Photo sharing... blah blah... photo storage service... blah blah blah... yawn.

Pickle is in beta, so it's new. If you are interested in signing up, Pickle is offering expanded user limits for the first 25,000 registered users. For the basic free service this means a 200MB monthly up load limit rather than 75MB and a 100MB size limit rather than 10MB. If you go for the paid service the cost is $19.95 rather than $49.95. The advantages of the paid service are unlimited mailboxes, ad-free usage and password protected sharing.

It is the use of email that sets Pickle apart from other services. You or other people can email photos and video clips to a specific email address which then appear on a special project page. This could be cool for joint events music concerts, sports events, weddings and the like. As is the norm images can be tagged.

• Pickleboxes are like photo albums for video and photos and can be viewed as a slide-show
• You can upload via email or use specific upload tools
• Each account has a main address for uploading too via email, but each PickleBox also has its own email address so you can send pictures from your mobile for example.
• Picklemails are emails you can send of your images or group of images
• Picklescope is a list of your friends and family's shared videos and pictures shown all on one page

The screen-shot is of the upload processes from my test homepage/picklebox. One of the images was sent in via email.

Overall the service works smoothly, seems intuitively designed and dead easy to use.