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Darckr, Flickr Viewer and Tool

Darckr is a free tool for displaying and acting upon Flickr images. It is a helper webapp that you can use to ease and enrich your social experience on Flickr. It is also a program to replace any gallery software you might want to use. Drop your photos on Flickr, then share Darckr permalinks to your stream or sets, or even embed Darckr views in your web page or blog. Darckr will turn your flickr stream and sets into as many shareable photo galleries as you may wish. Also, Darckr is a great tool to feature your photos "large on black" as many people like. Right below are square links to recent photostreams which use Darckr and feature such links to their photos or streams.

Darckr aims at enhancing your photographic experience and helping your social life on Flickr. This is done while respecting the rights of copyright holders and the flickr api terms of use. By default, Darckr displays photos from everyone, but never at a size above thumbnails. Darckr will always respect your privacy and copyright choices by not letting other people view unauthorized content. Should you ever detect a situation that contradicts the previous statement, please be so kind as to inform us as quickly as possible.

Give a try?

These are only a tiny subset of all the possibilities. For new features and improvements: check the changes page.

Optin? Optout?

Maybe a Flickr friend asked you to 'optin' to allow larger sizes to be visible. Just go to the page "http://darckr.com/optin" to set up your preferred visible size. On the other hand, one may also ask to be "blacklisted" so that photos never show up, even at the smallest available sizes. In both cases, you will have to grant darckr access to your stream to authenticate, so that he knows who you are. Right after if you wish you may revoke the permission from your accounts page.

Random Creative Commons Explore with Darckr

With Darckr, your Flickr Stream IS a Photo Gallery

Darckr is a streaming flickr viewer that will turn your Flickr Stream to as many sharable photo galleries as you like. Try for instance viewing the explore page on Darckr, going from page to page simply by dragging the mouse down the page and changing presentation options: size, number, number of columns, etc. Darckr lets all his users change all options accordingly to their own taste. Every option is available in a click and Darckr will remember your preferences in cookies if you click "remember".

If you are a Flickr user and have granted access to Darckr, you can view your own photos, or a gallery of your contacts photos, and if you're a friend or family view full contents of other people streams. Try the authors stream for instance ;-). Note that Darckr presents, but in no case copies your pictures. They remain on Flickr and other users see only what they are entitled to. Of course, you see your own private photos.

With Darckr: nothing to download, nothing to install, no gallery software to upload by ftp, no php enabled server. To illustrate this, below is an embedded streaming view of a flickr search for creative commons pictures tagged with "sunset" sorted by descending interestingness, and picked randomly within the top 500.

Darckr helps you in your (Flickr) Social Life

Darckr aims at saving time in your Flickr life. You can post comments on your contacts photos or fave them in a snap (you can also do it on your own and add tags). Most of your activity in the session (the comments you posted and faves you made) will be recorded. You can also edit photo parameters (visibility).

You can also share permalinks to your Darckr stream for instance to publish your most interesting photos as a Darckr gallery. Feel free to explore the possibilities offered by the top menu. There's a whole world to discover!

For instance: Darckr offers you the possibility to view only your public photos, or only your non private photos. That way you know what your stream looks like to the entire planet without having to logout from flickr.