Why Use a Photo Sharing Service?

Photo sharing services make organizing, storing and sharing digital photos convenient, easy, safe and most importantly–fun. Through online photo albums, friends and family can join by sharing pictures of important events, good times and special occasions.

Photo hosting websites offer other ways to share pictures. You can order unique gifts featuring your favorite photos. You can create luggage tags, mugs, calendars, clothing, tiles, edible chocolate photos or even photo cards with a voice recording. The service will send the gift anywhere you choose.

Many photo sharing services offer the amenities and space where tight–knit groups or communities can come together and share photographs and exchange ideas about photography. You can post your pictures for public view where other members can offer feedback on your pictures and visa–versa. Many sites publish engaging, professional and beautiful images of people and places from around the world for browsing and comment.

In this site, you’ll find articles on photography and comprehensive reviews on photo sharing services that will help you make an informed decision on which service is right for you. At TopTenREVIEWS We Do the Research So You Don’t Have To.™

What to Look for in a Photo Sharing Service

Photo sharing services should make it easy to upload and share your pictures with friends and family, or post them on the Internet for everyone to enjoy. The best online photo albums offer editing tools, lots of storage space, password protected access, the ability to buy and sell prints, photo gifts and other conveniences.

Below are the criteria TopTenREVIEWS used to evaluate photo sharing services.

Feature Set
The top–notch websites offer numerous practical features that help upload, post, share and print photographs, network with other photographers and browse photo galleries by keyword or date.

Ease of Use of the Service
Like other Internet–based services, online photo albums should be user–friendly. Anyone should feel comfortable using the service and the tools it provides regardless of their knowledge of computers and the web.

Community
The best online photo sharing services accomodate social sharing and facilitate interaction with other users by allowing comments, public access, and integration with social networking sites.

Reputation/Popularity
We normally don't judge a service by how popular it is, but the more users, the better the community and in general, the easier the service. If an online photo sharing site is getting a lot of traction, there's good reason for it.

Help/Support
First–class photo sharing websites provide adequate help and support in the form of tutorials and FAQs, and offer a number of ways, like email, web forms and a phone number, to contact customer service.

To read the review on Photobucket, the photo sharing service our reviewers ranked #1, click here.