Image recommendation service - Photoree [Hack Your Day]
I found a good looking online photo recommendation service called Photoree on Freeware Genius, and thought I’d share my opinion with you guys. My final verdict was that it I like this service, and it may be useful as an alternative source of Photos, but ultimately it is not (yet) something that I will use a lot. Despite this, I have contacted the creators and told them my opinion and would like to actively help them, since I see a lot of potential in this.
After registering you can start to rate photos immediately, just simply give it a thumbs up, or thumbs down. I couldn’t totally determine the effectiveness of their method, but what I do know is that during the initial 100 that is needed to generate statistics I consistently gave a thumbs down to all pics where the main subject was a person. After the first hundred I didn’t really see any pics with a person on it, so I guess that this part is well done.
The service is useful because it gives you an alternative method of searching for photos. Sometimes the best pics I find are ones that I stumble upon randomly, and this is the kind of service that helps me in this department. Also, the interface is very nice, all pics you thumbed up are saved for you, you can view them in a good looking thumbnail interface.
The statistics is also a useful place to visit. You can see users with a taste similar to yours. After 100 photos, a user had an 85% similarity to me, and indeed, I found a lot of pics in her favorites I liked. You can of course click on her favorites and rate them. All this is done in a lightning fast flash popup, so you don’t even have to navigate away. You can also view the top authors you liked. Again, this is useful for further exploration, you can visit their Flickr page and so on.
Where I think the application could improve is the management of saved pictures. The way I would use this, is I would thumb up alot of the pics I like and then tag them. I could go through hundreds in about half an hour. Whenever I need a picture of a bridge, where there are also a lot of trees, I could just find it in my saved pics. Since I already thumbed it up I am sure to like it, and since I can go through hundreds in a short time there’s a good chance there will be one with these parameters.
Overall I became more and more fond of Photoree as I was writing this short review. I actually rewrote my verdict at the beginning because as I delved deeper, I found how this is, and could become a service that is as good for exploration as it is great for productivity and organization.
Original post here: Daniel
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