Appeal & Flexibility:  

Piczo is a unique image hosting site because you can make it whatever you want it to be. You can tailor almost every aspect of your experience to fit your personal style.

It is modeled after popular social media sites like Facebook and MySpace, but has a definite bent toward photos.

Kids and teens will love the bright colors and anime styling of the site and the fact that they can create a mini-world to display their images. This world comes complete with a customizable avatar to display on their profile area. This avatar can be built to look just like the user by adding clothing, hair and facial features from a menu. The site also features games, awards, polls and quizzes that will really appeal to someone looking to be entertained as well as show off their images.

Adults will enjoy this funky site for the multitude of media they can upload and the social aspects of the site. You can easily keep in touch with your friends and family due to the built-in Meebo instant messenger, personalized chat room you can add to your site and the streamlined friending features.

No matter how old you are, the ability to completely customize every aspect of your photo display is a major advantage Piczo has over other image hosting service such as Picasa. Plus, professional photographers can sell their photos on their site by adding PayPal buttons.
 

Ease in Uploading:  

Thanks to Piczo’s Java application, photos can be uploaded to the site at lightning speeds. You can instantly select all of the photos in a computer folder to be uploaded, or you can tick which one you need. You can also upload photos from a Photobucket account. Since Photobucket doesn’t offer a customizable website quite like Piczo, having a Piczo account that can download Photobucket images makes sense; you get the best of both worlds. Don’t want to use Java? No problem. You can upload photos without the application, as well.

Multimedia Features:  

Piczo’s big claim-to-fame is how it lets you display your media. The site offers you your own photo sharing website with a customizable address where you can upload music, videos and photos using simple templates. No image hosting service can beat this versatility in media.

You can also create blogs, track visitors and add music, games and video already on the site to your personal site.

Prints and Additional Product Options:  

Piczo’s only drawback is that there is no online store for buying customized gifts and prints. For some this can be a major drawback. For others who print their photos at home or store them digitally it may not be a problem at all. As mentioned earlier, Piczo can work in conjunction with Photobucket, which has an in-house photo product store.

Ease of Use:  

Piczo is a foolproof site. It features a tab style navigation that lets you easily find what part of the site you want to visit. Each area has instructions on how to use the feature right on the page. No need to go searching for help.

Building your blog or website is easy if you have basic computer skills. No need to know HTML here! Text, photos, blogs, music, movies, embellishments and more can be added with the click of a mouse. Elements can be moved around the page by simply dragging them from one area to another.

Don’t worry about the site being too simple, though. If you want to add HTML for more complicated procedures there is a handy box where you can paste code. Even novice users will be able to add coding with this feature.

Do your pictures need a little work? Piczo has a wide range of photo editing tools such as cropping, red eye adjustment, distortions, layering, blemish removing and more. What makes these photo editing tools unique is that you can alter the image while it is on your webpage. There’s no need to repost the image after changes are made.

Help & Support:  

Most sites include email, FAQs and tutorials, but what makes Piczo’s help and support special (besides the on-page step-by-step instructions) is its Piczo Pro section. Here, the most talented users post how-tos on creating everything from flashier pages to HTML tips.

Piczo is an image hosting site for those that want to have full control over the layout and design of their media and how it is presented to the world. It's a very flexible service, and right up there with our favorite online image hosting services Photobucket and Picasa.