Image hosting and storage options

[tandeejay]

Flickr has that available on the free account. The ability to set image privacy, and to generate a URL that you can give to those you wish to have access.

[MissionMan]

Flickr has that available on the free account. The ability to set image privacy, and to generate a URL that you can give to those you wish to have access.

I thought Flickr had that on individual photos but not on Albums.

On Smugmug, you can set up individual albums, each with a separate set of security and passwords rather than at individual photo level. You can also decide whether to expose your website/profile or leave it as an anonymous gallery. For example, if I do a kitesurfing event, I may not want people going to all my personal photos from the event photos.

This is an example of what I mean.

Here is a gallery I made private (not searchable so only available via the link) but without a link to my personal site.

https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-LqSrw

Here is one that is private but contains a link to my personal site. You can see the url now incorporates my name.

https://atholhill.smugmug.com/Children/Mixed/n-nPM9S/

Here is one that is public but contains a link to my personal site but you could obviously have a public one where the owner is hidden as well.

https://atholhill.smugmug.com/Across-the-Bay-2015

[tandeejay]

I thought Flickr had that on individual photos but not on Albums.

Definitely has it on Albums. I have a family album that I share with my family (most of whom don't have flickr) All I do is send them the link that provides them access.

Here is an album I made private https://www.flickr.com/gp/99216317@N08/w5cq8x

Actually, I see what you mean. The album itself isn't private of itself, the privacy is set at the image level, so anyone without the above link could view any photos in that album where I had set the privacy for public visibility, and the above link is a passport that provides visibility to everything in that album.

I can expire any of those passports I've created for access to private albums if I think the passport has been sent to the wrong person.

It does contain a link back to my public flickr site, can't see how to suppress that, but not sure I'd want to, as it only provides a link back to a site that is publicly available anyway.