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June 28, 2010
Flickr Announced New Design And Image Preview
By Thomas Hawk
The most significant difference is that photos will now be shown at 640 pixels default on the Flickr page rather than 500 pixels. Flickr has also added a lightbox option where you can simply click on a photo to enlarge it to an even large size on a black background (you can also press the "f" key on your keyboard to toggle back and forth between lightbox view). It is interesting that they are using an old version of the Flickr logo (without the "from Yahoo" tag) in the Lightbox view. They've also significantly enhanced the geotags associated with photos, offering three different map views far away, closer, even closer as you move your mouse over the geotag thumbnail image.

Additionally Flickr has consolidated many of the view and functions associated with an image into "action menus" at the top of the page above the photo and integrated favorites into the comments section.

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