1/9     I want to share maybe 100 photos with close family only. I don't
        want anyone else to be able to see them, not that they are naughty
        or anything. I want to then take them offline and replace with
        more photos in 6-12 months (no need for permanent online storage).
        I use iPhoto for my photos on my Mac. I don't want to pay for this
        service. It would be nice if the s/w could compress images
        automagically so that they aren't all 10 MB each and I don't have
        to bother with that myself, but I'm not sure if that exists. What's
        better for me? Flickr, picasa, photobucket, or something else? I
        have no experience with any of these, not even as a viewer of photos.
        \_ JPG and GIFs are by nature already compressed, so there isn't
           a lot of bang for bucks when compressing something already
           compressed. You'll gain at most 1-2% compression and in some
           \_ This is a really stupid comment.
              \_ Care to explain why the op is stupid with a more
                 intelligent response?
                 \_ because later in the post the pp talks about how Flickr
                    "compress[es] everything". JPG is a compressed format,
                    but it is easy to shrink the file size plenty by adjusting
                    the quality. The OP didn't mean gzip when he was asking
                    for compression of his files. pp's comment was factual
                    if you're talking about zip but uninformative and misleading
                    if you're talking about zip but uninformative and
                    misleading
           cases the compressed file is even bigger. If you use Picasaweb
           it's 1G free and it's easy to make it private only. Flickr
           on the other hand has a 100M/month upload quota, and they
           compress everything for you so you don't get the orig size.
           In summary: Picasa should be available on the Mac now and
           you can upload easily. It'll downsize for you (if you wish)
           before uploading it to Picasaweb.