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April 04 2012
Announcing a new and faster photo editor from Aviary
More exciting news from Flickr HQ! We are thrilled to share the news that we’ve partnered with Aviary to bring you a brand new photo editing experience on Flickr. We will roll the new editor out to people over the next two weeks starting this Thursday. If you don’t see it in your ‘Actions’ menu yet, check back in a couple days.
Tens of thousands of members edit their photos on Flickr each day, so we know that photo editing is something that the Flickrverse cares about. We listened to you to find out what you value the most in an online photo editor, and the the same 2 attributes kept coming back: speed and simplicity.
Speed. Editing a photo online should be fast. And we’ve worked very hard with the Aviary team to deliver a fast and uncluttered experience. Your photo loads and is ready to be edited in seconds.
Simplicity. Editing on Flickr should be simple and fun. With the Aviary editor, beginners will find that there’s almost no learning curve and more demanding users will appreciate the versatility of the tool. You can apply new app like filters, stickers, text, and save it back to your photostream with just a few clicks.
We’re also happy to share that Aviary’s editor is written in HTML5, so it’s also works on the iPad, Please go ahead and try it out, it’s awesome! You can find more technical details about the underlining technologies in our developer blog.
We’ll open a topic in the help forum for feedback when it’s on the site. (And remember, if you don’t see it yet, just give it a couple days.)
March 22 2012
Your Favorites Page – now with Justified View!
We’ve promised some big changes this year and we’re keeping our word. A few weeks ago we announced a new look for the Photos from your Contacts page and your feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Mostly, what you’ve been telling us is “we want to see this layout on other pages. Now!”
So today we’re happy to announce that the Justified View is coming to your Favorites.
“Go check my Favorites page, it’s awesome!”
Do you ever find yourself saying that? We do! It makes perfect sense that we all love our individual Favorites pages, after all it’s the page on Flickr where you get to handpick all the photos that mean something to you, whether it be photos of family or a stunning photo that you discovered in Explore. So it’s excellent that from now on, you’ll be able to experience your (and other people’s) Favorites page with even more gusto, using the Justified View, voilà!
As with the Photos from your Contacts page, the roll out will be gradual, but is likely to be very fast. If you don’t see it right now, check back again shortly, it’s on the way.
We working very hard to bring this layout to other pages you care about soon. In the meanwhile, have fun with it! Please keep sharing your feedback and let us know if you encounter any bugs.
March 15 2012
Have a great story to tell? We’d love to hear it!
We know that there are many amazing things going on in the Flickrverse every day. You have tips to share that help others improve their photography, create fantastic apps with the API, build DIY gear, organize amazing photowalks and events, and share adventures from around the world. Simply put, there is a lot going on that deserves to be featured on FlickrBlog or tweeted to everyone following @flickr.
If you want to share a story about a unique photography project you’re working on, how Flickr has changed your life, helped you find new friends (or partners), become a better photographer, or moments of serendipity, let us know through the new help page contact form. We’re excited to hear about it!
Photo from *Cinnamon.
March 09 2012
Introducing a new home for your Flickr Meetups
Meeting other Flickr members in the real world has always been an integral part of the Flickr community with its many groups and circles of Flickr buddies.
We want to make it easy for you to meet each other all around the world! That’s why we want to give you an improved tool to plan your Flickr events. Photowalks, exhibitions, get-togethers and all your other awesome activities can now be organized and announced over on our Flickr page at Meetup.com.
In the past few weeks, after our sneak-peak announcement, we’ve already got more than 228 FlickrMeets organized around the world and there are lots more to come! If you need a hand, we have created an FAQ that will guide you through finding and creating your first FlickrMeet.
If you have any questions or want to let us know about all the amazing things you are planning, drop us a line at flickrmeetup[at]flickr.com.
PS: After all the hanging out and fun, everyone loves to see photos, so don’t forget to come up with a unique tag for your event and share them to your Flickr group. If you’re on Twitter, you can even spread the word further by posting your tweets with #FlickrMeetup.
February 16 2012
Built-in Flickr photo sharing coming to Mac OS this summer!
This summer, sharing photos to Flickr will become even easier for Mac users, with the release of the new Mac OS X Mountain Lion. With their Share Sheets concept a “Share” button will be available in many Mountain Lion apps, allowing you to share photos to your photostream with the click of a button.
Until Mac OS X Mountain Lion arrives, you can keep enjoying posting to Flickr from your Mac using iPhoto and Aperture, as well as viewing your and your contacts’ photos on the Apple TV.
Read more about the new features on Apple’s Sneak Peek page for the new OS.
Photo from D’MYS .
February 15 2012
The Flickr Android App speaks 9 more languages!
Since its initial launch 5 months ago, we’ve seen people all over the world turn to the Flickr Android app to upload and share their pictures. We’re thrilled we can extend the Flickr Android app to even more members across the globe with the latest update, which now includes 9 new language options! German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Bahasa Indonesia to be precise.
Starting today, you can take photos directly from the app, enhance them with filters, and quickly send pictures to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere in these 9 languages.
If you already use one of these languages as the default language setting on your Android phone, your Flickr Android App will “automagically” update to match your phone settings with this new version (1.3). If you ever want to change the language in your Flickr Android app, you can do so by adjusting the language settings option on your mobile.
Don’t have the Flickr Android App installed on your mobile? Go download it at the Android Market.
Looking forward to seeing more of your photos on the go!
February 09 2012
Time Flies! Celebrating 4 Years of The Commons on Flickr
Back in early 2008, some clever folks at the U.S. Library of Congress and Flickr collaborated to create a pilot project with two key goals: To increase exposure to the hidden treasures held in the world’s public photography archives, and to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.
To achieve these goals, a special rights statement — ‘No known copyright restrictions’ — was created to provide a copyright framework allowing institutions to add their photos to Flickr and define how the public could use their work through their own rights statement.
That project became known as The Commons on Flickr.
The Commons started with 1,500 photos from a single institution and has grown steadily to 56 institutions in 12 countries exhibiting over 200,000 photos. And over the last four years we have seen a ton of engagement from the Flickr community with over 130,000 comments and nearly 7 million favorites on these images.
What we’ve learnt since launch
Right from the start, it was clear that these rich archives had the power to bring people together to make light work of viewing and interpreting photographs. It was also clear that institutions sharing their interesting photography archives combined with a passionate community were the right ingredients to make something very special happen, bringing together personal stories and collective wisdom.
Using the collaborative tools on Flickr, such as comments, tags and notes has helped institutions and members communicate and contribute details around the archival photography.
“We loved how viewers took advantage of Flickr’s visually-oriented note tool to point out particular details of the photographs, and we marveled at the ways in which commenters offered connections to related images and resources that helped explain the pictures.”- Barbara Orbach Natanson from the Library of Congress.
There have been instances where Flickr members contributed context and story-telling around a photo which was then verified by the institutions and even added to the official records of that photo.
From The Library of Congress’s set Mystery Pictures – Solved! members were able to identify the mystery location of the photo and provide modern-day photos of that very location.
![[Palais de la Préfecture, Nice, France (Riviera)] (LOC)](http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4061/4210443269_fa5bb89001.jpg)
With examples from many other institutions also:
Then by National Gallery of Scotland, now by Vo0Ds:
Then by Biblioteque Toulouse, now by janberckmans:
Then by the New York Public Library, now by tarawo,
It’s also heart-warming to browse the Library of Congress’ set Great Comments! THANK YOU!
“Flickr members have found family members through the photographs, they’ve helped commemorate individuals whose stories aren’t well known but deserve to be remembered, they’ve solved mysteries, and they’ve helped us all appreciate the technology and art of photography.”- Barbara Orbach Natanson from the Library of Congress.
Members were also able to help identify these survivors of the Titanic.
The photo with the given title “Louis & Lola ?– TITANIC survivors (LOC)” was revealed to be actually orphans of the Titanic disaster, French brothers Michel (age 4) and Edmond Navratil (age 2) with the nicknames Lolo and Mamon.
Family relatives have been identified within photographs in The Commons:
The power of photography to bring people together
We’ve been delighted to see how the power of photography brings people together, which we’ve seen most clearly with groups such as the Flickr Commons group, the community-created site indicommons, offline community meet ups and the creative uses of Commons photos by members utilizing the No Known Copyright framework.
Many thanks to the team at the Library of Congress and George Oates who founded The Commons on Flickr, all of the additional 55 Commons institutions that have joined over the course of four years, and last but not least to you, the Flickr community, who have made The Commons what it is today and never cease to amaze us with your creativity and passion for photography. Whee!
Photos from State Library of New South Wales collection, Nationaal Archief, National Library of Ireland on The Commons, George Eastman House, Smithsonian Institution, San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, NASA on The Commons, The U.S. National Archives, Brooklyn Museum, The Library of Congress, cercamon, National Galleries of Scotland Commons, Vo0Ds, Bibliothèque de Toulouse, janberckmans, New York Public Library, tarawo, Swedish National Heritage Board, and pennylrichardsca.
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