Returned from my Europe trip with 4 256 Mb SD MMC cards full of photographs. That is indeed a lot of photographs to print. So, spent hours choosing my favorite 50 photos and saved on a cd for printing. The rest had to be organized and available. Of the various options available, the friendliest was free online photo album provided by Yahoo which allows users to upload photos to the Web, order prints, and show albums to friends and family.

Here are some more popular online photo albums sites to store and share your photographs.

• Webshots - provides screen savers, wallpaper, electronic greeting cards, and photograph hosting.

• Ofoto.com - delivers photographic prints created from your digital images.

• Uboot  - offers storage, prints, and photo messaging.

• Snapfish - provides film developing and online viewing and sharing services.

• PBase.com  - photo sharing community. Upload your photos to highly customizable online galleries.

• PhotoSite  - Online photo album service. The free service lets you store and share up to 150 photos in total (no per-photo file size limit), while paid service plans are available that offer higher storage limits and an ad-free service. You can choose to make your photos publicly available, or you can password-protect or hide your album. Photographs are generally compressed before upload, though you can upload them at a higher resolution if you want to be able to print them later. The PhotoSite AlbumBuilder software (Windows-compatible) can be used to build photo albums locally and automatically upload them to your online storage area.

• Photobucket.com - image hosting and online photo albums.

• PictureTrail Inc. - offers various customizing and picture sharing options.

• dotPhoto  - features photo sharing and processing.

• Fotopic
  Free online photo storage offering up to 250MB of storage space for photos. Photos can be displayed publicly or password protected for privacy. Photos can be arranged into individually named galleries, and each gallery can be given its own style. Weekly access statistics are provided. Optionally, photos can be watermarked with captions, dates or your site's URL.

• ImageStation
  A service by Sony, ImageStation offers unlimited space for storing photos. The free service stores photos at a lowered resolution. Several paid service levels are available giving higher resolution storage, photo manipulation tools and other benefits.

Another use for your favorite holiday pictures is to use it as an e-card for all occasions.