# Where is a good place to post pictures online? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431 "2009-08-14T18:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/1 "2009-08-14T18:51:39Z")
Okay, take a moment to laugh at me because I don’t know the answer to this question… …I need to post some pictures online of an upcoming event and people from the associated message board want to see them. There are sites out there where you can post stuff and give people a direct link, right? Any suggestions? Free is good, but I’m willing to pay if I have to. I have an ordinary digital camera. Do any of them allow you to grant access to only one part of your collection. In other words, I’d like to share these event pictures with these random internet people, but I don’t necessarily want them to be able to go through my family pictures should I choose to post them. Or can you make more than one account? And I’d like to be able to caption the pictures. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/2 "2009-08-14T18:53:19Z")
I use photobucket. You can give your friends a guest password and your name so they can log in but not make changes. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/3 "2009-08-14T18:56:59Z")
I like [flickr.com](http://flickr.com). I’m pretty sure you can set individual photos to private or public. ---
**Author:** ![SmashTheState](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@SmashTheState](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmashTheState)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/4 "2009-08-14T18:59:58Z")
I use [Image Shack](http://imageshack.us/index.php). It’s free, uses no registration, allows hotlinking, and comes with a handy [plugin](http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=extension) for Firefox which allows you to host any image you come across with a simple context menu right-click. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/5 "2009-08-14T19:35:33Z")
Flickr is free if you only upload 200 pictures, with a few other restrictions. If you make pictures private, they can still be visible to users that you identify as “family” or “friends”, or you can send people a “guest pass” to see pictures that you have marked as private. ---
**Author:** ![TheMadHun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/6 "2009-08-14T22:42:17Z")
The quickest is [tinypic.com](http://tinypic.com) They don’t even need your email, so it’s super fast. If you need to remove items, then you would have to sign up prior to posting. There’s a similar site for creating short links that won’t break up when posted or emailed, and that’s [tinyurl.com](http://tinyurl.com/) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/7 "2009-08-14T22:48:07Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#): > > I use [Image Shack](http://imageshack.us/index.php). It’s free, uses no registration, allows hotlinking, and comes with a handy [plugin](http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=extension) for Firefox which allows you to host any image you come across with a simple context menu right-click. Photobucket used to allow hotlinking, but now if the image gets enough traffic, they bump it into a normal view window. I hate it. I’ll check this one out. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/8 "2009-08-15T02:31:12Z")
OK, I’ve uploaded an image to ImageShack without any problems. But I can’t figure out how to link to that image within one of these message blocks. There is a box on ImageShack that does contain a list of actions, but none of them are “link to this image”. Any help would be really appreciated. And since I’m sort of dim, it would greatly help if it were in Step 1, Step 2 format, and so forth. Sort of like you would do with a kindergartner. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/9 "2009-08-15T06:32:20Z")
I use SmugMug. So far I’ve uploaded about 19000 files (~20GB). You can change how your pictures are displayed and people can buy prints right from the site. Cost for a basic membership is ~$40. Also, great insurance in case your hard drive goes bust. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/10 "2009-08-15T07:36:29Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > OK, I’ve uploaded an image to ImageShack without any problems. But I can’t figure out how to link to that image within one of these message blocks. There is a box on ImageShack that does contain a list of actions, but none of them are “link to this image”. Any help would be really appreciated. > > And since I’m sort of dim, it would greatly help if it were in Step 1, Step 2 format, and so forth. Sort of like you would do with a kindergartner. There is a link that will say “Direct link to image”. Copy/paste that link and put image tags around it, if the board you are posting to allows images (usually [img] [/img] but without the spaces between the brackets. Then put your URL in between those two tags) ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/11 "2009-08-15T23:46:09Z")
Picasa from Google doesn’t give you too too much space for free, but you can make albums private. And if you want it gives you a little Google Map of where the photos were taken, like for vacations and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/12 "2009-08-16T09:06:21Z")
[Webshots](http://www.webshots.com/) is okay. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/13 "2009-08-16T14:15:11Z")
If you want to organize your photos into albums for other people to view, Photobucket and Flickr are good. If you just want to host a single image, [imgur.com](http://imgur.com) is a nice hassle-free alternative to tinypic and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/14 "2009-08-16T15:54:33Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I use photobucket. You can give your friends a guest password and your name so they can log in but not make changes. Ditto this. I think Photobucket is the best and easiest site to use. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-a-good-place-to-post-pictures-online/506431/15 "2009-08-17T13:52:32Z")
Thank you all for your responses!