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Re: Everpix

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Post by swisspol »

dirtyaura wrote: post #49
swisspol wrote: post #22

(Everpix founder here) BTW if you love what you see, come join the team: Our goal is to build the photo platform of the next 10 years, designed from the ground up for people's larger and larger photo collections, and today's photo taking patterns. We have infrastructure scale (millions of full-res photos synced per day), cutting-edge photo science like nowhere else (3 level deep convolutional network type of semantic…

I've been testing Everpix today. You guys have really nailed it: clean, nice interface, fast browsing, easy syncing, automatic organization. Everything just works. And your Photo Mail sharing is almost perfect for my needs. Are you planning to allow mass export? I understood that you are using propriety image compression, thus mass export might be quite heavy operation, However, it's a kind of showstopper for me, if…

(Everpix founder here) It's definitely on our roadmap, but like every feature we build, we're taking our time to make sure we do it right.

In the meantime, photos can be downloaded in full-res and with all metadata of course by "sets" from various places in the web UI.

Re: Everpix

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Post by swisspol »

wavesounds wrote: post #19
veb wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree with you. I looked at the site originally, and thought, "eh. another app that's going to be bought out by someone, probably" and left. After reading some of the comments here, I went back and read it more carefully, and it totally looks like something I'd gladly pay a subscription to, but I've been burned before when places have closed after they've been bought out, it's not a nice feeling. I'm sti…

And what exactly happens to your pictures if the company is bought? Looks like a good service, wish they had a clearer privacy policy and some guarantees.

(Everpix founder here) We tried to make our privacy policy pretty clear and relatively easy to read at https://www.everpix.com/legal/privacy.html. What parts did you think were not detailed enough?

Re: Everpix

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Post by swisspol »

EwanG wrote: post #47

Signed up, pointed it to the directory where I keep all my photos, and it seems unable to find the ones from the past year even though all my photos are organized by year. I have about 2 TB of photos (going back to 2000), and I shoot RAW+JPG. Is it possibly confused by the RAWs? In that same vein, I don't see anything that says what image formats the service supports. Should I expect it now (or eventually) to support…

(Everpix founder here) Everpix will simply sync the JPEGs and ignore the RAWs in your folders, it's all perfectly supported. If you think some of your photos are not synced, the first thing to keep in mind is that our Free plan shows your last 12 months of photos. So older photos won't appear in Everpix. If you still think some photos are missing, please check this KB article: https://support.everpix.com/entries/22207972-Troubleshooting....

WRT to RAW support, I'm copy-pasting from our FAQ at https://support.everpix.com/entries/21783022-Frequently-Aske...:

The developed versions of RAW photos can be seamlessly synced to Everpix by the Mac Uploader if you use Lightroom or Aperture to manage and develop your RAWs. Support for Lightroom in our Windows Uploader is in the works.

We think this is the best way to sync RAW photos as what really matters with RAW photos is processing them with a very high quality RAW development engine like Lightroom or Aperture have. This also lets you apply the exact development settings and adjustments you want. The result is your beautiful RAW photos developed the way you want and properly displayed in Everpix interface.

Hope this helps :)

Re: Everpix

#54

Post by swisspol »

baby wrote: post #41
baby wrote: post #29

I've been waiting for something like that for ages. Since nothing has been made I just bought a dropbox membership... damn. But I guess I can use both. I'm testing it now: * The facebook feature is awesome! Since you can't download the pictures you've been tagged in through facebook directly I manually download them. And it's a pain. * The hidden feature scared me at first since I thought I deleted them. Then I found…

I've talked too fast, the facebook sync doesn't seem to download the pictures you are tagged in.

(Everpix founder here) It most certainly should unless some of the photos are not compatible with Everpix (see https://support.everpix.com/entries/20972951-What-kind-of-ph...), older than 1 year if on the Free plan, or if Facebook API doesn't return us all of them (yes, we have seen issues with the API).

Feel free to reach out to support_at_everpix.com if you think something is amiss.

Re: Everpix

#55

Post by swisspol »

baby wrote: post #29

I've been waiting for something like that for ages. Since nothing has been made I just bought a dropbox membership... damn. But I guess I can use both. I'm testing it now: * The facebook feature is awesome! Since you can't download the pictures you've been tagged in through facebook directly I manually download them. And it's a pain. * The hidden feature scared me at first since I thought I deleted them. Then I found…

(Everpix founder here) Not exactly the same, but you can manually organize your photos "at the source" (e.g. folders, iPhoto events...) and Everpix mirrors the organization in the Sources view [1]. This is actually quite powerful as you can keep using the same organization tools you are already used to, while still reaping the benefits of Everpix.

[1] https://support.everpix.com/entries/22001287-Understanding-E...

Re: Everpix

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Post by swisspol »

bambax wrote: post #36

My photo collection is over 300 GB (I shoot raw) and I have a relatively slow internet connection; can I do a first sync by sending a hard disk somewhere?

(Everpix founder here) No we don't support receiving physical disks. However, our Mac [1] & Windows Uploaders [2] are really optimized so give it shot, you might be surprised. Please note that our servers are US based, so if outside the US, it's certainly not as fast.

[1] https://support.everpix.com/entries/22115007-Learn-More-Gett... [2] https://support.everpix.com/entries/22243387-Learn-More-Gett...

Re: Everpix

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Post by swisspol »

daemon13 wrote: post #37

Also I think that you should not offer unlimited. What if someone will dump his favourite 100 PB of photos? If I would be using your service, I would not want you to go down due to abuses of your service's normal usage, i.e. normal users would be fine with such limit. Just put it in.

(Everpix founder here) Everpix was designed for scale and people' larger and larger photo collections to be entirely stored in our infrastructure.

Actually, we don't care so much about the number of GBs, but rather the number of photos. We have users with 100,000+ photos and it's all good as long as not for commercial use. Like you pointed out, in practice normal users have thousands of photos but not that many.

Re: Everpix

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Post by swiil »

hospadam wrote: post #13

So this looks amazing... and I want to buy into it... but I was just burned by Snapjoy several months ago. I feel like I'll pay the money... spend my time syncing my library and getting everything organized... and then someone else is going to snatch you guys up and shut it down. Clearly you guys have a business model and a product you're selling. If I can't even rely on you guys being in business long-term, what can…

Why not offer an export to S3 or Drop Box or Etc... feature so to avoid this fear? I agree - not going to pay unless some back up (locally or otherwise) option is offered to mitigate this risk.

Re: Everpix

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Post by swisspol »

jimstr wrote: post #39

Registered, downloaded app, attempted to sync "This folder doesn't appear to be on a Mac disk - Please select a different folder". So, why is it not OK that I keep my pictures on my NAS ?

(Everpix founder here) We are working on it, but it's not ready for prime time yet. From our FAQ [1]:

Everpix Uploaders fully support external drives but currently do not support network drives (aka NAS). Our Mac and Windows Uploaders use some advanced file system features to track photo files and these are typically not available (or not reliable enough) on network drives. If possible, it is recommended you connect your network drive directly to your computer as an external drive over USB or Firewire.

[1] https://support.everpix.com/entries/21783022-Frequently-Aske...

Re: Everpix

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Post by jonmc12 »

swisspol wrote: post #22

(Everpix founder here) BTW if you love what you see, come join the team: Our goal is to build the photo platform of the next 10 years, designed from the ground up for people's larger and larger photo collections, and today's photo taking patterns. We have infrastructure scale (millions of full-res photos synced per day), cutting-edge photo science like nowhere else (3 level deep convolutional network type of semantic…

Google drive or s3 support? I use google drive to keep GBs of photos on web bu off of my harddrive. I don't think any of your connected services (picasa / flickr) manage this as elegantly as Google Drive.
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