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Images hold a special place in our life, whether they are college, wedding, tour or any other pictures for that matter. And thanks to Internet that we can share such precious photos with our family and friends in no time. It may not be possible to take out a hard copy for each and every pic you click, but backing it up online is very much possible with image hosting sites. Such sites offer you great service, apart from making it fun and easy to show off your digital photos. Also many blogger face issue of limited bandwidth, so making use of image hosting sites could be a sensible decision. Whether you are looking to cut down on bandwidth cost, share your pictures online, or just wanting to have a backup – make use of the Top 10 Free Image Hosting Sites accumulated by honeytechblog that are best so far.

Picasa

Picasa was designed by Google to offer us best and free image hosting service. This one offers you unlimited bandwidth which is the best feature and even provides you with 1 GB of free storage. Uploading photos in seconds, save shared photos, editing pictures, store videos, sorting, moving and deleting Pictures are among few best options available to play with. Your web album could be of 20MB and is also limited to 50 megapixels. You can access Picasa directly by using your Gmail account.

Flickr

Flickr is mostly preferred by designers and photographers that are happy with limited storage and bandwidth. You get maximum storage space would be 100 MB and free upload of 2 videos each month which are limited to 90 sec and 150MB size. Photo tagging, commenting option, resize pictures, set privacy levels, posting photos to any blogs, are among some of the cool features available with Flickr. You can access Flickr by just creating an account for free.

Photobucket

This is my favorite; Photobucket is the premier site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. You can create a free Photobucket account that can store thousands of photos and hours of video. The free account is limited to 1MB file size and you get 10 GB monthly bandwidth and 1GB storage space. Sharing of photos, videos, and albums by email, IM, and mobile phone, multiple uploads, image editing, group album and scrapbook builder are some of the nice features available with Photobucket.

Imageshack

You cannot miss out imageshack if you are truly looking for handy media hosting site. Major flash file, images, movies, and videos can be uploaded and shared quickly with this. The best part is you can upload as many files you desire, just take care that you picture should be less than 1.5 megabytes. This hold same for flash files as well and videos could be less than 50MB. Direct linking, resize images, keep track of previously uploaded image easily, and different linking codes are some of the cool feature you can play around with.

FreeImageHosting

This image hosting provider allows you easily upload, link and share images online and you can also display them on social networking sites such s MySpace, Xanga, and Friendster. You will be happy to know that there is no storage, bandwidth or hosting period limited apart from being completely free of cost. GIF, JPG, BMP, and PNG images and photos can be hosted using this service. Direct linking, maximum file size of 3000KB, easy browse and upload are some of the best feature that would attract you. Here you don’t need to register, but having an account can fetch you more interesting features.

Pixavid

This might be relatively new in the field of image hosting by of course worth looking at. You get an easy way to share pictures and also post them on personal sites, message boards and emailed. Pictures can also be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Reddit and other social networking sites. Pixavid uses JQuery, Uploadify and other quality plugins to serve you better. Direct linking, popular, pick of the day, download, lucky dip are some of the great feature you must look at.

ShotAddict

This one is highly recommended for photographers, as they conduct some cool photo contest that can be great opportunity to display talents. You can be an ordinary member for free and take advantage of cool features like store your images, make them public or private, share with your friends, join free photo contest. But to get more out of it you need to be a premium member that would charge about $28.88 a year. You can also ready photo tips, tutorials and articles that can be useful.

WordPress

Honeytechblog love wordpress as it is amazing in all ways, so it deserves a place in this top ten list. You can create a free account to host your precious images with wordpress. You get 3GB of hosting space and unlimited bandwidth as well. You are free to upload mp3, m4a, wav, ogg audio files and also to increase your space with a Space Upgrade. Video upload and embed them are also among cool feature.

ImageVenue

ImageVenue.com is a free image hosting solution. It is designed for you to share digital pictures with friends, post images on message and bulletin boards and blogs. You can also hot link images from your personal website or eBay auctions. File size limit is 3.0M and you can upload as many images you want. Hot linking, mass uploading and sharing are features that will surely attract you. Registration is not required, but having one could be great.

WebShots

Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites with 7.2 Million* monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos to explore. Store and share 1,000 personal photos + 100 more for each month of membership with WebShots. You are allowed to Share photos, videos and slideshows on Webshots and your personal website. Download professional photos, easily manage photos, order prints and make custom photos gifts are among good features you might like to try out.

The above listed websites are just great with powerful features and they are also simple with work with. Do mention your favorite image hosting sites in meanwhile have a smooth and enjoyable experience with these.

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