Updated March 22, 2010
There are many free image hosting services that you can use to store your blog photos. Below is a list of just some providers. Please make sure to click through to the sites and to carefully read the Terms and Conditions in each case. Also note that some image hosts provide for both free and paid accounts.
FreeImageHosting.net can help you to Host all your Blog Photos, Share Pics with your Family, Create Photo Galleries and Host your Auction Photos. Filename extensions allowed: gif, jpg, bmp, png Filesize limit: 3,000KB. FreeImageHosting.net is mainly for people who don’t want to use their own bandwidth to share images. You may not link or embed images hosted by Free Image Hosting on commercial websites. However, you may link or embed images hosted by this service in personal emails and webpages, message board posts, social networking profiles, and online auctions. Registration is not required, but creating an account lets you manage your uploads and use other extra features. Adult rated images are not allowed and will be removed.
freepichosting.com – Not only does ProPicHosting.com have the most easy image hosting solution available, but our new website offers scores of features not available anywhere else.
- UNLIMITED UPLOADS!
- We have more servers, that means faster loading
- Host images, videos, documents, and any other file
- Virus Free!
- Upload Unlimited Images
- Share Images With Anyone, Anywhere
- Reliable Hosting For Auctions & Websites
- Create Image Portfolios
- Create slide shows
- Create auction image galleries
- Disk Space
- 100mb/month Bandwidth
- Branding On Your Images
Simple and direct – reliable photo hosting on fast servers. Free accounts get enough storage for hundreds of images, and unlimited data transfer! Direct linking and remote loading is what we’re here for! You can direct link any of your photos, albums, thumbnails, or album lists on any website, such as eBay, Live Journal, Blogger.com, or anywhere you need to post pictures! We provide the URL and HTML codes you need to quickly get your images added where you need them! ImageCave is compatible with WebTV / MSNTV, and requires no additional software to use–just a standard web browser. You can upload image files directly from your computer, or transfer them to your account directly from another website!
imageshack – easy-to-use free media hosting service for uploading images, flash files, and movies. You can upload as many files as you want but each image you upload must be less than 1.5 megabytes in size. If it is greater than that amount, your image will be optimized for internet use. Flash files will be rejected if they are over 1.5 mb. Video files must be less than 50MB and they will be automatically optimized by the ImageShack toolbar before uploading. ImageShack does allow embedding files into web pages. However, in order for ImageShack to continue to provide free image hosting, we ask that you do not modify the linking code in any way.
imgplace.com - provides for basic uploading, flash uploading and zip uploading as well as a gallery option. Content types: “Adult content” or Family Safe”.
- + 100 Megabyte upload limit for all images combined
- + Allowed file types jpg, jpeg, gif, and bmp
- + 3 Megabyte limit per file
- + No bandwidth limit
- All images containing child pornography will be removed and reported to NCMEC for investigation.
PhotoBucket – free image hosting company for ebay, online auctions, classifieds, message boards, blogs, live journals, and online photo albums. Easily upload, categorize, add titles and delete images. Direct linking is allowed, and there are tutorials for directlinking images on eBay auctions, MySpace, and Xanga. You can upload up to 20 pictures at once and images larger than 1 MB are automatically scaled down. The BucketStamp is a dynamic imaging tool for you to share multiple images in a single link combined with some animation, a form of photo gallery for your pictures. 1 GB storage space; 25 GB/month bandwidth; 1MB (1024KB) file size limit; Extensions allowed: .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .swf (Flash files); Images must not contain any weird characters (numbers and letters only). The uploader converts bmp and tif to jpg. You can view the most recently uploaded pictures.
Users in the UK have the ability to take any of their images or photos and publish to their mobile phone. You can optionally upload images via a regular email address. Now features free video hosting too — users can upload, share, and publish video clips free up to 3 minutes long and 100 MB filesize (5 minutes in length if you are a premium user).
Photobucket has partnered with FilmLoop to make it easy for users to instantly create their own photo “loops” from existing image albums by simply clicking on the “Loop It!” button/icon in their photoalbum. FilmLoop is a free photo broadcasting (“photocasting”) network/application that lets you broadcast photo “loops” to all your friends and family, displaying the photos in a “loop” on your computer
picshome.com – You can sign up for a free account choosing a username and password that you will use to upload images to your account. A valid email address is required when you join. You will be sent a confirmation email to this address with instructions on how to activate your account.
- Max Filesize 300.00 MB
- All file types
- Multiple uploads (5)
- Allow Form Upload
- Show sponsor ads
- Show site ads
pixa.us – Pixa is a FREE image and flash hosting service that allows everyone to upload their own images.
Pixa offers various resizing, cropping, filtering and layout options.
If you are a registered user, you can upload 100 images at once, share pictures with friends, create thumbnails, resize images or thumbnails or create your own albums, forums, message boards or blogs.
Pixa can also be used to direct link images from your personal website or online auction and best of all, it’s free.
- brand new uploading system, you can upload more then 100 images at once!
- no adult content allowed
- You can not hotlink your large version of the image, but you can hotlink your thumbnail and link it to the larger image
- register for a free account
screenshots.cc - applet upload, common upload and URL upload. Images can be made private and resizing is provided for.
- unlimited images
- unlimited Online Photo Albums
- Upload Multiple Images
- Upload .ZIP Files (ZIPPED Images)
- Inter-Album Transferable Images
webAsyst.net - You can show your photos to an unlimited number of people by publishing photos on your website, blog, and by creating and sharing slideshows, sending photos as email attachments, etc.
online photo storage and sharing service which allows you to:
- Upload your photos to the Internet
- Share your photos with friends and family
- Publish photos on your website and blog
- Organize your photos in one centralized place
- We offer FREE and PAID accounts. Free accounts limit 50 images; 20 MB. Both Free and Paid accounts include all available features and functions, but Paid accounts have no limitations on the number of images
- Download Webshots Desktop to upload multiple photos at a time and easily manage them
- Upload and share photos
- Interact with your friends and other members
- Search, browse and download tons of photos
- Order prints and make customized gifts
- customize your own homepage
- store and share 1000 photos + 100 more for each month of membership
- upload on the go from your mobile phone
Still looking? Then try the Free Image Hosting Directory.
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I find PhotoDekho to be the best – by far! It’s free. Just try it once
THANK YOU!!
Thanks for the info. The problem was that I had very high res files from my wedding and had a lot of them to upload. I deleted a lot of them but it just didn’t seem like a sustainable way to upload photos in the long term. It also seems to take a VERY long time to upload each photo one by one and I’m wishing there was a way to insert a bunch at once and then fill in the text. There seems like there has to bean easier/faster way.
You can upload images in bulk. If you want to preserve image quality then resize the images prior to uploading them so they aren’t “cropped”.
With wordpress’s flash uploader (which is the default, you can choose multiple images to upload, although I would typically suggest keeping it to 10 or less at a time. Sometimes with slow internet connections it will produce a timeout and not all the images will upload.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/media-add-new/
Hi timethief,
I have just started a blog and am so new to all of this. I tried uploading pics via wordpress and am already at my limit. I am thinking I need to make them smaller file sizes and find hosting elsewhere. I did flickr too but am at my monthly limit. What is the online free hosting site taht you recommend for bloggers?
Thanks in advance,
Amanda
Hi Amanda,
As every wordpress.com blog comes with come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images I’m surprised you have filled that space already. The wordpress.com Space Upgrade gives you an additional 5, 15, 25, 50, or 100 gigabytes of storage space. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/space-upgrade/
I don’t recommend one free image hosting site over the other. That way I’m not in a position to be taking any flack from bloggers who may have negative experiences.
if you’re interested in look into a free & open source solution, try a Gallery 2 multisite at [http://pixi.me/] we don’t embed advertising which means a clean, clutter free presentation of your photo collection.
wow..Thank you for resources.
Don’t forget about [http://www.photodekho.com] They provide a great service!
How about uploadpic.org
I use it quite often, it’s simple and fast.
Thanks for adding to the list. :)
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Please add imagesdf.com
I have left your username and website intact so others can use the link.
I deleted my PhotoBucket account when I found my email address on pipl dot com. It came from them. PhotoBucket is the reason I’ve got spam mail. I’ll never forgive them for that. Disqus is doing the same thing. Never comment on a site that uese Disqus.
the Best Service for Image Upload:
Use [http://www.bilderload.com]
more Space,more Traffic,no Spam,no Popup shit
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i use [http://xtpload.com] and i am very happy with them
1) they are free
2) unlimited bandwidth and disk space
3) online image editor and few other futures .
For my current ebay work this site is ideal
i found one more. Tangupload.com
@menaice
Thanks for your addition :)
I use [http://www.g4vault.com] no annoying ads and you can upload anonymously or create a free account and make it private
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Thanks for adding this site to our list.
For adult image hosting i would reccomend [b]FileFap.com[/b]. I have tried many other hosts and will now only use filefap.
- No watermarks on images
- Legal adult files are allowed
- Registration not required but recommended
- 1GB of space (free)
- Hotlink protection (paid)
- Batch uploads from a zip file
- Progress bar upload (members only) allows you to select a bunch of images in one go
- All images types allowes
- max image size is 10mb (free)
- create public and private galleries
Also very reliable with [b]100% uptime[/b] and great support
http//filefap.com
Hi,
This is an amazing list. I have used Tinypic.com, photobucket.com, rapidshare.com, imageshack.us and many more image hosting websites to upload both pics and videos on my website i.e makemoneykingdom.com. So with my experience i should be able to tell you that these websites are just Gr8. They work like a champ. This is my honest review.
Hope I contributed something that was worth sharing :-)
xtupload.com is one of the most advanced one , moreover its free .
Just wanted to let you know about a new image hosting site: imgir.com .
I’m not recommending one site over another. I reviewed them all and it’s up to you to choose. I have no personal experience with flickr so I cannot help you with it. Here’s the FAQs entry form wordpress.com link http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/using-the-flickr-widget/ And, here’s the flickr help desk link http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/
hi timethief, i am using wordpress so which one would you recommend to me? I recently sign up with flickr but I’ve no idea how to link my picture to my blog.. thanx in advance.
IMO there is no single “best” free image hosting service. Every blog is different and each service differs. It’s up to the blogger to make choices and many have accounts at more than one image hosting service.
However, which one is the best?
you are welcome -:)
@joealli
Thanks for sharing the resource link with me and my readers.
@Thomas
Thanks for sharing those two resource links.
@free image sharing
Thanks for the resource link.
@sangor
Thanks for the resource link.
You can check also loadmypicture.com – it is simple, free and bannerless image/photo sharing solution
great information. also check out freeunlimitedimagehosting.info for unmetered free image hosting.
great one, check also imageshack.us and tubeimage.com
pic4.us
Pictures For Us is a free gallery and easy to use pictures and images hosting service. You are welcome to use our simple form to upload your photos, images, and videos and share them with other people on the Web. For uploading your photos and pictures, please use our free registration service to open an account and start creating your own images and photos gallery.
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Thanks aaron!
I use picdrive.com. They have a really dummy-proof interface I can also crop and rotate my photos after it is uploaded. I’ve used them for a few months so far and none of my photos are ever deleted.
Thanks for the contribution.
i just launched a very unique file hosting service, where you can upload/download and text based search of document files. A very helpful thing for students…
maifile.com
@Dave
Thanks – I fixed the link. ;-)
This post is a very useful compilation, by the way. Thanks.
Check the link for your email update icon. it currently goes to the image file rather than to the Feedburner sign-up page.
Thank you.
These are some great resources being mentioned here, I have been using some of these services, you have compiled them in one great place, KEEP IT UP!