Which photo host do you use?

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As most of you are aware I am having problems with my PP on here. I use Photobucket to upload to here but am wondering if this is making my photos deteriorate:shrug: having viewed them on here when uploaded they just seem soft and flat.

What do you all use to put photos on to here?
 
Flikr
 
Occasionally Zen, but more usually I host from my own domain.
 
Sometimes zenfolio but normally Flickr. I always resize to the size I want to show though and not let Flickr do it.
 
I use imageshack all the time and have done for years.
 
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Normally from my own domain. I thought photobucket was messing my images up too, tries Flickr but when posting more than 1 shot it can be a bit tedious. Far simpler just to throw the files onto my domain and direct link.
 
I use Flickr, Photobucket and my own domain depending on what I want to do with the images.
 
Strange I use pb. and I think they make my potos look better:suspect:
 
pampers said:
Strange I use pb. and I think they make my potos look better:suspect:
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I can't say I've noticed any drop in quality with PhotoBucket.

I have a paid account, if that makes any difference. I ran out of bandwidth in a few hours with free.
 
I use Flikr , use to have few problems with it a while back but seems to be ok now.
 
I've dropped photobucket lately because TP forum now uses a resize tool automatically, flickr is definately far better quality for displayment properties.
 
I used to use Flickr, since so many people seem to be fans, but I hate it. With the free account you have a limited picture allowance and a limited monthly bandwidth. I can't stand the interface or the way EXIF disappears from the image files and gets relocated somewhere else, requiring multiple clicks and a visit to Flickr to get to it.

I now use Google Picasaweb and have done for a few years. You get 1GB of free storage and no monthly bandwidth limits. When uploading you have the choice to preserve your original file size/quality or let Picasa resize for you. I never let Picasa screw with the images. I do all my resizing in Lightroom. Picasaweb displays exactly what I want displayed, not its own interpretaton of what my file should look like.

EXIF is preserved in the file (since the file is not altered) and available with a right click on the image (if you have the software to do that). There's none of this silly malarky of the EXIF vanishing from the file and having to click various links to see it, or discover whether it is even available at all.

There are things I don't like about Picasa (the software) or Picasaweb (the hosting site) but I still find them much less irritating than Flickr. I guess when you want free you get what you pay for. :)
 
While I use Flickr, and maintain a pro account, I use my own webspace for posting photos in the various forums that I'm a member of.

The main reason for this is that I know that the image that I've processed and converted will be exactly the image that others see. With photo hosting places like Flickr you can never be sure how any subsequent compression or resizing will affect the image - although I must say that Flickr seems to be quite good in this respect. The other reason I don't use Flickr for posting photos is that I hate all this link back stuff.
 
I use Smugmug.

I opted for this as I preferred their interface to Flikr, and that you can set the visibility of each individual gallery, and set them to be password protected too. Their customer service is e-mail based, and is quick to respond to queries (longest wait for a reply I have had was about 2 hours).
 
Flickr.

As someone else said, resize before you upload. Flickr don't touch the original but process the other sizes.

Linking is a piece of proverbial too, its about 2 clicks then copy and paste the auto generated code.
 
I host my own. Everything is done through Lightroom, I then run a script I wrote to provide the web URL for the images. I don't bother with flickr.
 
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I use Flickr find it to be great but, anytime I go on I always spend ages surfing through other peoples pics
 
I use Flickr or Photoshelter, depending on what else I'm doing with the image.
 
I use my own. Hosting costs peanuts and there is plenty of free gallery software about, i use gallery2 myself.
 
bass_junkie83 said:
I use my own. Hosting costs peanuts and there is plenty of free gallery software about, i use gallery2 myself.
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I've just had a look at your site as I too use Gallery2.

I can't believe you have adverts running in your customer gallery!
 
admirable said:
I've just had a look at your site as I too use Gallery2.

I can't believe you have adverts running in your customer gallery!
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I know. Very much not very computer literate with things like that. Saw it on google, didn't know what it was and tried it out to have a look and could never work out how to get it off again. :gag:

New site will be up in a week or so to replace it so not to worry.

I actually have another gallery hosted other than my site which is purely used for hosting images to use on places like here.
 
i've gone back to flickr as using my own ips's free webspace was just more hassle, and does not have the interactive aspect that I like with flickr.

If I ran a photo business I'd definitely have a professionally designed website and also use flickr, facebook, twitter etc to promote the business as well.
 
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