PictureParking is all about sharing your pictures with others. The choice if up to you if you would like to share your pictures with just your friends or if it's the kind of picture you want the whole world to see.

That choice is up to you. We provide two kinds of galleries (you can think of a gallery as your digital photo album): private and public galleries. A private gallery is only accessible for those persons which you invited. Nobody else will have access to it. A public gallery on the contrary will be visible by the whole world, will show up randomly at the homepage and will be browseable by everybody.

Since you can create an unlimited number of galleries and since you can invite people on a per-gallery basis you have the ultimate power to decide which picture can be seen by who.

PictureParking offers free accounts.

You can put as many pictures online as you wish. The only limit is the 200 Mb barrier. Depending on the size of your pictures, you can store as much pictures as you like. Average picturesize online is about 200 Kb, so the 200 Mb could easily hold 1000 pictures.

You can maximum use 200Mb on our webserver to host your pictures. We only calculate the size of the pictures you uploaded. We automatically resize this uploaded picture, the original picture, during your upload proces. You don't notice this, neither do you need to do anything about it. The smaller pictures, which users see when browsing your pictures and the thumbnails in the gallery-overview are NOT taken into account for your 200Mb barrier.

That choice is entirely up to you. When just browsing your pictures, users see a "medium sized" image for viewing convenience. However, we provide a link to the "original" picture, which is the exact picture as you uploaded it. By uploading a picture which has a high resolution and quality (and big filesize) you make sure your visitors (like friends, family, ...) are able to print the image. When the original resolution is too small, they won't be able to print a decent photo of it. The choice is up to you whether you want them to have high quality pictures or not.

A good printing resolution is 300dpi, 300 dots per inch that is. Every "dot" is a pixel. So if you want your users to be able to print the regular photo size (11,4 cm x 15,2 cm or 4,5 "x 6"), you will need to upload pictures of about 1500x1800 pixels. Minimum for an average quality photo is 150dpi or an image resolution of 750x900 pixels for a regular photo.

Uploading your pictures is just a start. If you would like people to see your pictures, you may want to send the URL of your galleries to all your friends and relatives.

All your galleries are available at http://www.pictureparking.com/user/username, where you need to replace "username" with your username. E.g. http://www.pictureparking.com/user/jsmith.

Customer relationship is very important to us. Although we try to be as clear as possible, you may find yourself struggling with a particular question. Please contact us immediately so that we can answer it. We are here for you. At least the hours we aren't asleep.

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