Great start! +1 to the fact that you got something out.
In one of the comments you say "You should use this if you care about having a central repository of all your photos, owning and controlling them and want some level of choice."
Sounds nice except that I still don't understand what it exactly means.
If you take some typical photo management workflow/use cases of typical people-who-take-photos-of-their-family-and/or-pets, and then explain how openphoto improves it, it will help.
My typical use case -
-Photos (& videos) are dumped into a folder on a computer. (Usually sub folder in the format YYYY-MM-OptionalOccasion)
-Use Picasa to upload to, er, picasa (paid picasa user)
-Selectively share albums with friends and family
-Done.
-(Separate backup process backups everything on computer including these photos)
If you can tell me how openphoto will improve this part of my life, I am willing to listen and maybe even open my wallet.
Good questions. One of the goals is to allow users to continue using their existing workflow. So we've got plans to make plugins available for as many apps as possible (aperture, iphoto, lightroom, etc).
We've also got sync features planned to sync your Flickr or Picasa account to your OpenPhoto one. Not sure what Picasa offers over OpenPhoto but Flickr has a community which you may still want to share photos with. Same goes for Facebook.
On Android you can set every photo you take to be uploaded to OpenPhoto if you're using the OpenPhoto app or not. We're not interested in fighting to be the default photo app. If we are, then great.
Not sure if that answers your questions. If not you can drop me an email (jaisen@openphoto.me) and we can discuss. I'd love to know how it does or doesn't work for you.
In one of the comments you say "You should use this if you care about having a central repository of all your photos, owning and controlling them and want some level of choice."
Sounds nice except that I still don't understand what it exactly means.
If you take some typical photo management workflow/use cases of typical people-who-take-photos-of-their-family-and/or-pets, and then explain how openphoto improves it, it will help.
My typical use case - -Photos (& videos) are dumped into a folder on a computer. (Usually sub folder in the format YYYY-MM-OptionalOccasion) -Use Picasa to upload to, er, picasa (paid picasa user) -Selectively share albums with friends and family -Done. -(Separate backup process backups everything on computer including these photos)
If you can tell me how openphoto will improve this part of my life, I am willing to listen and maybe even open my wallet.