Easiest way to store pics on internet?

[USRufnex]

What's the easiest/cheapest way to take pics from a digital camera and store them on a website -- to post them on the TulsaNow Forum later?!?  []

[sgrizzle]

I use flickr. I'm also used photobucket but I find flickr easier to use.

[rwarn17588]

Ditto on Flickr. It even has a handy downloader available you can put on your computer's desktop.

If you have a lot of pictures, you can get unlimited space for $20 a year. Anything under 200 photos a year is free, I believe.

[mspivey]

If all you want is a place to stash pix to upload other places, Flickr is great. If you want a place to show your photos to others, I would use SmugMug or Zenfolio. Both charge a fee. I use Smugmug and I love it. I use Lightroom and there is a direct uploader for Flickr or SmugMug. I understand there is one for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

[sauerkraut]

I'm pretty old fashioned, I still like to use analog backups. I think analog is more secure. No one really knows how long digital stuff can last. It's hard to lab test the passage of time.[B)]

[inteller]

Windows Skydrive lets you store up to 5Gb free I believe.

[naenae42day]

I use www.photogra.com

[Wilbur]

IF you use Cox, they have their free Media Share and Store.  Allows you to store and share up to 5 gig.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Wilbur

IF you use Cox, they have their free Media Share and Store.  Allows you to store and share up to 5 gig.

considering that would be closer to you on the Internet I would have to suggest that if the implementation is slick.  that is probably fast enough to use as a light backup location.

[MichaelBates]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

Ditto on Flickr. It even has a handy downloader available you can put on your computer's desktop.

If you have a lot of pictures, you can get unlimited space for $20 a year. Anything under 200 photos a year is free, I believe.

Flickr is great for uploading and organizing pictures. You can even "geocode" each photo to the place it was taken.

Also, the Flickr pro account is free for AT&T DSL customers.

[USRufnex]

Thanks.

I have Cox but may try Flickr too... I only have a dozen or so pics (that have nothing to do with soccer)...

I have some great pics of "walkable urbanity" and "mixed use" from my old 'hoods (Edgewater and Rogers Park) on the northside of Chicago... some really bizarre and amazingly gerrymandered TIF districts are "coming to roost" in the city... picked up the Chicago Reader, and there was another article from TIF critic Ben Joravsky.... I think I remember dropping his name before during discussions about the East Village TIF district, and he's definitely worth the read...

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theworks/081002/

(below, links to the umpteen gazillion stories he's written on Chicago's TIFs)

http://www.chicagoreader.com/tifarchive/

[dayzella]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

What's the easiest/cheapest way to take pics from a digital camera and store them on a website -- to post them on the TulsaNow Forum later?!?  []

I use photobucket.com for posting to forums.  You can lock the account so your albums can't be viewed randomly, resize, do basic editing and copy within the browser based program, and self sort by albums.  I have no idea what the storage limit is - in 5 years, I still haven't hit it.  photobucket is free.

I like to keep pics I want to post to forums separate from my flickr account, which I use for personal pics.  This way, I don't have to take my whole flickr account to friends and family only and still maintain some privacy.  If you don't upgrade to the pro account, you hit the pic upload limit pretty quickly on flickr.

If you just want to a way to upload a pic quickly to show a forum, tinypic works great.  To have dedicated storage, you have to sign in.  But to just grab of the web and give a neutral hosting address to, or to move a personal pic off of flickr and on to a neutral platform for a one-off posting, you don't have to log-in or have an account at all.