Online photo sharing is favorite hobby of millions of people. Photo capturing from your digital camera and uploading them on some of photo hosting site and after sharing with the world, that’s it!

Photo sharing, and status updating services are now de-facto standards of social media but some of sites are only for image hosting and sharing. Here are 10 websites for image uploading and sharing. Some sites are free and some are free and chargeable both.

(1) Flickr

Flickr is top image sharing site (not counting Facebook) mostly used by bloggers. You can upload your photos and share with the world, you can easily search photos by tags, create groups, join groups, mark as favorite, comment on photos. If you are a free member you can upload maximum 100 MB photos in a month.
Founded in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005.

(2) Photobucket

Photobucket is image and video storage site but is well known for image storage. Photobucket’s image are vastly used by social media sites like Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and many other services. On Photobucket you can create photalbums and share with others or keep private. Photobucket provides 500 Mb of storage for free account holders.
Founded in 2003 and acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.

(3) Fotolog

Fotolog is a only for picture and linages sharing, you can create your photo dairy or photo blog. Fotolog provides unlimited uploading but only one image in a day and free accounts are ad supported.
Founded in 2002.

(4) Zooomr

Zooomr is one of my favorite photosharing site. On Zooomr you can discover, share and upload photos. Create and join groups. You can upload and archive unlimited number of photos but some of services are available for pro members only.
Founded in 2005.

(5) Picasa

Picasa is Google’s service for web album, if you have a Google account you can use this service to upload your photos and share with friends embed to web pages. To upload photos first you have to create a group.
Picasa is basically a free program by Google for photo management in your computer with some basic editing capabilities, which is supported by almost popular operating systems.

(6) Shutterfly

Shutterfly provides free photo storage, you can create your own photo book and public pages to share with others.
Founded in 1999.

(7) Woophy

You can put your photos on a social map and share with others.
Founded in 2005.

(8) Atpic

On Atpic host and share unlimited photos with each account.
Founded in 2009.

(9) Imageshack

Imageshack is specially for image hosting, you can upload jpg, png, tif, bmp swf file format but it will be converted into png image after uploading, your uploaded image will be formated in to HTML and bulletin board codes which you can link to forums or websites.

Founded in 2003.

(10) Jalbum

Jalbum is a free album software, with this software you can create digital photo galleries, it is similar to Google’s Picasa. You can upload your photos on Jalbum.net, with a free signup you get 30 MB of web space.

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