Flickr - that favourite amongst photo-sharers has now launched its video sharing service. Allowing its users to show photography and video work side by side. In fact the video service contains a huge number of useful features that include tagging, geotagging and playing from thumbnail as well as from the full size player. Like YouTube Flickr also includes an API for embedding and using videos on other web sites.
With Flickr joining in with Video sharing the competition for the best places to show off and run your videos from is heating up. If you’re a video producer your options have certianly increased. Got to say I like the aspect of showing video and photos together using one clean and simple service
Last week I noted the launch of Photoshop Express, but at that time I was unable to test it.
Now I have.
Which gave me the problem of reviewing it without gushing too much. Then I decided that perhaps what you needed to know should come in a bit of a torrent.
It is a seriously beautiful, flexible and powerful web application. It comes with 2GB of server storage for free (nice!) but most importantly this is a clever piece of software. It is not going to replace Photoshop on a desktop, but for quick editing and presenting of photographs it is ideal. After using it you cannot help to thing that the day of software as service for most people is pretty much here.
From an artistic point it gives you a great deal of control of your photographs from any Internet enabled location.
One odd thing I did notice - it integrates with a lot of web services such as Photobucket and Facebook; yet it does not allow you to load photos from Flickr. This is a great shame. I can’t help but wonder if that is something to do with Adobes long term plans for Express. Will it be a Flickr killer? I can’t answer that one yet. All I can say is that I really like Photoshop Express
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