PhotoIsland shutting down forever

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GotDart

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Dear PhotoIsland Member,

Over the last several years it has been our pleasure to provide you with exceptional photo sharing services. On Nov. 22, 2004 however, the PhotoIsland website will be shutting down for good. On that date, all photo sharing accounts will be deleted. If you currently have photos in your PhotoIsland account, please visit the site now to download them to your PC's hard drive.

In order to make the process of downloading photos from your account quick and easy, we are providing a download applet for you to use. After you log in to your account, click the "Manage Photos" link on the left navigation bar then click "Download all photos". At that time, the applet will pop up on your screen and guide you through the downloading process.

If you have difficultly downloading your photos, please contact us at [email protected] and we will be happy to help you with the process.


Sincerely,

PhotoIsland Member Services

Rats. Time to find a new place to host pics.
 
Webshots has always been pretty good for me. But now you have to be a paid subscriber to link to your photo's They also have a program that pay's 1 cent for every hit they get from a banner on the site. I haven't been to Photobucket.
 
I just use the personal web space provided by my ISP. You don't have to set up a web page, you just have to upload the pictures to a directory.
 
Looks like I'll be waiting awhile, they are not accepting new free accounts at this time. Is there any other free pic hosts that you guys know of?
 
I found this on another site, talking about the same thing.

Digitalstar http://www.Digitalstar.com/

Digitalstar is one of the newest Sources I have found. It's possible to upload the Pictures and post them without resizing and without any reduction in quality. You have to sign up with an easy Overview. After you have built up your albums you can view them in full size and that's exactly the Link that you need for posting in here.


DigitalPose http://www.digitalpose.com/

Digital Pose is one of the most used free picture hosts at the moment I believe. It is faster with it´s loading of images like many hosts but you suffer from quality reductions, image size reduction and always a little commercial line at the bottom of every image.


X-Share.com http://www.x-share.com/
I have not used this host very often, but it seems to be a very good host. No Bandwidth restrictions which means - unlimited Bandwidth!!! And you can upload anything.

Once you have your login information in your email, you can now connect to their servers via FTP. You will need an FTP program such as WSFTP or CuteFTP. In your FTP program just enter our FTP address which is ftp.x-share.com and enter your login and password into the appropriate fields and you're ready to connect and start publishing or in technical terms "upload" your web site.


Photothru http://www.Photothru.com/
Seems to be a stable image host. Choose the free hosting option where you are required to insert your Email ID, password and first just like last Name. You can insert any Pseudo you want to use... The hosted picture is resized but I haven´t seen any loss of quality.thanx Otto...


Ecomplanet http://www.ecomplanet.com/
Ecomplanet was once my absolutely number one. They don't change your image size or quality but are only allowed a maximum of ten images per account. Yoou will need to "Build a free Website" and then follow the Instructions and it should work.


Fotki http://www.fotki.com/
Start your free trial membership at the bottom of the Site. You're required to insert some Information about yourself but you are given unlimited space with no quality reduction. You are required to pay after 14 days of use. Images are resized and you are not allowed to link to the original image.

VillagePhotos http://www.villagephotos.com/
This Host is very easy to set up. They do not ask for much personal information. The only thing you need to have is an e-mail account. There is a bandwidth limit of 5 MB per day. This means your pics will not be online very often.

PBase http://www.Pbase.com/
A very nice pay host with open galleries for public. The Pictures open fast and it is also possible to link to your whole gallery. At Pbase you will also find a lot of candid shooter´s because it seems to be their host of choice. Logon with your e-mail account like in most image hosts and start uploading your images to post them.
 
I use photoisland for my profile pix and picturetrail for my postings.
Anyone know if i can use picturetrail for my profile pix? :scratch:
 
I'm using villagephotos until photobucket is accepting new free acounts. I can upload anything that big there. :cry:
 
Yes I have Photoisland and received the same notice. I just joined PictureTrail and posted some pics of my son's engine and it came out nice. You could select the pic size and it's free.
http://www.picturetrail.com
 
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