How to find Best free photo sharing websites?

If you are interested in photography, then you would definitely have large collection of photos. Nowadays, good Smartphone’s and digital cameras are easily accessible and available to anyone. If you like photography, you can take as many photographs as you want. But memory cards of our gadgets are limited and we need some place to store it.

Where to store these many numbers of photographs? 

Although it is a good option to save your pictures in computer hard disk, but there is risk of hard disk crash or unintentional deletion of photographs. Therefore, the best way of saving these precious images is online photo sharing websites.

Advantage with these websites is that you can download your uploaded pics from anywhere in the world. It is also the best way to share photographs with your friends and relatives. To use these websites you need to have account with them. If you want your reach to the world of photography, you would need one of these photos sharing websites:

Flickr:

It is one of the world’s most popular photo sharing website provided by Yahoo. Moreover, with the help of flikr, you can share your pics on Twitter, Facebook and your blog. There are many ways to upload photograph on it. If you want, you can directly upload them from mobile phones and uploading using browser and email is easy too.

Sign In : Yahoo, Facebook or Google

Account Types:

Free: In a free account you can upload 300 MB size of images per month.

Paid : $1.87 per month includes unlimited photos and ads free browsing

Mobile Applications: iOS, Android and Windows Phone

Photoshop:

It is an online version of photo editing software Photoshop. Using it, you can add effects and store images in 2 GB of free space. Moreover, it also provides features such as Slideshow and image gallery.

Mobile Applications: iOS and Android

Picasa:

Sign In : Google Account

It is a service provided by google. Other than photo sharing it provides a tool which creates slideshows and create quality albums. Picasa has desktop application where you can search and upload photograph directly from your computer. If you want to share them, you can do it on google social networking site google plus.

Free: 1GB of Storage.
Paid Account: 25 GB for Picasa and Google Drive at  $2.49 / Month

Dropshots:

Here you can create albums for your pics and allows upload of 500 Photographs and 20 videos with 2 minute Video limitation.
Paid: $4.95 for unlimited account

Photobucket:

Sign In: Facebook , Twitter and Photobucket account.

Upload unlimited photos using its free account with only restriction and that file size of photo should not exceed 5 MB. If you want you can edit photos and graphics. It also includes slideshow tool and photo sharing.

How to use google drive?

Google drive has officially arrived and many of you thinking that what exactly this google drive is? and how is it useful for me?

If you have google account , you would get 5 GB of free space instantly after signing in.and if you want more you can upgrade to 25 GB for less than $2.50 a month We have discussed many free cloud storage on this blog but Google drive is different from all of them.

Why?

Because

1.Google drive has capability of opening different file types whether its program is installed in your computer or not.For eg if you want to open Microsoft Word 2007 doc file and you do not have office installed at your home computer, you can use google drive to open it , read it and even save it.

2.Google is famous for its search and it provides powerful search to its drive platform.Moreover , due to its Optical character recognition  technique it can even read text from images and search them for you.

3.Making Attachment easier : Suppose you wanna send attachment to your friends. You can easily do it using google drive link. Even you can update your attachment after sending it to your friends which was not possible with existing attachments.

4.You and your friends can post comments on the file you share on google drive. Its just like a virtual discussion forum about a file or document.

5.You can undo changes till 30 days : It gives us extraordinary capability to undo changes we did before 30 days. Sometime we edit some file and document and later realize that we did some mistake. With the help of google drive you can undo it with ease.Google drive creates new file whenever we edit our file, that way we can recover our old file from previously saved versions.

How to use it ?

You need to download client software(googledrivesync) of google drive into your computer.

Your computer should be connected before you run googledrivesync.It will take around 2 to 3 minutes according to speed of your connection.

Once installed , client software would ask you to sign in , just give your user name and password and click sign in.

It would create google drive folder into your computer which would help you to sync your files to the cloud.

You can drag and drop any file into this folder and set permissions with the help of client software.