Sometimes I would like to post a link to a picture here on the dope. I know there are many different options out there.
Before I take the wrong path, I thought I would get opinions on sites for free picture hosting that I can link to here on the SDMB.
Let ‘er rip. Thanks.
I’ve been using Flicker for the past year.
Very user friendly and a great place for amateur photographers to share, compare and criticize others’ work. Generous amounts of space available with free accounts and not a huge amount of money for a full account.
That should of course be flickr.com not flicker
I have been using Webshots for the last year or more. Free account and very easy to use. You can set up public as well as private albums online, so you can just share with your friends and family (e.g. your private holiday snaps) or open up to the world and post links from SDMB.
The new Yahoo! picture site blows :o . I hate it. I liked them much better before they became new and improved. One of these days I’ll get it in gear and move my shit.
Hokay.
Went to Webshots. Seems they only let you link to a thumbnail. I’ll try flickr
errr. Maybe not.
err. Maybe I won’t try flickr. One thumbs up, one thumbs down so far it seems.
In an unrelated rant. on webshots and flickr, there are already some 10-100 people using the user name enipla. Doesn’t that seem a bit odd? I can have enipla46 as a user name for instance.
enipla is alpine backwards. But I thought obscure enough that it would be an easy and open user name.
Dozens of other people think like me and happen to pick the user name alpine and then reverse it?
Little worried about that.
I curisous dopers. Try to register your odd user name at webshots or flickr and see if it is already taken.
There’s also Photobucket.
There we go Photobucket it is.
Here is another from my front deck this morning. I wanted to post these shots to the Colorado snowstorm threads. It’s not all bad.
Here is another from my front deck this morning
Thanks
Flikr.com is different than photos.yahoo.com I have Yahoo, flickr and photobucket. Photobucket is good if you just have a few photos while flickr is awesome if you take a bunch and like organizing beause the upload and organization is so much easier. My only complain with flickr is that they make viewers log in to flickr or yahoo before viewing my photos in their original massive size but I have well over 1000 pictures on there so I can see why they do that.
I use Flikr. It’s great.
~Tasha
I just use a free space, up load my pictures and make a link, I will not use a place that does not allow hot linking.
I control presentation and just a posting picture on the web does not need cute borders, comment section, choice of what to buy etc. YMMV
IMO, that slowing down of me getting to see the picture while all that crap loads up just makes me mad and I maybe just look at one picture. Most folks do not have a fast computer with a fast broadband connection and even that does not make all those spaces any faster, they are just slow to load because they are so big.
When I was on dial-up and those I know that still are, get real tired of waiting, so they don’t. What is the point of putting up pictures that no one will wait to see?
Size limits? Why limit yourself?
Not sure if Google is still giving out free space but I got one. It is a good example of what it should be like and I use it as one of my free places. Example.
A lot of ISP’s allow some space for web pages. It does not usually need to be all web page. You can load individual pictures also.
YMMV
What Gus said. I have free web hosting & there’s nothing to prevent me uploading a jpg & providing a link directly to it.
If I was trying to share photo albums with friends or family, well that’d be different. I might choose something like flickr for the convenience.
On the other hand, I consider it boderline immoral to cause a friend/family member to view someone’s advertising on the way to seeing my content. If I could pay some central authority $100 a year to see an internet (and newspapers and magazines) containing zero advertising, I’d gladly do it.
As an amature photographer, I’d like to make one small suggestion, turn off the date stamp, it can really ruin a good picutre. On my photo message board, we get one or two people a month joining becuase they just took their first ‘good’ picture and need us to photoshop the date off.
You’ll still have the date in the EXIF data though.
Certainly. I take so few pictures that I didn’t even thing about it. Lately, I’ve been thinking about taking more. I have to force my self. No one in my family likes to be in pictures, but I think it’s important to have that history. Sometimes, the date stamp helps.
http://tinypic.com/ is probably the most popular. No sign up.
http://www.itspic.com/ is the same idea.
http://imageshack.us/
A hearty second to that! I particularly hate their error message: “Uh-oh! Something bad happened!” WTF? Oh, and the dancing hamsters they use a progress indicator are just lame,lame,lame.
A list I created for the users of my site. The following image hosts do not require registration.
CNET-AllYouCanUpload (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com)
ImageDumpster (http://imagedumpster.com)
ImagePup (http://www.imagepup.com)
ImageShack (http://reg.imageshack.us)
Image Socket (http://www.imagesocket.com)
PaintedOver (http://paintedover.com) - will display thumbnails only
SaveFile (http://www.savefile.com/filehosting)
TinyPic.com (http://tinypic.com) - very short generated URL.
There’s also www.slide.com
