Two alternatives are Imgur and imagelinky. With imagelinky you have to resize your pictures before uploading. Imgur offers you that option as you upload. Here is a short how to on imagelinky..
The site is called Imagelinky,
http://www.imagelinky.com/ You will still need to resize your pictures before uploading them, but this site will allow you to skip the whole photobucket transfer step.
1.) Resize all pictures to be posted to 640 pixels wide
2.) Open
http://www.imagelinky.com/ 3.) Select the “Browse” button on the Imagelinky site. A window will open.
4.) Go to the place on your computer where the picture is stored, select the picture file and click the open button.
5.) From the Imagelinky window click the “Upload” button. Three boxes will appear.
6.) Copy everything from the third box “Forum Link”
7.) Paste everything that was copied into the Trad Gang message box and select “Preview Post”
The picture should have transferred. Repeat steps 3 – 6 to add more pictures.