Flickr vs Picasaweb paid subscriptions

[iSamurai]

I'm looking into buying a Flickr Pro account because I've got a lot of photos to upload, after considering the limitations to a free account and what the pro account can offer (unlimited almost everything).

However, I've also been using Google's Picasaweb, it's quite good for a free account compared to Flickr... Flickr's tagging is quite awesome, while Picasa's Geo tagging is also a great feature. Flickr can also do Facebook and blogging posting too, which are two fantastic features.

• What I want to know is that are there more photographs/photograhers on Flickr or on Picasaweb? The last time I wanted to search for some *Photos* on Picasaweb, the search results came up with bad *pictures* and random snapshots. I want to put my photos up in a place where there are avid photographers browsing, too.

• Also about the pricing. Which one do you think (or use) is better? Picasaweb offers 10GB at $20/yr while Flickr is unlimited GB at $25/yr. It seems that Flickr is somewhat better value-for-money and Picasa can be more costly in the long run, since I've got more than 10GBs to dump onto the net, although I think Google's more reliable.

• Is it relatively easy to switch from one to the other -- so if I switch I don't have to reupload everything?

Yeah, if you have been using these services, please share your thoughts

 

[mkrishnan]

I've kind of been off photography as a hobby for a while, but I used to subscribe to Pbase, and I think personally that it's a much better bet for connecting with photographers than Flickr or Picasa. Almost everyone on Pbase is oriented towards photography as an art.

 

[66217]

Flickr is much better for you I think. You'll find that more serious photographers are in Flickr than in Picasa.

I never really got to like Flickr, currently I am much happier with MobileMe. So you might want to see if the other features MobileMe offers might compensate the higher price.