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Flickr Integration for Radar Announced

added on 2009-03-16 11:04:00
by Tanya Palta

Tiny Pictures recently announced the Flickr integration for Radar (http://radar.net)-a service for real-time sharing of cameraphone pictures, videos and conversations between friends. The integration allows users to follow Flickr photos as they're shared and the service is available for all major cellphones including the iPhone. For more information, please visit: http://radar.net/flickr

Tags: flickr, radar, imaging, news, services

Getty Images and Flickr Unveil the “Flickr Collection”

added on 2009-03-11 11:20:00
by Tanya Palta

Getty Images and Flickr have unveiled the “Flickr Collection” which is an image collection available exclusively on gettyimages.com for commercial licensing. Images from the Flickr Collection are available in both royalty-free and rights-managed licensing models.

“The Flickr Collection is determined by the lives of those who contribute to it,” said Andy Saunders, vice president of creative imagery at Getty Images. “The collection changes the definition of ‘stock’ photography by making it even easier for our customers to find and license imagery that is unexpected, genuinely original, and created by an untapped imagery resource – people everywhere.”

Tags: Getty Images, News, Flickr

Flickrista Photo WebSite

added on 2009-01-29 09:07:00
by Tanya Palta

Those who are interested in fashion photography should check out Flickrista at http://www.flickrista.com. The new website features “the most stunning and beautiful fashion photography uploaded to the photo sharing site Flickr.com”. All are chosen by editor, Andreas Climent who takes in consideration factors like composition, lighting, concept and beauty.

Tags: Flickrista, Flickr, Websites, News

Momail Integrates Flickr

added on 2008-12-23 04:03:00
by Tanya Palta

Momail (www.momail.com ) has integrated a Flickr plug-in into its mobile email service that enhances photo sharing and searching using the mobile phone. All images sent to the mobile via the Flickr search andthe download functions are automatically optimized for the individual handset via Momail's patented MMOPE-technology. The service is available in all Nordic countries, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, Poland and UK.

Tags: Flickr, Momail, News, Application

Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery

added on 2008-07-11 05:06:00
by Tanya Palta

Getty Images and Flickr announced a new partnership, which allows Getty Images to invite Flickr members to participate in a Flickr branded collection on http://www.gettyimages.com. All the images in this collection that will be available for licensing to Getty Images’ creative, commercial and editorial customers.

“We are excited and proud to be partnering with Flickr to offer our customers even more choice for their projects. Our customers will be able to select and use the best imagery from a fresh collection of high-quality images chosen by us from Flickr’s diverse and prolific community,” said Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images. “Flickr is the ideal partner as we continue to move the imagery industry forward by offering the broadest range of high quality digital content to our customers.”

Tags: Getty Images, News, Flickr

Flickr Users Protest New Video Feature

added on 2008-04-17 04:05:00
by Tanya Palta

Its not all hunky dory in Flickr land, as many users are less than thrilled about the new video-sharing feature. The largest protest group, “We Say NO to Videos on Flickr already has around 25,000 members who are protesting the video feature since they feel Flickr is all about still photography.

However Flickr is not budging and staffer Heather Champ in a feedback thread wrote:

“We’re sorry, but video is here to stay. We need to continue to improve, release new features and iterate”.

Tags: Flickr, Video, Video Sharing, Online, Imaging, News

Flickr Adds Video to its Popular Photo-Sharing Community

added on 2008-04-09 05:28:00
by Tanya Palta

It’s finally here and Flickr fans worldwide can rejoice. Flickr has added video sharing and now Flickr pro members can now upload personal video clips and share them with friends, family and the world. Video on Flickr will support up to 90 seconds of personal video footage captured with the video function of any digital video recording device and will be available in eight languages including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. This new feature provides:

- Video uploading for Flickr pro members
- The ability for free and pro members to view public video clips
- Video limits up to 90 seconds long and 150MB maximum in size
- Controls to make videos private, visible to friends and/or family, or public
- Seamless integration of videos into the photostream, along with photos
- The ability to share video clips individually, as part of a set, or embed on third-party Web sites
- Tagging and geotagging capabilities for videos
- The ability to search videos by tags and descriptions
- The ability to upload videos directly from camera phones
- The option to view videos on a full screen
- Licensing options to mark a video as 'All Rights Reserved' or designate a license through Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/)
- Application programming interface (API) for third party developers to create programs or services using authorized video submitted to Flickr

Tags: Flickr, Video, Video Sharing, Online, Imaging, News

Flickr Offering Online Image Editing

added on 2007-12-05 10:00:00
by Richard Baguley

Okay, so it isn't Photoshop, but Flickr's new online editing tools could be useful: it allows you to do basic image editing from within Flckr itself. The new features include color, exposure, resizing and red-eye editing tools using a system designed by Picnick. To use it , you just click on edit photo button in the top toolbar from within your photos list in Flickr, and it loads the tools within the browser. Our first experience of the new features was a bit mixed; it refused to work in the Firefox browser, the editing page was slow to load and the editing tools were rather slow as well when it did eventually load. Presumably that's because there are a huge number of Flickr users trying them out right now, so we'll see how it works over the next few days as they iron out the first set of bugs. But if they get it working faster, we can see this being a very useful tool for the serious photographer; although it won't replace Photoshop, it could provide an easier way to quickly edit an image after you upload it.

Tags: Flickr, Image Editing, Picnick

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