Top 19 Free Image Hosting Sites

Quick Overview

Many people asked me this question: Is there any image hosting website where I can upload and share my photo and picture with friends and family for free? The answer is absolutely yes. There are more than a hundred of them available on the internet today. I am not trying to list all of them, but only the top 19 websites. You can find them in the following list. Here is a quick overview about free photo hosting site you should read.

Most of these image hosting sites offer both free and paid service, and what we are talking here is about free photo uploading and sharing. To get the free service, most sites require user to create an account at their official websites. For some sites like Bayimg, Fotki, ImageShack and TinyPic, you can upload and share your pictures even without registration or having an account (but registered users can access more features).

There are various limitations regarding to storage space from one to another. Example Photobucket offer 500 MB, Flickr provides 100MB per month, Webshots offers 1000 photos + 100 more each month of membership and so on (see the following comparison table for more detail). Some websites claims to provide unlimited upload and storage. And there is a debate about this unlimited offers, some people said there is no unlimited hard drive invented yet, how come unlimited storage. This is true. But normally the unlimited storage means that you can upload image just many as you want within limited resources each site has. Some websites offers both free photo and video sharing solution.

There is a list of 19 popular free photo hosting websites which have been carefully selected and sorted by alphabet in the following. And see what other people are voting for their favorite free image hosting site, you can also participate.

Photo Editing Tools

Here are the links where you can find lists of both professional and free image editing tools available for you to download and use.

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Free Image Hosting Site Comparison Table

The following is a fundamental comparison table of free photo hosting sites:

Name	Description	Registration	Storage
Bayimg	Free uncensored image hosting website.		Unlimited
dotPhoto	Free and paid photo sharing, prints, selling site.		Unlimited
Flickr	The most popular one. Basic account is free.		100MB/month
Fotki	Free and premium membership photo hosting.		50MB
Fotolog	Share pictures through online photo diary, photo blog.		1 Pic / day
ImageShack	The popular free image, video hosting site.		Unlimited
Jalbum	Photo sharing software and website .		30MB
MyPhotoAlbum	Free standard with 1 completed transaction per year.		Unlimited
Panoramio	Geolocation-oriented photo sharing website.		2GB
Photobucket	The most popular one. Up to 500MB of space for free.		500MB
Photoshop	Photoshop.com is available in English for US residents.		2GB
PhotoWorks	Free online photo sharing and unlimited photo storage.		Unlimited
Picasa Web	A popular free online photo hosting from Google Inc.		1GB
PictureTrail	Photo sharing, photo slideshows, and image hosting.		Unlimited
Shutterfly	Free and unlimited picture storage.		Unlimited
Snapfish	Free online photo uploading and sharing.		Unlimited
TinyPic	One of most popular photo and video sharing services.		Unlimited
Webshots	1000 photos + 100 more each month of membership.		1000 Pics +
Zooomr	No limits on uploading, storing, and archiving photos.		Unlimited

= You can upload and share your images even without registration (having an account).

My Favorite Five

These are my favorite five free image hosting services:

• Flickr
• Photobucket
• ImageShack
• Shutterfly
• Picasa Web Album

Voting for Most Favorite Free Image Hosting Site

These are the top and popular free image hosting sites. I believe we all want to know among these top which is the most favorite one. As an experienced user, you can share and make it useful for other by answering the question: What is your most favorite free image sharing site? (Your contribution is counted in making internet a better place).

List of Top Photo Hosting Sites

The following is a list of top free image hosting which have been carefully selected and sorted by alphabet.

1. Bayimg

Bayimg is a free uncensored image hosting website. You can upload your image, photo and share with friend as well as other people for free. There is no registration required. This site aims to provide a registration-free service that does not have any copyright license. There are about 140 different image formats with 100MB file limit that you can upload. It is simple to upload an image. The site uses tag clouds to browse images and supports removal codes for images. Removal code is used like a password when you want to remove the image that uploaded.

2. dotPhoto

dotPhoto is a photo sharing site with its vision: always been to enable our members to handle all their imaging in one place including print, create gifts, tell a story, share, build a photo web site, sell photos, host pictures, print books, store videos and more. This site offers both free and paid membership. With free service, you can custom photo gifts, create personal photo website, photo sharing and back printing. Prints are available only in paid membership.

3. Flickr

Flickr is an image and video hosting website owned by Yahoo! Inc., that provide a great online photo management and sharing application. It is the most popular site for users to share personal photographs. You can upload your photo from your desktop, send by email, or use your camera phone. You can do some basic editing to your image such as get rid of red eye, crop a photo, or get creative with fonts and effects. Organize your photo by using collections, sets, and tags. Use groups and privacy controls to determine who can view the image. The basic account is free.

4. Fotki

Fotki is a digital photo sharing, video sharing and media social network website. This site offer both free and premium membership. Free accounts have a space limit of 50 MB. Fotki claims free unlimited photo hosting for sites, blogs, auctions and emails with no limit to image size and no registration required. These are the supported image formats: jpg, gif, png, jpeg, bmp, tif, psd, pcx. When logged in, you can organize your photos into a structure by grouping albums into folders, creating sub-folders.

5. Fotolog

Fotolog is a photo sharing site available in more than ten languages including Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and more. You can share your pictures through online photo diaries or photo blogs. This site offers both free and subscription accounts. With free account you can upload one picture per day, and have only 20 comments allow. You can also customize your page and add other fotologs into your Friends and Favorites list. Paid member (Gold Camera Member) can upload up to six pictures a day, have 200 comments per photo and have more extra features.

6. ImageShack

ImageShack is a popular free image hosting website on the internet today. You can upload your photo, flash, video for free with or without creating an account. Each image you upload must be less than 1.5 MB in size. If it is greater than that amount, your image will be optimized for internet use. Flash files must be less than 1.5 MB and Video files must be less than 50MB. The site also allows you to resize your image into various sizes as you want. You can also create an image slideshow for free (supported image types: jpeg gif tiff png bmp, maximum image size: 1.5 megabytes).

7. Jalbum

Jalbum.net is a social photo sharing website where you can download Jalbum software, create image album with drag and drop feature, customize the look and feel with Jalbum skins (there are many skins available to download for free), then publish your album either to yourname.jalbum.net or any other site. The free registered users have 30MB of space for their photos; if you need more space, you can upgrade to Premium or Power account which is paid service. You can also share your albums with your friends, in the Jalbum community or on your favorite social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and more.

8. MyPhotoAlbum

MyPhotoAlbum is photo sharing and photo album site. There is no charge for the Standard Membership with one completed transaction per year. Qualifying transactions include special promotions and discounts. Standard membership allows you to upload 500 photos and 10 videos. Accepted image and video file formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .gif, .png, .wmv, .mov, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4 and .flv. The service allows you to upload your memories via the web, downloadable software, email, and even your cell phone.

9. Panoramio

Panoramio is a geolocation-oriented photo sharing website owned by Google. Currently, some of the photos uploaded to the site can be accessed as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps, with new photos being added at the end of every month. You can store up to 2 Gb of your photos for free and keep photos quality in original size at your personal area. You can create your own map of the World and locate your photos where they were taken. You can also show photos and travel routes to your friends and easily track your trips and organize your photos with tags.

10. Photobucket

Photobucket is one of the most popular photo and video hosting websites on the internet today, provides solution for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. With your free account, you can store hundreds of photo and hours of video (up to 500MB of space for images and video clips) that you can share with your friends and family. You can share photos, videos and albums by email, IM, and mobile phone. It also allows you to put together photos, videos and music for posting and sharing on your website.

11. Photoshop

Photoshop.com is online photo editing and sharing site owned by Adobe System Inc. It provides you the complete solution for managing, editing, storing, and sharing your photos online, with tutorials, as well as inspiration. There are two levels for membership, basic and plus. The basic is free with 2 GB storage space. At this time, Photoshop.com is available in English for US residents. Other languages and countries will be added in the future.

12. PhotoWorks

PhotoWorks is an online personal publishing site and photography community that allows users to share and store their digital photos and use their digital images to create quality photo products like photo books, greeting cards, calendars, prints, tee-shirts, glossy puzzles, key chains, mouse pads and more. This site offers free online photo sharing and unlimited photo storage. You can upload image in various format; each image file should not exceed 10 MB in size. To keep your online account active, they require that you place an order once per year.

13. Picasa Web Albums

Picasa Web Albums is a popular free online photo hosting service from Google Inc. You can upload and share your image with your friends and family for free. It provides you 1 GB of free storage which is enough space for thousands of photo. Google also provides you a free photo editing program, Picasa. It can help you to organize and manage your photos in one place, edit your image including (eliminate scratches and blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more), create photos into movies, collages, slideshows and more.

14. PictureTrail

PictureTrail is a photo sharing social network which offers several services that enable you to express yourself including photo sharing, photo slideshows, and image hosting. After you register for a free account, log into the members area, you can upload your pictures, create slideshow and share it with your friends and family. PictureTrail provides flash-based slideshows call Photo Flicks which you can add your images and create a unique one. It is customizable.

15. Shutterfly

Shutterfly is a popular internet-based social expression and personal publishing service that enables consumers to upload, edit, enhance, organize, find, share, create, print and preserve their digital photos. You can get a free membership at Shutterfly. This site offers free and unlimited picture storage and stated that they never delete photos and securely store your images at full resolution. There are a variety of ways to upload pictures to your Shutterfly account.

16. Snapfish

Snapfish is an online photo sharing and photo printing service of HP. This site offers free membership with unlimited photo storage. Members can upload their photos and then make it into photo album or animated Snapshows. As a member, you can share your photo albums, individual photos, animated Snapshows via email, link URL, and to various other web services such as facebook, blogger and mySpace.

17. TinyPic

TinyPic is one of most popular photo and video sharing services that lets you upload, link, and share your images and videos on MySpace, eBay, Orkut Scrapbooks, blogs, message boards, and more. You can upload your pictures with or without registration. The registered user with free TinyPic account can access to additional features including uploading multiple images, fully editing images, deleting media, creating albums to categorize your media and more. The site accepts various file image formats such as jpg, png, gif and tiff.

18. Webshots

Webshots is a popular free online photo sharing site on the internet today. There are both free and premium memberships. Premium members pay annual fee which allows them to view the site without ads and also to upload a larger number of images to their own galleries. As a free member, you can upload and share up to 1000 photos + 100 more each month of membership and 100 videos + 10 more each month of membership and customize your own homepage.

19. Zooomr

Zooomr is a digital photos sharing website. Zooomr has no limits on uploading, storing, and archiving photos. There is however a PRO account option, which is free of advertising and allows users to see who Faved and commented on their photos with a feature called Social Stream. You can discover image that other user uploaded by last day, week, month and year as well as searching.

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