I use Snapfish and Shutterfly. But it seems to me that you have to order something from them every year or two for them to 'keep' your photos. Of course it's free. I haven't tried Smugmug or one of the paid services but maybe I should since I don't seem to order many photos any longer. But I do order photo books for vacation, Christmas, etc albums and like the ease of those.

forever.com starts at $5.00 per month. You own the photos. Private. They won't disappear.

Imageshack and photobucket mostly some picassa. Tinypic is popular.

I liked tinypic until photobucket took it over. Now I just store all of our pictures on sticks.

I've used the free version of Photobucket for years, but not too often anymore since all my groups moved to fb where it's just as easy to load from my computer.

Not that I've used it, but, if you have Amazon Prime you have free unlimited photo storage. I use Photobucket, Tinypic, Flickr and Dropbox.

Isn''t Amazon Prime about 90 dollars a year though?

Smugmug, for about seven or eight years now.

Okay, good list to look at and consider. I suppose I should get prints if I want to have them forever. I rarely do that. I spent last summer weeding out and organizing five decades worth of photos. I will be very judicious about what I print because I'm not anxious to do that again. I will say the trip down Memory Lane was fun. I do have Amazon Prime. It costs $99 I think, and you get more than photo storage. I'll check it out. Thanks for the suggestions.

A friend sent us a link to photos he posted on Dropbox, so I downloaded the app and then couldn't for the life of me figure it out. I've heard it was good but why did I have problems with it?

Dedtired, if you are just looking at storage, purchase a portable hard drive and store your photos there and order from whatever company you're comfortable with using that is free. The new ones are very small for tons of storage and you can use them for your personal documents too. I haven't used it but I understand the Apple photo books are easy to put together if you're an Apple user. I have seen them and they look very nice.

I've used Photobucket for years. It's been a love/hate relationship. It was easy to use and easy to post pics from there to our old GardenWeb. Now, however, I have to slog through many ads and (my biggest complaint) trying to copy a photo that I've put into PB to use elsewhere is a huge PIA! Lately, I can't seem to do that, and am only able to copy a link to the pic on PB. We do have an Amazon Prime account, but I had no idea about the free photo storage feature. Thanks for the heads up, Terriks!!!

I certainly wouldn't subscribe to Amazon Prime just for the photo storage, but if you already use it for its many other benefits, you now have another one.

I already subscribe to Amazon Prime (although I think there are changes to their policies that I don't like). One of the things I really dislike about Snapfish is the difficulty with sharing photos. Photobucket or Tinypics are good for that. I use them for pictures I really don't want to keep.
My son keeps telling me to get an external hard drive. Right now I save my documents to Google Drive so I am not at the mercy of a dying hard drive. Oh man, life used to be so much simpler.

I use Google. Google Photos was just released at the end of May but before that I just used Google Drive and loved it. I love the automatic uploading and albums and 'Story' is pretty cool too, imo. I'm a big Google and Android fangirl.

So that must be how some of my photos wound up on my new tablet. Google Photos. It sounded good so I Googled "Google Photos" and there they were again. I like the idea of being able to share from devise to devise as I no longer take my laptop on trips, just my tablet or phone. Thanks for the heads up Presdulac!

For a good free online storage locker for all types of files including pictures and documents etc I have used Adrive for years. The free basic account gives you 50 GB of free storage. That's about the most free storage I have seen. It is very easy to use. Here's a link to check it out, they do have other pay accounts too. It's a great way to have one more place to backup important files.

Adrive free

I just had a look at Google photos. Looks interesting and I am a Google fan. It says the photos stored in their original size are free up to 15 gb and $1.99 a month after that. Photos stored at high resolution are free, unlimited. Is there a disadvantage to high resolution over origianl size. Is 15 gb a lot?

No, not really, especially if you take a lot of them. Amazon Prime has unlimited storage and Raven just posted a free site with 50 GB.

I use Flickr - free 1000GB and a great site if you're into photography as a hobby or professional.

Take a look at Tonido cloud storage for home use. Access it from anywhere there is a secure wifi connection, mobile, tablet or laptop.

Thanks, everyone.

I forgot all about my Flickr account. I just checked and it's still there. Layout is completely different, but I like it.
I also have a Picasa and Tiny Pic accounts too.