lol yea, you'll get used to turning off the hud if you stick with this method ... hell i turn it off so much that sometimes i forget that i am in camera mode and accidentally move the camera instead of advancing the scene lol... i know you're having hosting issues, but i don't have much of a problem with photobucket, mainly because i've been using it for like 10 years now, i'm used to whatever changes they throw at me...
i'm also renaming them properly so when i paste them into the other media box, i just change the number at the end... also, i don't use a filter on a lot of my shots either, unless the scene is just too epic to ignore a few more minutes of polish ... i mostly just crank up the contrast and the brightness a little on most of my snaps... then copy that effect style and paste it on the rest of them that i don't feel like framing better...