# Sharing Photos Online
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 20, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070 "2005-10-20T13:23:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070/1 "2005-10-20T13:23:39Z")
After a couple of days searching I’ve discoverd a whole heap of sites where I can share my photos with friends and family. Most have upper sharing limits but none seem to have a no-limit on the _size_ of the photo to be uploaded.
I have a whole bunch of photos that average at about 12Mb and the last thing I want to do is go about resizing them down to 6 or lower so that I can put 'em on the 'net.
Does anyone know of a photo-sharing service where I can download a tool that not only uploads the photos, but converts them first to a smaller version? Photobucket will resize images down to 250Kb but you need to upload that 12Mb first.
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070/2 "2005-10-20T13:30:58Z")
[Flickr’s](http://www.flickr.com) uploading tool will resize large photos for you if such is your desire. It also provides thumbnails and small, medium, or large versions of any photos you upload. It’s very handy, actually.
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### Author:  [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070/3 "2005-10-20T13:38:07Z")
Thanks, **The Tooth**!
Hmm, they’ve been bought by Yahoo I see… I wonder will my login work…
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070/4 "2005-10-20T13:42:36Z")
yes, thanks
I started with **Photopoint** , which went out of business. I switched to **Ofoto** , which merged with and became **KodakGallery**
But it’s tough to link to a single photo in **KodakGallery**
I’ve noticed a lot of Dopers use **Photobucket** , so I’ll try that for a while, but I’ll keep \*\*Flickr \*\* handy just in case
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### Author:  [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070/5 "2005-10-20T13:53:19Z")
Hmmm, small snag. The upload tool is great. It’ll resize the photos into 4 different sizes of my choosing, but in order to share the photos the person needs to have a Yahoo! account in order to view them…
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### Author:  [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070/6 "2005-10-20T13:57:24Z")
Sorry…figured it out 🙂
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ptegan/)
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-photos-online/327070/7 "2005-10-20T14:15:25Z")
My pleasure.