Best photo sharing website?
 

I'd like to know people's views on the best website to use for uploading and sharing photo's?

I dont need anything fancy, just something which is pretty straight forward to use and which is easy for family and friends to view the pics (preferably without them having to sign up).

I know of sites such as Flickr and Shutterfly etc but I'm not sure which is the best site out there.

Thanks. :D

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There is bebo but think you have to sign up to view for security. You can't sign up though unless your invited by the owner of the pics. If your putting your children on the net do you really want anybody to be able to access it? Maybe better if you have to invite as a bit of extra security.
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Inviting is fine, its just if people have to sign up to view then I know it would put a lot of people off.

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I've used snapfish..invited to view, just had to log on with users/posters details.Not sure of the process of signing up for it as a poster though..but it worked well and straight forward to use.

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Hi

I also use Snapfish to show my photos to friends in Australia and it works brilliantly. Plus it's free!

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I use Flickr and it's very easy. It's free unless you want a pro account, then it's $12 US per year for unlimited everything.
No invites needed but you can set your pics to family or friends only, then they'd sign in to view them.
You can view in multiple sizes too and download.

Links in my sig,

Re: Best photo sharing website?
 

there are loads, but a lot will depend on if you want private account, or large space etc.

for temporary images, imageshack or those type of sites aren't bad.

Or even this place, you can hide your gallery with a password, though that might be a premium feature these days, I can't remember.

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http://britishexpats.com/photopost/ ..... but of course I'm biased :D

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How many pics can you upload then Sue? I tried to put more on but kept getting error messages. Gave up in the end. Presumed it was because I'm not a premium member?

Flickr has bulk uploading tools to allow you to put up hundreds at a time.

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I always used snapfish, and found them very good, but they don't ship internationally if you order prints, so recently I've been looking at shutterfly because it ships worldwide.

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I've just checked and you haven't reached your quota, the amount of photos depends on the size of each photo, but in total every non-premium member has 50mb allotted. So you should still have loads of room left in yours.

Sue

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V weird... thanks for checking for me. Server glitches maybe?

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We use www.pbase.com to share pictures of our daughter with family and friends. It's USD23 for 400MB or USD60 for 1200MB per year. You can upload .zip files and the site automatically unzips for you. It's pretty easy to use.

Mrs JTL

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I use www.photobucket.com :D

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Flickr all the way. It's by far the best that I've found.

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they have dodgy copyright policy though...also quite a pain in the butt if someone knicks your photo's for their use etc.

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I think if you use their US site, they will then ship internationally.

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I'm really not sure how you can protect your pics on any of these sites as they're all downloadable, unless you're going to watermark your pics.

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Don't need to know where you put your rejects thanks :p

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Aye, but some sites are better at taking down bent works than others....Flickr is good, but if someone has copied your stuff, there a mare to do anything about it.

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I use Picassa web albums!

Find it fantastic.......can upload photos direct from my picassa image viewing softwarte (windows version of iPhoto apparently).....

Have a look at this and see how easy it is! I personally found Flickr to be too in-depth and commercialised!

http://picasaweb.google.com/RobnCaz

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Cheers mate, I might give that a whirl.

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I have tried pretty much all of the free ones out there! OK, this doesnt have all the bells and whistles, but lets be honest...who needs em anyway?

Its quite new from Google Labs and they are adding new features all the time! Storage quota is pretty amazing too (as youd expect from Google anyway!)

Make sure you download Picassa itslef....bloody good bit of software and allows you to upload from within directly at the click of a mouse!

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I've just installed Picasa and I must admit that I'm very impressed so far! I've not uploaded any to the web yet but I will soon.

Thanks for the tip! :D

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A pleasure :)

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I've (*cough*) accidentally found a damn good adult one if anyones interested...... ;) :D

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I too use Picassa2 and now the web albums, its great and free! You can make the album public or invites only. Once you download Picassa it automatically copies all your images on your pc into the folder and runs in addition to your 'my pictures' folder. Also v easy to upload pics for printing, great for altering images, fixing red eye, coverting to black and white. You can tell I am a big fan!