There are hundreds of photo sharing sites on the internet, and a few dozen popping up every week. So we thought of posting about the best ones and saving your time. Last month, we reviewed about 50 major image sharing websites and carefully selected the best 5 of them. So here is the list -
1. Flickr
Flickr definitely tops every list when it comes to image hosting and sharing. Backed by the mighty Yahoo! this service truly deserves this position. If you have a yahoo login, you can login and work seamlessly with Flickr. For a free account, you get a monthly upload limit of 100MB with 10MB per photo limit. You can always upgrade to a pro account to get rid of this limitation. You can easily create albums and photos are resized to max. 1024 or 1280 automatically. With over 26,000,000 users, it has a global Alexa rank of 33.
2. ImageShack
Imageshack provides a very easy and simple interface to upload and share photos. That’s the reason it became the 5th largest photo hosting service in the world in almost no time. If properly marketed, it can easily post a threat to the Bigshots in the photo-sharing market. But it is the only one in this list which doesn’t support geotagging. Imageshack currently holds an Alexa rank of 63.
3. Photobucket
I have been using photobucket for over a year and I loved the way they let me organize my photos. And password protecting photos are a breeze. Very well organized and user friendly layout. Free users are alloted 1GB of image storage. If you upgrade to a pro account, you’ll get 10 GB storagea. with over 50,000,000 registered users, Photobucket has an alexa rank of 39.
4.SmugMug
Now it gets pretty interesting. I would hardly ever recommend a paid-only service but Smugmug is really worth it. $40 a year is not a bad deal. It gives unlimited photo sharing space to members. I personally liked the search feature. It has a limit of 12 mb per photo for standard users and 24 mb per photo limit for pro users. It has an Alexa rank of 1,945 and over 315,000 paid members. If you want to try this service, there is a 14 day free trial version available on the website. You get the features of the pro version during the trial.
5. Picasa
Last but definitely not the least Picasa, like any other Google service, is highly recommended. It’s not because I love Google, but because of the awesome service I found in Picasa. Download it once and you’ll never think about anything else. The most decent photo management service I’ve ever used. Registration is obviously free and it gives 1GB of free space for photos. Only one in this list to support animated GIFs. IT has a userbase of over 500,000 members and holds a global Alexa rank of 326,552.
Well that’s it for now. What else services/websites do you want us to compare/write about?
Cheers!