Updates in PhotoSnack

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

PhotoSnack is now updated with cool new features that will make your life much much easier. Let me tell you shortly about them:

1. New logo

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2. Better workflow

This means that you’ll be able to make photo slideshows in less time. We’ve heard opinions, from our members and bloggers who wrote about us, that PhotoSnack is easy to use and intuitive. But we thought we could make it easier and, encouraged by our users, we found some simple solutions to do that.

Firstly you upload your photos, then choose a template and last, you publish the slideshow. Only 3 little steps.

3. New templates

Frame slide, Photo Glide, Vertical 3D Cube and Horizontal 3D Cube are the new good looking templates that could make your photos have greater impact. Hope you will like them.

4. Free and premium templates

We have now two categories of templates: free and premium. The first ones are simple and nice. We think they’ll match every blog, Facebook page or website. The premium templates have higher image quality and were made for professional photographers or web users that want to make a portfolio of their work.

5. Preview templates with your own photos

What you see is what you get , by this I mean that now you can see how your images will look in a specific template before choosing it. So you can try all the templates to find the one that matches your pictures.

We’d like to hear your feedback; feel free to write any question or thought on our feedback bar.

More than one year ago we released an application that anyone can use to make flash banners, without knowing Flash or having any programming skills. But not all users that need a banner want  to make it from scratch, all by themselves. And for various reasons – they’re experts in other fields, they don’t have the time, and so on.

For them we came with the idea of offering an additional service: custom banner design. In other words you can now hire our experienced designers to design and animate your banners.

The idea is very simple: you order a banner, with all the details we need (including messages and images featured in your banner) and after 2 business days we’ll get back to you with the finished banner ad.

You can choose from animated flash banners or interactive flash banners, starting at $149.

If this sounds interesting to you, go to Custom Flash Banner Design page and read more about the subject.

PhotoSnack on Mashable

Monday, February 15th, 2010

It’s a great honor for us that PhotoSnack was recommended by Mashable as a fantastic tool for exhibiting portfolios.

We are happy that PhotoSnack is seen as an easy to navigate and easy to use application. But I’d better let you see what’s their opinion about PhotoSnack:

Pros: The web interface is easy to navigate and use. Your photos live on PhotoSnack’s website, so there’s no need for web hosting or link pointing. Updating, changing, and reorganizing slideshows is a snap, and customizable embed codes ensure your presentation will fit snugly on your site.

Cons: While there are a few custom options, the presentation is fairly basic for free accounts, and the embeds contain links back to the main site. It is also worth noting that Flash is still not viewable on most mobile platforms and may leave a gaping hole for some users with outdated browser plug-ins.

Read the full article here.

Made for Valentine’s Day

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Looking for a way to say Happy Valentine’s Day? We’ve made some banners that you can customize or take them as they are and post them on your blog, website or any other place like MySpace or Facebook.

This is how you can grab the Valentine’s day eCards and share your love:

  1. Enter BannerSnack and log in
  2. Go to Templates (next to My banners)
  3. Choose the one you like and click Edit
  4. Here you can edit your card (for example change text or add something interesting). Then click on the Publish button
  5. Last step is to share your Valentine’s card. You can choose to post a link on social networks or copy the embed code and insert in your blog or website (like we did with these two banners).

Hope you’ll have the most romantic Valentine’s Day!