Good safe place to upload art images/w.i.ps
polycounter lvl 11
So ive been uploading my images to imageshack for a while now which so far has been fine i was kind of worried about it not being private and all that but recently ive been doing life drawing and anatomy studies. i uploaded them to show some people to get critique, the next day i find out that most of them have been taken down due to "imageshack violation". I emailed them to ask wtf and they just sent me a list of imageshack terms apparently im uploading pornographic images which is funny because none of my anatomy studies have genitals. Anyways that annoyed me so now i need a nice safe place that i can upload my images.
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a.) can batch upload
b.) doesn't have bandwidth limits
c.) doesn't kill image quality
d.) no ridiculous ads
please share the knowledge of it. I used photobucket, but it's slow, has a bandwidth limit, and you cant upload large pictures or else it kills the quality of them.
Right now Im just using my deviantart account, but its a hassle to upload an image everytime because you have to tag it, categorize it, name it, etc.
Imgur is popular too, but I prefer Blogspot for reliability, it's google
I stay away from Drobpox for hosting images because, like mentioned before, if you decide to do some house-keeping, you can often forget what images are linked where and an old post ends up losing it; also a recurring issue, at least on Polycount, is that Dropbox can be blocked at people's work.
A similar solution to Dropbox I've been experimenting with is puush - it has nifty features that let you pick between capturing whole screen, section of the screen, a window, etc. and directly uploading them at the same time with just a keyboard shortcut that spits out a link to your clipboard. Very quick, very handy - and the Pro subscription is only 15 USD a year. The only downside is that the direct links don't end in a filename, but are just an address - so some forums may have an issue interpreting that - so far though I've only encountered one, and Polycount doesn't have that issue.
If your going to post wip's you are probably going to write about them too so blog would make all the sense.
edit: I would disagree a blog not been easy to maintain. It usually involves like 5 clicks and the image is there with a post, can't get easier than that.
You can turn that off btw. The downsizing.
I use Photobucket religiously. It allows you to keep your photo album private too, and your image sizes can be huuuuge. There's also no real limit to how many images you upload.
This is why I currently have some a 'keep' folder from where I never delete stuff , and subfolders such as Dropbox/Public/keep/Polycount. After a while though, I open the files in there in MSpaint and scale them to a quarter of the size, though, to save some space.
That way an image (like this one) might become tiny, but it never completely disappears.
Last I used picasa it tended to downsize my images, have they fixed that?
Oh yeah, that's why I use it
By maintain I mean file managing (ain't no dropbox) and grabbing URLs is not as slick as Imgur for just getting you up to a hotlink, especially for stuff you wouldn't normally blog. But still, it's my choice for stability and I'm always logged in a google account.
For example, I was looking for certain images related to shaders, and came across a post, in which all the images where 'down', but as soon as I logged into IS, it suddenly brought them back.
So yeah, really crappy move on their part.
Imgur/Picasa are what I recommend too.
The choice between resizing dimensions or filesize is hardly ideal.
no dropbox (blocked in some work places)
use http://imgur.com/ or http://minus.com/.