Whether using a free photo hosting site, or one that costs a nominal annual fee, you’ll be able to share your photos online with friends and family… and the world.
Paid photo hosting sites generally offer a free trial period. Take advantage of this since hosts can vary greatly in the way they present your photos.
If you try several different hosts before deciding on one, upload the same photos to each site to check out how they look in each environment.
- Aperturehead
- Dotphoto
- Flickr [Our review]
- Fotki
- Ophoto UK
- Pbase
- Photobox.uk
- Photobucket
- PhotoShare
- Photosite
- PhotoStockPlus
- Picasa Web Albums [Our review]
- Smug mug
- Zenfolio
How do I find out what the costs are to use Flickr Pro or to use other photo-hosting sites?
fred, Visit the photo hosting site. On their main page, or an obvious link on the page, most will offer a free account or a free trial account as well as the cost of a Pro Account. For example, on Flickr there are bold words that say “Holy smokes! That’s cheap! Get a year of pro photo for…”
You might want try a few different accounts to see which you like best. Once you start uploading a lot of photos to one hosting site, it’s can be difficult to break away and start from scratch at another site. For example, I have used PBase many years but it’s very tedious to download the gallerys I have there. You must use third party software. On the other hand, a photo hosting service like Google makes it easy to download entire albums.
I think it’s under $25 per year for Flickr Pro. If you sign up for the free version you can always upgrade after your account is created.
We’ve just launched http://www.photoswarm.com
Let us know what you think.
Just found Picturepostproject.com. Seems to be an early startup with unlimited albums and storage space. Claims to be 100% free picture hosting.
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