I opened an account with Photobucket.com in August of this year, because I needed a hosting service for my photographs.
Why ?
Well, unbeknown to me, I had not realised that simply right clicking an image and using it on a forum or site was actually not a good practice and was stealing ... Read review
Advantages: Online Storage made easy. Disadvantages: None so far.
I opened an account with Photobucket.com in August of this year, because I needed a hosting service for my photographs.
Why ?
Well, unbeknown to me, I had not realised that simply right clicking an image and using it on a forum or site was actually not a good practice and was stealing bandspace.
Also I wanted to share images easily with friends and family and found that this imaging site was a lot easier ... ...Yahoo.
So what's it all about ?
Signing up for an account is simple and free for those who, like me, want minimal storage. There is a premium account for people who would want more from a web hosting service, though for the amount of photographs that I use, I find that the free service is sufficient, with 50 MB of storage space, as opposed to the paid premium account which allows 1 Gigibyte, and also gives you the benefit ... more
I opened an account with Photobucket.com in August of this year, because I needed a hosting service for my photographs.
Why ?
Well, unbeknown to me, I had not realised that simply right clicking an image and using it on a forum or site was actually not a good practice and was stealing bandspace.
Also I wanted to share images easily with friends and family and found that this imaging site was a lot easier to use than others that I have tried, such as Yahoo.
So what's it all about ?
Signing up for an account is simple and free for those who, like me, want minimal storage. There is a premium account for people who would want more from a web hosting service, though for the amount of photographs that I use, I find that the free service is sufficient, with 50 MB of storage space, as opposed to the paid premium account which allows 1 Gigibyte, and also gives you the benefit of not having adverts displayed on the page when you are using it.
If you are a person who has a serious need for space, then the package that this site provides is quite inexpensive at 25 dollars for a year's use, and offers more bandwidth and space than the free version, as well as being able to work with FTP uploads and XP Publishing.
For me a simple free account works well, and I have never had any problem uploading images to the site, though for those with less technical expertise, there is a very good tutorial section, explaining in easy steps how to upload photographs.
I really do like the speed of uploads, which compares very well with professional sites such as Ebay, and have experienced 100 per cent success in uploading and resizing photographs with very little former knowledge of photograph hosting sites, except a short experience with Yahoo which proved to be cumbersome and difficult to use.
Customer service is available to people using the site, although Premium account holders are given priority, which is understandable.
BLOG LINKS
If like many, you have started your own blog (or page that is personal to you and friends on the internet, linking the photographs to the blog is very simple on this site, and I would recommend it.
Deleting photographs or getting an HTML and IMG code makes use of the site interesting and it is very simple to transfer your pictures to other places on the internet when you want to with the codes generated, and URL, Tag or Image codes listed for each photograph.
Resizing the photographs is easy to do, and although the options are not enormous, they are adequate for my needs, and although I have not used this service, there is the availability of buying a CD with all your images stored in such a way that they can be seen in sequence on a DVD player at 20 dollars which I find pricey, or in storage form on a CD Rom for 10 dollars. These options do not really interest me, although they may interest those without the programs or expertise to make their own DVDs or storage CDs.
Editing is limited to re-sizing and rotation, or name changing although I have only used the resizing as I have had no need of the other options.
Although the site offers you the possibility of a slide show, this really is one of the poor points of the site, since the size of the photographs is so small that it doesn't really give the impression of being a slide show at all. Merely, a sequence of photos are shown at the top of the screen, and I can only assume this is used by people checking out their old pages of stored images.
This is a fast site, and I also like the fact that you can chose how many pictures you want to upload at the same time in JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, SWF files either from your own computer, or from urls, and here you simply put your curser on the photograph that you like, right click it, and take the curser down to properties to get the image address that you wish to upload.
Altogether, my experience of the site has been a good one, and I would recommend the site as user friendly, simple to use, and extremely helpful for even school children who want to gather images for a school project. Even though a free account does have advertising displayed, I have never seen advertising of an adult only nature, and the advertisements are discreet and do not get in the way of the enjoyment factor.
I really would give this site a thumbs up, because of its ease of use and reliability.
Advantages: Free accounts available, Easy to use, Gives code for posting photos easily Disadvantages: Free accounts ad supported, Not unmetered when they say they are.
...I decided to check out Photobucket (www.photobucket.com).
The sign up process
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The sign up process is quite easy - you choose what kind of account you would like and then a verification email is sent to your email account. Once you've clicked the link in your email, you're up and running.
Basic or Premium
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There are two types of account at Photobucket, basic and premium.
The basic account ... ...that if you are using Photobucket for forum signatures and ebay auctions then 250k is too big. I wouldn't be wanting to wait for photos to load if they were 250k!
The only thing with the basic account is that it is supported by ads. I don't think there are too many ads fortunately. No more than this site anyway.
However, if you wanted to get rid of the ads, you could upgrade to a premium account. It costs $25 a year or $9 for 3 months.
The benefits ...
drutty 01.12.2004
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Advantages: It's free and very easy to use Disadvantages: -
...What is it? *+*
Photobucket is an image and video hosting website, that allows you to share your pictures and videos on the internet completely free of charge.
*+* Why? *+*
If you become a member, you can search photobucket for other pictures and videos, store your image and video files for free, link and share them, edit the sizes of the photos, and even make slideshows. I signed up to photobucket quite a while ago when I started my website on ... ...Service *+*
I find photobucket to be very professional and efficient. I have never had any problems with the site, it has never had any errors or crashed and I use it near enough every week. Once you have uploaded images/videos you can delete these files from your computer - however I would not recommend you do this with precious or files with sentimental value just incase.
*+* Why is it free? *+*
Photobucket is free to use because of adverts ...
fashionista27 08.07.2007
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Value for money
Efficency & Reliabilty ...
Customer service
Quick review of Photobucket Image Hosting
Photobucket.com is simply awesome.
It's popular because its faster , easier and reliable
other site which are equally goos as photobuckets would be
www.pic27.com
www.imageshack.com
www.tinypic.com
www.uploadhut.com ...
micheal05 19.12.2007 (18.12.2007)
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Advantages: Free, easy, quick Disadvantages: Nothing special
Photo Bucket is such an amazing website for sharing pictures and letting everyone view them. It is also so quick and easy to use and sign up is completely free. You can start uploading your pictures straight away after sign up which makes the whole process even quicker and easier. You can choose to either keep your photos private so only your friends can view them or make them public so everyone can view and comment them. You can also view other ... ...average family day out photos but some are really professional breath taking ones of beautiful scenery and landscapes. Photo Bucket is also a very good website for backing up your photos in case something happens to your hard drive as they will be stored on your account for as long as you want them to be. However, Photo Bucket doesn't really offer anything different to other competing image sharing websites such as Flickr and Image Shack which doesn't ...
BenC93 09.08.2009
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