Recommend Site to Showcase knife pics?

[RogerP]

I can't imagine going through the hassle of uploading to two different photo hosts, one for posting individual individual images and one for linking galleries. I have a hard enough time keeping track of the content in different galleries on one site, much less than if I had to keep track of different stes of galleries on two sites. But if it works for others, then that's fine for them.

When you post a photo from Photobucket, do they add banners and such to the image to advertise their site? Do they allow you to post in an image size of your choosing, or is there an inflexible default size?

Roger

 

[Balislinger]

Thanks Coop and petah, I'll give that system a spin. I'm also going to try Picasa and Fototime. Since I already use pbase, I'll report back a comparison

 

[Balislinger]

Picasa: 1 gigabyte of free storage -- that's enough space for 4,000 wallpaper-size photos. My impressions so far: Takes some time to figure out how the desktop client, which you download, works with the online web portion of the service. Con in my view: when you download the dekstop client, it automatically starts importing every photo on your computer into its database, rather than allowing you choose which photos to use with it. The url for your gallery/album will look something like this: http://picasaweb.google.com/username/galleryname. The web interface looks like Gmail. In other words, in may be utilitiarian, but it does not have a nice, pro photo look to it. Looks more like a database

Photobucket: Free for 500MB of storage. Can upload files up to 1024 X 768 size. Can upload videos too (500MB or less file size). Too many ads, too commercial, not a pro-photo look to it either. The presence of targeted ads suggests a more nefarious cookie and/or transaction history and/or computer profiling process that they use on you. Not recommended. $25/year lets you upgrade to pro service, which gives you unlimited storage space and the ability to upload full size high-def photos (max 4000 X 3000 pixels). That also removes most ads except Photobucket logo

Fototime: $24 per year for 4GB. Nice, gallery-type interface. Ad free.

pBase: $23 per year for 800MB, $60 per year for 2.4GB (2400 MB). Nice, gallery-type interface. Ad free. 800 MB stores approximately 2,000 photos if they are 250kb each.

So far, it appears that Fototime is considerably cheaper than pBase if you store over 1GB of pictures in total.

Still left to compare: Jalbum

 

[ptgdvc]

I've used Fototime for years. It does cost a little bit, but it works well and has been quite reliable and easy to use in every respect. I haven't tried a bunch of different hosts so I can't give you any kind of comparison, but I've been happy enough with this one that I haven't felt any need to explore other options.

Roger

+1, It is well worth the money. :thumbup: