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FlauntR, developed by a Technopark-based company is a website that aims at making photo editing easy
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User friendly FlauntR has hundreds of one-click effects including scrapbook styles, textures, canvases, frames…
The personal computer is at a cross-road with more and more consumers turning to the Internet for running their applications than the desktop. Running an application and saving data on the Internet makes you free of the location constraint.
No wonder all major internet sites are providing more storage space for their users. While office applications and music libraries have been around on the net for some time now, Device Driven – a Technopark-based company has come up with FlauntR ( www.flauntr.com), an online photo-editing client.
FlauntR is a website that aims at making photo editing easy enough to be done by anyone. And that too without bulky applications and cumbersome procedures.
Styling up the picture
Says Balaji Bal, chief executive officer, Device Driven: “This online one-click destination lets you style your photos for posting on social networking sites, jazz up photos for special occasions like birthdays, weddings and anniversaries and store and share them .”
Abhiram Sarat one of the product designers puts in, “There are hundreds of one-click effects including scrapbook styles, textures, canvases, frames, light effects, colourations and overlays.”
Abhiram has worked with clients like Nokia, developing many applications for the mobile, including music games for the new Music Xpress versions of Nokia. No wonder FlauntR looks uncluttered in appearance. Working for the small screen makes designers adept at handling the big screen.
Bal continues: “FlauntR is already integrated with Flickr while other photo storage sites are being integrated.”
Bal who is based in Zurich, Switzerland, reveals that FlauntR will soon undertake paid works for printing T-shirts, birthday cards and mouse-pads with the users photos.
Once the service kicks-off, a T-shirt with your loved one’s photo as a birthday gift is only a click and a paypal account away. The idea of memorabilia as merchandise will no doubt fetch good bucks. But all this will have to wait till the volumes start kicking in.
Users can also embed their creations onto their blogs and websites by simply copy pasting a piece of code provided by FlauntR just like what you do in youtube.
DeviceDriven comes with the punchline ‘Big thinking for a small world.’
There is no doubt that such products do knit together people and communities. But in the highly competitive market, namely the net, only time can tell whether the people are ready to flaunt their photos at FlauntR.
VISHNU MENON M
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