Image Hosting

Image hosting allows you to store photographs and graphic images online. Anything from pictures of your family and friends to that cool header graphic you made for your blog. Whenever you want to post a picture on a internet forum, message board, e-bay auction or your blog the image will have to have a URL This is the address of where the image is stored and you get this address by uploading the image to a hosting service.

Uploading images is relatively simple. You go to the hosting service site. Find the browse button which will bring up a dialog window in which you select where the image is located on your computer, select the file name of your image, click the upload button and its done. The site then gives you the new address where your image is stored on the internet.

This is a list of the most popular free image hosting services with a description of their features:

Image Shack
Cost: free
Max Image Size: 1024 KB
Image Types Accepted:.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp, .tif, .swf (flash) and .png image types. bmp, tif, and tiff images will be converted to .png automatically.
Max Storage Space: Unlimited storage space
Max Bandwidth: 100 megabytes per hour. If an image exceeds this amount, it will be rendered inaccessible.
Direct linking allowed: yes
Image Tracking: Yes
Batch Upload feature: Yes
Image resizing features: Yes
Image editing: No
Video Hosting allowed: No
Registration Required: No

Photo Bucket
Cost: free
Max Image Size: 1024 KB
Image Types Accepted: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, swf
Max Storage Space: 1 GB
Max Band Width: 10 GB
Direct linking allowed: yes
Image Tracking: Yes
Batch Upload feature: Yes
Image resizing features: Yes
Image editing: No
Video Hosting allowed: Yes, 3 minute clips
Registration Required: Yes

Image Spot
Cost: free
Max Image Size: 650 KB
Image Types Accepted: gif, jpg and png
Max Storage Space: Unlimited
Max Band Width: Unlimited
Direct linking allowed: yes
Image Tracking: Yes
Batch Upload feature: No
Image resizing features: No
Image editing: No
Video Hosting allowed: Yes,
Registration Required: No

Additional image hosting sites:

Image Shack	Photobucket	Upload It	Rapid Share
My Temp Dir	Quizillat	Pic Shack	Free Webhosts
Refrozen	File Bucket	Image Depot	Tiny Image
Up Load It	Soft Lab	Pix Pond	Image Venue
Pixup XP User	Ultra Share	You Send It	Files Upload
Ultra Share	xs.to	Image Satellite	Up Volt

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