There are thousands of free image host

There are thousands of free image host out there, but not many that focus on providing you a cheap or free place to host an online gallery for your photography, images or artwork.  If you do not want to upload a script and run it from day to day, you might try one of these three free image gallery hosting services to get your own portfolio hosted online.

I had to throw one generic free service into the mix, and Picasa is the one I decided to pick.  Now run by Google, Picasa not only gives you a place to host pictures – but also comes with a very powerful desktop client to organize your collections with too.  If you have a Google account (and really, who doesn’t these days) go check it out and see if you like it.
Flickr is another awesome and free way to upload and share your digital images online.  It might be one of the most well known photo sharing websites on my list today, and there is good reason for it.  It works, and it is where the people are right now.  You can create an account for free by logging into the Flickr website with your Yahoo info, and you’ll be ready to upload soon after that.  You can also organize your collections, share them with friends or limit who can see them too.

SmugMug

The SmugMug service is an interesting alternative to Flickr.  It seems to do everything Flickr does, and I am sure the developers of the service would say they do it better. Where SmugMug might hold the advantage is when it comes to selling your prints online.  They have a nicely integrated service that makes buying prints or merchandise with the prints on it very easy to do.  It might not have the community that Flickr does, but it is not short on features either.
So there you have it – which one of these services do you like the best? Do you have another that you love more? Send your thoughts to me in the comments – cause I would love to check out what you use for free image gallery hosting.