Image Services suggested by you and researched by me

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Finding a place to store all your images is a pain. I've been struggling with PhotoBucket since they started charging and have removed their mass download button to keep people there. FYI: I found a way around that.

So where do you store your images if you want to be able to share or just have them somewhere taking up less space on your computer. Below are a few great options.

Thank you to all of you who are suggesting locations. Below are suggested places with things you should know.

1. Flickr
Free accounts available but limit you to 1000 images.

2. Cloudinary
Your free account includes "25 credits". 1 credit is worth 1GB of storage or bandwidth. So if you are just storing image you have 25GB of storage with isn't a lot but it is a good amount. If you are creating icons and sharing this will quickly become and issute for you.

3. Imgur
So far Imgur is totally free. Few restrictrions and no limitations. The do want non-animated images to be under 20MB and gifs to be under 200MB which hasn't been a problem yet. They will resize your photo if it is over 5MB which again hasn't been and issue for my largest images.

You can make a "post" of all image having to do with your favorite show or all the artwork you created today. These posts can be left private and you can continue to add to them. If you make them public they are closed to uploading.

Sharing your images isn't as easy as it was with photobucket. You can't just select all the images you want and get the links. You have to go one by one in all images you upload to add them to a post. This means if you are an icon maker you've got a lot of work but the images shouldn't go down on you.

4. ImgBB
They are completely free. Load up the images. You don't even have to register but it will be hard for you to find your images if you don't. Generally this means you images are public but you can make them private. Your image upload threshold for one image (I'm guessing) is 16MB. This isn't typically an issue. At first I thought there was a resolution and pixel size limitation but it is possible if you image remains below the 16MB limit then it will be fine.
UPDATE May 27, 2022: I was using this free account and my images starting coming up and not accessible for some reason. I think I reach some kind of limit with them. I kind of gave up on keeping my images there. See suggestions below...

5. PostImage.org
Another free service but they limit their uploads to 12MB with a 10k x 10k pixel limitation. They have PRO accounts but the limitation for pixel is the same. That see 10k x 10k sounds small but when you think about it a typical computers screen wallpaper is 1900 or less pixels across. And they are limiting to 10,000. So you're probably good on that front.

6. Google Photos
Google Photos doesn't have a storage limitation but they do have an upload restriction of 16 megapixels which is about 4000 x 4000. This is very large and will keep your covered for nearly every image you wish to upload. Videos are limited to 1080p resolution which isn't too bad.

I think the best places suggested are Imgur, ImgBB, PostImage.org and Google Photos. I'm actually surprised how good Google is. Their 16 megapixel limit could cause a few snags but is seems unlikely. However, I'd say if you worry about privacy, Googles not your option.


SUGGESTIONS
For those who are saving images for storage only I recommend Google Photos because you can uploads tons of images and just have them saved. You can also use services like clouds for these images.

For those who are sharing images in posts Imgur and ImgBB are good choices as they are free and easy to use.

For those of us who are posting tutorials or LJ art: if you are looking for free Imgur is probably your best bet though it isn't easy to post images in mass. ImgBB works but you are going to be limited. I ended up giving in and buy storage over at Photobucket (recommend purchasing for an entire year to keep the price its lowest) because I have too many images to share and any free account is going to limit what you are able to see of your art at any given time. I love free stuff but it is getting harder and hard to accomplish this. If you have a site server uploading your images there and then finding the direct link to post to your journal is another good option but that is another expense; unless you are already paying for a site. I am but it has limited storage which means the PhotoBucket can work for that as well.

Comments

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

I'd like to find a paid service that's reliable.