subject: Online Photo Hosting Websites [print this page] Photo hosting is an easy and simple way of storing your photos. Using photo hosting services, you can easily share your photos with others. Knowledge of CSS, HTML or any complicated software applications is not necessary. You just upload your photos and browse your images from your personal computer. Most of the photo websites are free but some may charge you for their services.
Here is a list of the best online photo hosting websites:
1: Flickr
At present, Flickr is one of the largest online photo organizing and sharing websites around the globe.
Free to upload photos and videos.
Storage is limited to 100MB
Videos are limited to 90 seconds and only two videos of 150Mb or less are allowed per user per month.
Only safe and personally created videos are permitted.
Videos files that are supported: AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG (1, 2, and 4) and 3GP.
Flickr offers Pro accounts, which gets you more storage.
You can generate prints and slideshows of the images and videos.
2: Picasa
Picasa Web Albums is a service provided by Google for sharing and organizing your photos online.
By creating a free account on Picasa Web Albums you can create, manage and share photos into a photo album or photo slideshow.
3: Slideshare
You can put slideshows of your photos on blogs or on regular websites.
Create and share your image slideshow / flash slideshow.
4: DPHOTO
Uses Flash for its application and interface.
It is not necessary to install any additional software.
No advertisements
Upload and organize your images via drag and drop.
5: Webshots
Allows you to share and organize your photos in many ways.
Anyone can search your images in webshots by your name or description.
If you are uploading many files, you need to install a dedicated ActiveX plugin.
6: Photobucket
Uploading, sharing and linking
Search functionality for photos, videos and graphics.
Free accounts that let you store and share your photos and videos.
Create an image slideshow for your images and share it easily.
7: Zoomr
Easily share and store photos.
Online search functionality.
8: Clickfriends
Helps you with uploading and managing your files.
Free account.
Create photo albums and add titles and captions to your pictures.
Most photo web services provide RSS feeds that contain your latest photos and videos. A standard RSS format for serving photos and videos is Yahoo Media RSS, used by Flickr and Picasa for example. Some web applications can read these RSS feeds. Monoslideshow is a good example of a slideshow that can read Media RSS files and display its contents.
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