Super Easy Photo Sharing with Picupine
I know it’s hard to believe, but Flickr and Photobucket are just too difficult for some people to use. Lucky for them, there’s Picupine.
Picupine is a simple photo sharing web service. And by simple, I mean that it really is as simple as it gets. There’s no login, no account creation. Just go to Picupine.com, upload your images, and generate a unique gallery URL to pass around.
On the site homepage, you’ll see a web form. Give your photo album a title and load up the album by browsing to images on your hard drive. Enter a description for each image and hit upload when you’re done. Once all of the images have been uploaded, you’ll receive a unique URL (like this one).
It’s perfect for headache-free photo sharing, and even more perfect for creating Craigslist "for sale" galleries. Picupine appears to be almost entirely anonymous, so it might be a good place to put those spring break photos, too.
As one would expect, Picupine has some significant limitations. First of all, your gallery only lives for a week. After 7 days, your URL disappears and your images are deleted from the server. Also, there’s a per-image file size limit of 2MB. Submit images over 2MB and you’ll choke the upload tool… which also means that you have to start filling out the form all over again.
Lastly, what you see is what you get. There’s no community, no comments, no browsing. Just one gallery per instance. But if you’re using Picupine, you’ve already made a conscious decision to avoid such cruft, right?
Tip of the hat to Luke!
