Scott Berg Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 What is your favorite site for hosting and managing photos? I am tired of all the crap that pops up on Photo Bucket. A commercial pops up with every upload, stuff flashing on the screen, and all of that overhead just makes the site slow. It has become painfully slow to manage photos. SRB Link to post Share on other sites
Brad Eden Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 GREAT QUESTION!...in light of my recent rants.... I am preparing a New Comprehensive HELP Topic (with help from Members) for posting photos to board(s), using photo host sites, Facebook, C-Member Uploads etc., etc. The HELP Topics in Photo Forum are old and a bit convoluted. I will be making a Link to this Topic available to newly registered UJ Members and current members. Link to post Share on other sites
casts_by_fly Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I use Smugmug. I used to use photobucket. Why did I switch? When I was getting into photography seriusly, a friend (who was more serious than me and whose opinion I respected) bought me a year's subscription to Smugmug basic. I really like smugmug. For viewing, the page is quite simple and not cluttered. I prefer a dark background and there are some options. I've never noticed any issues of quality degradation from upload compression like facebook and photobucket are guilty of. What I see in Aperture is what I see looking at it later through Smugmug. In terms of upload it is as simple as possible. Drag and drop. That's what I expect of a modern website. You can arrange by album easily and arrange within an album easily. There are plenty of plugins to link smugmug with editing and storage programs. My photo friend previously mentioned also uses Flickr as he had a following there (and I would consider Flickr if I didn't already use Smugmug), but he uploads to both. thanks rick Link to post Share on other sites
Rockdoc Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 My sons a computer network administrator and based on his advice I use imgur http://imgur.com// It's so simple to use even I can use it without problem. It also has built in software so that you can easily resize your pictures with it before you post. Steve Link to post Share on other sites
ThomGordon Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Smugmug Photobucket image quality vs Smugmug Link to post Share on other sites
MN Tonester Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 TG, that is amazing quality Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Hong Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Picasa...simply because I don't like change. Link to post Share on other sites
Chris Raymond Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Scott--Many ISPs offer hosted domain space as part of their service accounts. Getting photos to the proper directory/place on their servers might be a smidge more techie than some of the hosting sites but it's a lot more private and whole lot less commercial intrusive than some of what I see. Get ahold of your service provider to see if that's an option and if so to see how to do it. I just FTP my photos into my directory space at my ISP and then paste a picture's corresponding URL into a bulletin's board image code prompts. You may have to re-size your images accordingly however as some photo hosting sites will do this as part of the upload which is not done via the FTP process. Link to post Share on other sites
ccavacini Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Test PHOTO WAY TOO BIG. HAD TO REMOVE. B.E./ADMIN Link to post Share on other sites
ccavacini Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Darn....have to learn to resize photos. Used the Imgur site Link to post Share on other sites
Bullwinkle Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Picasa...simply because I don't like change. couldn't be any simpler.. Link to post Share on other sites
casts_by_fly Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 TG, that is amazing quality That's what i referred to about compression from the site itself. Facebook and photobucket are both guilty. I don't work so hard to get the shot and process it correctly to let the hosting medium dumb down the quality. Rick Link to post Share on other sites
Don fischer Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I didn't know Picasa was a photo hosting site? I just use what came in my computer. Can't post to other site's from it,,,I don't think! There are site's that you have to post photo's to right out of your own computer. how come that can't be done on all site's? Really works well! Link to post Share on other sites
Chesepeakes_Man Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 What is your favorite site for hosting and managing photos? I am tired of all the crap that pops up on Photo Bucket. A commercial pops up with every upload, stuff flashing on the screen, and all of that overhead just makes the site slow. It has become painfully slow to manage photos. SRB Scott, Download Adblocker Plus https://adblockplus.org/ and this should help. Dale Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Stenstrom Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I like hunt101. Easy upload, multiple upload at the same time, and different size images for posting (I find the medium image fits this site best). Link to post Share on other sites
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