What is Photobucket?
Photobucket is a is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It is usually used for personal photo albums, remote storage of avatars displayed in internet forums, and storage of videos. Photobucket's image hosting is often used for eBay, MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournals, blogs, and other message boards. Users may keep their albums private, allow pass-word protected guest access, or open them to the public.
Photobucket features:
- Photo, video, and album sharing by email, instant message, and mobile phone. Friends and family don't need an account on Photobucket to see your photos and videos. They just need to click the link you give them!
- Group albums, which let you collaborate with friends and families and create an album of photos and videos that everyone contributes to.
- Hundreds of album themes to design and personalize your photo and video albums.
- A built-in organizer, which keeps your photos and videos organized neatly.
- A built-in full featured photo editor, which lets you both fix photos and edit them in unique ways with frames, stickers, and special effects.
- Robust searching and browsing to find the latest and best photos, images, and videos to suit your mood or entertain your friends.
- A scrapbook builder to build unique scrapbooks by dragging and dropping your photos into one of hundreds of pre-built scrapbook designs that you can share online or print into beautiful books.
- A slideshow builder with lots of fun styles for posting and sharing on your Web site, blog, or profile.
- An online photo gifts and prints store that lets you print pictures, as well as add them to greeting cards, shirts, hoodies, mugs, calendars, stickers, wall posters, luggage tags, jigsaw puzzles, and more.
Pros
- Simple to use
- Free and paid accounts available
- Codes for linking to email, blogs, and forums easily accessed
- Automatic resizing options
- Ability to make album private
- Ability to create folders to better organize images
Cons
- Lack of constructive response to recent hacking attacks puts security in question
- Some images on front page under "most popular" may not be family friendly
- Only one free account per email address
- Lots of ads on free accounts
Types of Accounts:
Pro
Unlimited Storage
High resolution images
Unlimited traffic bandwidth
4000X3000 image dimensions
no ads in your album
Full statistics
Premium tech support
Free
500 MB Storage
1 MB image
10 GB / month
1024X768 image dimensions
basic statistics
Photobucket Tutorial
This video will show you how to sign up, upload a photo, and get the link to embed the image on other websites.
More Resources
Photobucket's Help Center - A great place to start and contains the best information whether you are just getting started or need help with advanced issues.
How to use the Photobucket Website: Video Series - if you prefer to watch videos, this is a great series to learn how to use Photobucket. There are a total of 16 videos in the series covering all aspects of Photobucket from the basics of creating an account and finding videos and photos all the way to advanced topics like batch editing, remixes, and privacy settings.
How to Create a Photobucket Account
How to use Photobucket Image Codes
Uploading Images and Videos with Photobucket
How to Use Photobucket
eHow: Photobucket
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