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Photonic Giveaway Winners | MacApper — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:00:19 +0000

[...] couple weeks ago I reviewed Photonic, a new application that allows you to interact with Flickr from your desktop. Thanks to [...]

By: xyzpdq

xyzpdq — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:09:35 +0000

And the winners are…

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:17:50 +0000

Tiger….

By: Adam Teece

Adam Teece — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:30:55 +0000

I would really like it to be able to create a new set when I go to upload a photo. Usually I upload pictures in batches and instead of tagging them like I should, I generally put them in their own set.

By: Henry Yue

Henry Yue — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:24:54 +0000

Features I would like to see included in future updates:

1. Edit features – simple crop and resize functions.

2. Mail interface – similar to iPhoto mail interface when photos are selected.

3. Print options – similar to iPhoto print options when photos are selected.

4. “Blog This” interface – similar to Flickr “Blog This” interface.

5. Flickr Map integration – with the new Flickr Photo Map, I would like to view my contacts photomap (under Contacts) or at least include a “Flickr Map” button (suggested location: besides the “Star Rating” button) that links to a Flickr Map page by user account.

6. Fullscreen view – current fullscreen can be improved to include PicLens-style image browsing experience or slideshow option with timer control.

7. Under Explore – when I am exploring someone’s else photos and if I like a particular shot and I want to find out more information how the shot was taken, I would have to “right-click” and select “Go to Flickr Page” and click on “More Properties” under “Additional Information”. If there is a way to shortcut this process by adding a contextual menu item “Go to Image Properties”, that would be nice.

This last point is a query – I tried uploading a photo and added some tags but I noticed that the tags did not appear on my Flickr page after uploading. Not sure if others have similar experience.

By: kenneth

kenneth — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:08:19 +0000

The one feature I’d love to see is having a way to quickly copy some HTML code to embed the picture in my blog!

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:00:14 +0000

Add PicasaWeb support please. Looks like a very cool app.

By: Yonghwee Foo

Yonghwee Foo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:29:28 +0000

Would love to see some compatibility with iPhoto, Lightroom or Aperture.

By: Thom

Thom — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:01:17 +0000

I have really enjoyed the application. The two things that I would like to see: a button on the interface to refresh the groups and a way to view and interact with the flickr discussions. Thanks.

By: E.T.Cook

E.T.Cook — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:31:09 +0000

1. Being able to bring up the media browser, almost like iphoto’s, and add images to your document, or email photos etc.

2. Being able to get the link of a photo, or email it easily.

3. Probably too niche to be one of your top priorities, but it would be nice to be able to consolidate your other photo accounts into your flickr account, such as photobucket.

4. Might get heat for this, but the ability to backup some of your friends flickr images into your own would be.

5. Batch processes of any kind would be fantastic. Being able to batch resize and save them to a particular directory or something like that.

6. Integration with automator so we could create our own macros would be fantastic as well.

Awesome product, this is precisely what I have been waiting for as long as the editing features are on par with the web interface of Flickr. I HATE batch editing tags etc in Flickr, and being able to do that with locally cached thumbnails would be great. I have 2500 images uploaded, and have been waiting for a client to come out just so I can go through and prune everything…because it is too daunting a task for the web interface.

By: Sinbad

Sinbad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:27:35 +0000

The ability to save (possibly crop or edit) your favorite photos in iPhone/iPod Touch size (480×320), perhaps even automatically adding them to iTunes for easy syncing.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:50:31 +0000

iPhoto integration would be a welcome addition (or maybe even plug-ins for other apps?).

By: something2sea

something2sea — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:49:33 +0000

Great review,

Although the current functionality is good, it would be nice to see some integration with other apps (iPhoto, aperture, Grab, etc), the ability to edit already-uploaded photos (e.g. Title, sets, etc), and the ability to search by member name.

By: Geordan

Geordan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:46:22 +0000

A basic curves editing tool would be great, I know this isn’t workflow software, but it would definitely make this a more powerful app overall.

By: Lee Houghton

Lee Houghton — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:05:09 +0000

I would like to see integration, not just with iphoto and aperture, but also with other social websites like facebook, myspace and bebo. The great thing about these sites is the ability to tap into different aspects of contacts lives, “I like this person’s photos, I want to get to know them better and also know more about their other interests.”
So perhaps the program can search to see if they have accounts on these sites (using the same user name or e-mail) and give the option to add as friends.

Also, the ability to search by colours, not just tags, and details on the copyright so if you’re looking for photos for a project you can get exactly the right shade of blue and know at the same time you’re not breaking any copyright infringement.

By: Sanson Carrasco

Sanson Carrasco — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:38:23 +0000

Beeing able to search for pictures by drawing a sketch of what the picture would look like, for example drawing yellow triangles would bring pictures of the pyramids of Egypt, or a white rectangle with a smaller rectangle and a circle inside would bring pictures of an iPod.

By: Ryan Sandberg

Ryan Sandberg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:43:08 +0000

Another feature that I can think of is being able to make the window smaller. Right now it runs into the dock on my MacBook. I didn’t know how to edit, so I just made a new comment.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:33:46 +0000

This is a great app. I would love to see webkit integrated so that you don’t have to go out to a browser everytime you link to the Flickr service. Always nice to have everything in one app. There also really needs to be an easy way to create a new photoset. Still, off to a promosing start.

-Ian

By: Jens Poder

Jens Poder — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:52:05 +0000

My primary goal with flickr is often searching for pictures from Creative Commons to put into presentations or articles.

I would like the ability to do more refined searches in this tool. Perhaps I just can’t figure how to do it, but I would like to have a basic search for all of flickr, not just explore March 9. or my own sets but all of flickr.

it would be so cool to have Photonic running in one window and keynote in another. Type a search term and the CC license “By:”.

And then drag and drog the image directly into Keynote without downloading.

This would be the a total killer app and well worth the license.

I would consider a good downloader to be much worth spending money on, than the uploader part of photonic, where Flickr Uploadr has this basic functionality for free, and solves the problem fairly well.

- Jens Poder

By: Colby G

Colby G — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:49:51 +0000

Enhanced cropping tools would be nice.

By: mtx

mtx — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:40:27 +0000

There’s also Piclens, a free Firefox extension that allows you to browse Flickr (google images, others) in a kind of 3d interface that supports the Mighty Mouse scrollball – it’s really quite incredible. Fullscreen too.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579

By: rmaspero

rmaspero — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:29:40 +0000

Maybe some small editing features and the ability to comment would be nice

By: Maarten

Maarten — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:23:26 +0000

I like the geofunctionality of Flickr. Features like geotagging photos and browsing photos with the map interface would be really cool.

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:13:36 +0000

This is a great app – I would browse the photos on flickr all day, if it weren’t for the pain of having to do it through the internet browser.

Here are a few things I would like to see in Photonic in the future:
- iPhoto integration (even better if you can choose to keep or discard the tags)
- Ability to read and write comments (and maybe the option to turn them off)
- Ability to save photos, and also note where they came from somehow, so it’s easy to know who to credit if you use the photos in graphics or something
- Ability to view the license of photos, and to search for photos with a specific license

By: Ryan Sandberg

Ryan Sandberg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:11:44 +0000

I think that the option to download photos would be awesome.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:55:53 +0000

I third the recommendation for iPhoto/Aperture integration and comment support.

By: Jeff McKibben

Jeff McKibben — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:52:46 +0000

I’ve enjoyed using Flickr much more with Photonic. It’s intuitive and easy to use. My most immediate wish is for Photonic to allow me to upload a group of photos in a set created within the app. Later I’d like to have the ability to download sets of photos. Great start.

By: David Zumini

David Zumini — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:47:53 +0000

Integration with iPhoto would be awesome. Also (I guess depending on resolution and other things) but a “Set as desktop background” feature could be pretty cool for those time where you find a picture you really like and want it as your background…

By: Kiran Max Weber

Kiran Max Weber — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:28:08 +0000

One of the greatest things about Flickr is the “social network” aspect. Many times I’ll go to Flickr and look at my contacts latest photos and be pissed that A. I missed a great shot last week B. That these is no better way to look at ALL my contacts photos. An actual photostream view! Can you believe it! Seems obvious…

So when I tried your app I immediately when highlighted “Contacts” in the source column but got nothing. I expected this “view” to show me the above.

That’s my feature request!