Pro: Engineered to take better photos – not just edit regular smartphone photosĬon: Paid app, full-editing benefits require iPhone and iPad appsĪmong the litany of photo editing apps, this is one of the few – and the best – that focuses its resources on actually taking better pictures.
However, the huge storage allotment and iOS app’s auto-backup feature give Flickr a legitimate claim to house your digital images – and the valuable location data they carry with them.Īs Google continues on its quest to index the world and solve visual search, look for Google+ (also with auto-backup on iOS and Android apps) and Drive storage limits to rise, challenging Flickr’s main competitive advantage.
Yahoo’s erstwhile photo subsidiary mounted a serious resurgence in 2013, and Flickr’s working to build on that with steady iteration on its page design.įlickr long ago lost out to Instagram and Pinterest on the opportunity to become the medium for social sharing and viewing of images online.
With an iOS app-overhaul and impressive 1 TB of free photo storage per user, Flickr is relevant again. Pros: 1 terabyte free of photo storage and a redesigned viewerĬon: Not the preferred network for sharing photos and getting engagementĬost: Free (ad-free version with unlimited storage available for $49.99/year The results themselves are presented in an inherently social manner.Ĭase in point: before the end of 2013, it was almost impossible to check Instagram without running across a couple of “ Best Moments” videos, showcasing users five most popular posts in the previous year. If you’re publishing your images on Instagram, Statigram provides actionable analytics to measure the health of your content. Pros: Free, easy to use data is clear and shareableĬons: Metrics are simplistic Instagram-only tool A similar feature for Twitter and other networks would help avoid awkward preview-cropping of in-stream photos. The tool also resizes photos for optimal presentation in the Facebook Newsfeed. The in-browser Social Media Image Maker from Autre Planete ensures that your photos meet the ideal dimensions for 15 different social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Your engaging visual content should start with – and lead to – a solid profile page. Pro: photo editor/resizer that covers all profile-photo needsĬon: Only optimizes picture sizes for posts on Facebook