Free Image Hosting

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:47 am

Right, I know there is a big long list of image hosting sites on the Art Forum, but most of them dont really do what i require because they either:
1) Dont work
2) Offer tiny amounts of bandwidth
3) Limit file size, or just shrink the picture resolution

So, I need a way of hosting some pretty big images with thumbnails etc. either on a website (which doesnt have the above limitations) or a php/cgi/whatever thingie of some kind I could set up on my own web space.

Any suggestions?

Oh, and I dont want to pay anything, and Im not prepared to use a freeware thumbnail creator, because they cause too much hassle by making copies of images everywhere, and they usually produce nasty looking output.

Thanks peeps!

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:54 am

Nah, I tried them. They "optimize" your images to 250k max.

Not so good when we're dealing with 2MB images that I would completely lose their purpose if shrunk down.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:57 am

http://www.imageshack.us/ ?

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:01 am

EvilN wrote:http://www.imageshack.us/ ?

maximum image size: 850 kilobytes

And no thumbnail galleries, its just for hosting random pics.

I think php thing or whatever might be a better option to be honest, but there are loads out there, and I cant be bothered installing and setting one up to find its poop.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:11 am

strike9.com

?

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:27 pm

Full of errors, and uploading one file at a time is a bit of a slow process when I have 100s...

Might just go with a premium service, theyre dirt cheap anyways.

But that leads to the question of which premium service >_<

MKE · Post by **MKE** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:14 pm

http://www.clubphoto.com

only prob is they have to be in a jpeg format...

ive used them for over a year and i havent had a prob w/ space, file size, or anything.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:27 pm

Have you considered a software solution? I'm always seeing thumbnail software on PC cover discs, and there's probably a whole host of similar stuff free on the internet. You basically give it all your photos, and it generates a thumbnail gallery in the form of a regular HTML web page.

You can then upload everything at once to your personal web space with your favourite FTP client. Any server-side script is going to process things slower than your own personal PC, and they won't allow the level of customizability (is that a word?) that a software package would.

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:56 pm

I have considered software solutions yes, but its not going to work out because:

1) In the future I will be uploading images from many different locations
2) Software thumbnail gallery creators are all very nice, but sometimes I may want to update a gallery with 1 image or something, which makes the whole thing a lot more complex

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:43 pm

MKE wrote:http://www.clubphoto.com

only prob is they have to be in a jpeg format...

ive used them for over a year and i havent had a prob w/ space, file size, or anything.

Once again, they shrink the image down significantly, and charge you loads to see it in full. Its vital that the images are displayed in full.

MKE · Post by **MKE** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:15 pm

do you want to use it just to host image's to post them on message boards and stuff?

if so, all you do is click to see a preview of the pic, right click the pic, and copy the jpg pic link...

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:25 pm

MKE wrote:do you want to use it just to host image's to post them on message boards and stuff?

if so, all you do is click to see a preview of the pic, right click the pic, and copy the jpg pic link...

No, I can do that with my own hosting.

I want to store a large number of high resolution images in a thumbnail gallery, you click on the thumbnail, the picture is shown full size, in all its high res glory.

Closest thing Ive found that actually does it properly is photoshack, but its evilly slow and keeps giving 404 or whatever. Which is why Im also prepared to consider cheap premium options.

arcticfeather · Post by **arcticfeather** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:11 am

http://www.pix8.net any good?

Don't know if they have a max file size, you get 100MB storage though and you can set up a photo album with thimbnails of all your pics

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:48 pm

Neo Studios supposedly has no upload limits on filesize or amount of pics uploaded but I dunno how long that will last for

Vchat20 · Post by **Vchat20** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:56 pm

get a good photo gallery for your site like coppermine. as long as you have imagemagik or GD installed on the webserver it will generate thumbnails on the fly as you upload them. ive used the phpnuke version myself and couldnt be happier.

Post by **Specially Cork** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:26 am

Ok. I tried that pix8 site but they didnt email me.

Im now with some dodgy company called saveapic or something and they have like a million variant sites.
Its ?1 a month for 1000MB of bandwidth, no file size restraints, unlimited file storage, public slideshow, gallery and portfolio, offsite linking enabled.

Neopunk · Post by **Neopunk** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:45 pm

photobucket.com is the best, no doubt about it

Post by **pixel** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:54 pm

BoneyBaby, just install Gallery on your server
Easy setup and you'll have your own personal online photo gallery

Post by **Specially Cork** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:43 pm

Neopunk wrote:photobucket.com is the best, no doubt about it

Tell me how you use Photobucket to host 2MB giant scans when it limits the size to 250k and Ill believe you

Oh and thanks pixel, Ill check that out.