Best Options For Online Photo Storage And Album Creation For Photo Sharing

There are a lot of different options available for creating an online photo album.

Most people are probably going to go with one of the free online photo storage websites. Most of these are owned by a big player.

Popular free online storage sites are as follows:

• Yahoo Photos
• Flickr (Now owned by Yahoo)
• Shutterfly - Get 15 FREE prints to get started. Plus, enjoy free photo share and unlimited photo storage!
• Faces
• Snapfish (owned by HP)
• Kodak Easyshare Gallery (formerly Ofoto)
• AOL Pictures
• Sony's Image Station
• Webshots - The free version lets you store and share 1000 photos + 100 more for each month of membership. There is also some desktop software for uploading photos to the website. CNET Owned.

A popular solution for people who want very good customer support and are willing to pay a fee can use
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If you have your own internet storage available, an option like Google's Picasa can help you store your pictures and create online photo galleries.

Other options are installing open source photo gallery software like Gallery or Coppermine on an internet host. One issue here is that you need to keep the software update to date to ensure there are no security risks on your site, otherwise your site might get hacked. This would be particularly annoying if you were using private password protected galleries.