PicLens

adam · Jan 2008

I really can't stress how awesome this is for image browsing on websites like Flickr or Google Images! Just... WOW.

www.piclens.com install it to your favourite browser, click the blue PLAY sign (top right of your browser) and go.

Just.. go.

bounchfx · Jan 2008

alright fine. giving it a go.

pliang · Jan 2008

Will pick it up when I return from work...

vahl · Jan 2008

haha
thiefbrome

bounchfx · Jan 2008

ok its sweet. I downloaded cooliris too. useful!

Thanks adam!

Joshua Stubbles · Jan 2008

Swanky stuff. thanks

Striff · Jan 2008

omg porn is going to be amazing again.

pior · Jan 2008

Holy fuck! Guys, just Google your own portfolio with that! It's like, the coolest thing!

Geezus · Jan 2008

oh man is this awesome!

notman · Jan 2008

BAH, no linux support... it therefore sucks :P

bounchfx · Jan 2008

played around with it some more.. its fucking crazy. showing everyone.

nacire · Jan 2008

Wow! Loving this. Though I wish you could rt click Save As from the window wall.

Keg · Jan 2008

saving would be really nice.

and as gwot mention in irc, ability to use it with your own folders on your computer or just any webpage

bounchfx · Jan 2008

my friend asked me about saving... there is a way.

in the top left there is an arrow in a circle. click it. it will bring you to the images' page where you can then save it!

nacire · Jan 2008

Yeah I tried to browse my picture folder to no avail. Thanks for the heads up bounchfx, I found that option playing around with it, but I'd really just like to be able to save directly from the image in the image wall. Either way it's pretty sweet!

bounchfx · Jan 2008

aye, while right click saving and browsing your pc with it would be mega sweet, I guess it's not happening yet.

I'm sure it'll happen sooner rather than later though!

pliang · Jan 2008

Yep simply amazing...I really like how you can just move around as if using a touch screen pad on it.

Master_v12 · Jan 2008

its making firefox crash like crazy

its an awesome tool though, ill have to wait a bit

Super · Jan 2008

No support for Opera? Gash.

Mr.T · Jan 2008

It works great with firefox here, no more turning pages
in google, texture reference website etc.. Great add-on!

On though tho... It would have been great to be able to save
the picture directly from piclens than pushing the GOTO button.
Or maybe I'm missing something. But it will make my pics
searching a lot faster, thank you.

Mongrelman · Jan 2008

I've installed it, it shows up in IE's addons thing as being enabled, but I can't see this play button anywhere (yes, I even checked the top right).

leilei · Jan 2008

A novelty that crashes firefox, not using

rooster · Jan 2008

is there a windowed mode? since i have my dual monitors set up as one screen it fills both and the picture appears right across the gap in the monitors

Ozymandias · Jan 2008

this is pretty friggin awesome. It hasn't crashed firefox for me yet, and I am also curious if there is a windowed mode. Pretty awesome though.

Mr.T · Jan 2008

We installed it on several comp at work and no one crashed
with firefox, this is awkward.

nacire · Jan 2008

Firefox hasn't crashed on me either.

MoP · Jan 2008

It won't seem to run on my XP x64 machine... Firefox just loses focus for a second then nothing happens

doc rob · Jan 2008

That's the coolest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

Kovac · Jan 2008

Thanks a lot Adam! This is one excellent program and really lets you focus on image browsing for references and not flicking through endless pages.

bounchfx · Jan 2008

what version of FF are you guys using?

i'm running 2.0.0.11

MoP · Jan 2008

Same version here. I'll try it when I get home, maybe it doesn't like 64-bit Windows.

TheWinterLord · Jan 2008

64-bit Windows works here. Thanks Adam good stuff!

and also using 2.0.0.11

make sure ur not trying to get the mac version... (if you have windows, I got that first click and it didnt work)

Keg · Jan 2008

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is there a windowed mode? since i have my dual monitors set up as one screen it fills both and the picture appears right across the gap in the monitors

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Not doing that for me, just used my main monitor. Might be my setup. since I have two old crt's hooked up. One 19" as my main and a 17" as my secondary. Both monitors running different resolutions so that might be why.

sama.van · Jan 2008

oh yes!
It work nice with google thumbail's, it stream full size when you zoom..
But I'm desappointed with Devientart, it only stream little thumbails when user create a thumbail for the picture.
And second thing, the viewer has one max value for zoom (border of screen with border of picture)

And I have some bug with my gallery, it doesn't take all pictures O_o' :
http://samavan.deviantart.com/gallery/

But for google it work very nice, I love this tools!!

MoP · Jan 2008

Tried it at home too (Windows XP, 32-bit, Firefox 2.0.0.11), same result - it shows the "play" icon in the image but when I click it, it just centres my mouse in the primary monitor and switches app from Firefox to... nothing.

Master_v12 · Jan 2008

Im runnin vista, maybe there is a bit of a compatibility issue

ill try installing in IE and see whats up

TheMadArtist · Jan 2008

It works fine for me in Firefox. Oddly enough, one of my coworkers is having problems with it and IE.

sama.van · Jan 2008

A friend just build one gallery with that Publicher tools, if you want look at that... It look nice ^_^
http://www.little-big-studio.com/G33K_PicLens/PicLensMediaFiles/gallery.html

pior · Jan 2008

SouL · Jan 2008

Got it working at work. It's pretty cool. Is there a way to have it work outside of a search engine?

Browsing image folders this way would be fantastic. Hell... even browsing art threads could be fun this way, too.

Ged · Jan 2008

hmmm so how do you launch it again once youve clicked the little arrow at the top to go to the site the pic is from? it doesnt come up with the play button anymore

. it was cool while it lasted

Keg · Jan 2008

Ged: gotta go back a page I think. clicking that little arrow closes piclens

Tumerboy · Jan 2008

I like it, but I too wish there was an in-program save (right click, save as)

I also wish it would catalog all or at least several pages of my google search so I didn't have to close it, click next, and then reopen it again.

bounchfx · Jan 2008

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I also wish it would catalog all or at least several pages of my google search so I didn't have to close it, click next, and then reopen it again.

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what do you mean?

it automatically goes to the next google page with it open. thats one of the best parts. just scroll over.

hawken · Jan 2008

man the file size for mac is so small! it's using the internal macosx graphic functions. With a multidirectional mouse wheel this is lots of fun

gauss · Jan 2008

alright, this is pretty cool. with the aforementioned caveats--this needs to be able to browse through any site with indexed images or any folder on your computer.

and Soul is especially right, this as an alternative form to navigate art forums would be awesome.

Tumerboy · Jan 2008

Ah, got it, it seems to work with multiple pages of Google, but not with Flickr (which is what I tested out previously)

it would be great if it could be used with other sites, folders etc. and would index multiple pages like it does for google.

aesir · Jan 2008

lol, I just want to tell it to browse all of conceptart.org

Michael Knubben · Jan 2008

I'm glad it uses an external app to run instead of trying to force it into the browser-window, it runs really smooth for me. Too bad it doesn't work unless there are links *to images, rather than fullsize images being on the page, but that's alright, I guess. Doesn't work in the WAYWO-thread though.

doc rob · Jan 2008

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lol, I just want to tell it to browse all of conceptart.org

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site: conceptart.org
although it only shows images on the site. .

Like others said, it needs more controls. I'd like to be able to open the image in a tab back in firefox while I continue searching. But it's still pretty hot for finding reference online.

Ged · Jan 2008

thanks for the tip keg but it doesnt seem to work for me. Im running firefox and it seems to work perfectly when firefox starts up and the little gray arrows appear when I mouse over but as soon as Ive gone into piclens and out again to firefox the little arrows are gone for good. Whats wierd is that sometimes I can click where the arrows should be and piclens opens, other times it doesnt. but there is a little blue icon on my toolbar to run it except it goes back to the last image you saw instead of showing the images on the current page. Hmm needs a bit of refinement then, but its really cool.

PicLens

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