sharing hi-res photos with clients?

http://www.pbase.com/

Or http://dropsend.com

http://www.yousendit.com/cms/compareaccounts
free for up to 100MB/file, 1GB/month

Try Yousendit.com, they respect intellectual property. Don’t go with photobucket, you grant them the right to use whatever you upload until you remove it. Read the fine print:

3. Your License to Photobucket

Photobucket does not claim any ownership rights in any User Content that you choose to post to the Site. After posting User Content to the Site,you continue to retain all ownership or license rights in your User Content and you continue to have the right to use your User Content as you did prior to such posting. However, by posting or making User Content available through the Site or via the Services, you hereby grant to Photobucket a nonexclusive, royalty-free, transferable, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, prepare derivative works from, distribute, publicly display and publicly perform (whether by means of a digital audio transmission or otherwise) and process your User Content, or any part of it, solely on and through the Site and Services, including without limitation (a) adapting the format of your User Content (for example by encoding or transcoding) for suitable display on the Site; and (b) displaying, in Photobucket’s sole discretion, your public User Content in search results generated by the Photobucket search engine. In addition, where you have made your User Content public, posted a link to your User Content on another website or otherwise shared a link to your User Content, you grant to Photobucket a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide right to sublicense the right to copy, modify, prepare derivative works from, and distribute your User Content as necessary to perform the Services, including without limitation the printing services offered by Partner Sites. In connection with the above license, you provide your consent for Photobucket personnel, including Photobucket contractors and service providers, to view your User Content at any time for the purpose of providing the Services and filtering content that violates this Agreement. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for all Content you submit to the Site or provide to the Service. You represent that you either own the User Content or have the rights necessary to grant Photobucket this license.

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Rachel:

when i cant us ftp, have used http://yousendit.com

cheers
bob

Yeah, photobucket is definitely not an option… Regardless of the fine print, they won’t even take photos as large as I need to send. I checked out dropsend, which seems pretty cool but I will also have a look at yousend it. The problem is that the photos absolutely cannot be accessible by other people, so “sharing” is not really a good idea in this case.

Does anyone have experience sharing through the public idisk folder on a mac?

Rachel try http://www.mailbigfile.com/

I have used them in the past to send large TIFF to the US, it is reliable and safe.

Oh and it’s free!

iDisk sharing works great, easy, I had an account for a year but ended up never using it, the situation somehow never presented itself where a client didn’t have ftp but was also on a mac. It also seemed insanely slow in terms of up/download speeds.
While I don’t think they probably have the most protected way of sending files, free “ftp” services like yousendit and mailbigfile are not publicly visible in a sense that flickr is. I have used them in the past to get large design files back & forth with a graphic person, without a hitch.

rapidshare.com

Up to 100MB at a time. Once they get the files, you can nuke the link.

It seems like you have a website – so you should have some webspace. You might upload all your files as a zip file to your server and email the client the link. I do this, when clients aren’t able to use Photoshelter (restrictive firewalls, etc.) or don’t have an FTP server.

Addition for Katja: Uploading to the IDisk using Transmit is much faster than using the Finder on your Mac.

I think what Batian meant to say is that you have a host for your site, using Cpanel or something like that you set up an FTP account (folder) for the client, upload the file to it, and then send your client the FTP address, their username and password. They can then use an FTP program like Transmit to get the files, and won’t see anything else on your site. This assumes that you can successfully logon to your site using FTP to move the files yourself, and your host has no limits on the file size you can upload/download.

Either that or burn a disk and send it by mail. :)