List of photo sharing websites

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This is a list of major photo-sharing websites.

Please note the list is non-exhaustive, but is limited to notable, well known sites.

Name Description/Focus/Registration requirements Registered users Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard) Global Alexa[1] page ranking
Bayimg free image hosting, no registration required, uncensored &10000000000000000000000Unknown unlimited storage for 547x410 pix reduced images &1000000000001179900000011,799[3]
Bcz.com Free 5GB media content (photo/audio/video) hosting, original file with shopping cart to sell media content for paid users, registration required &100000000000077690000007,769[2] 100GB storage for media content (including zip format), up to 100MB per file upload for $34.99 yearly &1000000000003621900000036,219[4]
Bilddagboken Free image hosting, registration required &100000000012915000000001,291,500[3] Unlimited storage for 547×410 pix reduced images, also unlimited resolution and size for paying BDB HD users, costing approximately equivalent to $10.5 a year &100000000000036190000003,619[5]
DeviantART free image hosting, registration required &1000000001300000000000013,000,000[4] (unlimited) 8MB per photo &10000000000000121000000121[5]
Flickr Open (Yahoo! login) &1000000005100000000000051,000,000[6] 300MB monthly upload limit (15MB per photo)[7], max 200 images viewable (free account[8]). If a free account is inactive for 90 consecutive days, it will be deleted.[9] &1000000000000003300000033[6]
Fotki Free registration photo sharing service and communication portal. &100000000012500000000001,250,000[10] 50MB for free, unlimited storage for $30/year[11] &100000000000029050000002,905[7]
Fotolog Photoblogging. Popular in South America. &1000000001500000000000015,000,000[12] The free version is ad-supported, and limits users to uploading one picture per day

Paying members can upload up to 6 pictures a day

 &10000000000000150000000150[8]
GazoPa Bloom flower photo sharing service &10000000000000000000000Unknown  ? &10000000000000000000000?
ImageShack 6th largest photo hosting service. Registration required to get a direct link to an image. &10000000000000000000000Unknown unlimited uploads for all users; 5 MB per image (Free users), 10 MB per image (Premium users).[13] &10000000000000135000000135[9]
Imgur Free image hosting, no registration required. &10000000000000000000000Unknown 250 visible images for free accounts. Unlimited for pro accounts. &1000000000000008800000088[10]
Ipernity Photo/video sharing, Groups, Blog &10000000000000000000000? Unlimited image display/storage for paying users (200MB p/month upload, only last 1000 displayed with free account) &1000000000001724000000017,240[11]
Jalbum free hosting of galleries created with Jalbum software &10000000000340000000000340,000[14] 30MB of space given for free accounts, upgrade to 1gb space for €19/year &1000000000001004500000010,045[12]
Kodak Gallery free registration service, archiving photo service for $25/year &1000000002000000000000020,000,000[15] used to be unlimited low-resolution, paid users can download high-res images that they've uploaded. New minimum purchase requirements 3/09: $4.99/yr for 2GB or less, $19.99/yr for more than 2GB. &100000000000016250000001,625[13]
Lafango Free Registration, customizable galleries & folders. &10000000000000000000000Unknown Unlimited storage &1000000000003619400000036,194[14]
Lockerz free registration service &1000000001900000000000019,000,000[16] Unlimited uploads for all users; 5MB per image &10000000000000350000000350[15]
Memeo Share Free photo and video exchanging software, files are shared desktop to desktop without being resized. &10000000000000000000000Unknown 1GB is free, Premium account is $4.95 a month &1000000000008479700000084,797[16]
MobileMe Web Gallery subscription service &10000000000180000000000180,000[17] 10GB (standard level) &10000000000000921000000921[17]
Ourstory Popular in China and the Philippines.[18] &10000000000000000000000Unknown  ? &1000000000009993400000099,934[18]
Ovi Share Nokia's multimedia sharing service, formerly called Twango &100000000020000000000002,000,000 unlimited, pay per download &100000000000011280000001,128[18]
Panoramio free registration service &100000000047000000000004,700,000 Unlimited provided the photos comply with the Google Earth Photo Acceptance Policy &10000000000000785000000785[19]
PBase subscription-based photo sharing &10000000000000000000000Unknown $23 for 1 year with 800mb of storage &100000000000031820000003,182[20]
Phanfare subscription-based photo sharing &10000000000000000000000Unknown  ? &1000000000003183000000031,830[21]
Photobucket free registration service &1000000005000000000000050,000,000[19] Unlimited free storage, 1 MB per photo and 10 Min per video (With image size restrictions) No size restrictions with Pro account &1000000000000003900000039[22]
Photoshop.com Focused on for managing, editing, storing, and sharing photos online, with personal URL, Photoshop.com Mobile access, tutorials, help etc. Currently US-only, works from any Flash-enabled browser but Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or Adobe Premiere Elements 7 users can also use it directly. &10000000000000000000000Unknown Two levels of membership: the Basic level is free with 2GB space and the option to purchase additional storage starting at $19.99 per year. The Plus level costs $69.99 per year with 20 GB included storage space, and $129.99 per year with 100GB and requires either Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or Adobe Premiere Elements 7 to use Organizer. [23] &1000000000003538000000035,380[24]
Picasa free registration service, &10000000000500000000000500,000[20] 1 GB of photos for free space, then $5/20GB per year &10000000000000000000000Unknown[21]
Piczo.com free registration service, &10000000000000000000000Unknown  ? &100000000000013620000001,362[25]
Radar.net Free registration. Radar shut down on May 26, 2010 at noon (PDT). [22] &10000000000000000000000N/A  ? &1000000000007706500000077,065[26]
Selfportrait.net &10000000000000000000000? &10000000000000000000000?  ? 1,632,594
Shutterfly free registration service &100000000020000000000002,000,000[23] Free, unlimited picture storage &100000000000019680000001,968[27]
SmugMug Free search, subscription hosting, $40/year (Standard); $60 (Power); $150 (Pro); too [24] &10000000000315000000000315,000[24] "unlimited" storage, 12MB per photo (Standard /Power), 24 MB per photo (Pro) &100000000000019450000001,945[28]
Snapfish free registration service, also provides services for Costco's online photo processing store &1000000007000000000000070,000,000[25] unlimited, pay per download &100000000000022080000002,208[29]
Streamzoo Mobile photosocial game, free registration service, unlimited storage and sharing, available on Apple iOS, Android and Web &10000000000000000000000Unknown unlimited &10000000000000000000000Unknown
TinyPic free image hosting, no registration required &10000000000000000000000Unknown  ? &10000000000000168000000168[30]
Webshots free registration service &1000000003200000000000032,000,000[26] One 800×600 image per day &10000000000000450000000450[31]
Windows Live Photos free registration service &1000000005600000000000056,000,000[27] 25GB &10000000000000000000000Unknown[28]
Woophy free registration service &1000000000002641000000026,410[29]  ? &10000000000100895000000100,895[32]
Zooomr no registration service since 2007; users are no longer accepted &10000000000100000000000100,000[30] Unlimited uploads and unlimited storage for ALL users. &1000000000001910100000019,101[33]

[edit] Comparison of photo sharing websites

Legend:

  • File formats: the image or video formats allowed for uploading
  • IPTC support: support for the IPTC image header
    • Yes - IPTC headers are read upon upload and exposed via the web interface; properties such as captions and keywords are written back to the IPTC header and saved along with the photo when downloading or e-mailing it
    • Some - IPTC headers are read but information added via the web interface is not saved back to the IPTC header; or, IPTC headers are lost on resizing[31]
  • Tags/keywords: the ability to add to and search by tags or keywords
  • Comments: the ability of users to leave comments on the photo
    • Yes - full control over who can leave comments (friends, registered users, non-registered users)
    • Some - users must register with the website to leave comments
  • Rating:
    • Yes - star rating: the ability to rate photos numerically, usually on a scale from 1 to 5
    • Some - thumbs up/down rating, "mark as favorite", or a rating system accessible only to logged-in users
  • Download originals:
    • Yes - anyone can download the original photo
    • Some - only photos of "pro" members can be downloaded
  • Notes/annotations: the ability to overlay textual notes to areas of a photo
  • Friendly URLs: human-readable URLs (e.g. /photos/greece_album/athens.jpg) vs. numeric identifiers (MemViewImage.asp?AID=5610943&IID=205062034&INUM=5&ICT=5&IPP=16)
  • Subscriptions
    • Some - RSS feeds (example) and web interface (example)
    • Yes - RSS feeds, web interface, plus photo updates can be sent by e-mail to non-registered members (example)
Name File formats Upload Folder/ album structure Limitations IPTC support Tags/ keywords Comments Rating Download originals Notes Geo- tagging Friendly URLs API Custom layout Subscriptions
Flickr JPEG, ? collections contain albums free members: photos are resized to max. 1024 or 1280[32]; max. 3 sets; only most recent 200 photos displayed[33] Some[34] Yes Some Some[35] Some[36] arbitrary notes Yes No Flickr Services No RSS
Fotki Animated GIF[37], JPEG, PNG[38]; BMP and TIFF are converted to JPEG e-mail, crippled FTP, Java (tends to crash), browser (mass/fetch from URL; upload one photo at a time), desktop app (basic), desktop image viewers hierarchical folders contain folders or albums 50MB for non-paying users; can get 20MB extra/month; filenames are truncated to 34 characters Some[34] Yes Yes[39] No Some[40] No Yes Some[41] Fotki full help registered users[42] RSS [34], Web [35]
ImageShack JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF browser (one at a time), browser (multiple, zipped) flat slideshows free users: 1.53MB/image limit; subscribers: 3MB/image limit No[43] Some[44] Some Yes No No Some
Memeo GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, RAW, TIFF; MOV, AVI, WMV, MPEG, M4V Free up to 1GB, $4.95 a month for Premium Version No ? Yes[39] Yes Yes No ?
Photoshop.com JPEG, (any file format supported by Elements 7 or later when using the software to upload incl. RAW, TIFF, PSD, AVI) flash, Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or Adobe Premiere Elements 7 or later galleries, albums free 2 GB storage (20 GB 19.99$ and higher additional storage available) Yes? Yes Some Yes Yes? Yes? ? No ? ? ?
Picasa Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG Picasa, Exporter for iPhoto, the Aperture to Picasa Web Albums plug-in, Uploader on Mac OS X,[45] or F-Spot on Linux flat albums 1GB for free accounts; paid storage option Some[34][46] Yes Some No Yes[47] face recognition Yes friendly album/path, numeric filename No RSS
Shutterfly JPEG, ? Flash batch flat albums No viadesktop app (Shutterfly Studio) Some No No multiple templates
SmugMug JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, Video 12MB per Photo (Standard/Power), 24MB per Photo (Pro and during 14 day trial) Some[34] Yes Yes[48] Yes[49] Yes[50] No Yes Yes Yes[51] Yes
Snapfish JPEG only No No ? No $0.25/photo No
Webshots JPEG, ? 5,400 photos , 540 videos No Yes Some[52] Some[53] Some[54] No No No
Windows Live Photos JPEG, ? HTTP, Silverlight albums 100MB per photo (25GB total) No Yes Some[55] Some Yes[56] Yes No No Yes[57] No No
Zooomr JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF browser, flash smartset unlimited photos Yes Yes Yes Some Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Some

[edit] References

  1. ^ Alexa Top 500 Sites
  2. ^ [1] October 19, 2009
  3. ^ [2] October 19, 2009
  4. ^ http://about.deviantart.com/
  5. ^ "Deviantart.com Site Info". http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/deviantart.com. Retrieved 28 February 2011. 
  6. ^ USA Today: May 6, 2008
  7. ^ flickr FAQ
  8. ^ flickr FAQ
  9. ^ http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
  10. ^ Fotki
  11. ^ Fotki Help
  12. ^ Hi-Media press release February 20, 2008
  13. ^ http://imageshack.us/content.php?page=faq
  14. ^ Jalbum Forum
  15. ^ Kodak Gallery
  16. ^ Source: TechCrunch.com
  17. ^ Apple Press Release, 2002
  18. ^ a b "Ourstory.com Site Info". http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourstory.com#. Retrieved 16 November 2010. 
  19. ^ Photobucket reaches 50M users (as of August 29, 2007)
  20. ^ paying customers in 2005 -- much has changed since Google acquired them.
  21. ^ Alexa does not break down rankings for third-level domains. Quantcast lists the picasaweb.google.com domain with a 256 ranking equivilent as of August 2009
  22. ^ MG Siegler (May 10, 2010). "Radar Locates The Deadpool On May 26". TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/10/radar-deadpool/. Retrieved 2011-10-11. 
  23. ^ SEC 10-K filing (served over 2M customers as of 2007-12-31)
  24. ^ a b 315,000 paying customers
  25. ^ Snapfish.com AboutUs (February 2011)
  26. ^ Webshots' overview page, 2004
  27. ^ Comscore usage report
  28. ^ Alexa does not break down rankings for third-level domains.
  29. ^ Source: Woophy
  30. ^ Zooomr
  31. ^ Photo Resizer
  32. ^ http://flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/65935/
  33. ^ http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/ If you have a free Flickr account, no one (including you) can access your original file. But if you have a free Flickr account, you'll only see the most recent 200 photos displayed.
  34. ^ a b c d tags added via the web interface are not written back to the IPTC header; EXIF and IPTC headers are lost when saving resized versions of the image
  35. ^ members can mark an image as favorite
  36. ^ http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/ If you have a free Flickr account, no one (including you) can access your original file.
  37. ^ animated GIF hosted on Fotki.com
  38. ^ PNG file hosted on Fotki.com
  39. ^ a b no CAPTCHA
  40. ^ anyone can download photos uploaded by Premium members
  41. ^ Fotki limits the length of the file portion of the URL to 24 characters
  42. ^ Fotki: paying users can edit the HTML of their album layout (Co-branding. Non-paying users can only select the photo frame style.
  43. ^ No support for description or tags
  44. ^ The user can add tags, but they are not displayed on the photo page
  45. ^ Picasa Web Albums
  46. ^ Picasa Help on Google Groups, Other edits: creating captions (Picasa Help)
  47. ^ filenames are preserved
  48. ^ CAPTCHA-protected for anonymous users
  49. ^ both star-rating and thumbs up/down
  50. ^ files get renamed to unique ID
  51. ^ SmugMug API
  52. ^ "To be able to leave a comment please Log in or Sign up."
  53. ^ only Pro or Premium photos can be star-rated; rating by members or anonymous users
  54. ^ attempting to download a the full-size version of a photo produces a Flash file of the photo and the message "This photo may only be saved by friends"
  55. ^ "To be able to leave a comment please Log in or Sign up."
  56. ^ Originals"
  57. ^ "RSS feeds"
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