FotoViewr: Gorgeous embeddable photo galleries in less than ten seconds
Fotoviewr is an online service that lets you create gorgeous 3d photo galleries from your Flickr photos in about ten seconds flat. In literally eight mouse clicks (and a couple keystrokes), you go from not having any photos on your blog or web page (or having lame two dimensional photos that don’t even obey the rules of physics – nasty! i think i just puked in my mouth a little) to having this:
Some really nice features of FotoViewr are the ability to choose from six different foto space visualizations (Wall, Horizon, Carousel, Floor, Pile, Flow), the ease-of-use of creation (I can’t stress how easy to use it is. My cat created a photo set accidentally one time by stepping on the keyboard!), and embedding options which include chunks of HTML suitable for blog or web page (shown above), or a Facebook application.
I think that they could have added a lot more gratuitous features, but I’m glad that they didn’t. I’m all about software that does one thing, and does it well, and for FotoViewr, that one thing is “making people drool when they look at my photos.” Regardless of which visualization you use, the presentation of the photos is visually rich, engaging, and playful, and can make even the lamest photos look good.
If I had to ask for three improvements, I would say:
1) Higher resolution rendering of photos – sometimes the photos look a bit grainy
2) The ability for the user (i.e. the fotoviewr viewr 
) to change the visualization mode, instead of / in addition to this being up to the person who creates the gallery.
3) The ability to see titles associated with each photo. The ’showing metadata’ slope is a slippery one (e.g. but what about tags?!?) but I draw the line at title. While tags are nice for organizing photos, in this scenario, I think that seeing the title of the photos could add a lot of value.
Overall, this is a fantastic tool (and fantastically free!) for showing off your photos – I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it for more exciting visualizations / embedding options to come.
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