It depends on how you want to USE the photos. Do you just want them uploaded to a digital album? Or do you need them
hosted online, where you can then link to them and insert them into group emails or onto an existing webpage? Or do you want to create a free webpage/blog, to post photos to?
Others already mentioned digital album services. For a web site hosting, I use
Blogger.com. I think it's owned by Google now. It was the first free blogger type site, so they designed it to be very user-friendly. It has a toolbar at the top of posts set up like here in the DIS.
When I set up my account, I chose for my privacy settings that only people who have the specific link to have access to see the blog or blog post. It's private otherwise and no one can happen upon the blog pics.
However, even if I don't want people to go to the blog at all, yet I want to share specific photos in an email (without having to send them as attachments,) or post on a webpage, like here on the DIS, I upload and post the pics to one of my private blog posts at Blogger. This way, the photo is
hosted online which is what one needs to post it
elsewhere online. Once posted on my private blog post, I simply right mouse click, open the photo in a new window or tab, copy
that photo or photo link (URL at the top of the window,) then insert or paste it into the email or webpage. Only that photo gets embedded into the email or webpage. Even if they click on the photo it does not open to any
other photos or the blog post. I post photos all the time here on the DIS that way.
(I tried doing this to photos in my Google Photo album years ago. But their security is such that after several hours, all photos
linked to got deleted and only an empty space was left in my web posts, or that small X showing a photo used to be there. Google Photos wants people to visit the albums, not link to the photos and have them posted elsewhere. In other words, no photo hosting from their albums.)
A second, free way to get your photos hosted and posted on a private blog (to those with the link,) is to set up a free blog account at
Wordpress.com. Not the .org extension which is a paid, professional level of the site, the free
.com site. But, as posted above, whomever has the link can share access to others. I use this for my artist pages and when I send out my resume. Wordpress has cleaner, more professional looking templates than Blogger.
If you just want a casual blog, "Here are the Little League pics of our Snow Polar Bear team game this week, the post is "Here," then I suggest use Blogger. If you need a more professional layout for say, a fundraiser for the Snow Polar Bears, then go with Wordpress. And if for some reason, you need an online shopping cart, say you guys are selling Snow Polar Bears baseball T-shirts online for the fundraising, Wordpress
.org allows you to add a secure, online shopping cart.
