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Photo sharing sites have become a place for people to post photos showing what they had for lunch, the people they are hanging out with, a funny situation and a place they are visiting. While browsing around places like Instagram or Twitter, it is possible to see photos from places I have never been to. Many places are locations that I will never be able to see in person. There are other photos of places I am about to visit. The difficulty is pulling together places I’m heading to beyond doing a simple search.

A solution has shown up as a free app to use on the iPhone, called ‘Now.‘ <- there is a period in the name. The app will give you the option of viewing around you, a key city or search for another place of interest.

The Now. location images shown appear to do not be by hashtag, rather Geotags. So, looking for a location on the map will give you photos that others have taken in that area. Unlike searching directly on Instagram where your dependent on people getting their hashtag assigned and spelled correctly.

One instance of using Now. beyond sight seeing is an event like Macworld. Going to where the event will be or searching for the particular event by name will present all of the images posted in the area.

The images can be scrolled through as thumbnails as well viewed larger end-to-end. The group and individual photos can be favored or shared.

The Now. app lets you tell others about a photo (like in the case of Macworld, group photos your friends might be interested in) or to tell the system that the photo is Inappropriate.

Choosing a picture will let you pull up the full size version. This is nice to view people, what other people have seen at the location, and in the case of a restaurant, a view of a dish you may want to order when there.

While a picture is worth a thousand words, a hint sometimes helps. On most of the photo sharing social systems, a bit of text can be added to expand on the photo message. Hash tag keywords is popular too so viewers can group photo viewing.

A ‘newer’ offering to the social photo sharing options is Pudding.To. While it was new to me, it has a very large following already, enough that the young company has occasional overruns on their servers as everyone jumps in at once. Popularity might be based on a few features they have over other options.

First, a uploaded photo doesn’t have to be a single photo. Pudding.To lets you pick up to four photos at a time and will build a collage out of them for you.

Each of the images can be moved around in their Collage spot. Also, Pudding.To will redo the order the photos appear via the ‘Layout’ button. Across the bottom is filter choices you can cycle through/apply. The ‘locked’ filters are unlocked via the quantity of ‘Likes’ and ‘Follows’ you do.

If you are uploading a single photo (rather than a collage), there are options to rotate, add tilt shift effect and Frame.

When you have the photo as you want it to be for sharing on Pudding.To, tap the ‘next’ button for access to the ‘Mood’ options to assign to the photo. It can be tough if you are having fun in a vacation photo… is that ‘Travel’ or ‘Happy’? Oh yea, it’s all for fun, don’t over think it!

After you choose the emotion associated with the photo your uploading, hashtag/location can also be added. These all tie into how you can find other photos with the same interest as yours. Pudding.To lets you view list of not only the hashtags but also the emotions people assigned to their images. ‘Travel’ is fun to see… great way to see fun spots around the world.

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