This week I got introduced to Flickroom – Beta, an Adobe Air based application that provides a richer browsing experience to Flickr users. I am a user of Flickr,  popular on line photo sharing site. I like it better than many of the other photo sharing sites because it really caters to photographers and has developed into a great community for sharing my work and connecting with other photographers. You can see my Flickr photo stream here.

One of the things I don’t like about Flickr however is its user interface… boring. As you may have noticed from this blog and my web site, richdurnanphoto.com,  I prefer a darker background when viewing images. Flickroom provides this darker background in its interface. Flickroom’s benifits don’t stop there.

You can receive instant notifications for any activity on your photostream, upload photos by just drag-and-drop, add comments and tags, mark favorites, add notes, tweet about your photos and chat with other Flickroom users. You have access to most of the major features of your Flickr account.

Flickroom is in its beta form at the moment and through the web site you can add your comments and suggestions for features you would like to see included.

Flickroom is also free, so give it a try. You can download Flickroom here.

If you are a Flickr user I’d be interested to hear and what you think of Flickroom.  So please comment below and add me to your Flickr contact list.

If your not  flickr user consider becoming one. In fact on Feburary 10,   I am teaching a class called Digital Photo Editing Basics. In this class, amongst other things,  we will be covering how to use Flickr’s photo editing tool Picnik.