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Photo Editing

Today we are bringing photo editing to our picplz mobile apps using the fantastic tools and technology from Aviary. Now, in addition to the effects already in picplz, you can crop and rotate your photos, adjust the contrast or saturation, and even add text or draw annotations! We are launching with 15 photo editing tools, and all are available via the new Edit button found on the Preview screen in picplz. 

Let’s see what it looks like. Tapping the new Edit button brings up the Aviary photo editor view:

In this example, I really want to focus on the flower so I tap on the crop tool and with a couple quick gestures draw out my desired rectangle:

After hitting Apply, the Aviary editing engine works its magic, and then I’m back at the editing view. Now I want to brighten things up a bit so I swipe along the bottom to reveal more tools, and find the Brightness tool.

I tap on Brightness and choose the version I like:

After I’m done editing, I’m taken back to the normal picplz Preview screen.

From here I can choose one of the standard picplz filters, hit Next, and share my photo. It’s that easy! Both picplz 2.4 for Android and picplz 1.8 for iPhone are available now. Requires Android 2.2+ or iOS 4.3+. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think. We are very excited about working with Aviary and hope that you love the new photo editing tools as much as we do!

picplz for Android v2.3 and iPhone v1.7 released

As we said last week, new releases of the picplz Android and iPhone mobile apps were on their way.  Today we’re pleased to announce that picplz for Android v2.3 is available in the Android Market and picplz for iPhone v1.7 is available in the App Store.  These are the first new releases of the apps since picplz has been under new management. We’re very excited about where this is heading.

Both mobile apps have two new filters, C-41 and Redscale, with and without borders. Both filters are based on cross-processing techniques, with C-41 giving the photo a more green tone, while the Redscale filter suppresses the blue channel resulting in a warm, red glow.

 We’ve also added a new, highly requested option to save a filtered version of the image to the phone’s photo library/gallery. This option is in the Settings screen on both apps.

Give it whirl and let us know what you think on Twitter!

Screenshots:

picplz for Android updates

Over the past couple of weeks, we have released several small Android updates.  

Here is a quick summary of what has changed in the picplz Android app:

Changelog for picplz v2.1

• Find other picplz users via your phone contact list
• Better navigation when browsing, added Home and Refresh menu buttons
• New settings to control email and push notifications separately
• Better password recovery process on Android
• Android auto-correction support when you are entering a caption
• Speed improvements

Changelog for picplz v2.0.2

• Fix for blank image or crash on Xperia X10 and HTC Desire
• Fix for rare crash when applying photo effects

Changelog for picplz v2.0.1

• Reduced application size
• Fixed crash on Xperia X10 and HTC Desire
• Fixed problems with notifications on Android 2.2 and up
• Fixed CPU usage bug regarding backgrounding in some cases

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Thanks, please let us know what you think on twitter.

The picplz team

picplz for Android 2.0 released

Today is a big milestone for picplz as we release version 2.0 of our Android app.

We have integrated a great deal of user feedback and created what we think is a dramatically better user experience.  The best way to see the difference is to try it yourself :)

Full changelog:

• New look and feel!
• Native camera support. Picplz now takes advantage of all the great features that come with your phone’s camera such as zoom, flash, white balance, focus modes, and exposure.  (Options differ based on phone model)
• Easily follow what’s happening in your network through the new Activity feed
• Quickly post photos you’ve already taken using the Gallery option
• Disable location sharing option now available from your Settings menu
• Bug fixes

Screenshots:

Please let us know what you think.

Thanks

-The picplz team

New picplz for Android release

Our new Android version includes the new “live thumbnail preview” feature that was included in last week’s iPhone release.  The feedback we have heard so far about this feature has been 100% positive, so we think you will be excited to try this out.

Full changelog:

• Live thumbnail preview of your picture with different filters applied. (See screenshots below)
• Fixed rare crash on sign up
• Fixed issue with notifications not clearing from status bar
• Camera view no longer turns screen brightness to 100%
• Fixed issue with camera not properly detecting the flash state on start-up
• Other misc bug fixes

We also would like to let you know that we have a few more things in store for our Android users.  The release after this will contain a number of speed+browsing improvements we are working on at the moment.

Android Screenshots

Thanks!

-The picplz team

p.s.

Are you a software developer?  You can apply for access to the picplz API beta here.

Available now: Foursquare photo check-in support

Our friends at Foursquare have just launched a new feature to support check-in with a photo. 

Oh, and picplz for iPhone and picplz for Android now have support for this exciting new feature. Right now.  

We made this really easy on you… no picplz app upgrade required.  

Simply post a picplz photo to Foursquare just like you always have, and this new feature will Just work.  For both iPhone and Android picplz users.  Seriously, that’s it.

Have fun!

-Team picplz

New picplz versions for iPhone & Android

We have simultaneously released new versions of the picplz for iPhone and picplz for Android. The purpose of this release was to share a few new filters with the picplz community.  

We have added 3 new image filters: “Little Plastic Lens”, “Trip to the Optometrist”, and “Kaleidoscope Eyes.”

“Little Plastic Lens” example:

“Trip to the Optometrist” example:

“Kaleidoscope Eyes” example:

Thanks, please let us know if you have any feedback.  Many more exciting things to come!

picplz now supports Flickr, Tumblr and Posterous

As you may already know, picplz integrates with Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.  picplz now supports posting to 3 additonal services: Flickr, Tumblr and Posterous.

Support for these new services is immediately available for all existing iPhone, Android and website users and does not require any application updates on your part!  

Flickr

Tumblr

Posterous

Enjoy :)

p.s.

Please let us know on Twitter if you have any feedback