Hands-on: Flickr’s slick iPhone update puts filters in the foreground
About seven months ago, Yahoo! took its almost moribund Flickr mobile app and improved the hell out of it. But that was only the beginning. In a universe dominated by Instagram, in which other shooting and sharing apps struggle for eyeballs and fingertips, Flickr's new moves are, at the very least, inspiring.
Today's brand new free update of the storied photo sharing app—for iOS only, so far—unveils updated camera shooting features such as new, live-view filters; customized filter adjustments; and sophisticated grid, zoom, focus, and exposure lock controls. And everything's wrapped in an intuitive, gesture-based interface.
Tapping two fingers on the screen allows you to set focus and exposure, and then lock them in before you tap the huge white button.
The updated app lets you shoot in either portrait or landscape orientation (with the shooting icons cutely flipping sideways), but the balance of the controls are still best used in the portrait view.
New image filters immediately call up animated interface controls for effects with names like Ice Tea, Brooklyn, Louisiana, Throwback, and Newsprint, each offering a different stylistic color effect. Graphite, Noir, and Antique round out increasingly popular black and white image treatments.
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