Favorite Digital Photo Sites

I just got a new digital camera after years of being a film troglodyte, and would like to set up a good on-line way to store, organize and share the photos. I am very envious of the way that many of the members of this site post their best shots immediately after the trip. <br><br>Any recommendations on the best sites to use/ways to do this? I figure I could ask this question on a digital camera site, but would probably get overwhelmed with technical talk. Thanks.

If you have your own space, like a website or the free space some ISP's give you, that I find is optimal; however, if that's not the case I've had good luck with webshots.com. It's free, fairly intuitive, and you can decide whether you want to share your files with the public or keep them privately held. I believe they offer something to the effect of 24 album's worth of photos.<br><br>If I recall correctly, what webshots does not allow you to do is to post a picture directly into your thread. For that, you'd need another service.

I rather dislike generic photo hosting sites. You can't customize the page, the url is impossible to remember, you don't have much control over it. I never visit these sites, they're hard to find, often not very user-friendly, and just too generic. <br><br>Much better, IMHO, is to buy some web space, learn a bit of HTML, and put the photos there.

I agree with what Paul said if you're considering using one of the free photobook sites (like webshots.com). <br><br>Though if you're willing to spend a bit of money, I'd highly recommend smugmug.com/. It's not free but it's inepensive, really easy/fast to use and you can link directly to photos from this site (which you can't do with webshots). If you'd like an example of it see my father's website (checkout how cute my nieces and nephews are!):
hud.smugmug.com/

For occasional picture posting you can also just upload to www.biglines.com/. They will not restrict linking to the photo from other sites.

groups.msn.com/
allows hotlinking.
Free up to some meager level, $20/yr for a bunch.

RossMac,<br>I've recently downloaded Google's new organizing software called Picasa2. It is easy to use and very intuitive. www.picasa2.com The software scans your entire computer for images, and I found some old photos in folders I forgot I had. I also like it because you can label photos (skiing, flowers, mountains, etc) and save a flag to those labels, not an entire copy of the image itself (thus, saving room on the hard drive). In conjunction with the organizing software are both a web posting (through Blogger) and email sharing (through Hello) systems. All for free.

I too enjoy all the photos here on TAY. Thanks to all for sharing!
--Jessica

I have a bunch of albums on Webshots, community.webshots.com/user/jwdesign I paid the 20 or 25 a year and can have up to 5000 images I think. It's been good for me,  but like Paul said It's probably more enjoyable for the viewer if you do your own pages. I'm just about ready to spring for some web space because the videos I've been posting have filled my Comcast webspace to the limit. Have fun with your new camera!<br><br> PS When I want to put a still in a report I use Snapfish (a Comcast photosite ) it works fine, but it's a hassel to have to put the pic two places.----Jerry

Thanks to all -- this is a great community.

RossMac- <br><br>I'll bet your ISP offers you a bit of personal webspace where you can store pics that you can link into trip reports. I'm with earthlink and use the webspace that comes with the basic account to store the pics I've been linking in trip reports. When I was with AOL a few years back they offered the same feature...I think it's pretty standard for ISP's to offer at least a little webspace.<br><br>You're right, this is a great little community.