Images are an essential part in our normal life and as well in online life. Online image hosting services or social image sharing websites have played a vital role in the widespread use of images at a normal user’s end. For a normal user, images mostly appear while the user is busy in social activity on Facebook, Orkut or My Space. Similarly if user has also joined social image sharing websites like Flickr or Picasa, images have to be dealt more frequently.
There may be situations when user needs to edit, zoom or preview images in slideshow. To deal with such situations, you need some specific tools. The tools may be desktop or working in cloud. For heavy editing of online images, you may use desktop tools but for normal editing you can use online image editors right away in your browsers. Other tweaks like zoom or slideshow can only be applied in your web browser with ease and comfort. Modern Web Browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome support this sort of tweaking through add-ons and extensions respectively. I will review and list here best available extensions to achieve desired goal in Google Chrome.
Instant Image Editor
This extension for Google Chrome redirects the desired image to open in popular online image editing tool “Pixlr”. The service provides some necessary online image editing tools like marquee, eraser, pencil, gradient, and many more. After installing the extension, you need to hold down ALT key and then right click the image to be edited. The feature to edit background image is in beta so its functionality may vary.
iSlide
It is a promising extension to view a large number of images on a web page. On a web page where one or more images are shown in thumbnail, clicking on this extension will start a slide show of images in full sizes. The extension also supports multiple hot keys to configure slideshow. It also displays a preview of you tube video in a light box style. The extension currently does not support Flickr or Facebook but these web sites will be supported in upcoming updates.
zoomZOOM
In your daily browsing, you come across a number of images which are displayed in thumbnails. If you want to see all the images at once in full size then you should use iSlide. In other case when one or more images have to be previewed in large sizes then this extensions works perfect in Google Chrome. It supports many popular web sites like Facebook, Flickr, deviantart, and many more.
Image Preview
It is a sort of same extension like the extension mentioned above. This extension provides a preview of image in a light box. Additionally, the image can be zoomed for a large display. This extension also works in the same way for You Tube video links.
Pats Flickr App
If your are in search of extension that can extend the default functionality of Flickr and can modify its interface for user convenience then this extension is for you. It provides light box functionality to view Flickr images on a dark background. The download links for all image sizes are available below the image. The commenting module has also been extended for easy reply.
Fittr Flickr
This extension has been developed for Flickr freaks. It adds a lot of enhancements to your Flickr experience. The main features provided by this chrome extension are keyboard shortcuts, large previews, tag auto-fill, and many more. If you are a habitual user of Flickr, you will get addicted.
Flickr Puzzle
Have some free time and want to enjoy it, install this extension. This chrome extension takes a random image from Flickr and converts it into a puzzle which appears in a Pop Up. Test your skills and solve the puzzle. You will love it.
Picasa Web Albums
If you want to remain updated with latest happening at your Picasa web album like comments or want an easy access to the albums, try this chrome extension. There are a lot more features which you can explore.
OpinionCloud
Comments on a Flick album may tell the whole story of the image. They also give a picture of the picture like its plus and negative points. This extension has applied an innovative way to summarize the comments that appear on a Flickr image. Besides it also works on You Tube videos.
These extensions should make your online experience with images in Google Chrome more comfortable and productive.
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You are missing a very full-featured Chrome extension for Flickr: Patr.
Lightboxes, short URL’s, all image sizes, dark background theme, buddy icons, and much more!
Thanks for pointing out. It will be added soon
I wanted to update that iSlide now indeed supports Flickr and Facebook. It also supports saving all the images to disk. For any other features you would like to see on iSlide, please comment on the iSlide page:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/goicaghfpnaogbpejmaodednkiilckfo
hmmm, looks useful in conditions when you arent working on your machine but at some friends.