Photo Posting Services like Flickr

I'm not a big fan of Flickr. I have an account with them but my subscription is almost up. I find their retouching software slow and annoying. I want to take more pictures of food and such but the hassle of Flickr turns me off. What services do you use/recommend for an amateur?

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Thanks all!

Have you considered Picasa or Photobucket? The Chow Poodle uses Picasa and likes it a lot.

I would second the recommendation for Picasa. Their desktop photo editor is good for someone like me that doesn't want to take the time to learn how to use photoshop. 2 GB of free storage.

the wimperoo wrote:I would second the recommendation for Picasa. Their desktop photo editor is good for someone like me that doesn't want to take the time to learn how to use photoshop. 2 GB of free storage.

Probably should call it Picasaweb to avoid confusion with Google's desktop photo manager and editor which is named Picasa. They're probably somewhat integrated but each can be used without the other. Picasaweb also has an integrated web based editor which is based on a product named (IIRC) Picnic.

Picasaweb recently updated their policy on storage to not count images that are a max 800 pixels in either dimension. That's big enough for most web viewing and allows virtually unlimited storage.

Before choosing any web host and particularly the free ones, you should read the terms of service to see what you give up to the hosting company. (Disclaimer: I haven't. If I was a pro or serious amateur, I would.)

FWIW, I use Picasaweb (https://picasaweb.google.com) for photo hosting and Gimp for interactive photo editing. I also use ImageMagick for some scripted operations such as batch resizing and sharpening all pictures in a directory.