Yahoo has released a major update for its Flickr app for iOS and has replaced its long-term photo-editing technology partner, Aviary, with the recently acquired GhostBird.
Yahoo has some great news for photography enthusiasts as the web giant has rolled out a major update for its Flickr app for the iOS platform. New live and customizable filters along with enhanced camera and professional editing tools are now available for Yahoo's Flickr app for iOS users.
Besides the major update, the company has also phased out its long-time photo-editing technology partner, Aviary, with GhostBird, which it acquired earlier in June, last year. While there are plenty of noteworthy changes made to the app, the new partnership has also resulted in the loss of some features.
Flickr for iOS has lost the red eye removal and blemish fixes, which were available with Aviary, but light and saturation levels from GhostBird's KitCam have been added.
The new version of the Flickr app now sports a fresh new design and live customizable filters and editing. Live filters give users a clear view of how the picture actually looks while taking it. Users can browse through filters and change composition grids, focus lock and exposure points for photo of one's choice.
"All of our filters are also customizable after you've taken the photo," Yahoo said in the official Flickr blog, Thursday. "You don't have to leave the camera and lose focus on your perfectly melting ice cream shot. In addition to our magic wand, we're adding all the advanced tools so you can enhance, crop, sharpen, balance color, use Levels, add vignette and more - for free. You now have a complete photo studio in your hands."
Yahoo shared a close technical partnership with Aviary, which will not end any time soon. A spokesperson for Yahoo told TechCrunch that it will continue to work with Aviary for web and that GhostBird is only taking over the iOS platform. But we are not sure for how long the Yahoo-Aviary venture lasts as the California-based internet company has revealed that it would update its Flickr for Android and Web apps like its iOS counterpart.
