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My wife is an interior designer and she needs help sharing images...
Thomas Luehrsen | Nov 7 2007
I am posting here for the first time and I am not sure this is the right forum, but anyway… I am hoping you know of a software or web solution to the following problem. I would be grateful for any suggestions. My wife is an interior designer and I am her ad hoc IT department. She is having a lot of trouble when she needs to send images to clients for review or approval. Usually, she attaches one or more image files to an email (using Apple Mail.app) and sends that to the client. Sometimes, the client says they can’t see or “download” the image. This is when she calls me to bail her out. Here are the different kinds of image/graphics files that she needs to share with her clients: 1. scans from magazines and other hard copy printed matter (including her own drawings) 2. photos she shot that are stored in iPhoto 3. CADD Drawings (usually converted to PDF) 4. photos and graphics files she drags off of websites The solution needs to be very EASY to use. My wife and her clients are technical in any way. Ideally, there would be some kind of web site where she could just dump all these different files and make them viewable to her clients in a web browser. Flickr comes to mind, but I think it is too public and too photo (.JPG) oriented. Thanks for any ideas… 6 Comments
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 Flickr should be ok except for the PDFsSubmitted by mwr on November 7, 2007 - 4:13pm.
It’s not too public, and it should accept any regular bitmap-style graphic format (PNG, TIF, etc.), but I guess it does convert everything into JPG format after it’s uploaded. If your wife uploaded pictures she wanted to keep private to a particular person, she’d just upload it as private to herself, and issue guest passes to the picture to each client as needed. Example: this link should take you to a picture on my Flickr account that’s otherwise private and protected from accidental browsing. All that took was for me to navigate to the photo on Flickr and hit the “Send to a Friend” link at the bottom right. Normally, you’d just enter the email addresses you wanted to send to, but in this particular case, I sent it to my gmail account and extracted the URL for posting here. »
 Backpackit!Submitted by emory on November 7, 2007 - 7:00pm.
This is a home-run for Backpack. http://www.backpackit.com/ »
 Thank you both! I willSubmitted by thomaslue on November 8, 2007 - 4:56pm.
Thank you both! I will investigate! »
Re: My wife is an interior designer and she needs help sharing iSubmitted by thomaslue on November 9, 2007 - 5:53pm.
I looked at Backpack and it was nice and friendly, but it could’t deal with PDFs… »
what do you mean it couldn't deal with them?Submitted by emory on November 10, 2007 - 8:38pm.
what exactly do you want to do with the PDFs? make them available for Download? Backpack can absolutely do that. »
all we need to do is display imagesSubmitted by thomaslue on December 4, 2007 - 10:19am.
In every case in my list above, we just need to show pictures to the client. No downloads necessary. »
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