Go Mobile with Online Photo Services

The speed at which photography has gone mobile is stunning. The presence of high-quality cameras in phones has turned millions of people into photographers, whether they realize it or not. Just as signif­­icantly, people now expect to access any sort of information on phones and tablets, including photos.

That’s a tall order. Photos and videos occupy a vast amount of storage, and the capacities of mobile devices are still relatively small. So, until recently, we’ve had to compromise: if you wanted to access a good-sized portion of your photo library, complete with edited photos and applied metadata, if any, on a mobile device, usually, you had to manually sync them from your computer.

Today, several services ...

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