Picture Hosting Sites

[Steve Hornsby]

Hi all,

I'm working through my Skua build and wish to find a site to host some photos as Imagestation is closing.

Does anyone have any recommendations of a site where family, friends ad guests can access whenever they wish to see progress. Imagestation seemed have his capablility where you can send link and people just check back in from time to time. I've tried Flickr and Shutterfly and it seems that I must "share" my new progress by sending out notices. Am I missing something with these two sites. The only other option I see is to give out my password for access to my complete site - not so desireable.

Any suggestions?

Thanks Steve

[CharlieCobra]

I use Photobucket and it works fine.

[JimJ]

Bigpond in Oz has 10mb allowance for the use of users. I have some photos on imagestation (the links still work) and other photos on my ISP's users site.
If you reduce the size of the photos <100kb, you can host a lot of photos

The link format is

http://users.bigpond.com/"usersname"

JimJ

[BETTY-B]

Photobucket is soooo easy I dont understand why everyone isnt using it.

http://photobucket.com/

DAN

[adampet]

another vote for Photobucket.

Adam

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Photobucket is soooo easy I dont understand why everyone isnt using it.

http://photobucket.com/

DAN


Photobucket doesn't have a good slide show, so I use Picture trail.
Picture trail also allows you to make a slide show (flick) and embed the slide show on a web page.

[Peter Eikenberry]

another vote for photobucket

[Thorne]

Another vote for picturetrail.

[pcford]

Just use your ISP's web space and stop whining about looking for free image hosting services. You are already paying for it!!!

If you can build as boat you should be able to figure out how to get a picture on your web space.

[Thorne]

That's what I do, but then again, I'm in the computer support business.

An easier alternative might be to use some of the blog software / sites for photos and text -- that's really what a webpage is, anyway.

[pcford]

That's what I do, but then again, I'm in the computer support business.



Ah, come on. Setting up a ftp program is just not that hard. I am definitely not a computer whize.

[Thorne]

Yabut....what the original post is talking about is far more than just links to individual images -- they are looking for slideshows, or booklets, or whatever you call a collection of images all linked with forward/back arrows, etc.

I use Photoshop's automatic web slideshow option a lot, also do some manual slideshows (pages of images with forward/back arrows) generated from iPhoto on the Mac. And sometimes I'm old-school and just have a page of thumbnail images that they manually have to click on, then hit the browser's Back arrow, then click on the next.

Users are getting spoiled by the ease of the various photo hosting sites' slideshows or image collections -- and I can't blame 'em. But that means that those of us who post a lot of images need to stay current and use tools or resources that meet the viewer's needs -- or they won't look at our purty boats!

;0 )

My boating events photo page shows the gamut of self-hosted website methods -
http://www.luckhardt.com/dory2.html

[redbopeep]

Another one is Fickr:

http://flickr.com/


The free hosting is so-so with limits per month on upload that most people wouldn't use up and its free so worth looking at. We have a pay-for account ($20-$30) which gives you unlimited space to upload/backup photos and unlimited uploads. Ours is a "private" site that only we access but we put links in for putting pics on our blog, etc. All our family pics are backed up to flickr right now (as well as on DVD) further, our business is software that does image processing so sometimes we upload many gig of test data and use flickr as a temporary archive for work related stuff.

[Steve Hornsby]

Thorne nailed it (thanks Thorne), my post is about site capability in the context of user (freinds and family) ease.

Thanks all for your site suggestions. I will investigate.

Steve

[Bob Perkins]

I went with Shutterfly since imagestation pushed me there. It is pretty good. Now my project has its own URL..

[katiedobe]

I asked the same question month or two ago. Decided to use photo bucket for the forum. My wife hated it.

She uses picassa with their web posting program. She loves the slideshow featuers and the no ad issue is great.
you can download picassa from Google, free, then on the bottom is says post to the web.
Try it out and see.

[redbopeep]

We have the google picasa program but didn't like google's privacy/owership policies. If you're putting up stuff that doesn't matter who sees it or gets a copy of it somehow, google is great. I forgot about that option when mentioning yahoo's Flickr.