logistics: images - where to store them...

If you are using blogspot all the images that you upload into your blog will be automatically stored in Picasa Web Albums. Which is all very nice - except that Picasa only gives you 1GB of storage, which is large enough I suppose, but not infinite. A highly bothersome thing however, is that Picasa resizes your large images to fit their own standards. So, while it may be OK to use Picasa for smaller sized things, when it comes to larger stuff you need to look elsewhere.

Image Shack seems to be a decent enough place to store images, if you can live with the ads and popup windows that want to predict the day you die (absolutely no kidding!). I am linking the grass image below from there. A free account does not give you unlimited bandwidth, and there is a file limit of 3MBs per image. But it is free and I guess you get what you (do not) pay for in the end. Which is a nice full sized image, after all:

However, if you are creating your own images, then what I would most definitely advise you to do, would be to go via creative social sharing domains, which will give you not only upload space but also exposure: First, you can create a pro Flickr account: This costs 25$ per year, and gives you unlimited storage, even at ultra large sizes. Second,you can upload photos onto stock.xchng, which is free. Flickr, will give your work more exposure than stock.xchng since sharing on Flickr works through groups which will spread the word about your stuff very rapidly. Like most good things there is a price tag - but well worth it I would say... And then, of course, a third place is deviantart, where again you can create a free account and upload your work as well as share it with the deviantart community.

 (Tip:  And here is a word to the wise: There seem to be a lot of these free online storage domains around these days. Before you get sucked in with big promises and 10GBs of free space and so on, read the small print! The terms and conditions, in other words! Here is one called Cloud Experience. Sounds great, right? Well, read on and you will find out that all of the stuff that you put in there becomes their property!

grrrr...  ) 

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