Review 30 image hosting for quick publishing. Continuation, conclusions
We continue the review of image hosting for quick publishing.
The beginning of the article is on the link habrahabr.ru/blogs/hosting/89162 , and then go here.
For technical reasons, the volume was not passed, the article had to be divided into 2 parts, moreover, the table that is better to look at on one page. Nevertheless, it turned out to be cut at a suitable place - on the hosting section of 1-2 and 3 grades. Moreover, the most valuable and important part of the table is in the first part of the article.
Please proceed to the beginning.
(When clicking on links 4, 5, 6, be careful: traffic for each is about 1 MB ! They are needed to test the storage and quality of large pictures on different services. Links 4, 5, 6 with the words "Preview" are usually 5-50 KB. )
A common problem with the generation of previews in PNG, apparently, is that effective previews are possible in PNG-8 with some optimization “Dithering”, but not all algorithms are configured to always give an acceptable quality. Therefore, they bypass the issue of JPG under the extension * .png or do not solve it at all, giving a preview almost more difficult than a large original image. Only part of the services are able to do the previews in PNG24 not so disastrously bad (10pix.ru), but also 2-3 times worse than the method described above. The limitations of the maximum size of a picture (for example, 5000x5000) are connected, apparently, with the cost of RAM for processing them.
Radikal.ru
Managing the saved file is made according to the rules of maximum flexibility and accessibility. Here is a saved drawing without authorization and its editing panel. If you save the URL using the “Edit” link (the figure on the right) , you have access to editing and deleting. You can change the size of the preview, its quality, captions, the degree of optimization of the original lettering. There is no suppression of the main functions that are almost absent anywhere else on other hosts.
The page for choosing a publication option: (picture on the left) (On empty places at the top left - usually flash advertising, it is suppressed when taking a screenshot (FF AdBlock Plus plugin).) If you save only the preview page, then it is easy to get a diminished copy URL or a direct link, and if you save the edit link , there will be access to editing and deleting this photo, which is saved, we recall, without authorization. There is a flash multiboot up to 10 images with all the same functions, but there is no transition to editing and deleting.
From the missing - nowhere it is possible to save the name of the file, it has to be manually entered into the comment field (in authorized mode). In the past six months, there is sometimes a slow loading of images in the daytime. Flush swallowed a 1 megabyte file for a very long time while loading, and did not swallow it in 10 minutes; next time succeeded (20 seconds). Loading on 1 file was successful.
With authorization, it is possible to put pictures in your galleries, make comments to them, move on to editing and deleting. There is no other discrimination for non-authors. There is no persuasion to pay for the account. The business model is built on the display of advertising, while not afraid to give direct links to a full copy.
It is interesting and significant that the pictures are stored as originals. This is easy to verify. Load the picture with the optimization, the inscription, cut by size. We will see that she has become curtailed. Then we edit it, removing any transformations. The picture is in the original size, resolution and without an inscription.
imgur.com
Despite the presence of the API, the simplicity and transparency of the rules, it belongs to another business model that persuades to paid hosting and curtails unauthorized rights. I got to the list due to a number of other advantages, but cannot be recommended for a number of reasons: the storage period is 3 months if there are no views. Limit the number of photos (!), 75, if not a paid account. Black tones of the page without adjustment (degraded readability of texts). It is also interesting that the hosting is made by a student, as he himself declares, and everything is fully and competently organized. There is no other boot option than flash - it may affect the ability to work under Unix. Inconvenient way to select links: right-click-Copy from the mouse menu. There are some quality discrimination when downloading files of more than 1Mb.
Group loading with group viewing is possible, as in the photo on the right, but is grouped not by cookie, but by pressing the “Send” button. The next shipment will be a new group. One-time display of links to delete - is. At authorization there is a gallery, deletion and a simple editor with framing.
imageshack.us
Service has existed since 2003, the logo of the poisonous tropical frog Phyllobates terribilis is familiar to the Internet users with experience. For a long time ago, I did not work with Russia (I didn’t let me register), but times have changed. The duration of the existence and development of functions speaks volumes in terms of reliability.
Service has a number of innovations. Photo upload, video or flash from file, url or webcam (unusual, irrelevant feature, flash based; expanding capabilities with a high-quality camera), preview with the size of the original is possible, unobtrusive authorization by entering your mail, group upload. Cookies do not take into account, because the authorization recognizes only the last group of downloaded objects (but takes into account cookies to be able to delete images from your computer). Previous downloads remain unauthorized, and can only be managed separately: their own links for deletion (if the author has saved them), their own links for viewing. In the views - also innovation: gallery player - view as a slideshow with the effect of shading on the go, 3 speeds of the show. There is an error in the width of the hyphae (Fig. "3") in the gallery. The player in the <embed> tag (in our test, for some reason, he focused on one photo out of 3). A short link to the gallery in a different design: yfrog.com/iy1 contestshotchromeextpx . Ratings and comments for the gallery or for each of the images can be set by an authorized user. There is a “sharing” of galleries to link services (twitter and several others). Making very short links on the fly: bit.ly/8Y63sa . Statistics. Client programs for downloads with optional authorization.
The fact that I could not download 2 large images (1000x11000 PNG and 3x4 thousand) is a big minus; need to understand the reasons in the future to know the limitations.
Provides an API for saving and viewing files. There are requirements: 1) the site or program should be already developed or should have a strategic plan for the end of development in the near future; 2) users of the site or program should be informed that ImageShack is a free hosting service provider. 3) To start using your own personalized version of the ImageShack API you must request a key. In your request letter, specify the number of unique visitors to your site per day and attach a description of how you are going to use the ImageShack XML API .
* Online photography or online photo storage services. Part 1 - “Not Ours” (August 20, 2007)
Many of those described did not pass the selection, but the details of the description are interesting. All are focused more on photos than screenshots, so they have the services of galleries and tags. Such services are described:
flickr.com (required. authorization)
picasaweb.google.com (required. authorization)
myphotoalbum.com (required)
fotki.com (meets the conditions of selection)
* Online photography or online photo storage services. Part 2 - “Ours” (August 21, 2007)
Considered in detail (for all you need authorization):
fotki.yandex.ru
foto.mail.ru
foto.rambler.ru
Listed as links and have survived to the present day, but authorization is also needed, so they are of no interest:
photofile.ru , pixart.ru , photoshare.ru .
* List of services specializing in free image hosting (links only; 2010)
Of the 30 useful links, a pair of 3-grade ones turned out to be useful, with the rest something like this happened: Smages (does not work), photohost.ru (only with registration), foto.lib.ru (some test hosting with registration), Photo film.ru (absorbed hosting photofile.ru), moifoto.ru (only with registration), myfotofile.ru/main.php (squatters), Mobile photoblog mopoto.com (registration), flamber (registration), zamri.ru (registration), Gallery.ru the same and so on
* Overview of hosting with API (.09.2009)
ImageShack.us API , api.yandex.ru/fotki/ , aws.amazon.com/s3 (paid).
* thefreesite.com/Free_Image_Hosting - links to foreign hosting of images and files. Many links requiring authorization, as usual.
* ImageBot by Andrew F.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars, 82 reviews, 884 weekly downloads. Updated March 11, 2010.
* Fotofox 1.8 , by Briks.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars, 21 reviews, 1444 weekly downloads. Updated March 4, 2010.
* Imgur uploader 0.3 (only for photos from the web). Updated January 28, 2010. 181 weekly downloads.
* Simplest-Image-Hosting.net Quick Upload 1.1 .
Updated December 21, 2009, 35 weekly downloads.
1. Yandex Photos , Mail.ru Photos , Rambler photo , photobucket.com . Registration is required.
API Yandex. Photo : api.yandex.ru/fotki .
2. flickr.com - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr ,
internetno.net/2006/09/11/flickr-fotoservis-po-prozvischu-glaza-zemli (2006),
usanov.net/20-flickr-dom-kartinok-dlya-tex-kto-eshhe-ne-znakom (2010)
There is a flickr api . It is better to have a separate conversation about this service, because one of the requirements (work without authorization) is not performed on it. Otherwise, it is a globally recognized service for storing, viewing and displaying photos, with very good usability, with reliable storage and publishing everywhere. There are restrictions on the free threshold of up to 100 MB per month and in the form of showing only the last 200 photos.
3. Picasa (Google) . Authorization is required, otherwise they will not be allowed here. It has an API.
code.google.com/intl/en/apis/picasaweb/overview.html
code.google.com/intl/en/apis/picasaweb/code.html
They recommend installing a client program (Picasa), but not necessarily: everything is on the site for uploading images, creating an album, viewing it. There is a web interface, quite sufficient for previewing and viewing pictures. The size of the preview is adjustable (7 gradations). This good news (on 03/10/2010) ends. The preview image is blurred (the Sharpen filter is missing) and very heavy: for example, the text on the maximum picture size of a preview is 217 x 288px - 60 KBa. The optimizer easily makes it 14-15 K (png). For gradations of sizes use the same heavy image in the browser. However, it looks better than resize in Photoshop. The original text size 686px x 912px had a weight of 30 K, but after loading it became 350 KBa (png). Conclusion: in terms of traffic efficiency - no good.
4. mediafire.com . It does not make a difference between file types, but there is a viewing of images, only as a preview of 3 sizes in JPG, plus downloading. There are no pictures for hosting, except for previews, they are not allowed, there is a hosting for image files. (And there could be a high degree of universality.) There are all texts for insertion, for all tastes. No rush to register (if you do not click on the garbage links). A lot of advertising trash.
Sample file download page ( habratools092.xpi, 16.19 KB ).
Sample page for downloading the picture " 1 "
5. FileAve.com - makes no distinction between which files to upload. Requires authorization. The total account limit is 50 Mb. Focused on blogs, photos, comments.
6. megaswf.com , swfcabin.com - require authorization, but are original in that they are hosting of SWF-files (flash-movies).
A tool for monitoring downloaded images on services (found as one of the most loyal):
montastic.com
Now only 3 sites for the account are available in free mode, and monitoring of 2 dozen or more is interesting. For a larger number, the monitoring service is not immediately located. In general, this is an expensive service, for it is in a hurry to take more money and limit the number of sites.
I installed 3 randomly taken sites: fotometka.ru, saveimg.ru, radikal.ru (the latter is from the category of well-known stable "masters"). Monitor RSS:
http://montastic.com/feeds/rss?key=1e...5406. If a failure is recorded (once per hour), a new message arrives. For 3 days, there is already a negative result: saveimg.ru glitches. In general, so, slowly, you can monitor several sites of interest and not use the failing ones. (But it would be nice to have everything in beautiful statistics (logs are enough, then Excel) for a long time. Your script on one host will only partially resolve the issue. You need to have several scripts in different parts of the Earth.)
The next cycle of checks was with fotki.com sites , piccy.info, thumbsnap.com. Only piccy.info for 4 days was once seen as not working (checks occurred once an hour). This casts a shadow on him, but not as significant as the failure of saveimg.ru for several days.
Next, we put on check interesting and promising usability services thumbsnap.com, pikucha.ru and picamatic.com. Also, several hosts (imageshost.ru, imgur.com, itrash.ru, savepic.ru, tinypic.com) were put to a test by the basicstate.com service . But it works on reading the host, not on reading the URL, the gj'njve part of the errors may not be noticed. Over the past 3 days, picamatic.com had one host read problem (one short crash) and imageshost.ru (unreadable within an hour). So, observing a long period of time would reveal the stability of the services.
* Screenshot taking services (online) , review . There are standing, but mostly they try to shrink the dimensions to the detriment of pixel precision.
* Quickly publish screenshots on scrnshots.com with client software (Win, Mac) . There is an API , i.e. you can make your capture program or even send your graphic file from a computer (restrictions on type and size).
* ZScreen - Screenshot (Win) Review . Loads on services drawings, text, files, makes a short URL.
* Clip2Net - screenshot (Win, Linux), review. Loads images, text, files into your service (up to 100 MB in total - for free). The API is declared, but the link to the documentation is not working.
* my.jetscreenshot.com - screenshot-client (Win) with a record on the hosting (link from rrud ).
To the directory of hosting add a brief list of related online drawing services . (They will be interested in websites without mandatory authorization . For example, photoshop.com does not get here.)
* Fotoflexer.com is a powerful online graphic editorwithout mandatory authorization. There are tools for different purposes: drawing, frames, effects. Some of them can be useful for quick screenshots.
* fanstudio.ru/index.php - editor for the photo , because there is no drawing and making text. Only effects over all or part of the area. There is no output in full size, so we are actually working with the layout. There is an image storage service (described above, with re-storage in JPG).
* pixenate.com , * pixer.us - simple editors, only for photos , without saving optimization.
* pixlr.com/editor - already much better, besides, the location of the tools and the tools themselvessimilar to photoshop .
* picnik.com/app - similar to fotoflexer, but without drawing . Designed in the photo , there is something to work with screenshots, text input, inscriptions in different fonts (only 3 basic ones know the Cyrillic alphabet). No drawing. There are frames, but they are all offered to be saved in a file after payment. Too many offers to pay, like in the movies in restaurants. You quickly understand that it's time to leave.
Online photoshop for free : an overview of online image processing services.
29 websites for online photo processing - an overview .
If you need to draw a diagram, graph or flowchart without other programs, there is (the list is incomplete, but sufficient for work):
* draw.labs.autodesk.com/ADDraw/draw.html - Visio-like construction of flowcharts. In the simplest case, we draw something, then a screenshot and save it to another service.
* drawanywhere.com/demo.aspx - the same. (http://gliffy.com/ - the same, but with mandatory authorization (they were the first).)
* fooplot.com - 2D / 3D graphics online. Saving in PNG and permalinks. Example sin (x) / x .
* extra.amcharts.com/editor - online chart builder andhistograms, charts for data arrays . With some skill it is easy to arrange such a schedule, managing the data, so that you can quickly take a screenshot. Full selection of all parameters. Like the diagrams in Excel, but without Excel.
From an extensive list with abundance, you can pick up not one, but several hosting sites at once, differing in some variations of the service, but, in general, satisfying the requirements of quick publication of images. Each of them can be bookmarked for quick use, keeping in mind the display features.
A wide range of viewing services allowed us to inspect different types of hosting: from professional to, say, unfinished. On the example of the latter, it is clear that the “punctures” appear in the most unexpected places, and only constant work on the mistakes, both ours and those of others, will allow hosting to be a number of professional ones, which means that the future flow of visitors and income will be provided to the organizer. The list in the last third is quite possible to use as a reader of the rules of the series “How not to do business”. Even if some of the above services are amateur, he does not warn visitors about this, which means they have a chance to suffer from his mistakes.
The table with hosting, in general, included answers to basic questions, but they are given by text, without classification, which does not immediately make it clear whether some hosting is suitable for specific tasks. There is an idea to collect answers in a large and wide table (30 x 30), where each of the characteristics of the hosting is noted, including those that were not addressed (interface language, specific data on restrictions on the maximum weight of pictures, data on self-deletion pictures, if stated, etc.). It will allow you to quickly compare hosting and give an idea of ​​the range of opportunities in general. (For example, it will be easy to see that there is no perfect hosting (not all the checkboxes are checked), although it can theoretically exist because it is simply the sum of consistent features.)
UPD: who has ideas how to monitor this mass of hosting (30 pieces) to get logs within 2-3 months and to make a conclusion about reliability?
Another question: how to calculate the number of links to a resource in the addresses of pictures? Not tIts, not anything else, but the number of links from forums and blogs, even if found through a search engine? So it would be possible to assess the use of services.
UPD3: Anyone who knows other decent hostings that are not included in the list, but with the mandatory condition of optional authorization (so that you do not need to enter your login and password), please write down. I am pleased to supplement the article with another tablet with reviews of the mentioned good hosting sites. If you know, it was not a problem, it was
In the next (and last of the series) article there will be an additional review of the 11 hosts recommended for review by readers in the comments to this article.
Go to the 3rd article entitled " Review of image hosting: readers recommended another 15 services . "
The beginning of the article is on the link habrahabr.ru/blogs/hosting/89162 , and then go here.
For technical reasons, the volume was not passed, the article had to be divided into 2 parts, moreover, the table that is better to look at on one page. Nevertheless, it turned out to be cut at a suitable place - on the hosting section of 1-2 and 3 grades. Moreover, the most valuable and important part of the table is in the first part of the article.
Please proceed to the beginning.
The list of studied hosts. Continued.
(When clicking on links 4, 5, 6, be careful: traffic for each is about 1 MB ! They are needed to test the storage and quality of large pictures on different services. Links 4, 5, 6 with the words "Preview" are usually 5-50 KB. )
| Links | Notes |
|---|---|
| simplest-image-hosting.net 1 2 3 5 6 preview 1 3 5 6 page 1 3 5 | No initial settings, just file input. 2 kinds of texts to insert, without a direct link. Preview up to 200 px. The html page is misleading by the extension * .jpg. Easily view the preview fails, just by copying the link from the text. The quality is not crushed, the result is at the minimum of clicks (the way to copy text is to direct-right-click Copy from the context menu). Tip size and weight in the title text, the file name in the alt. “Up to 3MB in file size; images will be hosted lifelong. [minus] The PNG preview is badly compressed. For example, "6" - 50 KB, and "1" is not much smaller than the original, 26 K - costs format PNG24. D the same time, "5" - 9.5 K (jpg). |
| 10pix.ru ') 1 (4 - not displayed) 5 6 preview 1 5 6 page 1 5 6 | Adjustable preview size. 4 texts for publication. The weight of the PNG preview is not very bad (18 K), only the weight of the jpg preview is acceptable (6 K). For some reason, the weight of the PNG screenshot has been increased by 4 KB. Max. the size is 5000x5000. Strange transcoding images "6" with an increase in the size of 300 kb in the format PNG-Grayscale. Even the size of "5" increased by 60 KBa. Conclusion: there is no consistency and reasonable simplicity (do not change the weight) in the important coding rules. (Maybe they add something with steganography ???) |
| sharepix.ru 1 (4 fails) 5 preview 1 5 page 1 5 | Before sending: 4 gradations of previews, compression by size or without it, keywords, own description, category from order 16. After sending: 5 types of texts, without deletion link, leaving a comment and rating by any visitor. Multiloading and editing - after registration. Enough quickly and conveniently. "The size of each file should not exceed 4 MB;" [big minus] "Storage - 3 months for unregistered". |
| imagepros.us one preview 1 page 1 | (A unique limitation, like hello from the 90s - files no more than 150KB.) Allows a comment. The html link is in a “delusional format”: with the extension “.png” or similar. With a shelf life of more than 60 days, they can delete the file at their discretion. There are no links to delete. Upon registration, the managed deletion will be. |
| fanstudio.ru/index.php 1 3 Preview 1 Page 1 | Together with an editor for photo editing. Customizable preview size; saving back to disk as an option. Display only 7 link texts and a reduced layout. Not at all "pushing" on the registration, it is even on the 2nd page. [big minus] Saves to low quality JPG. Even animated gifs:). |
| freeimagehosting.net 1 4 preview 1 page 1 4 | Preview 150px, 15k for PNG. (Hosting anonymous fastfreefilehosting.com files with a storage period of 45 days.) With large sizes, like “4”, compresses up to 315px [a very large minus], comments are unnecessary. |
| Keep4u.Ru 1 2 5 preview 1 2 5 page 1 | Self-removal for unauthorized after a period of non-viewing - 3 months. “Publication of images without previews is prohibited, except for publication on forums and in LiveJournal.” Cookies to collect published without authorization in one list (convenient). Themselves set the size and compression ratio ("5" reduced to 850 Px and 170 kBa) [! big minus] png "1" reduced in size (became unreadable) and increased (!) weight 7 times. The rules are rather “evil”, one feels “breathing” on questions about weight, which gives reason not to use the service. |
| save-img.com 1 5 6 preview 1 5 6 page 1 5 6 | Direct links does not provide, you have to get out of the page view or calculate. There is a link to delete. 3 kinds of text to insert. (Minimalism to the detriment of convenience.) But does not cut quality. Can be considered full. There are fayloobmennik.net of the same authors, without registration, the storage period is not mentioned. When checking once the host was down. The description goes to the bottom of the list as a sign of unreliable hosting. |
| piccy.info [ 1 4 forbidden] preview 1 4 small preview 1 4 page 1 4 Passed monitoring, 4 days. | There are 2 types of previews on the page, texts for insertion (5), but a small preview of 64x64 is not indicated in the proposed links. Gallery, built by cookies. Settings - only possible size reduction. There is an English. interface. There is a partially working other link to the page, “Show to friends”, 1 , 4 , at the moment there is no “1” image reduced to 480px, and “4” has to guess that the “Zoom in” checkbox expands a photo to its full height . It stores pictures by direct IP-address, which without HTML becomes Forbidden (Error 403) - [big minus] (one of a kind, “greedy” for its pictures). We transfer to the bottom of the list. |
| mirfoto.ru 1 2 3 preview 1 2 3 page 1 2 3 | [big minus] there are problems with the encodings of descriptions on the page for receiving texts. The rest works and you can understand the purpose of the texts. Multiboot. An uneconomical JPG preview: 150 pixels and 23 kb. The weight of the source is no more than 1 MBa. Preview PNG - 19K, but almost nothing is visible in it. HTML spoofing with .jpg / .png. [big minus] Non-observance of the size gif when viewing on the page. [minus] The file "6" with the size of 800K also could not take for 2 attempts. [collection of minuses] on the preview page - a preview of other users with pornography. What is not reported on the main, and positioned themselves as "the best fotohsting." Thanks to the hosting for a detailed demonstration of the minuses. Left on the list as an excellent example of how not to work, with all the efforts that show that he is trying to pretend to be a decent hosting. |
| imagebar.net (there is an obsessive popup for uploading) | ... therefore do not look further, but maybe in the future will be corrected. |
| saveimg.ru 1 5 preview 1 5 page 1 5 (!) A few days from the week did not work. Moved to the bottom of the list. | [big minus] An inscription with the name of the hosting (the only one of its kind) is inserted into the image. [big minus] The image is trimmed to 900px. [minus] Preview is unfinished: there is a strip for the signature, even if the signature is not specified, but if indicated, there is no signature on it. Preview 150px. On the preview page there is a creation date, size, weight, a description made during creation and texts to be inserted with links. |
Overview of some "strong" hosting
Radikal.ru
Managing the saved file is made according to the rules of maximum flexibility and accessibility. Here is a saved drawing without authorization and its editing panel. If you save the URL using the “Edit” link (the figure on the right) , you have access to editing and deleting. You can change the size of the preview, its quality, captions, the degree of optimization of the original lettering. There is no suppression of the main functions that are almost absent anywhere else on other hosts. The page for choosing a publication option: (picture on the left) (On empty places at the top left - usually flash advertising, it is suppressed when taking a screenshot (FF AdBlock Plus plugin).) If you save only the preview page, then it is easy to get a diminished copy URL or a direct link, and if you save the edit link , there will be access to editing and deleting this photo, which is saved, we recall, without authorization. There is a flash multiboot up to 10 images with all the same functions, but there is no transition to editing and deleting.From the missing - nowhere it is possible to save the name of the file, it has to be manually entered into the comment field (in authorized mode). In the past six months, there is sometimes a slow loading of images in the daytime. Flush swallowed a 1 megabyte file for a very long time while loading, and did not swallow it in 10 minutes; next time succeeded (20 seconds). Loading on 1 file was successful.
With authorization, it is possible to put pictures in your galleries, make comments to them, move on to editing and deleting. There is no other discrimination for non-authors. There is no persuasion to pay for the account. The business model is built on the display of advertising, while not afraid to give direct links to a full copy.
It is interesting and significant that the pictures are stored as originals. This is easy to verify. Load the picture with the optimization, the inscription, cut by size. We will see that she has become curtailed. Then we edit it, removing any transformations. The picture is in the original size, resolution and without an inscription.
imgur.com
Despite the presence of the API, the simplicity and transparency of the rules, it belongs to another business model that persuades to paid hosting and curtails unauthorized rights. I got to the list due to a number of other advantages, but cannot be recommended for a number of reasons: the storage period is 3 months if there are no views. Limit the number of photos (!), 75, if not a paid account. Black tones of the page without adjustment (degraded readability of texts). It is also interesting that the hosting is made by a student, as he himself declares, and everything is fully and competently organized. There is no other boot option than flash - it may affect the ability to work under Unix. Inconvenient way to select links: right-click-Copy from the mouse menu. There are some quality discrimination when downloading files of more than 1Mb.Group loading with group viewing is possible, as in the photo on the right, but is grouped not by cookie, but by pressing the “Send” button. The next shipment will be a new group. One-time display of links to delete - is. At authorization there is a gallery, deletion and a simple editor with framing.
imageshack.us
Service has existed since 2003, the logo of the poisonous tropical frog Phyllobates terribilis is familiar to the Internet users with experience. For a long time ago, I did not work with Russia (I didn’t let me register), but times have changed. The duration of the existence and development of functions speaks volumes in terms of reliability.Service has a number of innovations. Photo upload, video or flash from file, url or webcam (unusual, irrelevant feature, flash based; expanding capabilities with a high-quality camera), preview with the size of the original is possible, unobtrusive authorization by entering your mail, group upload. Cookies do not take into account, because the authorization recognizes only the last group of downloaded objects (but takes into account cookies to be able to delete images from your computer). Previous downloads remain unauthorized, and can only be managed separately: their own links for deletion (if the author has saved them), their own links for viewing. In the views - also innovation: gallery player - view as a slideshow with the effect of shading on the go, 3 speeds of the show. There is an error in the width of the hyphae (Fig. "3") in the gallery. The player in the <embed> tag (in our test, for some reason, he focused on one photo out of 3). A short link to the gallery in a different design: yfrog.com/iy1 contestshotchromeextpx . Ratings and comments for the gallery or for each of the images can be set by an authorized user. There is a “sharing” of galleries to link services (twitter and several others). Making very short links on the fly: bit.ly/8Y63sa . Statistics. Client programs for downloads with optional authorization.
The fact that I could not download 2 large images (1000x11000 PNG and 3x4 thousand) is a big minus; need to understand the reasons in the future to know the limitations.
Provides an API for saving and viewing files. There are requirements: 1) the site or program should be already developed or should have a strategic plan for the end of development in the near future; 2) users of the site or program should be informed that ImageShack is a free hosting service provider. 3) To start using your own personalized version of the ImageShack API you must request a key. In your request letter, specify the number of unique visitors to your site per day and attach a description of how you are going to use the ImageShack XML API .
[1] Other hosting reviews (links to articles).
* Online photography or online photo storage services. Part 1 - “Not Ours” (August 20, 2007)
Many of those described did not pass the selection, but the details of the description are interesting. All are focused more on photos than screenshots, so they have the services of galleries and tags. Such services are described:
flickr.com (required. authorization)
picasaweb.google.com (required. authorization)
myphotoalbum.com (required)
fotki.com (meets the conditions of selection)
* Online photography or online photo storage services. Part 2 - “Ours” (August 21, 2007)
Considered in detail (for all you need authorization):
fotki.yandex.ru
foto.mail.ru
foto.rambler.ru
Listed as links and have survived to the present day, but authorization is also needed, so they are of no interest:
photofile.ru , pixart.ru , photoshare.ru .
* List of services specializing in free image hosting (links only; 2010)
Of the 30 useful links, a pair of 3-grade ones turned out to be useful, with the rest something like this happened: Smages (does not work), photohost.ru (only with registration), foto.lib.ru (some test hosting with registration), Photo film.ru (absorbed hosting photofile.ru), moifoto.ru (only with registration), myfotofile.ru/main.php (squatters), Mobile photoblog mopoto.com (registration), flamber (registration), zamri.ru (registration), Gallery.ru the same and so on
* Overview of hosting with API (.09.2009)
ImageShack.us API , api.yandex.ru/fotki/ , aws.amazon.com/s3 (paid).
* thefreesite.com/Free_Image_Hosting - links to foreign hosting of images and files. Many links requiring authorization, as usual.
[2] Image upload plugins via Firefox
* ImageBot by Andrew F.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars, 82 reviews, 884 weekly downloads. Updated March 11, 2010.
Best Firefox Image Uploader (integrates Imgur, Photobucket, and ImageShack)
Synchronization of the pre-existing images, uploading of the clipboard, bbpode or html ...
* Fotofox 1.8 , by Briks.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars, 21 reviews, 1444 weekly downloads. Updated March 4, 2010.
If you’re browsing, you’ll be able to make your own browsing. Works with Flickr, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Marela, Photobox, Tabblo, Smugmug, Zooomr, and 23hq.
* Imgur uploader 0.3 (only for photos from the web). Updated January 28, 2010. 181 weekly downloads.
* Simplest-Image-Hosting.net Quick Upload 1.1 .
Updated December 21, 2009, 35 weekly downloads.
[3] Hosting known, but not selected
1. Yandex Photos , Mail.ru Photos , Rambler photo , photobucket.com . Registration is required.
API Yandex. Photo : api.yandex.ru/fotki .
2. flickr.com - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr ,
internetno.net/2006/09/11/flickr-fotoservis-po-prozvischu-glaza-zemli (2006),
usanov.net/20-flickr-dom-kartinok-dlya-tex-kto-eshhe-ne-znakom (2010)
There is a flickr api . It is better to have a separate conversation about this service, because one of the requirements (work without authorization) is not performed on it. Otherwise, it is a globally recognized service for storing, viewing and displaying photos, with very good usability, with reliable storage and publishing everywhere. There are restrictions on the free threshold of up to 100 MB per month and in the form of showing only the last 200 photos.
3. Picasa (Google) . Authorization is required, otherwise they will not be allowed here. It has an API.
code.google.com/intl/en/apis/picasaweb/overview.html
code.google.com/intl/en/apis/picasaweb/code.html
They recommend installing a client program (Picasa), but not necessarily: everything is on the site for uploading images, creating an album, viewing it. There is a web interface, quite sufficient for previewing and viewing pictures. The size of the preview is adjustable (7 gradations). This good news (on 03/10/2010) ends. The preview image is blurred (the Sharpen filter is missing) and very heavy: for example, the text on the maximum picture size of a preview is 217 x 288px - 60 KBa. The optimizer easily makes it 14-15 K (png). For gradations of sizes use the same heavy image in the browser. However, it looks better than resize in Photoshop. The original text size 686px x 912px had a weight of 30 K, but after loading it became 350 KBa (png). Conclusion: in terms of traffic efficiency - no good.
4. mediafire.com . It does not make a difference between file types, but there is a viewing of images, only as a preview of 3 sizes in JPG, plus downloading. There are no pictures for hosting, except for previews, they are not allowed, there is a hosting for image files. (And there could be a high degree of universality.) There are all texts for insertion, for all tastes. No rush to register (if you do not click on the garbage links). A lot of advertising trash.
Sample file download page ( habratools092.xpi, 16.19 KB ).
Sample page for downloading the picture " 1 "
5. FileAve.com - makes no distinction between which files to upload. Requires authorization. The total account limit is 50 Mb. Focused on blogs, photos, comments.
6. megaswf.com , swfcabin.com - require authorization, but are original in that they are hosting of SWF-files (flash-movies).
[4] How to monitor the stability of the display of uploaded images?
A tool for monitoring downloaded images on services (found as one of the most loyal):
montastic.com
Now only 3 sites for the account are available in free mode, and monitoring of 2 dozen or more is interesting. For a larger number, the monitoring service is not immediately located. In general, this is an expensive service, for it is in a hurry to take more money and limit the number of sites.
I installed 3 randomly taken sites: fotometka.ru, saveimg.ru, radikal.ru (the latter is from the category of well-known stable "masters"). Monitor RSS:
http://montastic.com/feeds/rss?key=1e...5406. If a failure is recorded (once per hour), a new message arrives. For 3 days, there is already a negative result: saveimg.ru glitches. In general, so, slowly, you can monitor several sites of interest and not use the failing ones. (But it would be nice to have everything in beautiful statistics (logs are enough, then Excel) for a long time. Your script on one host will only partially resolve the issue. You need to have several scripts in different parts of the Earth.)The next cycle of checks was with fotki.com sites , piccy.info, thumbsnap.com. Only piccy.info for 4 days was once seen as not working (checks occurred once an hour). This casts a shadow on him, but not as significant as the failure of saveimg.ru for several days.
Next, we put on check interesting and promising usability services thumbsnap.com, pikucha.ru and picamatic.com. Also, several hosts (imageshost.ru, imgur.com, itrash.ru, savepic.ru, tinypic.com) were put to a test by the basicstate.com service . But it works on reading the host, not on reading the URL, the gj'njve part of the errors may not be noticed. Over the past 3 days, picamatic.com had one host read problem (one short crash) and imageshost.ru (unreadable within an hour). So, observing a long period of time would reveal the stability of the services.
[Bonus] Auxiliary online graphics tools.
* Screenshot taking services (online) , review . There are standing, but mostly they try to shrink the dimensions to the detriment of pixel precision.
* Quickly publish screenshots on scrnshots.com with client software (Win, Mac) . There is an API , i.e. you can make your capture program or even send your graphic file from a computer (restrictions on type and size).
* ZScreen - Screenshot (Win) Review . Loads on services drawings, text, files, makes a short URL.
* Clip2Net - screenshot (Win, Linux), review. Loads images, text, files into your service (up to 100 MB in total - for free). The API is declared, but the link to the documentation is not working.
* my.jetscreenshot.com - screenshot-client (Win) with a record on the hosting (link from rrud ).
To the directory of hosting add a brief list of related online drawing services . (They will be interested in websites without mandatory authorization . For example, photoshop.com does not get here.)
* Fotoflexer.com is a powerful online graphic editorwithout mandatory authorization. There are tools for different purposes: drawing, frames, effects. Some of them can be useful for quick screenshots.
* fanstudio.ru/index.php - editor for the photo , because there is no drawing and making text. Only effects over all or part of the area. There is no output in full size, so we are actually working with the layout. There is an image storage service (described above, with re-storage in JPG).
* pixenate.com , * pixer.us - simple editors, only for photos , without saving optimization.
* pixlr.com/editor - already much better, besides, the location of the tools and the tools themselvessimilar to photoshop .
* picnik.com/app - similar to fotoflexer, but without drawing . Designed in the photo , there is something to work with screenshots, text input, inscriptions in different fonts (only 3 basic ones know the Cyrillic alphabet). No drawing. There are frames, but they are all offered to be saved in a file after payment. Too many offers to pay, like in the movies in restaurants. You quickly understand that it's time to leave.
Online photoshop for free : an overview of online image processing services.
29 websites for online photo processing - an overview .
If you need to draw a diagram, graph or flowchart without other programs, there is (the list is incomplete, but sufficient for work):
* draw.labs.autodesk.com/ADDraw/draw.html - Visio-like construction of flowcharts. In the simplest case, we draw something, then a screenshot and save it to another service.
* drawanywhere.com/demo.aspx - the same. (http://gliffy.com/ - the same, but with mandatory authorization (they were the first).)
* fooplot.com - 2D / 3D graphics online. Saving in PNG and permalinks. Example sin (x) / x .
* extra.amcharts.com/editor - online chart builder andhistograms, charts for data arrays . With some skill it is easy to arrange such a schedule, managing the data, so that you can quickly take a screenshot. Full selection of all parameters. Like the diagrams in Excel, but without Excel.
findings
From an extensive list with abundance, you can pick up not one, but several hosting sites at once, differing in some variations of the service, but, in general, satisfying the requirements of quick publication of images. Each of them can be bookmarked for quick use, keeping in mind the display features.
A wide range of viewing services allowed us to inspect different types of hosting: from professional to, say, unfinished. On the example of the latter, it is clear that the “punctures” appear in the most unexpected places, and only constant work on the mistakes, both ours and those of others, will allow hosting to be a number of professional ones, which means that the future flow of visitors and income will be provided to the organizer. The list in the last third is quite possible to use as a reader of the rules of the series “How not to do business”. Even if some of the above services are amateur, he does not warn visitors about this, which means they have a chance to suffer from his mistakes.
The table with hosting, in general, included answers to basic questions, but they are given by text, without classification, which does not immediately make it clear whether some hosting is suitable for specific tasks. There is an idea to collect answers in a large and wide table (30 x 30), where each of the characteristics of the hosting is noted, including those that were not addressed (interface language, specific data on restrictions on the maximum weight of pictures, data on self-deletion pictures, if stated, etc.). It will allow you to quickly compare hosting and give an idea of ​​the range of opportunities in general. (For example, it will be easy to see that there is no perfect hosting (not all the checkboxes are checked), although it can theoretically exist because it is simply the sum of consistent features.)
UPD: who has ideas how to monitor this mass of hosting (30 pieces) to get logs within 2-3 months and to make a conclusion about reliability?
Another question: how to calculate the number of links to a resource in the addresses of pictures? Not tIts, not anything else, but the number of links from forums and blogs, even if found through a search engine? So it would be possible to assess the use of services.
UPD3: Anyone who knows other decent hostings that are not included in the list, but with the mandatory condition of optional authorization (so that you do not need to enter your login and password), please write down. I am pleased to supplement the article with another tablet with reviews of the mentioned good hosting sites. If you know, it was not a problem, it was
Hosting table, follow the links readers.
In the next (and last of the series) article there will be an additional review of the 11 hosts recommended for review by readers in the comments to this article.
Go to the 3rd article entitled " Review of image hosting: readers recommended another 15 services . "
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