In the life of an amateur photographer, one of the biggest headaches is how to share your photos so that everyone can see them without problems. We want to pass them on to friends and family, and if we have a large volume, it’s often difficult to do so quickly. For this reason we are looking for The best websites to upload and share photos for free.
One of the most recurring questions that I am often asked as a photographer is how to send the photographs to your relatives. We have all heard that WhatsApp compresses them (it is true), that by email we have a capacity limited to 20MB (certain). There are many ways to do it well, and it all consists of searching the web pages that we are going to present below.
I would never send originals, unless requested, and I would always try to compress the photographs so that they take up as little space as possible with the highest quality. We can always do it with one of the Adobe programs or with mobile applications, but best of all, some of the websites that we are going to mention do all this for us.
The problem is that most websites they have decided to put payment options to offer more storage or more features that we may miss. But if we don’t want to spend money and just spend the summer photos, we can do it without major problems.
Google Photos
A year ago it stopped being free. And we only have 15 GB to store our photos. But if we compress the photos, many images can enter that shared space with everything we have on Google, such as our emails.
The advantage is that it is very easy to use and allows us to share all our files with whomever we want. Of course, we have no choice but to empty from time to time so as not to saturate the total free capacity.
Flickr
Flickr revolutionized everyone’s life when it decided to offer 1 TB of capacity to share and save all our photos, but that possibility soon ended. Now, from May 1, 2022, we can only upload 1,000 photos and 50 non-publicly.
Again we will have to pay if we want more space, but if we do not want to share our trip with the whole world, the possibility of sharing 50 photos is fine.
Amazon Pictures
It is true that an amazon premium account is not free. But what many people don’t know is that if you have it, they also offer you unlimited space on Amazon Photoseven in RAW format if you like to shoot in this format.
It is true that we do not have to trust and save all our files there (it should only be one more backup copy) but it is perfect for sharing the latest photographs that we have taken without problems.
WeTransfer
Is my file sharing reference page. From here I share absolutely everything with my family and friends. Just open the page, drag and go.
For free you can send up to 2GB, more than enough in most cases to share photos. What I like the most is that you can send them as a link or directly to an email account to prevent it from reaching the hands of others.
imgbox
One of the simplest pages to send files no larger than 10 MB. You just have to select the photo and that’s it, the page takes care of everything.
The best of all is that we have unlimited space for as long as we want to have the photographs hosted on this page. And it will directly give us a link to hang the file wherever we want.
post images
One of the great surprises when making this article. Before starting you can choose the size you want the photos and how long you want them to be available.
The free version allows you upload photos of 10kx10k pixels if they occupy 24 MB, more than enough for most of our jobs. And we can link 1000 pictures per upload. What more could you want?
500px
If you are interested in photography and want to find a place to hang and share your photos, you will surely like 500px. Of course, if you want unlimited uploads you will have to pay a fee, but the free account allows you to upload up to seven photos a week.
Not a place to have a backup of our work, but it is very easy to download the photographs. You just have to hover over the image, and if you have activated the license, anyone can download it, you can even earn money. Of course, you will have to wait until the editors of the page decide if your shot is good or not.
drop box
It is one of the most used spaces to make a backup of our files, including photographs, of course.
If you want to share photos for free, on Dropbox you have up to 2 GB of storage to store and share your files in the same way as the other options we’re pointing out.
photobucket
A page that looks like it doesn’t have a free option, at least it doesn’t appear in a clear way. You have no choice but to accept the free trial. When the 21 days are up, they give you two options. The first is to pay a subscription and the second one free account with 250 images or 2.5 GB storage.
With Photobucket you can share images without any problem or even have a small backup of your most precious photos. Of course, the free account is very limited in terms of functions.
Behance
Another perfect page if your love of photography is so great that you even have a license for Adobe programs. It’s a free page where you can share your work in three different ways: Project, Work in Progress, and Live Broadcast.
The second option, Work in progress, is perhaps the best for us. If we want to share our images, we can send them to whoever we want, but they will only be available for 24 hours. Of course we can also use the rest, but this seems the most practical.
unsplash
It is one of the most important sources of royalty-free images. Everything you post here will have a free license to use. Everyone can use your photos and you can use theirs. And it’s in perfect Spanish so we don’t miss anything.
You just have to sign up and you can automatically upload all the photos you want with the sole premise of sharing them. Also you can use the platform to promote yourself and get customers.
Telegram
At the beginning we have talked about WhatsApp. But Telegram, its great competitor, allows you to do many things when sharing photos. As it works in the cloud and is not stored on the mobile, it allows us to share all types of files up to 2GB.
It is a completely free service (with payment options) that, given its capacity, allows us to send all the photos of our vacations without any problem.
We leave Instagram for last, the most popular page so far to share our images with the whole world. In addition, it is another social network that allows us to make ourselves known. Of course, its big problem is that it is impossible to upload the originals and it exaggeratedly compresses our photographs.
But in spite of everything, it is still one of the best options to show our relatives our photographs so they can see where we have been. And it’s not just for mobile shooting, it accepts any digital image.
George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism