Flickr updated its Web uploader yesterday, adding a slew of improvements to what for many is their primary way of adding photos to the popular hosting service. The biggest update is that the upload cap of six photos at a time has been lifted. I was able to send off about 40 high-resolution shots (at about 3MB a pop), all at once, and without a hitch. Also new is a status bar for each photo, as well as a "master" bar to show you how far along you are on the entire upload--these were things you previously needed the software-based uploader to see.
Another tweak that's a real life-saver is the new batch edit tool, once your photos are loaded. This lets you add tags to all the photos at once, or drop them into a set--old or new. Flickr also places all the photos you've just uploaded on one page, which results in a lot less clicking to add titles and descriptions. Previously, you only got a few at a time.
If you're a frequent uploader, I'd still recommend installing one of Flickr's software uploading tools, since it has some nice advanced features, such as being able to send any photo on your hard drive straight to Flickr without having to fire up a browser. For people traveling abroad or relying on public computers, this is a much-needed update.
Related: A Newbie's Guide to Flickr
Flickr users trying to upload their vacation photos on public computers can now upload more than six shots at a time with the new Web uploader.
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News organization Reuters is working with photo editing powerhouse Adobe and camera maker Canon so changes to digital photos can be detected,
Reuters, the news agency whose image was tarnished earlier this year when a freelance photographer provided
"I am pleased to announce today that we are working with Adobe and Canon to create a solution that enables photo editors to view an audit trail of changes to a digital image, which is permanently embedded in the photograph, ensuring the accuracy of the image," Glocer said in the blog posting, a transcript of a December 11 speech at the Globes Media Conference in Tel Aviv.
"We sought a technical solution so that we had total and full transparency of our work. It's what we stand for. It's what we've always stood for. And we hope that it will provide reassurance to editors and consumers of our services," he said. "Transparency and truth are important to us."
The issue of trust is increasingly important in a "citizen journalism" world where the ordinary public, not just news professionals, supply content, he said.
"What does the future look like in a world in which the consumer has taken over the printing press, the dark room, the television studio? What does the result of a mashup of professional and "amateur" actually look like? And more importantly--is trust the victim in a world of millions of news sources--will we live in a world where truth is passed through a sieve of opinion and commentary?"
It's not an academic issue for Reuters. Earlier in December, it announced a deal with Yahoo in which people who post photos to the Flickr photo-sharing site, can tag their shots and submit them to Reuters.
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