Printable wall photos

A month ago, Flickr introduced Wall Art in the US market - a paid service that prints photos of large walls. Users of Flickr's web albums can choose high-quality photos and print them out on the wall of their home. Flickr announced that it will launch this service for album users worldwide.

After Flickr, the online photo album, was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, it was ignored by the company for a long time and missed the photo socialization triggered by the popularity of smartphones. The rising stars Snapchat, Instagram and Pinterest were sought after by young people. However, after Mayer became CEO of Yahoo, Flickr regained the respect. Let's take a look at what it has done recently.

Flickr offers five photo print sizes from 8x10 inches to 20x30 inches, and the user can choose between two ways of painting with canvas and canvas. Wall-mounted photographs of different sizes are available at different prices. For example, a 16x20-inch canvas photograph costs $89, while an equivalent-sized artboard costs $109. Of course, only high-resolution photos that meet certain requirements can print large photographs. Flickr said that if you're not sure about the photo resolution, it doesn't matter. The related system features automatically prevent users from submitting low-quality photos.

In the initial stage of this service launch, Yahoo will have a 60% discount promotion period. This feature is currently mainly targeted at users who print personal photos, but there is more room for imagination in the future, such as helping photographers sell their creations in the form of prints. Mayer conducted a series of attempts to socialize Flickr. In May last year, Yahoo spent $1.1 billion to buy Tumblr in response to the ageing of user groups, but by January this year, its traffic growth has entered a bottleneck.

In addition, one year ago, Yahoo also acquired Ghost Bird Software, a developer of professional camera editing applications KitCam and Photo Forge, and incorporated it into the Flickr team to acquire LookFlow, a picture discovery service, to improve Flickr's corresponding functions. In April of this year, the iOS/Android version of Flickr 3.0 was launched, making the convenience experience of photo shooting and sharing closer to Instagram, while the experience in storage is closer to Dropbox and Google+.