Learning about 3rd party image hosting

If you haven't downloaded Irfanview at: http://www.irfanview.com/ Do it now. With it you can crop, rotate and resize any pic. Well the time has come to start adding more pizzazz to my auctions and online presence so I have set up accounts with http://www.villagephotos.com and http://photobucket.com/whatsnew/whatsnew.php to host pictures (for free) to add in the middle of the text for an eBay listing. These were free and easy to sign up for. With the free Photobucket account you get 50 MG's of disk space, 2500 MGs of monthly bandwith, and maximum size of 250KB. With both free and premium accounts you get direct linking, html and img generated tags to insert in your listing, (whooohoo no coding), mobile uploads and sub abums. Villagephoto offers a Page Designer HTML Tool, Easy Image Upload, FTP Access, Optimize and Rotate JPEG Images, Online Greeting Cards, and Unlimited eBay and Yahoo Auctions Image Usage on their upgraded memberships but the Free plan allows 50 images with a maximum size of 250KB, a max of 800 MB monthly transfer and 800 MB in total auction usage. On Villagephotos they provide a wonderful tutorial:

• To get an image from your computer to an eBay auction: You need to log in, then click on the Photos tab, and select an album from the list by clicking on the its link. This is the album you'll upload images into.
• Using the "upload new images to this album" link to get to the upload form.
• Use the "browse" buttons to locate the image files on your computer you want to upload.
• Hit the Upload button to send them to your account here.
• Return to the Photos tab, select the album again, then you'll see thumbnails of the images you uploaded.
• Click on a thumbnail on the album page to get to the "image URLs and tools" page that contains all the URL's and codes you'll need to use the image.
• In the top sectdion of the Image URL and Tools page is the "public image URL" you can use for eBay listings!
• Copy that from URL our site by highlighting it and choosing Edit / Copy on your browser's menu.
• Paste it to the "Picture URL" field on eBay to include your image on the auction.
• You can also use the "HTML IMG Tag" line we give on the "image URL and tools" page to add additional images in your auction's description.
• Make sure if you're adding HTML codes to your description, you're using the "Enter your own HTML" description entry box!
• Always preview your auction to make sure images are added correctly! The result is the auction with a picture embedded in the text http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5079462391&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1