
In the Preferences, you can switch to a light-gray interface and choose among three text-size options.īrowsing through photos is quick, and you can do so with the mouse wheel. Interface Mylio's default desktop interface is good-looking, with a dark, Lightroom-like appearance. You can change this destination later in the Preferences, but it's not button-press simple. Since I didn't really want such a large-footprint folder in my C: drive, I'd have appreciated Mylio asking me which drive it should use upon installation. The setup automatically creates a Mylio Pictures folder under your main user folder-I'd actually prefer it to place this under the standard Pictures folder, as iCloud Photo Stream does.
MYLIO REVIEW HOW TO
Next, a short helpful video shows you how to start using the apps and service. It's doable, but Mylio's ideal use-case is not on a company-issued PC protected by a corporate firewall. Get Going with Mylio After activating the account via an emailed link and logging into the program, I set up Mylio on my PC, but before I could start using it, I had to let it through my Windows Firewall.
MYLIO REVIEW TRIAL
A free trial with no time limits gives you up to 1,000 files total, on up to three devices. These allow 50,000, 100,000, and 500,000 images, respectively, and the top two levels allow raw camera files and more powerful photo editing. Three account levels are available: Basic ($50 per year), Standard ($100), and Advanced ($250).
MYLIO REVIEW SOFTWARE
I started testing Mylio by downloading and installing its Windows software on a Windows 8.1 PC. Mylio's pricing is quite a bit steeper than that of Flickr, but then again, Mylio claims to be providing you with more capability than the free-terabyte service from Yahoo, and it never shows you ads. It's also good at photo organization and editing, though it trails Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop Elements in these aspects. Mylio does, however, give you the option to also back your collection up to the cloud. Instead, it offers private photo and video syncing. Mylio takes all your photos, whether from, say, your phone, D-SLR, or Facebook, and stores and organizes them.Īvailable online and at photography retail locations, Mylio is not exactly a cloud sharing and storage service like Flickr. The goal of startup photo service Mylio ($50 per year) is to marshal your disparate photo collections into one organized, always-available library, accessible through apps for Windows, Mac, and iOS (Android is coming later). My approach to photo preservation has plenty of redundancy built in, but it's more haphazard than I'd like. Even Facebook lets you auto-upload your mobile snaps now.

I have my shots auto-uploading to OneDrive, iCloud, Flickr, and probably other services.
