- $23 per year for 500Mb of space
- $60 per year for 1500Mb of space
- Basic photo sharing service
- Share photos with your friends and family
- Send out links directly to photos or albums
- Downloadable photography magazine to accompany the site
- See which galleries are most popular
- Upload multiple files by compressing them in a zip file
- Camera database for enthusiasts to share information
- Send messages to other Pbase users
- Forums to share ideas and information
- Simple design is easy to navigate
- Email and forum based customer support
- Free trial available
- Works with almost any device that can run a web browser
PBase is a very basic photo sharing service that looks outdated and drab. The paid for membership doesn't provide you with much more storage space than a free membership with many other sites and uploading photos can be a chore. The one good thing about PBase is that it is very simple to navigate and there is a free downloadable magazine which accompanies the web site.
PBase has possibly one of the worst uploading tools we have seen in this category of sites. It uses a simple web based form to upload files which is slow and unreliable. It can also only deal with one file at a time so if you have a lot of photos to upload you had better set aside at least a week to get them onto your account. On the plus side it is possible to upload a zip file full of photos in one go, but it seemed fairly unreliable with large files.
Once you have some photos uploaded all you can really do is put them into different galleries. Galleries and photos can be shared with your friends by sending out direct links to either. However, there are no privacy controls so anyone who knows the address can see your photos. There isn't even a facility for personalizing your albums in any way so you are stuck with the dull default design that PBase provides. You can send messages to other users though, and there is a forum where you can discuss all things photography related.
One of the better things about PBase is that it provides a free downloadable magazine to go along with the web site. This can be an interesting read if you are into photography, but don't expect a top quality publication here. There is also a strange page dedicated to all the different cameras in the world where users can submit information and pictures about their favourite one and presumably discuss it in the forum.
PBase is a very below average photo sharing site. A free trial account with a measly 10Mb of space is offered, but for anything more you are asked to pay an annual fee. Memberships don't appear very good value either when you consider you can get pretty much the same thing for free from other sites. For now we would recommend looking around thoroughly before bothering with PBase.
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