Mobile App and site review: Lightbox

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Light­box is a free Android appli­ca­tion that ties tightly into a pho­tog­ra­phy social media site at http://lightbox.com

It is described as:

“a place to cap­ture, enhance, & share your moments. Your pho­tos are auto­mat­i­cally orga­nized into a time­line of post­cards on Lightbox.com. Keep them pri­vate or selec­tively share them with friends, fam­ily, or the entire Light­box com­mu­nity.” (source)

You can go to lightbox.com and sign up for a free account, after which you can save the pho­tog­ra­phers and design­ers who you want to fol­low, as well as upload pho­tos from your desk­top. After installing the free app from Android Mar­ket, you can use your Android based phone to upload pho­tos directly to Light­box and share them on other social net­works like Face­book and Twit­ter in a few clicks.

One notable thing about this appli­ca­tion is that it offers many of the fea­tures that iPhone users enjoy with the cur­rently iOS-only Insta­gram app, includ­ing sim­ple effects, crop­ping, and vir­tu­ally instan­ta­neous uploads. It could cer­tainly be used to track the image-based objects that stu­dents come across for a visual class project, or used to sim­ply col­lect the inter­est­ing visual items that a fac­ulty mem­ber might come across in their research.

Related arti­cles

• New Light­box App Fea­ture – Your Photo Jour­nal (blogworld.com)
• Light­box takes mobile pic shar­ing a step fur­ther with Tumblr-like photo jour­nals (venturebeat.com)
• Light­box for Android now gives you an automatically-created photo blog (thenextweb.com)