Whats your favorite online photo sharing site (free or pay) ?

[PimpDaddy]

www.23hq.com !!!

Love it!

It's cheap to get a Plus(pro) account and they have lot's of cool features.

For example, it's possible to change the look of an account via CSS.

 

[OwlsAndApples]

Flickr and DeviantArt

Flickr is best used in conjunction with JUploadr

 

[119576]

huge fan of deviantART, if only for the interface.

as with any art site; there's a lot of rubbish on there. All-in-all, it's pretty good though.

 

[jolton]

I personally prefer smugmug. They don't compress or downsize photos. Unlimited storage, and really great customer support.

I started out with Flickr, but when I discovered that they resize and compress I ditched them.

 

[compuwar]

I tried a number of photo hosting sites and narrowed my choices down to Smugmug and Zenfolio. Ultimately, I went with Zenfolio because I liked the cleaner interface.

The 12M max file size pretty-much rules out full-sized TIFFs for me, am I going to have that problem no matter what?

 

[techmonkey]

After trying out Smug Mug, its a very nice site. I wish it were cheaper though, around $30.

Have they ever offered a discount or sale?

 

[eRondeau]

Okay then gang, here's a question for everyone. What is the best site to use in order to share thousands of photos among hundreds of group members? As an example, a school reunion attracts 300 people and they each take 50 photos. What's the best site that allows each of those 300 to freely post their own 50 photos, so that all 15,000 could be seen by everybody? Ideally everyone in the group should be able to add their own comments to each photo and rate each photo, so that eventually maybe just 1%-2% would become group favourites?

Does any site currently out there allow this?

 

[jolton]

After trying out Smug Mug, its a very nice site. I wish it were cheaper though, around $30.

Have they ever offered a discount or sale?

See my sig!

 

[termina3]

Have they ever offered a discount or sale?

I've been with 'em for a little more than a year now, and the answer is no. Of course you have a referral code above, but that's only $5.

I have a referral code/email, but seeing as how someone's already posted theirs, I'm not going to poach.

 

[AlexH]

I'm a big Flickr fan. I pay for a Pro account, and I've been pleased.

 

[techmonkey]

Someone mentioned earlier that Flickr resizes/compresses photos. I thought that they keep an untouched copy if you have a Pro account. Is this true? Do they allow you to batch download a backup of all of your photos?

 

[termina3]

I'm a big Flickr fan. I pay for a Pro account, and I've been pleased.

I don't know if the OP had this in mind, but do you sell photos for profit? I do, and I don't think I could live without smugmugs unbeatable customer service and customization. For example, all I had to do was copy and paste stuff from tutorials to get a beautiful page– www.nickensphotography.com

And when I needed a print/screen comparison page, I expected to get one at cost. Did they charge anything? NO! I'm forever with smugmug.

 

[Brianstorm91]

Personally, I use photobucket - it has everything that I need.