Facebook is a behemoth, harbouring over 300 million users, housing 40 million status updates a day and hosting 14 million new videos a month, it’s easy to see how the service has started to make inroads into the other media sharing services like YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr.
One of the most popular types of media shared on the website are photos, mainly down to the simple usability of the site and the fact you can add and tag photos of friends. This allows users to view lots of different user submitted photos, possibly from the save event from many different perspectives. With 2 billion photos uploaded a month, the proof is in the statistics.
There is one drawback of having being tagged in a set of photos from the same event you attended, you don’t physically have a copy of them. Sure you could sit there and download them, one by one, but that would take all day and night if it was a particularly big album. Luckily for those people who use the Mozilla Firefox browser, there is a clever little addon that allows you to download entire Facebook albums with the click of a button.
A few weeks back we profiled a website called BeFunky, that turned digital pictures into “Funky Works Of Art”. Last week we received an email from the creators of a web based photo service, one that offers a similar service to BeFunky but concentrates on doing one thing well, creating Polaroids from your photos. It seems the web based photo manipulation websites can do anything these days, Rollip being no exception.
Rollip provides a simple service, it gives any digital photo the classic look and feel of a vintage or Polaroid picture. All you need to do is select what sort of effect you would like to give to your photo, Rollip does the rest.
On 08.12.09, In Cool Websites, by Matt Brian
Digital photography has boomed in the digital age, as prices fall for consumer electronics it seems that most families now own a digital camera and use the internet to host their photos.
With the rise of digital camera use, there has been a rise in the amount of tools available for Do-It-Yourself photo editors to change and manipulate their photos. The tools however, are not just for the desktop of your Windows, Mac or Linux PC, they are slowly starting to emerge on the web and some are very powerful pieces of kit.
One service called BeFunky offers the ability to easily create rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge, this article demonstrates just that.
Sites like Flickr and Picasa have allowed both personal and professional photographers to showcase their photos online, but with this, it has been even easier for businesses and agencies to steal these images and use them for their marketing without giving proper attribution to the creator.
Until today, I didn’t know if there was a decent tool that could tell you if your images were being stolen and used against your wishes. That was until I found TinEye, a service that can scan billions of images on the internet and find out where your images are being used.
By looking at the title, you would think this was an easy pursuit. If you are one of the many people (like me), who doesn’t get to see the “Download Album” link when you are browsing a Picasa Album, you will know that downloading those images can be somewhat troublesome.
There is an answer however, a solution that will allow you to still download the photos via your Picasa client, and all it requires is the use of a simple browser bookmarklet.
On 02.03.09, In Cool Websites, by Matt Brian
Lets say you have a large collection of photos on your online photo accounts and you want a decent way to display them, maybe for a project, a wallpaper or for your portfolio. Instead of having to crack out your copy of Photoshop, why not try Collagr, a nifty little service that will generate collages of your photo albums.
Using Collagr is a piece of cake, it only needs a URL and it will take care of the rest. To get the best results, it is suggested that you use albums instead of a collection of your whole photo collection, so that images are similar and look great together inside the collage itself.
The ever popular photo management from Google has finally been released for the Mac. Taking into account Mac owners might have a love/hate relationship with iPhoto, Google have announced support for iPhoto so that it can track photo edits, scanning both the “Originals” and “Modified” and displaying a collective folder with the most recent version of the file.
Although the application has a rich feature set, some features have not been ported to the Mac version just yet. These include:
- Geotag
- Shop/Order prints
- Integrated webcam capture
- Automatic screen capture
- Export as HTML page
- Screensaver
- Picasa Photo Viewer
Grab your copy from the Official Picasa Website. Let us know how well it works for you!
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