Instagram makes mobile photo-sharing more hip with filters, enhancements

Mobile photo-sharing service Instagram updated its application today with a new filter, enhancement feature, and a makeover to its user interface.

Instagram lets you take a photo with your iPhone and layer it with different filters for that extra hip look. You can then connect it to your social networks and share it with the Instagram community. Now, the company is introducing a new, sleeker interface that’s easier to navigate. The updates include a new … Continue Reading

A change we don’t hate: Facebook updates photo viewer

It seems Facebook has rolled out its new lightbox photo viewer to more people today, and some are saying it’s a ripoff of Google+.

The new feature is similar to the old “theater view” in that it takes the user into a pop-up carousel of photos. What’s new is that Facebook has moved the comments to the right side of the photo and added advertising below the comments field. In order to like or tag … Continue Reading

Online photo editor Aviary hopes to take Picnik’s place

Sad that Google’s online photo editor Picnik is meeting its demise this year? Well, veteran photo editing service Aviary is plotting to take its place. On Monday the company announced it’s bringing its photo editing services to the Web with a new Facebook app.

“We took the best pieces of our original software, made it lightweight, and launched into Facebook. We were founded to try to bring creativity to the masses,” Alexander Taub, Aviary’s lead … Continue Reading

Sad picture time: Kodak prepping for Chapter 11

After 131 years of innovating the photography industry, Eastman Kodak is reportedly preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Kodak has been on unsteady ground ever since digital photography began decimating the print photo business in the mid-2000s. The company had an especially bad year in 2011, and the company admitted Tuesday that it would be de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange unless is improves its financials in the next six months. The company’s … Continue Reading

Tiny Review iPhone app makes everyday photos into special moments (exclusive)

As photos become the new status update, we’re going to see big changes in the way people create, combine and consume words and images. The latest example is from a 500 Startups company called Tiny Review, which unites microblogging and social photo-sharing in its free photo storytelling app. And with a new update for the app out today, the Tiny Review craze is about to take off.

With Tiny Review, users take photos on their … Continue Reading

Click tease: New collaborative Hipstamatic app makes you wait for photos

Back in my day, we had to fill a roll of film with 24 photos, drop it off at the Fotomat, and then wait an hour (or a day!) to see the final printed product. The makers of retrotastic photo app Hipstamatic have deeply romanticized memories of those analog times. They pine for the suspense, the unpredictability and the photo-foreplay, if you will, of film.

Synthetic, the company behind Hipstamatic, announced its latest app today, … Continue Reading

iPhone 4S already the second most popular cameraphone on Flickr

Apple’s fast-selling iPhone 4S is now the second-most used cameraphone on the popular photo-sharing service Flickr, according to the site’s Camera Finder page.

The iPhone 4 is actually the most-popular camera of all on Flickr now, but the iPhone 4S has yet to crack the top 5 list of most-used cameras on Flickr, which features traditional cameras like the Nikon D90 and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II in second and third place. But give … Continue Reading

Google Maps now lets you tour the parks of the world

Google Maps got a leaf-filled refresh on Tuesday with the addition detailed images of a couple hundred of the world’s most famous parks.

The 360-degree images of the parks, captured by the nimble Street View trike, represent roughly a year of cross-country tricycle voyages, Google product manager Ryan Falor said in a blog post announcing the update.

Featured parks include the world-famous High Line Park in New York City, Koganei Park in Tokyo and Kensington … Continue Reading

Flickr launches its first official Android app, plus iPhone “Photo Sessions”

Popular photo-sharing site Flickr is stepping up its mobile efforts with new Android and iOS features.

The site launched its first Android app today, and also introduced a new feature for iPhone and iPad customers called Photo Session.

Photo Session lets you “flip” through a gallery of photos with friends, no matter where they are in the world, using your iPad or iPhone.

“Photo Session is like sitting next to your friend and flipping through … Continue Reading

Facebook to add its own photo filters instead of buying Instagram

There’s just no escape from mobile photo filters. After being made popular by apps like Instagram and PicPlz, now Facebook is looking to add filters to its mobile apps, reports the New York Times.

The move isn’t entirely surprising, since filters aren’t very difficult to implement and Facebook has been the leading online photo sharing site for years. And this point, even Apple is looking to add photo filters as a core feature of its … Continue Reading

Camera startup Lytro promises a “picture revolution”

Photography lovers will surely be delighted to hear the mission of the new startup Lytro. The company, which made itself known Tuesday, said it will to bring a new kind of camera to the consumer market and that its launch later this year will be “the start of a picture revolution.”

Lytro’s breakthrough new camera hinges on a new kind of sensor that captures the entire light field around a picture, rather than only a … Continue Reading

OnRequest Images takes $2M more for global custom photography

OnRequest Images, a service which takes custom photographs from around the world, today announced $2 million according to Seattle-based TechFlash, which is where the company is headquartered.

OnRequest Images helps marketers and brands to take customized photos for campaigns. The company hosts a network of a couple hundred photographers, stylists and production crews around the world.  Many of those photographers can be seen right on the company’s website and range from 40-year-olds in Turin, Italy … Continue Reading

BritePic — photography may never be the same

OnRequest Images, a service which takes custom photographs from around the world, today announced $2 million according to Seattle-based TechFlash, which is where the company is headquartered.

OnRequest Images helps marketers and brands to take customized photos for campaigns. The company hosts a network of a couple hundred photographers, stylists and production crews around the world.  Many of those photographers can be seen right on the company’s website and range from 40-year-olds in Turin, Italy … Continue Reading