DIFFERENCES
OF PIKTOCHART, PHOTOSPACE, AND PHOTOBUCKET
PIKTOCHART
A web-based infographic application which
allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create professional-grade
infographics using themed templates. An important feature of Piktochart is its
HTML Publishing capability, which generates infographics that are viewable
online with multiple clickable elements for users. Additionally, the program
provides tools to add interactive maps, charts, videos and hyperlinks.
FEATURES:
Piktochart
tool was focused on empowering users to create infographics that would be
web-publisher ready, able to stand alone as a piece of rich, multimedia
content. Piktochart provides over 400 templates which users can edit simply, or
by using more advanced functions, customize as desired.
The current
version of Piktochart—"Magic Piktochart"—released in January 2013
includes an HTML publisher which allows users to create infographics that can
be viewed online or embedded to a website, as well as allowing the user to
include multiple interactive elements.
The free
version of the Piktochart application has over 600,000 registered users.
PHOTOSPACE
A graphics editing program, developed by MOOII Tech, Korea. The
basic concept of PhotoScape is 'easy and fun', allowing users to easily edit
photographs taken from their digital cameras or even mobile phones. PhotoScape
provides a simple user interface to perform common photo enhancements including
color adjustment, cutting, resizing, printing and GIF animation.
Photoscape
operates on Microsoft Windows systems and Mac. It is not available on Linux
systems. The default languages are English and Korean, with additional language
packages available for download.
FEATURES:
PhotoScape
can perform tasks of:
Photo
Viewer: Browse and organize photos.
Photo
Editor: Enhance and balance color, resize, add effects and clip-arts.
Photo
Batch-Editor: Process multiple photos at once, rename multiple photos at once.
Page
Creator: joins multiple photos into poster-like single page or into one final
photo.
GIF
Animation: Make multiple images into GIF-animated image.
Featured
Printer: Print photos for particular occasions, such as Passport
photo, or lined page such as graph, calendar or music paper.
Screen
Capture: Save monitor screen into an image file.
Color
Picker: Pick color from screen pixel.
RAW
Converter: Convert RAW format picture into JPEG format.
Face
Finder: Find similar faces through internet.
PHOTOBUCKET
An American
image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online
community dedicated to preserving and sharing the entire photo and video
lifecycle. Photobucket hosts more than 10 billion images from 100 million
registered members, who upload more than four million images and videos per day
from the Web and connected digital devices.
Photobucket
is widely used for both personal and business purposes. Links from personal
Photobucket accounts are often used for avatars displayed on Internet forums,
storage of videos, embedding on blogs, and distribution in social networks.
FEATURES:
Accounts
Photobucket
offers free and subscription based (Plus) accounts. Free account users receive
2 GB of storage for photo and video uploads, 10 GB of transfers (which they
call "bandwidth") per month for sharing and linking, and unlimited
access to Photobucket’s editing, slideshow, and Story features.
"Plus" accounts are structured into storage tiers and offer unlimited
bandwidth, use of site features, and an advertisement free experience.
The
following describes Plus subscription pricing as of October 2016:
2 GB - free
20 GB -
$2.99/month, $29.99/year
50 GB -
$4.99/month, $49.99/year
100 GB -
$8.99/month, $89.99/year
200 GB -
$16.99/month, $169.99/year
500 GB -
$39.99/month, $399.99/year
Full
resolution image backup
Photobucket
stores the original photo file taken directly from a phone, camera, or computer
without compression or resizing. The following image file types are supported
by Photobucket: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp (bmp files are converted into png
files). Many in the photography community, however, have lamented that .raw
files are not supported.
Videos
Photobucket
supports video uploads of 500 MB or less, and 10 minutes or less. The following
video file types are supported: 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, avi, divx, flv, gif, mov,
mp4, mpeg4, mpg4, mpeg, mpg, m4v, and wmv. All video files are converted to mp4
format after uploading.
Sharing
The service
allows sharing of photos, videos, and albums by email, instant messaging,
mobile phone, and social media.
