Yahoo unveils makeover for Flickr

Brett Molina | USA TODAY

Hoping to reignite interest in Flickr, Yahoo unveiled a massive overhaul of its photo sharing service, which includes a new way to upload photos and upgraded apps.

The new Flickr, unveiled Thursday, includes an Uploadr application for Macs and Windows that let users easily upload several photos at once onto the photo sharing service. All photos are uploaded privately by default, allowing users to share them later.

The Uploadr will also be available on mobile devices, so users can have photos on their smartphones automatically uploaded to Flickr.

Yahoo also updated how photos are organized with a revamped Camera Roll. Photos are organized by standard categories including dates, but arguably the most interesting element is Magic View. Flickr can analyze images by pixels and automatically organize them by topic. For example, shots of sunsets or even portraits of people. Users can then search for photos by those topics.

When performing a search, users will get private images as well as pictures shared publicly by other users.

This is the second big redesign of Flickr in three years. In 2013, Yahoo unveiled a revamped version of the photo service that included 1 terabyte of free photo storage.

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