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What is Image Hosting

What is probably the most popular American past time today? If you think taking pictures then you're right.
Millions of people today are buying and using digital cameras take shots of almost any occasion be it birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, Christmas, New Year's eve, parties and countless vacation trips.
And when they get home they will have to save those images into their computers or have them printed.
But to many, printing those pictures are not enough so they look for a good hosting site where they can place all of their photos.
What is image hosting? It is all about digital images that are uploaded to a website or hosting service.
Those images are then saved in the servers of that hosting service for as long as the client wants.
Now there are a few things that are standards with these services.
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Image file format The most popular image format today for the common digital cameras to save pictures on are the jpeg files.
This format is perfect for taking every day photos with the right blend of the colors, saturation and hues can be saved in relatively small file sizes without greatly affecting the quality of the images.
Of course there are other file formats like bmp, png and tiff.
There are also proprietary formats that are only used by the digital camera manufacturers who invented that format and therefore not as popular as the other formats.
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Disk space What is image hosting without the allotted disk space? There are free image hosting sites that offer a certain amount of disk space for you to upload your photos.
Often this is already enough for most people.
However there are those who are called power users who will require bigger spaces because either they have more photos to store or their images have bigger file sizes.
Most image hosting sites offer paid subscriptions which come with larger disk spaces, perfect for all the photos of all of your trips and other special moments.
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Digital image manipulation While you probably already have a software that you can use to fix some minor things about your photos, most image hosting sites also do offer such a free service although usually in a much limited set of functions.
The common features are present like cropping tools, frames, patterns, you can also change the hues, and other neat features.
Usually these free image manipulation or correction services are enough for most people.
Either way you can simply buy a more expensive photo software so you can do more with your photographs.
An image hosting site is a great service to all those people who love to take pictures.
While the memory cards available for the digital cameras might be limited, you can just transfer your photos to these image hosting sites and store your pictures there for as long as you want.
No need to worry about losing the original files or misplacing the prints.
It's the perfect online tool for those who love the art of photography.


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