I have used Nikon Fotoshare to send photos by email. It was very quick and easy. Nikon is now offering My Picturetown. This is very slow to upload, and I cannot find out how to email the photos. Robin Hood
Fotoshare is an online photo album. Nikon plans to close it on September 10 and will then delete all the photos people have uploaded. MyPictureTown.com is similar but has drag-and-drop uploading and is claimed to be easier to use. There are a great many alternatives, including Photobucket (owned by MySpace), WebShots (American Greetings), Flickr (Yahoo), Picasa (Google) and Windows Live Photo Gallery (Microsoft). SmugMug is good but not free.
They all have their fans, many of whom use more than one, so now there is framechannel.com to manage multiple services.
There are even more sites that cater for people who want to upload one or two images, such as Imagevenue.com. You can use them without opening an account or signing in. When you upload a photo, these sites usually provide several links to cater for web pages and different types of message board.
Unfortunately, many of these sites make their money by displaying popup adverts, and some may even try to install malware. The best rule is to copy the "direct link" and email that instead of the photo. Avoid any links that contain the letters php.
Note: Imagevenue also uses php scripting but I have used it a few times over several years without finding any problems. A newer option is http://jpghosting.com/, but I'm open to suggestions -- preferably not ones that are riddled with porn!
