Photobucket or Flickr???

maui2011

Does anyone have a preference? Since we have decided to have an unplugged ceremony we need to be able to host high res photos on a photo sharing site. The cost for one year is about the same...$25 dollars...may do two years as we can save a few dollars.  I have a free flickr a/c but have not used it in years but i have read really good things about photobucket and its user-friendliness which is very important. TIA! J. :-)

Tanq&Tonic

I only use Flickr and I love it.  It has a bulk uploader & everything.  I do not use any of the social networking / tagging capabilities but I do use their Sets & Groups and bulk organizing capabilities.  I also have my neat little access groups so DH can see everything, family sees less, and friends see a different subset.  It works really nicely for me.  My only complaint is that the default photo sizes are rigid, so often when I want to share on a forum or email, the photo is either too small or too big (slightly).  Optimal is like 380px wide, but flickr offers 250 or 500.  Definitely not a deal breaker though, IMHO, and we fork over pro fees year after year.  It's pretty awesome to have 5 years of your life catalogued and organized. 

I do not have any experience with photobucket so I cannot compare.  Smugmug is the other one that is quite popular.

Here's a recent thread that compares some of the pros & cons with each.
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/photography-beginners-forum-photo-gallery/230516-flickr-picasa-smugmug-photobucket.html

breaness

I would definitely use flickr. 

Photobucket is VERY limited in comparison.

kaesha

I'm a flickr fan too!

sparklegirl84

I use photobucket and set an account up on it for our photo share cards but i have never tried flickr.

fabutan

All of our photog friends use either smugmug (very expensive...) or flickr.  So I'd probably stick to that.

DH and I aren't photog savy, so we just used Shutterfly for our wedding photo sharing.  The benefit of shutterfly is you can create a pretty customizable photosharing webpage to share with guests and create different galleries for different users.  Very user-friendly and aesthetic - I love it!  I believe there's a limitation on the res of downloadable photo (might want to double-check on that...I'm not 100% sure), but the res is good enough for most purposes (even for prints).  It suited our needs perfectly.