DIY Photography

Hacking Photography - one Picture at a time

Search

Submit A Story

Amazon Drive is going away but your photos are (probably) going to be just fine

by 2 Comments

Amazon has sent out a notification to Amazon Drive customers reminding them that Amazon Drive is shutting down in December 2023. The news isn’t new, it was first announced back in July, and Amazon Drive apps for Android and iOS have already been taken down. But the notification serves as a reminder to make sure you’ve got everything downloaded and backed up and that you won’t be able to upload new files soon.

On January 31st 2023, Amazon Drive will no longer allow uploads of new files. You’ll still be able to download files, of course, and you shouldn’t lose any of your photos. The company is also urging people to not delete their photos from Amazon Drive as this will also result in their deletion from Amazon Photos. Photos from Amazon Drive were automatically saved to Amazon Photos a few months ago.

[Read More…]

PSA: Google’s free cloud photo storage ends in 2 weeks – Here are eight alternatives

by 2 Comments

Last November, Google announced that its free unlimited photo backup was going to end and it would all fall under the free shared 15GB get you with Google’s other services, like Gmail and Google Drive. Now, it’s almost upon us, with the service set to shut down on June 1st. You can, of course, upgrade to Google One (although there’s no “Unlimited” package), but what are your alternatives?

Well, none of the alternatives are really free, either. Not for unlimited storage, anyway. But with Google shifting over to a paid-only option with minimal free storage, the advantage they once had is now gone. Here we take a look at a few of the competing services for you to check out and see which best fits your needs.

[Read More…]

PSA: Amazon Photos auto-save might not be auto-saving all of your raw files

by 1 Comment

The whole cloud backup thing has been a hot topic for a while now as various services have been simultaneously killing off unlimited storage while others have been bringing it back and trying to outdo each other to win over your business. Amazon Photos is one such service that offers unlimited space as long as you have a prime account – including your raw photos. But it seems it’s not backing up everything – even if you think that it is.

Reddit user /u/somebodytoshove posted to /r/photography noting that the auto-save feature of the Amazon Photos iOS app has not been uploading the .raf files from his Fuji mirrorless camera. It thinks it has, and it looks like it has, but when you look at the uploaded files, they actually contain only the jpg preview.

[Read More…]

5 alternatives to Google Photos cloud storage for backing up your work

by 4 Comments

Google Photos has been one of the best photo hosting cloud services out there, offering storage for an unlimited number of your photos absolutely free – as long as you didn’t mind a slight hit in image quality. But that is coming to an end and Google is abandoning its free tier. You still get your free 15GB (shared across all Google services, like Gmail, etc), but if you want any more than that, you’ll have to pay now.

It was a sweet ride while it lasted, and there aren’t really any great free alternatives out there now. But now that you do have to pay, what are the other top paid alternatives out there? Let’s take a look at five of them.

[Read More…]

Free Resources

Advanced lighting book

Recent Posts