Photobucket or Flicker?

I use both. I like Flickr better but they both work fine. They both give you copyable links to the photos in HTML tag form. Photobucket also gives IMG tags for those forums that use UBB instead of HTML. Flickr is nice because you can choose the image size from several choices. Photobucket doesn’t give you that option.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

I can’t help with the differences between those two, but I can muddy the situation by recommending picasaweb. You can have multiple albums and seperate access, such as “public, password, or e-mail invites only. I believe you have to download the picasa software from google first, but I was very impressed with the ease of sending pics through e-mail. I have sent 60+ pics at a time. Customers like pics!

-- Wish I were Norm's Nephew

I solely use photobucket, and have so for years. It is a very reliable server that does just what it needs to. I have not tried flicker so I can’t help you there.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

Thanks, Dave. I really like being able to choose the image size.

-- Father of two sons. Both Eagle Scouts.

nailbanger2,

Are you the nephew of the Norm you make us think about?

I had forgotten about picasa. Does it let you copy html for this site? I assume they all do but I don’t know.

-- Father of two sons. Both Eagle Scouts.

Not in reality, just fantasy. Actually a nickname by a co-worker, due to similar last names. As for the other question, I really don’t know, because I don’t know what html is.

I’ve been exposed! Not quite computer illiterate, but darn close!

-- Wish I were Norm's Nephew

In Photobucket under the upload images button you can select more options and that will give you these sizes to choose from.

More Upload Options
Resize my images to:Basic dimensions Upgrade to pro dimensions Tiny ( 100×75 ) 1280×960 Small ( 160×120 ) 1600×1200 Medium ( 320×240 ) 2048×1536 Large ( 640×480 ) 2592×1944 15” screen ( 800×600 ) 3648×2736 17” screen ( 1024×768 ) 4000×3000 1 megabyte file size 2 megabyte file size

Tried Photobucket, Then Flickr, finally went to Webshots and have been happy as a clam…

-- Trying to follow the example of the master.

Bently, what I meant about choosing different photo sizes is that after you’ve uploaded the image to Flickr, you can choose the size of the image you want to display when you look at it in the album or post it in a forum entry. Note the size choices above the photo in this screen grab.

This one is full size for the screen grab.

And here’s a thumbnail just by picking a different link.

In Photobucket you have to choose the size before uploading the image.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

I only know how to use photobucket

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

OH,, OK Dave, I see what you mean.
Thanks

It would still be nice to be able just to use our own files to load photos as we do in the projects area…

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

tried them all. I find Google Picassa is the best. Google provides a desktop photo edit program that is simple but, powerful and NO ads on your online database! I use it for my website also. www.hardwoodclocks.com click on any clock in the gallery of clocks and a separate window opens with a gallery of photos for that clock.

-- Max the "night janitor" at www.hardwoodclocks.com

I’ve been using Google Picassa for awhile and recently signed up for Flickr. I like Picassa much better.

-- Mark, www.mrhudon.com

I also have images on a Picasa album. I like Picasa for basic image editing but I find the online album slow to display images. It is almost as easy as Flickr and Photobucket for linking images but it isn’t easy to control image size when it is posted as it is in Flickr.

FWIW, here’s a direct link to an image in my Picasa album.

And the same image uploaded to Flickr.

The image is uploaded at the same size in both so if you wanted to see the larger version in Flickr, you can. I don’t have to worry about unwanted cropping from Flickr.

It’s a good thing there are a lot of choices of albums.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.