(Free) Image Hosts

[Killix]

For anyone who needs a place to host their images. These sites will host for free.


www.deviantart.com
Art gallery, blog and image host all in one. There are a lot of great features here.
Note: DO NOT hotlink images from this site.

sta.sh/
A subset of DeviantArt; stores images without posting them to your DA gallery.
Note: Requires DA account to access.

imgur.com
Free hosting, no limits.
Note: Also functions as an image-sharing site, so check privacy settings before uploading

postimage.io/
Free hosting with regular and premium accounts. Good for casual sketches. Creates copy-paste image links for forum posting.
Note: Can't upload files more than 8MB or 10k x 10k pixels without premium account. No copyrighted or adult material.

imgbox.com/
Another free, simple image host. Includes thumbnails with each upload. Registration is available, but not required.
Note: Can only upload GIF, JPG, and PNG files up to 10MB.


Feel free to add your own. (but try not to repeat what others have posted)

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photobucket.com
A great site for image hosting, can also host videos.
NOTE:Picture URLs turn into Photobucket links; images beyond 1024 x 786 are resized.
Photobucket has removed external image hosting from its free account services.

tinypic.com
A wonderful site for image hosting, no registration required. Highly recommended.
TIP: Save your images! Since there's no registration, images can be lost to time or overwritten.
Tinypic has been shuttered.

imgsafe.org
A free, simple image host. Registration is available, but not required.
Note: Can't upload files more than 20MB. Doesn't create copy-paste image links for posting.
Note 2: Has a tendency to go down, and it can be for a few days at a time. Will update if it becomes more stable.
Apparently deletes images entirely - unclear if this is random, a bug, or if images are deleted after a certain (unidentified) amount of time. Probably best to avoid.

[Lizzie]

I personally use www.picoodle.com and dA.

They're fairly good sites.

[Frozen]

I personally use Imageshack. Ipicture.ru serves as my backup imagehost. And yeah, Ipicture is in Russian but I don't think it matters.

[Kai]

www.imagecave.com
www.fileden.com -- also good for music files

[Sera]

tinypic.com/
Tinypic's also pretty good, from what I've heard.

[Huntress]

Wow, this thread hasn't been updated in seven years. I recently needed a new imagehost and checked this thread for help. It wasn't much help. So I went on a research spree and am posting about it here in case someone else needs a host.

Photobucket.com - went durr, hence the need for a new host. It's otherwise a perfectly serviceable free host with a very high limit for uploads, but its big failing problem is that it resizes any images beyond a certain size limit to fit 1024x768. Perfectly okay for small images, not so much when you want to host comics or such.

Imageshack.us - no longer free. You can get a one-month free trial, but as far as I can tell, the images get deleted after that if you don't subscribe. It serves the purpose if you, say, need something hosted short-term and don't care about it getting deleted afterwards (bonus points if you're likely to forget to delete it, then it does the job for you. I think. Don't quote me on that.)

Imgur.com - what I ended up going with. No limits on anything, free hosting, all-round great stuff, also makes chilli and fries. Only thing to look out for is privacy settings because Imgur doubles as a big imagesharing platform so they make sharing very easy and if your goal is to keep your stuff private, make sure you know how the system works and which boxes you're checking.
(Another point against imgur is that apparently it's pronounced 'imager', which is a look-at-me-I'm-so-cute sort of obnoxiousness that usually puts me off xP)

[Tiger]

A pretty good one I've been using a lot lately is imgsafe.org/ - it's free, you can create an account (though you don't have to to upload images, either) and I haven't run into any trouble with the 20MB file size limit (though this might be a problem for other people? I don't know how to files sizes with art). Kind of a bummer is that there are no copy-paste image links, but I generally find it worth making them by hand for the tradeoff of not dealing with the hassle of a site like Photobucket (whose downsides, in addition to the ones Hunty mentioned, include oh god all the ads (and it yells at you for using an adblocker), and linking all image URLs back to the super-slow photobucket page. It's fuuuuuun!)

[Celestial]

I would also like to add postimg.org which I have been using a fair bit. It's free to create an account, though you can pay for premium. They do have some rules on what can be uploaded on to their servers, such as no copyrighted images and nothing NSFW but if an NTWFer is looking for an image host, I don' think either of those things should be a problem. It does have a file size limit of 8 MB and 10k x 10k pixels (more if you want to pay for premium), so it might not be excellent for comics and large artwork but for me, personally, who uses it to upload casual sketchdumps, I've not had any problems with it. Unlike imgsafe, it does have copy and page image links, so that's one useful thing.

[June Scarlet]

I'd also recommend sta.sh The first post almost mentions it, but not quite. See, it's actually a subset of Deviant Art, and you need a dA account to access it. But it allows you to store images without actually posting them to your account. You can also store images and later post them to your dA account.

So for example, I threw this Hero City Cartoon on sta.sh, and then used the image link to post it on the thread: sta.sh/02fo9a7a1boc

It's main advantage is that it's super convenient if you already have a dA account. You don't have to sign up for it special, it's just there, in fact, if you hover over the submit button in the top naviation, it's the second option.

[Breakingchains]

I'm using imgbox. It's simple, convenient, easy on the eyes, allows images up to 10mb each, includes thumbnails with each upload if you need them, and doesn't hammer you with ads.

It only takes GIF, JPG and PNG, but I use PNG for everything anyway.

[Tiger]

Updating to add imgbox, add a note on imgsafe's downtime, and to strikeout Photobucket.

A bit more elaboration on Photobucket, since so many people use it - they're removing/have removed third-party hosting, aka images appearing on other sites, from free accounts. You can still get to your photos to download them, which maaaay not be a bad idea to do now before Photobucket decides to nix that, too.

[Tiger]

And striking out imgsafe as well - as if being down all the time wasn't enough, I found out today that imgsafe randomly deleted all the images I'd uploaded to it. I'm not sure why, if it was a bug, or if images are only kept for a certain amount of time, nowhere does the site say. But the same thing happened to Celestial, so it doesn't seem to be an isolated incident.