To save your photos for free online maybe to make a backup copy or to share them with friends, in original format and in an organized way, we can use one of the many online services that allow you to save all the shots for free, taking up a portion of space offer for free (in some cases even unlimited). Others, on the other hand, wish to save the photos on an image site, so as to share them with all the users of the network and create their own photoblog, with which to tell their life through daily shots.
In this guide we will show you both the best sites to save photos online or the best sites to create an image site, so that we can satisfy every need related to photography and sharing images on the Internet.
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1) Best sites to save photos online
The best free sites to save photos online, to be kept as backup or to be able to keep a copy of all the shots, to be reviewed privately or with a precise circle of friends, are:
- Google Photos is the best today for organizing and uploading photos, completely free.
Photos can be edited, improved and organized in different albums shared and visible online in private or public.
The photos can be uploaded both keeping the original resolution (in this case we will have to stick to the limit of space shared between all Google services) and upload a reduced but high quality version, obtaining in this case unlimited space.
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- Apple Photos : if we use an iPhone with iCloud active, we will find all the photos taken within the Apple Photo website and app, also available on Macs.
All the shots taken are kept at the highest quality with capacity based on that of iCloud.
- Onedrive is the file and image saving service offered by Microsoft; in this case we can upload photos in original quality using the 25 GB of space and each photo can be up to 50 MB large; the loading can be done from the computer desktop with a special program and there is no cost for using the online space.
- Amazon Photos is one of the best alternatives to Google Photos, since it allows you to take advantage of a private storage space where you can save all the photos, with lots of unlimited space for those who have an Amazon Prime subscription.
- Photobucket is one of the most popular web portals in the world for sharing photos.
The free version is very limited, both for the size of the single photo, both for the total space (500MB), and for the band of 10 GB per month.
- 23hq.com is an excellent site to share your images online and create a personal space on the internet.
23hq allows you to upload a maximum of 30 photos per month but the unlimited account costs just 20 Euros.
To get started, 300 photos can be uploaded at registration and for two weeks.
- Imgur : this site allows you to upload single shots and choose how to share them (via link or through code to be integrated on forums or sites) or whether to keep them private.
On this site we can also find many GIFs and memes to customize, so as to always have fresh material for our shares on social networks or in chat.
- Shoebox : another excellent site where you can save all the souvenir photos digitally and thus prepare the classic "Shoe Box" (hence the name of the site), where we kept the old photographs taken on paper in past years.
- Irista : this site allows you to upload and organize all the photos taken, immediately taking advantage of the 15 GB offered for free.
Excellent integration with Canon services, of which the site is the owner.
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2) Create an image site or photoblog
To create a photo site or a photoblog you can use the canonical website creation tools.
For example, it is possible to use automatic platforms such as Blogger or work with Wordpress (the easiest and most powerful to use); the important thing is always to find and download a graphic template that allows you to create indexes and thumbnails of the photos by clicking which you can then put large.
Numerous plugins are available for Wordpress to optimize the site and make it easy to upload image files online, especially if the files are of considerable size: in the long run they can slow down the site if they are not compressed and optimized for all devices and connections.
A blog or photo site is perfect for all those who want to share their works with photographic collections or to publish paintings for commercial purposes, to sell them.
An excellent site that makes creating a photo site easy and automatic is PhotoSwarm .
The online photo site can be created for free with a collection that does not exceed 300 images; beyond this limit a subscription must be paid.
Interesting instead, if you already own a space and a domain of your own website, is the JAlbum program, which allows you to customize presentation graphics, frames and organization of photos.
It generates the html code optimized also according to the W3C rules, with the navigation menus, the thumbnails and the arrangement on the web page of the images that can be uploaded via ftp with a few clicks.
If you do not have your own host, you can upload those photos to the site and create the site directly from there, paying a fee for the subscription and the domain.
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As a free and professional high quality solution, we must also remember the Wix.com online platform, which allows you to easily create sites and then publish image galleries.
3) Conclusions
By choosing a site or combining multiple products together we will be able to create your own website, with personal domain and photos uploaded to your server, especially if we work in the photography sector and need to show off our talent, so that we can have new customers.
If, on the other hand, we are looking for a site where you can keep your smartphone photos for backup or to be able to share later from your PC, the services are not lacking and allow you to manage even more advanced aspects such as sharing via HTML or via e-mail.
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