Last week Yahoo announced that it is bringing back the Flickr Pro account, a premium upgrade from its basic, free photo sharing and storage service, says Wired magazine. For $49.99 a year, if paid annually, Pro members get a more robust, ad-free photo sharing and storage experience complete with advanced stats and various discounts.

Both the free and Pro accounts now have a 1 TB storage maximum; Pro users previously had unlimited storage. Yahoo had stopped new sign-ups for the Pro upgrade in May 2013 as it prepared for a major overhaul. Existing Pro users will be automatically upgraded.Pro users who pay for the service annually, versus paying $5.99 per month, get 20% off an Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan and free shipping on Flickr merchandise. They also get a Pro badge to proudly display on their Flickr account to let others know they have Pro status. According to Wired, Flickr has more than 113 million members, but that figure isn’t broken down by free users versus power users.In an email to Wired, Flickr product director Rajiv Vaidyanathan explained the benefits of the new and improved Flickr Pro, “Over the years we’ve made changes to our account options as the needs of our members have evolved,” he said. “Today, unlimited storage is not a top request for our users. In fact, fewer than 100 members in the history of Flickr ever exceeded the one free terabyte of storage we provide. It’s more important to our users that we store their photos in full resolution.”Insider Take:As Wired points out, services like Google offer unlimited free cloud storage for photos and videos. They often have limitations that Flickr Pro does not have. For example, Google Photos has a limit of 16 megapixels per photo. Facebook also offers unlimited photo storage as well, but it compresses photos to fit onto the screen. Of all the online photo sharing and storage services, Toms Guide selected Flickr as its top pick and Editor’s Choice award winner because of its massive storage and simple, clean user interface.Ultimately, what photo storage and sharing service people choose will be based on their individual needs which fall into six primary categories, according to Toms Guide: storage capacity, quality, ease of use, ease of access, shareability and printability. Flickr Pro seems to offer all those things for true power users who want the bells, whistles, quality and storage capacity that Flickr is now offering. The $49.99 price point seems reasonable, but those who want free can still get free.