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.
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