Frontend uploader with Easy Digital Downloads

Hello,

I am trying to create a website for free, easy and private image sharing for me and my friends. I just got the Stocky WordPress theme and use Easy Digital Downloads for content managing. Now I was wondering if there was any way I could have users (my friends) upload images from the front end without having to buy a plug-in to do that since my budget for this project does not really account for that…

Does anyone know how to do this with Frontend uploader or would be able to program a script or plug-in that would be able to do this?

Thanks a lot,
Jan