Published on October 20, 2007
TechCrunch is reporting that Flickr has tagged Picnik as it’s official and integrated photo editing service. Soon, Flickr users will have a “edit photo” button on photo pages, which will then launch the photo in Picnik’s flash-based photo editing software. Free account users will have the edited photo added to their photo stream, while Pro users will have the edited photo replace the original.
Photo rotation was a welcome addition a while ago, but full editing capabilities will be awesome, especially for casual photographers who use Flickr as more of a personal blog than professional portfolio. I haven’t tried Picnik yet, but it looks like I’ll be using it soon enough.
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Published on October 14, 2007
I just wanted to make a quick photography post. This photo was posted to Flickr by my buddy James (PolarRoadKill on Flickr). It has so many elements in it that are right, I almost can’t stand it.
First of all, the tones are excellent. A great Black and White conversion. I personally have trouble creating a shot with nice contrast without blowing highlights out. James accomplishes it nicely, and consistently across this set of beach photos.
The composition is excellent… with the main subject right on the 2/3 vertical line.
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Published on December 13, 2006
Happy Holidays from Flickr… this is excellent news.
Beginning this month all Pro account will have totally unlimited storage and bandwidth. While probably only a fraction of Pro users were bumping up against the old 2GB-per-month upload limit, who can argue with unlimited? Free users have cause to celebrate, too: The per-month upload limit for free accounts has been bumped up to 100MB, a 500% increase over the previous 20MB limit.
I come no where close to hitting the 2gig upload limit as a Pro user, but it’s still nice to know that things are completely unlimited now. However, the upload increase for free users is a very big deal in my opinion. The 20meg upload bandwidth imposed on free users was really too restricting to be very useful for most people that I talked into signing up. 100meg should make things a lot more fun for new users.
Via: DownloadSquad
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Published on November 20, 2006
Flickr rolled out three new features today… three features that I’m extremely excited about. They go into detail on The Flickr Blog.
First up is the new Guest Pass, which allows you to e-mail a special link to people that will let them look at specified private photos without having to sign up for a Flickr account and get added to your contacts list. This makes sharing photos with family and friends a TON easier.
Guest passes work with secret links so you can send the link yourself or have us send it for you. When you want to reign things in a bit, you can expire the guest pass at any time.
Second is a new Flickr Mobile site at m.flickr.com. I’ve been using the old Flickr Mobile ever since I got a data plan on my Treo, but it wasn’t nearly as robust as the full site. It was also restricted to old-school Flickr users with non-Yahoo logins. Quite a few new features have been added, but the tables have been turned… old-school users cannot use the new mobile site, as it’s restricted to Yahoo IDs only. Flickr Mobile was the only reason I was holding off on converting my account to a Yahoo login, so now I guess I don’t have any reason to hold out any longer. In fact, I have quite a bit on incentive to switch it.
Third is Camera Finder, a tool to show who’s shooting with what cameras. Graphs show what cameras are getting the most uploads on Flickr, and links send you to the best pictures taken with different models. I see this as an excellent tool for people researching a new camera purchase. (Right now the XT is completely killing it in the popularity category!)
It was a good day for Flickr.
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