Impressions : Tabblo.beta

Tabblo is what I imagine you'll get if you combine the blog like features of Fotopages and the image-sharing system of Flickr. Tabblo is a new photo-sharing site, much like the two I mentioned above. However, Tabblo offers much more features.

Photos uploaded to Tabblo could be arranged in professional looking templates. Photos could then be edited after they've been uploaded, a feature not even present in Flickr. The photos could be cropped, rotated, resized and then drag-and-dropped anywhere within the aforementioned templates.

I had a chance to play around with Tabblo. Registration for the service is absolutely easy (and free). No invasive questions are asked; in fact only a nickname, email and password are required. Users are then asked to click an activation email.

Another feature I really like is: integration with Picasa 2. An application is offered to install a Tabblo button in Picasa. Uploading pictures is a simple matter of choosing the pictures in Picasa, clicking the "Upload to Tabblo" button and entering your login information -- that's it! Integration with Picasa is another feature lacking in Flickr.

Arranging photos in the templates is also very simple, a matter of dragging and dropping the pictures onto specific place-holders. The process is extremely intuitive, not however, without faults:

I find dragging-and-dropping the pictures still a bit buggy, especially when a place-holder is located outside the area visible on the monitor. This would cause the page to scroll disorientatingly upwards or downwards, by one whole page. Since Tabblo is still in beta, there is room for improvements. A "smooth scroll" function, where the page would scroll by tinier degrees, the process would be much less disorientating. I would also love to see a "blog this" feature so that users could easily upload pictures to certain blogs.

The faults by no means hinder from the overall convenience, intuitiveness and potential of Tabblo.

Photos could be set to be shared within various degrees of privacy. Also, viewers are allowed to leave comments, much like in blogs and in Fotopages.

Overall, Tabblo.beta has a lot of potential. Some of the features it provides are even more advanced than Flickr and Fotopages. Definitely worth a try if you're looking for a place to host and share your pictures.

Link

Click the picture to go to my Tabblo page (containing old artworks by yours truly):