Everyone knows the expansion of tools that allow us to store our files in the cloud, being able to access them from anywhere and making it possible to reduce the amount of information stored on the hard drives of our computer.
Within this group, photos play an important role, as it is a great option for safeguard our memories, but we may find ourselves needing to upload an image to a single use, such as a forum post itself. That is why we are going to see how to upload temporary photos.
Imgur
This website is one of the most used to upload photos or images temporarily. It is very easy to use, since to achieve our objective we will simply have to drag the file directly to the web section intended for it.
Once the upload has finished, it can be accessed through a link, which can be used to share or directly to insert it on multiple platforms. A good point in its favor is that the service it's completely free.
In the practical section, we can work with various formats, such as JPG, JPEG, TIF, PNG and even GIF as long as they do not exceed 200MBs. It can be used without opening an account, but doing so will allow us to create albums that we can access later.
postimage
Another option, also free, is Postimage. In this case we can use it in your web version or through your application available for Windows. Its operation follows exactly the same pattern as the previous option, so we only have to pick and drag the image that we want to upload.
At the time of dragging the file to the web, we can choose a expiration date or resize it. Once the upload is done on the web, we will obtain a link that will give us access to it. Supports PNG, JPG, TIFF, PSF, BMP and GIFF formats.
ImageShack
We are facing one of the most used options to temporarily upload images to the network and that is that ImageShack is one of the most colorful interfaces and offers one more point in terms of host services compared to the other options, in addition to being able to use it on your smartphone by downloading its application, available for iOS and Android.
The option to use an account Delivery to Italy takes one or two business days gives us the option to upload up to 10Gb per month, being able to organize all our images in albums. If we opt for the premium account, we will have access to many other options, such as direct links to the image, watermarks, statistics of each image and unlimited storage.
Once we create the account for the first time, they give us a Free 30 days trial in the premium version.
ohshi
Oshi, in terms of operation, could be summed up in a single adjective: ease.
We continue to find the same system mentioned in previous examples to upload our image to the internet.
Once the process is complete, we will get a direct link to the image and unlike other options, we can select a self-destruct period of the same that can be 1 hour, 1 day and up to 90 days.
As a differentiating element, we can change or choose the name with which the uploaded image will appear, which can be interesting mainly for privacy.
Google Photos
One of the most used alternatives by those who use Android on their mobile devices.
On this occasion, one of the most interesting options is to be able to upload a photo directly taken from our mobile phone same.
It offers an advanced search engine in order to find a specific image or photo based on the location or date. It is completely free and perfectly complements Gmail or Google Drive.
I could not miss Pinterest in a list dedicated to image hosting and there are millions of daily records of new images on the web.
For your use, we will need an account that we can register or access it with our Facebook or Google user.
supports the formats JPEG, PNG and GIF always limited to a maximum of 10MB per file. We can also host our videos in MOV and MP4 format taking into account that they must last less than 30 min and occupy a maximum of 2GBs.
Flickr
In Flickr we will have, in addition to the accommodation option, the possibility of access millions of images both licensed and free.
It also gives us the option of organizing our images by albums and even offers brushstrokes of social network.
Photo Bucket
Our last option is PhotoBucket. Its interface is very simple and powerful at the same time, since we can not only upload our image, but also store it, edit it and even share it via direct link.
As a differentiating element, we have the print option. We will be able to create collages, pictures and other decorative elements with our photographs.
Offers a free plan with the possibility of hosting a maximum of 250 images. Additionally we can choose different payment plans that offer more possibilities and storage capacity.