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Top 8 Free Image Hosting Services

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Share images and insert them in your emails, too. Better than big attachments: upload your photos and signature images to a free image hosting service and send links or inline images via email. Of course, you can use these images in forums, auctions and elsewhere on the web as well.

Here are my favorite free image hosting services for use with email.

1. Imgur - Free Image Hosting Service

Particularly easy to use, imgur hosts your images and lets you edit them using Aviary, too.

2. ImageVenue - Free Image Hosting Service

ImageVenue holds your JPEG images up to 3 MB in size, and it can resize big pictures to reasonable dimensions at upload time, too.

3. Photobucket - Free Image Hosting Service

You have to register for a free account at Photobucket, but then you get tools for organizing and editing your images. Photobucket supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP files up to 1 MB for free users.

4. FreeImageHosting.Net - Free Image Hosting Service

FreeImageHosting.Net stores JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP images up to 3 MB for free and for use in your emails, forum posts, auctions, and more.

5. ImageShack - Free Image Hosting Service

ImageShack hosts pictures up to some 1.5 MB for free and can resize them for easy including in emails, too. Supported image formats include JPEG, PNG, GIF; BMP, TIFF and SWF.

6. MojoImage.com - Free Image Hosting Service

MojoImage stores images up to 2 MB and 3000x3000 px.

7. xtupload.com - Free Image Hosting Service

Upload and host images of most types at xtupload.com, which also lets you add border and watermark.

8. Iimmgg.com - Free Image Hosting Service

Iimmgg.com not only hosts up to 2048x2048 pictures for you, it also adds a tag line if you wish.

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