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StumblePics: StumbleUpon for Flickr Photos

Here’s a new way of browsing and viewing photos, through StumblePics. The service is like StumbleUpon but only focused on photos. StumblePics makes use of photos found on Flickr and can be viewed in high quality.

The photos that appear on Stumblepics are not entirely random like in StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon displays websites and images based on the categories that you provided. In StumblePics, you need to provide the keyword every time you want to use the service. This way, you’ll get to change keywords if you want to view a different set of photos.

From time to time you’ll get a message saying that StumblePics has encountered some trouble displaying the image and it’s probably Flickr’s fault. When this happens you can simply reload the page to get your chance to view the photo.

This is a great alternative in viewing Flickr photos based on tags that interests you. The great thing about this service is the fact that you’ll get the high quality image right away. You won’t have to browse pages of Flickr just to get to the high quality images that you are looking for.

Tags: flickr, images, Photos, StumblePics, stumbleupon

GeoImpress : Easily View Geo-Tagged Photos and Twitter Comments Made About Locations All Over the World

GeoImpress is a web application that has been developed for everyone interested in a certain place all over the world. The service is powered by Google Maps, Flickr and Twitter which makes it easy to guess what it is all about and how to use it. You can view geo-tagged photos of a particular location in just a single click of your mouse. You can also view comments made on Twitter about a particular place that you are interested in.

Simply click on any part of the world map provided by Google and GeoImpress will automatically display photos taken and geo-tagged on that particular location. This is also true if you want to view Twitter comments. Just click the dropdown button and select thoughts. Selecting the Impressions option will bring you back to viewing Flickr photos of your location of choice.

This is a nifty tool for checking out different locations all over the world. It eliminates the need for you to use search engines to gather information and photos about a particular place. The Twitter updates will help you to know what’s going on at your travel destination while viewing photos taken by other people who have been there or lives there. It’s a great alternative to viewing travel websites and getting the information that you need about a particular country, city or location.

Tags: flickr, Geo Tag, GeoImpress, Photos, Tweets, twitter

ColorSuckR: Suck the Colors from Photos and Make Color Schemes

ColorSuckR is a tool that you can use to extract colors from a photo and automatically create a color scheme based on that photo.

To use the service, your photo must be hosted somewhere online. The app does not support photo upload from your computer. You can upload your photos using various photo hosting sites and provide them with the Photo URL. The engine will automatically generate a color scheme based on your photo.

ColorSuckr is a great tool for automatically producing color schemes for your next web design or artwork. If you want to design a site based on the colors of a logo that you have previously made or one that was given to you, the tool might come in handy in choosing the colors that will complement your logo.

ColorSuckR Tips

•Drag and drop the color results: You can move the color results around the page, click on the color strip, hold and drag, let go to drop. You can also show and hide the color text by clicking the small grey dot next to the strip.

•Flickr pages: If you enter a Flickr photo page (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/orangeinks/3597013093/) in the ‘Enter image url’ box, ColorSuckr will find the main photo.

•Web pages: If you enter a web page URLl (e.g. http://orangeinks.com/) instead of an image, ColorSuckr will scan the page and show you the images on it & you can choose from there.

•Use color photos: Yes, this sounds silly, but black and white images will only return a few shades of grey.

•Bookmarklet: Drag and drop this link – Get image colors – into your bookmarks bar or save it to your favourites and make getting colors from web images easy. Next time you are on a webpage with images you’d like to get colors from – just click the bookmark. (Works on images larger than 50px x 50px)

•Colors that are picked: ColorSuckr chooses the 12 most common colors from an image, so if your image is mostly blue with a splash of pink, chances are the pink won’t get picked up.

•Install the Firefox add-on: Rather than messing about with copying and pasting urls, make it easier to grab colors from images by installing the add-on for Firefox.

*They also have a great collection of pre-selected colorful flickr photos for you to choose from that generates awesome color schemes.

Tags: Color Scheme, Color Scheme Generator, ColorSuckr, flickr, Photos

MyPicsMap: Explore the World Through Flickr and Google Maps

MyPicsMap is a tool for viewing geo tagged photos on Flickr. If you like viewing places through other’s eyes or photographs, I’m sure that you’ll find MyPicMaps quite interesting. The tool was developed integrating Google Maps and Twitter to produce a user experience that most will surely enjoy.

You can enter a Flickr username and view the geo tagged photos that is shared by a particular user. Aside from being a Flickr Photo viewer, it also allows you to easily discover where on the map a particular photo is taken, whether it is a portrait or a photo of a scenery. If you want to go to explore mode, simply click the explore button and it will display random photos from Flickr scattered all over the world.

If you want a geo-tagged user experience with Flickr, check out MyPicsMap. Whether you want to view your own photos on a map or view the world through the eyes of other Flickr users, you will surely enjoy the best of Flickr on MyPicsMap.

Tags: flickr, Geo-tagged, geotag, google maps, MyPicsMap, Photos

Downloadr Lets You Backup Your Flickr Photos

Downloadr is a Windows application and a rather small one that allows you to make bulk downloads from your Flickr account to your computer. It authenticates with Flickr so that you can download private photos as well.

You can search photos by Fulltext, user, tags, place,set, date,interestingness, group and favorites. The largest available size is downloaded automatically and it writes EXIF and IPTC data so titles and tags are preserved within the photos.

This is a great little app that you can use to make backups or download photos for printing or whatever purpose you have for them. The software is free and you won’t have to worry about downloading newer versions because it’s updated automatically.

Tags: Backup Flickr, Downloadr, flickr, Photos

Idée Multicolr: Search Flickr using a Color Chart

Idée Multicolr is a search tool for Flickr Images. What makes this particular search tool very interesting is the way it searches images/photos. It allows you to search images using colors and not keywords. You can select which color you want on the color chart. The engine allows you to choose up to ten colors and then it will display a list of photos from Flickr containing the colors that you have selected.

We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography.

To use the service, just select a color and the engine will immediately display a list of images containing your color of choice. As you add color the list changes. You can also remove a color and idée results will change immediately.

This is a neat service that do not use the traditional way of searching, through keywords. When searching photos/images on the web, the colors included on those images are not tagged, so to speak. The Idée search engine changes all that. It’s very useful for designers looking for images on the web that will match their designs. Finding images to match the color of a theme or template just became easier.

Tags: color search, flickr, Idée, Photo Search, search-engine