What I’d like to do is upload some photos to a free hosting site, and then be able to allow some others to view them, preferably by giving the interested party a link.
I have an Imgur account, but it appears that the only way I can have someone link to the photo section is to be logged in myself. If I remain logged in, I think that anyone else can get into the photo section and then make setting changes and so forth.
Can anyone give me some advice as to how to make this happen, or if there is another hosting site that makes this easy?
I’ve been using Flickr for maybe ten years now. I have the “pro” paid account ($70/yr) but there IS a free option to Flickr where you are limited to 1,000 photo uploads.
Flickr used to give each free account 1 tb of storage but they cut that back a while ago to only 1000 photos. Maybe this will work for you and, of course, others may have better advice.
I’m sure by having the free account they’ll probably encourage you to “trade up” to the paid service. As far as I know they don’t engage in spamming you with lots of sponsor emails, popups and such.
Ed, thank you for the info. I’ll start looking into this while I wait to see what else comes along.
After first time I read through I was going to ask you how many electronic photos comprised 1 pound of storage. Knew that couldn’t be right so read through again. Then it looked like 1 tablespoon of electronic storage. Third reading I realized it was one terabyte. Dang. And I just got back from having my eyes checked after having my cataract lens implants power washed.
I’ve been using Imgur to post pictures on this forum for about 6 months now. From the right hand menu I click images. That brings up all the images I have uploaded. I select the one I want to include in my post. When it comes up, I go to the right and Copy the BBcode. I then paste that link into my post and it will display the image after I have submitted the post.
I have used only the free option which means I get the pop up ads but that beats paying for it. I used to use Photobucket until they required one to use the premium subscription in order to share photos.
I remember Lee Marvin doing a Pall Mall commercial and telling viewers with Pall Mall they could light either end. Arnold Palmer was the Marlboro Man before there was a Marlboro Man. Athletes were often used in cigarette ads. I think Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio both did Chesterfield ads. So did newsmen like Mike Wallace. The earliest anchorman I remember on TV was John Cameron Swayze’s Camel News Caravan in the mid 1950s. Those were the days.
I have a Google Blog for my model railroading and one of the bennies is Pages I have four pages setup for hosting. I up load pictures to my Forum Host Pages then to copy the pictures to a Forum Post I simply right click on the picture then left click on ‘copy image link’ and past the picture in my post.
I’ve been doing it this way ever since Photo Bucket did their thing.
Blogger doesn’t have a storage limit and it’s free.
One of about 1000 pictures stored on my blog pages, not seen by blog viewers.
I saved what I originally typed. Let’s see if it goes this time.
It was as follows:
Nope. Forbidden 403 again.
One more time w/o any punctuation.
Nope, Forbidden 403 again.
Anyway I was trying to thank John, Ed, and Mel, and was importing their quotes from another open forum tab on the browser. Something about that doesn’t work.
And I no longer know where the beef is. But I’m sure it is no longer in the burgers, where it has been replaced by mystery meat
I can’t figure out why the fast food chains charge us more for fake meat than they do for the real thing. If they want us to try it out, they ought to at least discount it. I’ve never tried the tofu burgers and tofu chicken nuggets but I’ve heard they are just awful. No reason for me to give it a try.
If I may interject here on behalf of the OP, one of the specifics he is asking about is being able to allow individual photos to only be viewed by “authorized” viewers.
I’m aware of many of the free photo hosting sites being mentioned here but I’m not sure if they offer the “privacy” settings that I first pointed out that Flickr offers.
I have several individuals on my “friends” list and others on a “family” list that are the only authorized individuals with permission to view the photos. Other photos are easily “locked” so that they are only available to me. This is handy for personal photos that I may want access to remotely but I don’t want anyone else to see.
Maybe these other hosting sites DO offer this? I know Google Blog offers certain privacy settings but I don’t know if these settings can be attributed to individual photos as Flickr allows.
Imgur seems to have a public and private setting for each photo. That’s a step in the right direction. Flickr offers more options beyond that but these are the details that Maxman is looking for.
Oh no - everyone knows it’s Liposclerosing myxofibrous tumors (LSMFT), also known as polymorphic fibroosseous lesions of bone, which are rare benign fibroosseous lesions with a predilection for the intertrochanteric region of the femur.
I don’t know which is worse, all those sesquipedalian jargon words or the fact that I know what they all mean…
[Just for the record, I am NOT bringing up the difference between acronyms and initialisms again… we’ve had too much of that already.]
I’ll just leave you with the old marketing joke about when two advertising agencies were merging and trying to decide what the new name would be. The agencies were Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn and Doyle Dane Bernbach.
The merged agency – it was said – would be BBDODDB th’tha, th’the tha, th’that’s all folks!
Ed, thank you for interjecting. Exactly what I was looking for.
Kind of like a bulletin board where I could pin photos, or possibly a folder of photos, where I could direct individuals if they wanted to see something or things. Or maybe like directing someone to a website without having to incur the cost of a website.
Several others thought that I was looking for a hosting site where I could put a photo for posting to this forum later, which was not the case.
And you are correct in that the other sites mentioned did not seem to offer the flexibility that Flickr does. I’ll have to investigate this when I geget a chance.
And the 1K photo limit is not a concern, since that’s about 980 more space than I need.
The way Blogger works is Pages are available in the Pages Menu. I don’t put my hosting picture posts in the Pages Menu. Again no storage limit or picture size. Early on Blogger only allowed 20 pages per Blog, they dropped that about two years ago.
