Tag: photo sharing
Google Adds Picnik Magic to Picasa Web Albums
by Ranju Chaudhary on Jul.14, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies
For some time now, Flickr users have been able to use Picnik to edit photos in-stream without leaving the app. Now that Picnik is a Google property, Picasa users will have roughly the same advantage.
As of today, Picasa Web Albums users will be able to usePicnik’s
editing tools without ever leaving their accounts.
Google
acquired Picnik back in March. While Picnik’s free web app lacks the fuller features of tools like Aviary’s Phoenix, its simplicity makes it an appropriate complement for online photo-sharing sites.
On Picnik’s web app, users can crop and resize photos and adjust brightness, saturation, contrast and otherattributes free of charge. The Picasa implementation will also let you add stickers, apply special effects and use advanced tools.
Edited photos can be saved as new images in your Picasa Web Album, or they can be used to replace the original image.
Here’s an example of what the app will look like and what you can do with it:
Although Flickr is a Yahoo property, Flickr users are currently still able to use Picnik to edit images from within the Flickr app “in Picnik mode,” as well. It’s unclear whether users will lose this functionality, but such seems unlikely at this time.
Facebook Acquires Divvyshot to Improve Facebook Photos
by neetika on Apr.03, 2010, under Graphic Design, Latest Web Technologies
Facebook has just acquired Divvyshot, a group photo-sharing service fresh out of private beta.
The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but it sounds similar to Facebook’s acquisition of Octazen in February. We do know that this was mostly a talent acquisition and that the site will shut down in six weeks’ time.
We spoke with Divvyshot’s founder, who indicated Facebook is interested in Divvyshot technology specifically for event tagging in photos. We suspect that the two team members headed to Facebook will work on tying Facebook photos to events so that all photos uploaded from the same event can be associated together via event tagging.
Beginning today, the site will no longer support new user registrations. As for all of Divvyshot’s 40,000 members, they have six weeks to download and migrate their photos elsewhere. Odio also tells us that the team is “working on the specifics of migration of photos to other photo-sharing services” — presumably migration to Facebook will be a priority.
On the acquisition and shutdown, Divvyshot writes:
“We know many of our users will have mixed feelings about this move. While this means Divvyshot as you know it will cease to exist, it’s important to realize that our unique approach to photos will live on. This is an opportunity to touch hundreds of millions of users with the best parts of our product. That’s something we hope you can get behind.”
