Photobucket alternative

[Terry Searl]

All I type in is postimg in Google........ Then I click on the first heading and it takes me to the postimg page that asks to choose an image and then "onward"
I suppose at one time I may have clicked on the big blue button as now I have a heading that asks for my password that gets me to a page where all my photos are stored and from that page I have a share option that I use to type in a URL in the XMTS posts

I can also click on a default photo at the first page, without going to the password page, and that also gets me to all my photos and from there "onward"

Now that I have used it a few times and am ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL in posting a photo I am more confident in using postimg

[Octobrachium]

I use abload.de, which has been good to me in other forums for the last years. It's a small company from Germany - but unfortunately has no English language interface, as far as I know. They provide resizing and forum-ready links. I am not affiliated with them in any way, they just have become the most popular image hosting alternative in Germany.

[Baeau]

Thought just in, could the 'big blue button' appear based upon which search engine one is using? I'm using Yahoo.

add in......tried via Google, no blue button.

[tundramanq]

Computer memory is getting cheaper but it and "the cloud" still cost something. Picture files are big and getting bigger with higher resolution cameras. Photobucket started out free with ads. I am just wondering if we are setting ourselves up for "photobucket ransom" part two by using them.

I really feel sorry for those that thought storing pictures any where in the digital form was actually "archiving for posterity".
If the Photobucket experience has shown us nothing else, it has shown that we must keep control of our own photos and make backups often. Delete, intentional or accidental, is only a keystroke away. Fires, disk crashes and ransom hackers are other ways to lose these virtual archives.

The old picture on film format had a real advantage of creating two copies once developed and printed (a negative and a print) that still slowly degrades over decades. But can be seen a century from now without any equipment.

Digital prints, especially those printed with a printer that uses plastic metallic dye "toner" powder that is then melted into the paper may last longer without light and water degrading them. We have learned from the old Polaroid prints and ink jet printers of today, both using organic dyes, just how fast time and light fades them. It's easy to check your dye type, just leave a print face up on your cars dashboard for a few days and see how fast the sunlight fades it.