Photo Sharing Web Sites

Photo sharing sites can be broadly broken up into two groups: sites that offer photo sharing for free and sites that charge consumers directly to host and share photos.

Of the sites that offer free photo sharing, most can be broken up into advertising-supported media plays, such as AlbumTown, Flickr, Fotolog, Fotopic, Glowfoto, MyPhotoAlbum, Ringo, Zoomonga, Webshots, Zooomr, Photobloggers.net and online photo finishing sites, such as ImageStation, Ofoto and Shutterfly, where photo sharing is a vehicle to sell prints or other merchandise.

Paid sites typically offer subscription-based services directly to consumers and dispense with advertisements and sometimes the sale of other goods. Examples of paid sites are Phanfare, Fotki, ThumbnailCafe, and SmugMug.

These designations are not hard and fast and some subscription sites have a limited free version. Finally, consumers can now share their photos directly from their home computers over high speed connections through peer-to-peer photosharing using applications such as Pixpo, Picasa, Qnext and PixVillage.

Peer-to-peer photo sharing often carries a small one-time cost for the software. There is also another site called Strikeapoze it lets you post your pictures online and they will then project the image onto famous buildings during their special projection events.