Google Photos

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You can save unlimited photos on Google Photos if you set your settings to upload to "High quality" as opposed to "Original quality." If you're using a Google Pixel phone, you may upload unlimited photos at original quality.

Shared Albums

Anyone can share an album with anyone else. You can also set your albums to allow anyone to upload to an album.

Google Photos will show who uploaded the photo, but it won't show who actually took the photo. For the simplest use case (create an album, have lots of people share to it), this is fine. But for a more complicated (but common) use case, this causes problems. For example, I often create an initial internal photo album, where people upload photos, then create a second curated public album, where I select the best of the uploaded photos. In order to share photos that other people uploaded, I need to import them into my library, then add them to the new album. Unfortunately, in the new album, the photos looks like they came from me, not the original uploader. This is technically true, because I was forced to re-upload the photos, but it's not the desired behavior.