to share them online, like Picasa or Flickr. But he's wondering if he'd have to be a member to see photos and share them? Leo says he does have to create a free account. Of course, if he's using an iPad, he can use iCloud's PhotoStream using the Photos app.

Jean uses a program called "Familiar," which would upload her pictures and allow her to share them easily. However, they are shutting down.

Lee wants to know what photo sharing sites would be best to share pictures with students at a local school. Leo says that's a common question and it's important to make it really easy for parents to share. He uses Flickr. The nice thing about Flickr is that each user has an account if they have yahoo email and he could create a private group for everyone to tag their pictures on. It does have file limit of about 300MB worth of photos each month for free, which should be plenty.

Yes, there are a lot of picture sharing sites for this. Since 900MB is a lot, he'd have to pay for it if he used Flickr or SmugMug. PicasaWeb is free though even for that much storage. They have a free client that he can use to edit and post the photos. Then people can download the full quality version.

Leo suggests using a service called ScanCafe for this instead of scanning them all in individually. For just 22 cents per image, ScanCafe will clean up the photos, correct them, remove dust and burn the digital copies to DVD. They will convert video tapes to a digital format as well. They even have a "shoebox" option, where they'll take as many photos you can fit in a shoebox for a flat rate.