So a picture on screen 10" wide would have a width of 720 pixels.

by increasing the JPEG compression, although you'll lose some picture quality (how much is a subjective thing).

You can also reduce the number of colours in the image.

I generally upload pics at 72dpi and 750 X 500 pixels. The other thing you can do is replace some of the pics on your Flickr site - or subscribe. I gave in to the inevitable a few weeks ago, having got fed up with deleting pics.

By way of illustration, wayfarer's 750 x 500 photo at screen resolution (72 dpi) would be 10.4" x 6.9" on screen.

For a home colour printer, however, you need around 200 dpi. At that resolution, your photo is now 3.75" x 2.5".

If you wanted to print that photo using a commercial printer — in Word magazine for example — you'd need 300 dpi and your photo would be an unimpressive 2.5" x 1.7".

The Flickr free limit was 200 images rather than having a data limit (of X MB),so if it's filling up then that should relate to the number of pics only, not whether they're 500KB each or 1.5MB each or whatever

Also I think Flickr costs something like $25 a year for unlimited storage which (around 50c a week) seems like quite a good deal ... (I pay the fee and have done for the last couple of years).

My free Photobucket account gives me:

- Unlimited* storage for photos.
- Up to 500 videos permitted with up to 10 minutes in length per video.
- Maximum display size of photos is 2048x1536 pixels each.
- Maximum file size permitted is 5MB per photo and 500MB per video.

*Photobucket reserves the right to limit excessive use and the unlimited storage offer pertains to non-commercial use only.

No idea what 'excessive use' entails...

There's also a 'Pro' option for $25/year.

for a flickr pro account I processed a film and it cost this much for 36 photos so it's good value and v reliable I wouldn't reduce the size of pics unless you have to.

The flickr pro account is very good value. You'll soon reach the limit of usability in the free account, however much you reduce the size of the photos.

At first Flickr didn't mention the 200 photo limit, just gave me a percentage of data used but when I logged in this morning I got a message saying I was limited to 200. $25 a year sounds more than reasonable so I'm going to go for that, particularly as I can upload directly from my whizzy new HTC Incredible S, that I like very much.

Thanks for all the advice.

Looks like there's quite a few users on here, and plenty interest in photography. I'm user lilJim on there (and the reason for that username can be found in the nicknames thread...), do stop by and make contact if you feel like it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wayfarer88/

on flickr my screen name is torrybattery, despite the URL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenbervie/

PS: have added everyone above as contacts on flickr - hope that's ok

That's another way to share.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653010736#!/pages/Clive-Temple-Photography/148048298542892?sk=photos