Users can upload multiple photos, choose between either full or medium resolutions, and enter title, description, set, tag and privacy fields. The app also provides the ability to edit basic photo information (title, description, sets, tags and privacy), lets you comment on photos, and can save them to the Camera Roll.įor the casual Flickr user, the official Flickr app has the benefit of being completely free, and is actually a pretty good solution for uploading photos to Flickr. Sadly, the answer here is “not much:” Flickr has set a relatively low bar with an application that’s okay for exploring Flickr, searching and browsing your own photos and those from your contacts, as well as uploading new photos. Let’s begin with a quick look at Flickr’s own free, official iOS app-dubbed simply Flickr-so we can provide a baseline for what the company itself offers to iOS users. We focus primarily on Flickr here due to its unlimited storage options and established track record, with a brief look thereafter at what Adobe’s offering brings to the table. We also wanted to note that Adobe recently joined the party with its Revel app, while several smaller startups are looking to enter the arena as well. The App Store now includes several dozen Flickr apps, but for today’s roundup focuses on apps that provide effective solutions for users who want to access their own photo libraries in the cloud.
If nothing else, this makes Flickr an excellent backup service for photos, and there are a wide range of iOS applications enabling a Flickr library to become your iOS devices’ cloud photo storage solution as well. One of Flickr’s original selling points remains its biggest advantage today for the serious photographer with a large library: for the price of an iTunes Match subscription-$25/year-users get unlimited uploading and storage for their photos, including full access to the original files. Even though parent company Yahoo has lost much of its former glory, Flickr remains the 800-pound gorilla in the photo storage and sharing space. Additional problems are created when you consider that downscaled and edited versions wind up scattered between devices, creating multiple variations that may or may not make it back into your master library.įlickr is capable of stepping in to fill some of these gaps. As of now, Apple treats iOS devices as capable of viewing, displaying, and sharing small numbers of specifically-selected photos, which are generally picked from only several supported Windows/Mac management apps, then downsized during synchronization. Instead, this year saw only a modest improvement with the addition of Shared Photo Streams, which will add some value for users who want to quickly and easily share photos stored on their IOS devices, but doesn’t address what happens to their larger, archived photo libraries. We hoped that WWDC would usher in a rethought Apple photo storage solution that would more effectively place a user’s entire photo library “in the cloud ” last year’s introduction of Photo Stream was a baby step in this direction, but lacked any kind of organization or long-term storage.
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