When it comes to storing your photos online, you need a website that keeps the quality, size, and overall picture intact. After all, your pictures are important to you and when you store them online, you want to make sure they aren’t going anywhere. Before you choose a company, here are the top five websites for free online photo storage.
Flickr
Flickr has been one of the top photo storage website for several years. With this site, you get 1,000GB of free storage and it helps you automatically backup your entire collection. Plus, you can download the app and use it to sync any pictures from your phone to your storage. You can easily share your photos with friends, and you can also get prints, wraps, or photo books made using your pictures.
The biggest benefit of storing your photos on Facebook is the fact that you can share any photo with your friends instantly. Everyone on your friendslist sees your pictures when you post them on your timeline, and you have the option to tag specific people to ensure they see them. The only downfall with Facebook is that automatically shrinks your images, but you do have the option to upload your pictures as “high-quality” to allow a better, less compressed view.
Google+
Google+ may not be one of the most popular social media platforms, but it’s easily one of the best free online photo storage options. Choosing Google+ allows you to edit pictures on the website—you can auto enhance, crop, rotate, add filters, and so much more. To share, you can either give someone a viewing link for a single picture or share an entire album. Store your images in folders for easy organization so you’ll never lose a picture.
Photobucket
The free version of Photobucket gives you 2GB of space, which is plenty of room for thousands and thousands of photos. Photobucket does have an image limit of 5MB and if your picture is larger than 2048 x 1536, your picture will be compressed. Fortunately, most images fit within this limit.
Sharing photos is also easy. You’ll find a link on the right side of your image that you can send to friends and family members to view a whole folder or individual image. Finally, Photobucket also allows you to edit images in the site including cropping, auto enhance, and individual enhancements.
DropBox
DropBox is not only a great site for hosting documents, but also for images and videos. It offers plenty of cloud storage and file synchronization so you can have your photos no matter where you go. Sharing is also simple with a link that anyone can view even if they don’t have a DropBox account. The basic package gives you 2GB of free space, but you can easily upgrade for up to 1TB of storage.
