Free webspace for hosting large pictures?

[Stanley]

I have a folder of large-ish (3-4meg max) pictures that i want to host and share.

Any ideas?

Around a few hundred meg will do.

Cheers all!

[Stuart]

picasa/flickr no good?

[Jack]

Pbucket [edit] just save with a decent jpeg compression so they're under 1mb filesize

[Nova_Tek]

Put it on photoshop, click 'save as' - save as a JPEG then when the little settings box comes up before you save adjust the amount of compression you want and also change from 'Baseline' Jepg to 'Progressive' and that will also help to reduce the JPEG size.

[Stanley]

I dont want to compromise the quality of the pics though . . .

[Welsh Dan]

+1 for flickr

[Nova_Tek]

I dont want to compromise the quality of the pics though . . .

You will hardly notice the difference. Of course if you set it to minimum then you will but around 60% and set to Progressive encoding means you won't notice it. Try it out and see. If you're not happy then thry a different host

[Southie]

Try some of these if your not happy with the above suggestions. CLICKY (http://www.findimagehost.com/image-hosting-select.php?size=10240)

[Nova_Tek]

Here you go Stan a quick example:

Image 1 - 800x600 @ 100% Quality - Baseline compression - Size:340KB
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4479/duality1800x600.jpg

Image 2 - 800x600 @ 66% Quality - Progressive compression - Size 94KB
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5329/duality1800x600compress.jpg

:thumb:

[Jack]

Paint Shop Pro you can pick the compression quality.

I regularly resave my Canon digicam pics from the canon jpegs (~6Mb each) in Paint Shop Pro, even with a 30% compression sees no loss in quality and can drop the image down to 1Mb and under.

Due to the nature of jpeg compression and the way images are captured, you won't actually see a loss of detail on a photo. Its only simple colour graphics that would give problems, in which case you'd use something like Compuserve GIF