SmugMug

Website - www.smugmug.com
Location - unlimited
Services and facilities - for free
Print photos - yes
Paid Account - from $ 40per year

SmugMug is a premium photo sharing web site with an emphasis on professional photography.

SmugMug keeps 4 backup copies of each photo. You get unlimited storage in all plans. You can see your photos without registering, and without spam.

Pro users get the ability to sell photos and set their own prices. You can use SmugMug to share photos on Photography Bay and with friends and family. You can make galleries private or password protected and even limit the size of photos that are viewable by others.

The biggest problem for new SmugMug users is that the site has no free account, and the minimum price for an account is $40/year.

 The main functions of SmugMug
- Integrated exchange on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Tumblr, e-mail and other services
- Mobile applications for IPad, iPhone and Android
- No advertising and promotional surrounding photos
-  backup of all photos
- Full-screen slide show and playback of HD-video
- Good technical support work
- Adding photos from Lightroom, Aperture, Iphoto, Picasa and other popular programs
- Unlimited adding photos
- Unlimited Traffic
- Choose from 50 beautiful themes for your gallery
- Using your own host name
- Disable download and viewing the large size to other users
- Advanced Privacy Settings
- Watermark to fight with piracy.

Picasa Web Albums



Website - www.picasaweb.google.com
Location - 1024 MB of free
Services and facilities - for free
Print photos - yes
Paid Account - from $ 20 per year




   Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape and owned by Google.
    Your are given 1 GB of storage for your photos. Optionally this volume can be increased by clicking on one of the paid accounts. Downloading photos is absolutely identical to Flickr (at the same time you can send to the site only five images).
    Joint use such programs like Picasa and Picasa Web Albums let you easily organize and edit digital photos and create albums on the Internet to share photos with friends, relatives and others.
    You can present your photos in the best possible way. View full-screen slide show, place images on the card, play videos, etc.
    Picasa lets you create and print beautiful collages, create interesting slide shows, add text to photos.
    You can also use your favorite images as desktop wallpaper or screen saver.
    Publish your favorite photos on the internet easily. Create stunning Web albums to friends and relatives or public galleries, which everyone can observe.
   Functions of Picasa can improve almost any photo and solve such problems as red eye, color and lighting flaws with one click. A correction function and overlay effects can make good pictures better. 

   pros
• simple and clear interface service
• A complete application for working with photos on your PC and upload to the site user-friendly
• 1 GB of storage for photos
• Work with service companies to print photos from Russia
• The Russian interface
     
   cons
• The need to have a Google Account to register
• Not just viewing photos of other users of the service
• Lack of paid account with an unlimited amount of storage space for photos 

    

The site - www.flickr.com
Location - 250 MB free
Services and facilities - free initial service
Print photos - yes
Paid Account - $ 24.95 per year

 

   Flickr - the most popular and promoted worldwide service. But in Ukraine this service is not as popular as in other countries.

   Everyone who wish to try out all the charm and innovation should sign up. For this you also need account at Yahoo. In other words, if you have not registered user Yahoo, then you need to become one. Registration on flickr is possible only with the Yahoo ID.

    Service has a simple and unobtrusive design with perfectly clear (for me) interface and menus. I was little confused by only 250 MB free account for photo hosting. With this volume making an online repository for pictures is impossible. The solution is buying a paid account (there is no space limit for uploading photos).

    To download the photos you can use an interface in the browser, which launched a website, or download-program. The latter application is downloaded from the site Flickr. This method is more convenient and easier. In this program you can drag from any window any arbitrary number of photos and upload them to the site with one click (in the time when with poster you can download only 5 shots at a time).

pros
• simple and clear interface service
• Handy utility to upload pictures to the site

cons
• Inconvenient organizing photos on the server, a complex process of separating into groups of photos, dates, etc.
• A total of 250 MB of space to store photos in the free account
• The need to have a Yahoo ID to register.

Here is a video about Flickr. I hope it will be interesting and useful for you.

    We can not imagine our everyday life without making photos. Most of us want to share their photos with their friends, relatives and others. But to take photo camera, photos or something else to show people your photos is hard, uncomfortable and stupid. It's better to put your pictures online. For this reason there are Photo Sharing Sites!

   There is a great number of them... more than 50. We can devide them into "our" and "foreign".

I'll tell you about them in my next post. See you soon =)