How to Save your Kodak Gallery Photos for free(?)
Kodak Gallery (Ofoto) is an online photo sharing site where anyone can upload pictures for free. However, today I received an email from Kodak.com that if I don’t buy anything from them, like, order pictures or picture CD or anything, they will delete my pictures. I hate when company do malpractice to keep customer with them by any means. This might be a good business model for some thrift market but not for corporate like - kodak.com. Unfortunately Kodak Gallery is a closed service and so there are no API or tool that will help you to move your photos from Kodak to other free services like Flickr or Picasa Web. So what you can do to save your pictures? Possibly Free?
Option number 1: If online photos use less than 2 GB storage, you must make annual purchases of at least $4.99 from Kodak
Option number 2: If online photos use more than 2 GB storage, the minimum purchase requirement is $19.99 per year
Option number 3: This is my favorite: (Possibly free option) They have premium gallery option, in which you have an option to download all your pictures with its original resolution. Premium gallery option will cost you $2.50/month but you can download all your pictures and upload to free service like flickr and google’s picasa web. For monthly subscriber, first 30 days are trail period so once you have a copy of your images on the hard drive, cancel your Kodak subscription. This is what happens when company abuse their customers. They should not forget a supreme mantra: “Customer is God”
Option number 4: Order all your pictures in CD. This is bit anexpensive option but hey you got all your pictures back in original resolution.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:52 am
they offer free high resoultion downloads dick
October 1st, 2009 at 8:18 pm
save pictures kodak gallery. Good Post. Thx for the tips.
October 8th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
hahaha….
you can not buy archives cds any more!!!
hahaha
besides what is wrong with they charging you for having YOUR
pictures on their servers, there are customers that create accounts and never use them again, that is why they do this, you have to purchase in order to prove you still active.
other thing, if customers have pictures on K.
and they get alll their pictures deleted, goshhh,
i mean, how stupid they are???
i would never upload pictures to a website, without having a backup on my computer….and whta they do?
haha, they upload their wedding pictures, their childrens birth pictures…..and so many things…without backup….
STUPID PEOPLE
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I WILL NEVER USE KODAK GALLERY AGAIN. THEY HAVE TAKEN ALL OF MY PICTURES OUT OF MY ACCOUNT BECAUSE I DID NOT BUY ANYTHING AND HAD TOO MANY . I WAS TOLD NOT A YEAR AGO I COULD BUY A YEARLY MEMBERSHIP TO MAKE SURE MY PHOTS DONT GET DELETED. THAT WAS IN JAN. 2009. IT HAS NOT BEEN A YEAR AND ALL OF MY PHOTOS ARE GONE!!!! ALL OF MY SONS ARMY PICTURES, MY WEDDING PICS, MY GRANDAUGHTERS 1ST BIRTHDAY AND LOTS OF PICTURES OF LOVED ONE THAT HAVE PASSED IN PAST FEW YEARS. THANKS FOR NOTHING. I WILL MAKE SURE I LET ALL OF MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. THAT IS SO WRONG. HOPEFULLY SOMEONE WILL READ THIS AND THAT THIS BIG WARNING.