… Most people keep their photo libraries on their computers. And that’s the way it should be. While Web applications are great, there’s really nothing like desktop software for speed, especially when you are dealing with large files such as photos.

But to share images, we generally upload them to Web sites because it’s easier for our friends to get to those sites than to the images on our computers …

I believe you should be able to make changes to photos on your PC and have those changes automatically reflected in your online albums. You should also be able to make changes on the Web and see them on your PC. Anything else is a recipe for disaster or at least confusion. As users’ photo libraries grow and we all share more libraries online, it’s won’t be practical for us to keep track of the different versions of our media that we’re now storing in different places.

There are (at least) two tools that enable computer-to-Web photo synchronization now: Phanfare and Sharpcast. …

Works for Me: Photo synchronization: the right solution – CNET reviews

I checked out these two “killer apps“. Neither are good enough for me on a Mac.

I’m using flickr now. It does not have synchronization but will probably add it at some time in the future.

Even people who hate computers want to be able to see photos conveniently.

Leave a comment if you have a synchronization solution that works for you.