From Liz Masoner,
Your Guide to Photography.
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PhotoBucket.com is one of the many photo sharing websites on the internet. Like most sites, it offers free accounts and paid accounts that have more bandwidth. The site offers both image and video hosting.

Getting an Account

The home page of PhotoBucket.com has a large red button to "join now". The process of signing up is very simple. After entering some basic information you are given a link to your new free album. In order to upgrade to a paid album you must create the free album first.

Uploading Images

PhotoBucket continues its user friendly interface with pop-up instruction boxes that explain how to get started uploading images. Once you click on the browse button PhotoBucket will access your computer so you simply chose a file to upload in the same manner as opening a file. Multiple files can be uploaded at one time (although you must select them one at a time). The automatic image display sizing options are easily accessed during the process. This is an especially helpful timesaver during mass image uploads.

Sharing Images

Once you have uploaded your first images, Photobucket provides more helpful pop-up instruction boxes. These boxes explain how to post, or link, the images to other sites. You also have the option of leaving your album open to the public so that anyone can view all of your images. This option is a simple click under "account options".

Conclusion

Pros

• Simple to use
  
• Good instructions
  
• Free and paid accounts available
  
• Codes for linking to email, blogs, and forums easily accessed
  
• Automatic resizing options
  
• Ability to make album private
  
• Ability to create folders to better organize images

Cons

• Some images on front page under "most popular" may not be family friendly
  
• Amount of personal information collected
  
• Only one free account per email address
  
• Lots of ads on free accounts

Overall, PhotoBucket is one of the easiest photo-sharing sites to use and certainly worth a try.