Image Hosting

Doz007 · 28 Dec 2009 at 10:58

I'm rather late to the online image hosting party and would like ocUK to help me find the best website to use

Now the most famous name at the minute must be Flickr, but is it any good?

What about Photobucket, another big name but am I missing any other less famous, more flexible alternatives?

What do you use and why?

All the best,

Danny

Marky · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:02

TinyPic

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Kemik · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:03

http://tinypic.com/

Either that or my own webspace.

Schizo · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:03

photobucket for me.

tres · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:03

Image hosting to show off your photoshop/photography skills, as in a portfolio all in one place? http://www.flickr.com

Image hosting to re-host junk for you to post in the Random Images thread? http://www.imgur.com

tres · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:06

Imgur > Tinypic

Hessian · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:09

It depends what you're wanting to host the images for. If you plan on sharing your images with friends, etc. the Flickr works well because of the gallery type view. But for general image hosting, linking, then there's no better than TinyPic

Guerrilla · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:12

Always used tinypic too, easy to use

Hessian · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:13

Jph said:
Always used tinypic too, easy to use

The only issue is that it doesn't handle large images, will resize if too big.

mjones1 · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:19

Flickr is good if your into photography.

wesley · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:21

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9221 tbh

Hessian · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:28

wesley said:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9221 tbh

Nice Add-on, but "Upload to ImageShack" ... ewww!!

Doz007 · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:41

Cheers for the suggestions guys

I'm looking to use it for uploading photos from my phone/laptop/PC to store in the cloud. This will avoid losing data in hard drive crashes and also allow easy posting to forums etc. Win win!

I notice both Flickr and Photobucket allow unlimited storage capacity, Hi res hosting and other benefits for $25 a year. Does tiny pic offer this kind of service?

Keep the replies coming folks

gillywibble · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:42

Photobucket and this add on -

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10035

Jimmy1983 · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:47

Did use this addon, but started to find a few problems with it

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1174

V4NT0M · 28 Dec 2009 at 11:54

tinypic

RandomTom · 28 Dec 2009 at 12:09

www.dropbox.com / www.flickr.com

jp_bl_68 · 28 Dec 2009 at 12:12

Hessian said:
Nice Add-on, but "Upload to ImageShack" ... ewww!!

What's wrong with imageshack?

Lethal` · 28 Dec 2009 at 12:19

jp_bl_68 said:
What's wrong with imageshack?

slow

Doz007 · 28 Dec 2009 at 12:38

Looking at tinypic it seems to be a sub site for Photobucket. Why would I be better off signing upto tinypic?