After seeing people having issues recently with Imageshack, Photobucket, Flickr etc, I've decided to write this guide to help you host images for free.

You will need :

A Computer running Linux, Windows or OS X.
The Internets
Dropbox
Some cool pictures.


Guide.

Download and install Dropbox on your computer.
You can either google for it or use the link I've provided above.
I'd appreciate it if you used my link, as it classes as a referral and I get 250mb more space each time!

Once Dropbox has installed, you will have a folder on the computer under Documents. 


In here you'll see a folder called Public.



Drop your pictures in there, and you'll see a blue circle.  Wait until this goes green, then it's synchronised with Dropbox online. 


Right click on the image, go to Dropbox, then public link.


Paste that link on the forum using the usual img tags, and you have free hosting.

Been doing this for some time, Dropbox is awesome.
Soon Any file or folder wont have to be in the public folder, you just do the same and share. They just having some security issues with that update to sort before live.

Imageshack has been running 100% for me, the only issue i can see is that they have tried to circumvent direct linking to images but if you rightclick the uploaded picture and select view image its an easy way to get round it.

For anyone that would like to know

Other then Dropbox - http://imgur.com/ is the one to use these days

What issues have people been having with Flickr?

I'm currently trying out Zenfolio...tis a bit steap (£90 for a year) but on the plus side it has a lot of features geared towards selling images...

Not flickr so much, but Photobucket keeps going down and are really stingy with bandwidth.

soopa, looks good.... I'll sign up later on and use your link

Registered using your link, was thinking of doing it anyway 

Also there's an app for that, but also works with good reader

Quote from: knighty on April 26, 2011, 21:49:26 PM
soopa, looks good.... I'll sign up later on and use your link

I sent you and Nige a link ages ago so I get more space and I think I did a post about dropbox on here and at the time no one took much interest

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/26/dropbox_moves_to_squash_open_source_dropship_project/

Signed up with your referral, annoying there isnt an ARM compatible version so it could run on the DNS323. Still handy though.

Aren't Dropbox going to go mental when all of a sudden their bandwiths be useduppd? 

Soopa maybe also worth mentioning that if someone uses your link that they also get an extra 250mb as well 

Signed up with your link - working nicely on my hackintosh!

Cheers guys