Flicker or Photobucket- Which is better?

[davidrimages]

I belong to both but use Photobucket for all my storage needs. I never had a problem with Photobucket. Now I will be starting a blog with wordpress and noticed they sort of endorse Flicker. My questions are this.
1. for general use what do most photographers use and why.
2. since I will be blogging and using pictures frequently is there an advantage of using
one of these sites over the other and what is it.

My impression is that Flicker is kinda geared for photographers more so than photobucket.

If anyone is interested here is my photobucket link. Thanks in advance for any help.


Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket

[wulf]

Does Photobucket give you versions of the image at a range of different sizes? That was a key feature in me choosing Flickr - the time saved creating thumbnail and blog ( / forum) friendly sizes more than pays for the cost so everything else is a bonus.

Wulf

[disappearingmist]

Flickr appears to be the industry standard these days. I find Flickr to be much easier to use and faster than Photobucket. Plus, it's a great site to find inspiration and for others to view your work.

[fletch]

Doesn't photobucket profit from you pictures by selling them as mobile downloads?

Flickr rocks.

[junglebear]

Flickr...nothing else needs to be said.

[SusanH1970]

Why I chose to stay far, far away from Photobucket (copied and pasted from their terms: )

By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the Photobucket Services, you hereby grant to Photobucket and other users a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels, except Content marked "private" will not be distributed outside the Photobucket Services. Photobucket and/or other Users may copy, print or display publicly available Content outside of the Photobucket Services, including without limitation, via the Site or third party websites or applications (for example, services allowing Users to order prints of Content or t-shirts and similar items containing Content).

[BCampbell]

Originally Posted by wulf

Does Photobucket give you versions of the image at a range of different sizes? That was a key feature in me choosing Flickr - the time saved creating thumbnail and blog ( / forum) friendly sizes more than pays for the cost so everything else is a bonus.

This would technically be simple to do in HTML just by specifying height and width. The real benefit of flickr for blogging is that image quality across all sizes is superb, instead of losing detail through more compression or bad resizing algorithms.

[wulf]

Image resizing via HTML is a cheap hack. We do it to fix oversized images on this site (unless they are massively oversized) but it isn't a brilliant choice (just better than zapping the image altogether). The people who view those images consume the bandwidth for the full size version but only see what the browser resizing algorithm has come up with (often not pretty).

We suggest either hosting somewhere that provides a suitably sized version (for which Flickr is the most popular choice but far from the only option) or creating a version no larger than 740px on the longest side to post to your hosting site.

Wulf

[CPAir]

Flickr has such a robust community that it seems inevitable that i'll end up there but for now i prefer *SHOCK* Picasa. Though it doesn't seem very popular in pro circles?

[PhotoPatzer]

Originally Posted by CPAir

Flickr has such a robust community that it seems inevitable that i'll end up there but for now i prefer *SHOCK* Picasa. Though it doesn't seem very popular in pro circles?

I say... you should use what you like! I know it seems that Flickr is the standard, and many "Pros" use it, but who cares, its about you and your photos. Do what makes you happy. Doing what makes you happy will keep you snapping pictures!