Don’t miss any new photos of your close friends!

In the last week, we have rolled out a new feature that helps you follow your friends photo activity in a hassle-free way. Just favorite an existing contact on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Picasa, Tumblr, Picplz and 500px (the star on the left of the name of the contact), and you will be notified by email on a daily basis as soon as this contact adds new photos on the corresponding service. In this way, you won’t miss any new photos of your close friends and you won’t need to switch between your different photo applications anymore.

In the same way, you are notified when new photos of your favorite band or celebrity are added on the Facebook fan pages you like.

Tumblr is now on Pictarine

We have just integrated Tumblr to Pictarine! It was our community’s most requested service, so right now, you can add as many Tumblr accounts as you like and access all your photos in one timeline. You will enjoy all your photos in our viewer and we show you all the people who liked your photos. Browse among contacts you follow on Tumblr to discover all their photos and favorite your contacts to keep an eye on their photo updates. Finally, bookmark your favorites with your playlists and share them with friends and family by email, Facebook or Twitter.

We got a lot of suggestions of photo services to integrate in Pictarine. Thank you so much! If you have photos on a service that we do not integrate yet, please suggest it by clicking on “Other photo service” on the “My Accounts” screen, we will add the most popular ones.

Organize & share your photos with playlists

Over the past few weeks, we have been quietly rolling out a major new feature on Pictarine. So if you sign into Pictarine right now, you will enjoy an easy and intuitive way to organize and share your photos. We call it “playlist”. It was inspired by the way you already organize and share your music in your daily life.

Playlists

In a playlist, you bookmark your favorite photos: you can add any photo or album to it, including your friends’ ones. So you have an easy access to the photos you really love, wherever they are hosted or whoever has taken them!

You can also build playlists around themes: photos from a memorable trip, family photos, party photos… And then, share those playlists by email, Facebook or Twitter, so your friends and family can enjoy the photos you carefully selected for them. Playlists are a simple way to create different subsets of photos: you can finally select  ”safe” photos of your last trip in Amsterdam for your parents while letting your friends see the whole set! 

How to add a photo to a playlist

You can add a photo or an entire album to a new or an existing playlist just by clicking on the contextual menu of an album or photo

or by clicking on the Playlist icon during a slideshow

Download and share your playlists

You can access all your playlists, in the “Playlists” item of the menu and you can download or share each one. Each playlist has a secret link and only the people who have this link can access your photos from this playlist. You have the choice to share this link by email, Facebook or Twitter. Or you can just copy the link in the browser’s address bar and share it any way you like. Your friends will enjoy your playlists with one click in a slick slideshow with no need to register on Pictarine! It is a secure and easy way to share you favorite photos.

From zests to playlists

As some of you have noticed, we have migrated your existing zests to playlists, so you can enjoy all your existing photos grouped in zests with the playlists features. We have learned a lot from your feedback on zests and we hope you will enjoy playlists!

This is part of the new “Kumquat” version of Pictarine, and you can expect more cool stuff in the next few months, so stay tuned!

We have refreshed the slideshow!

We have refreshed the slideshow design and added a cool way to navigate between your photos. First we have suppressed the info icon and moved all the relevant infos about the photo at the bottom of the screen, so you can see them at a glance. Then, we have added a new icon that allows you to navigate through all photos of the current album without leaving the slideshow (see the screenshot below). Hope you will enjoy it!

Founders at work

Here are the founders of Pictarine: Guillain, Guillaume and Maxime (from left to right on the photo). We are really glad to see that you are more and more to enjoy Pictarine everyday. Thanks for your support!

Even more photos on Pictarine!

We continue to give you access to more and more photos on Pictarine and today we are really happy to announce you new sources of photos.

Multi-accounts

We have just added the most requested feature: multi-accounts. Right now, you can add to your Pictarine as many accounts of the same service as you like: all the Picasa accounts of your family, your personal and professional Twitter accounts, or even your two personal Flickr accounts. You will enjoy all your photos in one place.

Facebook pages

From now on, we give you access to all the photos of the Facebook fan pages you like; photos from your favorite music group or events you are crazy about. Of course you can download all these photos with one click and comment them directly in Pictarine!

If you already have an account on Pictarine, you need to remove your Facebook account from Pictarine and add it again in order to enjoy this feature. Facebook will ask you to grant Pictarine an access to your fan pages and then you will enjoy all your fan pages photos.

Pictarine now also display separately all the photos from the Facebook pages you administrate. It’s now easier for you to access these photos.

Invite your friends

You love Pictarine and you want to share it with your friends. We have added a button on each of your Facebook and Google friends “Invite to Pictarine” so you will be the first to tell your friends about this awesome service!

Check all these new features on Pictarine!

Merry Christmas: new version “Kumquat” has arrived!

We have the great pleasure to announce you that Kumquat is now online. We are really proud of what we have built based on your feedbacks. We hope that you will enjoy it. Better photo presentation, more organization and serendipity at the same time!

We have rethought the interface to make things simpler on Pictarine. Tell us what you think about it!

Timeline

Imagine your photos and your friends photos from your favorite services or devices: your computer, Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram,… all in one timeline! Pictarine organizes for you all these photos: go back in time and live again your favorite moments, discover your friends last photos updates and interact with them. You can now also search for any photos: enter “wedding” and see instantaneously all the weddings’ photos from you and your close friends. Try this awesome experience right now!

Photo-sharing is changing on Pictarine

We are changing the way you share your photos on Pictarine. With your feedbacks, we have realized that zests were not fitting your needs. So we have removed the ability to create new zests. You can still enjoy and download your existing zests and your friends’ zests, accessible from the navigation menu. Thanks to your answers to the survey, we are working on new features regarding sharing. So stay tuned and if you have any request on this, feel free to email us at contact@pictarine.com

Photobucket, Shutterfly and MobyPicture on Pictarine

We got a lot of suggestions of photo services to integrate in Pictarine. Thank you so much!

New services

We have integrated Photobucket a huge photohosting service, Shutterfly a photoprinting service and Mobypicture a photosharing service that lets you share your photos with you favorite social sites. You now can enjoy all your photos in fullscreen slideshows on any browser including iPad and download your favorite photos on your computer with one click, to have a safe copy at home.

Vote for the next service

If you have photos on a service that we do not integrate yet, please suggest it by clicking on “Other photo service” on the “My Accounts” screen.

Behind the scene….

This week-end, Guillain, our Art Director came in Paris to design with us the next version of Pictarine “Kumquat”. This was a magical moment of creation, and we really enjoyed this time working on the new interface you will discover very soon. Kumquat will be about more organization and photo beauty. We are eager to show you that!

At the same time, we have improvised a photo studio at Le Camping, more on that very soon :)

As you may know, we have integrated the accelerator program Le Camping an awesome place with 11 others great startups. If you are nearby, come and have a coffee with us!