AlkaSpace - Alkaspace.com gives you 200 megs of free online disk space with 1000 megs (1GB) of bandwidth monthly suitable for free image hosting of pictures. You can host JPG, GIF, and PNG files up to 20 megs each, with hotlinking allowed. "Alka Space" offers a lot of useful additional features including

• auction gallery,
• an image portfolio,
• slideshows,
• "spin 360" option (360-degree spins).

There is also a tutorial section where you can learn how to add free images or an online photo gallery to your eBay auction listings. You can use their service without registering if you use the public area ("demo"). They have reserved the right to place branding on your images, however as of this writing, that functionality has not yet been implemented.

FileAve - A free file host (and web host) that gives users 50 MB file storage space on free hosting accounts, and up to 150 MB bandwidth/day. You can host 50 MB of your videos, music clips, Flash animations, WAV files, and images for use anywhere. All file types are permitted, but no scripts are allowed. The HTML codes are automatically generated for embedding music/videos/images on webpages. Hotlinking (direct linking/ external linking) files is allowed. Once you have uploaded a song, music, or video file, you can use the "Get Codes" link to generate EMBED tags that can be used on other websites to play the music/video file. The filehosting account includes a free subdomain, such as yourname.fileave.com, in which you can make a free home page. As with most of the other free sites, paid upgrades will increase your bandwidth allotment.

Hotlink-Files - A free file hosting provider that provides free filehosting with direct linking of files (hotlinking) allowed. You can upload, store, and hot-link videos, photos and pictures, music clips, audio files, and more (all filetypes allowed), and stream audio and video files for MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, blogs, and other websites. You must register to upload and/or hotlink your files. There is a 50 MB maximum upload file size for registered free users, and the anonymous uploader form allows a max file size of 5 MB, but only allows the uploading and hotlinking of images. Registration allows you to upload all other file types and easily manage and track all of your files stored on the host server.

InselPix - Insel Pix was a free picture hosting website which allows unregistered users to upload photos and images, hosted with unlimited bandwidth. It let you upload and hotlink images up to 5mb (5000 KB), which is fairly large filesize limit compared to most free image hosting services that allow hotlinking full-size images. The free imagehosting web site provides unlimited storage space to upload your pics, and supports uploading these image fle extensions: .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp. Hotlinking supported.

FreeImageHosting.net - Free image web hosting with upload manager and online photo gallery creator.

• No registration required
• Filename extensions allowed: gif, jpg, bmp, png.
• Max filesize 3000 KB (3MB).
• Images are stored online at least 60 days.
  

ImageCave - Free imagehosting, with image manipulation tools that allow you to do the following edits to your images:

• image resizing,
• conversion,
• rotate,
• compression,
• thumbnail and photo album generation.

Some of the other standard features include:

• Direct linking and remote loading
• Short URLs (usera.imagecave/you/)
• Registration required
• Paid upgrades for more storage space and bandwidth.
• unlimited data transfer (bandwidth),
• 10 MB image storage.
• BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF support.
• Free accounts are limited to 250 KB GIF or 1 MB JPG image files.
• JPG images over 250 KB will be compressed,
• BMP images will be converted to JPG files

imageshack.us - No registration image hosting that allows:

• Hotlinking
• Animation feature
• Auto thumbnail generation
• Auto embed code generation
• No registration required
• File size limit 1.5 MB;
• File types allowed: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff, swf (Flash).
• Images never deleted unless they violate Imageshack's TOS.
  

ImageVenue - Hot linking thumbnails on a message board, personal webpage, or ebay auction is allowed, but direct linking large images is only allowed for paid premium members.

• Maximum file size is 1.5 MB.
• Unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage period.
• file types allowed: jpeg, jpg.
• Hosted images not accessed for one year will be deleted
  

MyNetImages - A free image and gallery hosting service with an intuitive desktop-like AJAX based interface having features such as an easy-to-use Flash based multi-image upload tool, where you can upload in bulk. Registration is required.

• File types allowed: jpeg, jpg, gif, png.
• Maximum image size: 512 KB
• Total space: 999 MB
• Images larger than 512kb are optimized during the upload and compressed.
• No expiration
• bulk upload supported

Photobucket - A leading and very popular site for photo hosting. Probably the most popular of all. Features include:

• Bulk upload up to 20 pictures at once
• Photos larger than 1 MB are automatically compressed
• Photo gallery for your pictures
• 1 GB storage space
• 25 GB/month bandwidth
• 1MB (1024KB) file size limit
• Extensions allowed: .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .swf (Flash files);
• Automatically converts bmp and tif to jpg.
• You can publish the images to your mobile phone.
• upload images with an email address
• free video hosting (100 MB filesize)