Updated 26 May, 2012, 4:18 pm IST

Best Websites to Store Your Images

11 Mar, 2010, 4:31 pm IST | by Kamakshi S

Check out these ten sites and analyze which fits your requirements perfectly.

If you enjoy digital photography and wish to share your captures with your friends and family, taking them online is the perfect option. Check out these ten sites and analyze which fits your requirements perfectly.

Photoshop.com
Photoshop.com, (earlier Photoshopexpress.com) is an Adobe product. Photoshop Express is the online editor for the Photoshop.com services. You can upload, manage, edit and share your images on this website. Printing services are available only for US-based members. The website offers some of the best online image editing options. You can use Photoshop Elements to upload images on to the website. You can edit images from on your Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, or Picasa accounts. The website supports collaborative photo blogging.

Photo.net
This website is for amateur photographers who require online assistance. There are different moderators overlooking each section of the website where images are posted. Apart from receiving insightful comments on your photography skills from resident experts, you will find a lot of tips on buying the right equipment, basic and advanced tutorials, photography books, etc. You can order photo prints and gifts and purchase other photography related equipment like still cameras, lenses and tripods.

Snapfish
Although more of a photo store than an image hosting service, Snapfish nevertheless is a product from HP Labs which doubles up as photo sharing service. Apart from basic image fixes, you can add image captions and invite your friends to view and add images to your album. You can order high quality prints and photo gifts from the site.� Popular sites like photobucket and Picasa use Snapfish services for ordering photo prints and gifting requests from their existing users. The quality of prints is also excellent.

Picasa
Coming from the Google stable, Picasa is one of the most popular photo storage and sharing websites. You can also make image based movies and collages using images stored online through the Picasa desktop application. The application also provides assistance to carry out basic image editing; collage creating, image blogging and uploading. You can run slideshows and order prints and photo gifts online too. Public images can be viewed directly but private images require invitation by the album owner. You can further secure your photographs by enabling the 'Sign-in required to view' album option. This web service supports viewer comments and collaborative photo blogging too.

Webshots
Webshots is a very interactive photo sharing web portal. You can opt for a free or a premium account. Unlike other portals, there is no size-based limit but a number based limit (you can store and share 1,000 free and 5,000 personal photos on the premium account for starters.) Apart from printing your personal pictures as photo and on various photo gifts, you can also download and print photographs taken by professional photographers. The website has collaborated with PhotoWorks for photo and gift printing. Like Picasa, this website also has a provision to use desktop application for easy management of your online photos. The website also extends support for mobile updates.