Photobucket Users - aircraft repainters especially

[Al FR-153]

Especially those that repaint aircraft,

Have you wondered why your Photobucket linked photos have been blurred of late? I just found out. Photobucket, although I have been a customer for many years, upped their prices, changed their programs, and now restrict your use by blurring your photos and not permitting you to link to your photos for use on this or any other forum until you UPGRADE your account (pay more). I am so mad at this minute that I could scream, and I did just that at Photobucket. There, to the best of my knowledge, was no notification of their intent to do this, even when I renewed my account in December. Just suddenly, I could not link to my photos and investigated as to why. I also, while in the mood let them know that their site being down at least twice recently, was not acceptable as well. Okay, with that off my chest, I will go take another dose of blood pressure medicine.

Al

PS I also informed Photobucket that I would be moving my photos ASAP

[jcblom]

I had a photobucket account as well, but when they changed the policy/pricing scheme a few years ago to totally unreasonble conditions I switched immediately. I have a flickr account now, no problems so far

[Al FR-153]

I had a photobucket account as well, but when they changed the policy/pricing scheme a few years ago to totally unreasonble conditions I switched immediately. I have a flickr account now, no problems so far

There is a price increase here as well. An increase of about $25 per year for the same POOR service that I had last year. There were two occasions where Photobucket was down for days upon days. During those days, the photos were blurred as well. Maybe they were on a 'training flight' for this weeks actions, not sure. I too went through the previous upgrade blackmail but I bit the bullet and accepted the fact. This time though, with the blurring, not allowing me to link, or download them to my own computer was the last straw. Thank you for the suggestion, I will certainly take that into consideration.

[bladerunner900]

Yeah. I changed to imjur in July 2017 for the same reasons. Sometimes, I link images to my Dropbox account as well.

Steve.

[Dogsbody55]

I moved to ImageShack about three years ago and have been very pleased with their service and cost, so far. I use it mostly to post pictures of my model builds and converted all my builds over to this site at that time. The blurriness of Photobucket's displays now has become a real problem when researching other people's builds, and none of us on that forum still use that company's services.

Here's the plane I'm working on just now:


And one I've just finished a month ago:


And one I finished around the end of November 2019:


No blurries


Cheers,
Michael

[Lewis - A2A]

Yer I had to stop using photobucket, they priced themselves out of the market, it was all over the news a few years back, I cant imagine how bad things got for them when everyone switched

Btw, I love those model shots

cheers,
Lewis

[dvm]

Photobucket can kiss my rosy red butt ! Like most of you I gave them up years ago. There's lots of free photo posting services out there. I have been using postimage.org and I'm very happy with it for my purposes. Did I say photobucket can kiss my rosy red butt !

[Hook]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I quit using Photobucket long ago myself.

Every time I see a Photobucket logo on a posted pic I want to make a post asking people to boycott Photobucket. As far as I'm concerned, showing that logo on so many pics is just telling everyone not to use Photobucket.

It's too bad, really.

Hook

[bullfox]

I might post no more than two or three flight sim images a month. I wonder what would be the best image service for a casual user such as myself?

[Adam_NZ]

I might post no more than two or three flight sim images a month. I wonder what would be the best image service for a casual user such as myself?

I've been using Postimages for a fair while now. It's free ... https://postimages.org/



There's a little dance you have to do to get a decent URL for posting in forums, but it's not too onerous:

1) From your thumbnails list, choose your pic then right mouse click on it to bring up the full size view (I open it in a new browser tab).
2) Right mouse click on the "Download original image" link and use the browser "Copy link location".
3) Paste the URL into your post, using either the image toolbar icon or manually between img tags.

Adam.

[Al FR-153]

Thank you all.

Going to work this morning to drain my Photobucket account ASAP.

Michael - That is taking aircraft repainting to the next level. Great shots and great work.

[Warbirds]

Smugmug,,,cost a bit but reliable

[Dogsbody55]

Thank you all.

Going to work this morning to drain my Photobucket account ASAP.

Michael - That is taking aircraft repainting to the next level. Great shots and great work.

Thanks Al. Mine is a very different skill set to painting flight sim models. It's very analogue, though the digital age has helped immensely with being better able to share techniques and many other things as well. But I also know well how much skill is required to paint FS models. I used to be a pen pal with the late Frank Gonzalez who's paints for classic Connies were so good. He had heaps of troubles when he started out, but as with my models, persistence pays off. Above all else, whatever your hobby is, when you love what you do, you always want to improve. I've only been building models for 58 years, and I'm finally getting to be reasonably good at it .


Cheers,
Mike