Five Alternatives To Flickr

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Spark up your image sharing with these Flickr alternatives

Many photographers have a love/hate relationship with Flickr. Anyone can get annoyed at a large faceless corporation and maybe you just got that new Nikon and want to shop the photo sharing sites anyway. Sometimes up and coming companies will give you a better deal.

So, the next time your relationship with Flickr swings over to “hate”, here are five alternatives to consider.

500px.com

500px is a site where a photographer can host their portfolio and where other photographers can browse and comment on other artist’s photography.

The site offers a similar combination of features available on Flickr and Vi.sualize.us, with the difference that 500px caters specifically to professional and advanced hobbyists in photography.

Public since 2009, they have nearly 50,000 members and receive 1.4 million visits each month.

Photobucket.com

Photobucket is an image and video sharing service that has a very solid platform, support for mobile platforms, and generous free accounts after lifting the limits on non-commercial accounts.

Photobucket makes it easy to share photos publicly or privately with password protected galleries.

The only downside to Photobucket for some people will be that it’s owned by News Corp and a few may have ethical qualms about financially supporting the parent company of Fox News.

Zooomr.com

Founder Kristopher Tate started zooomr.com to help friends and family share their photos with friends and family.

Zooomr has excellent support for international visitors and is offered in several languages.

Zooomr is not as polished as some of the other photo sharing sites, but it’s free and has excellent search tools.

DeviantArt

Probably the least like Flickr of all the sites mentioned here and darn proud of that fact. DeviantArt is a home not only for photographers, but artists of all stripes with a flair for science fiction and fantasy.

DeviatArt has a wide tolerance for taste but I find the user interface cluttered and disorganized.

Fotki.com

Fotki seems to be working very hard to best Flickr and even offers an API to partner with them for b2b commercial services.

Offers unlimited storage of full resolution images and offers discount printing and the ability to order photo novelties like coffee cups and t-shirts right on the spot.