The FotoFlexer Blog

FotoFlexer, the world’s most advanced Web-based image editing solution, today announced that it is one of the first applications to have already implemented the new OpenSocial APIs – launched today by Google – as a fundamental step toward making the Web more social. FotoFlexer also announced today that it has surpassed one million users – reaching 1.3 million users in just two months since its launch. Additionally, Silicon Valley veteran Sharam Shirazi, initially an advisor to the company, has joined FotoFlexer as the CEO to help lead the explosive growth the company is experiencing and will continue to experience as an early adopter of the OpenSocial APIs.

FotoFlexer is pleased to have been invited by Google to participate in OpenSocial as a Launch Partner. We look forward to an exciting partnership, and the ability to provide fun, and technologically advanced products to a wide array of Internet users worldwide.

Last night, our very own Neil Warren was invited to attend Google’s Campfire event to commemorate the launch of the OpenSocial platform. Neil had a GREAT time, enjoyed stimulating conversation, and was talking strategy with Google’s Eric Schmidt when interrupted for the snap below. (Oh, those paparazzi are everywhere these days.)

Sharam Shirazi has joined Arbor Labs (the parent of FotoFlexer) as CEO. He’s got great Silicon Valley experience, and we’re very happy about his joining the team.

Sharam has previously served as CEO of Empact Software Solutions, CEO of University Planet, CEO of hyperstone electronics USA, and CEO & Chairman of Teknekron Systems.

At Teknekron, he led a 100+ person organization with a very similar mission to Arbor Labs: Sharam recruited top-notch academic engineering talent from within universities, and rapidly developed world-class products. Earlier in his career he served as Director of Alliances at Zilog and he was also a Consultant at Bain & Co. Mr. Shirazi began his career with Fairchild Corporation as an electrical engineer.

Sharam earned a BS in Electrical Engineering, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also earned an MBA from Stanford University.

He’s also an excellent model helicopter pilot.

Welcome to the team Sharam!

The new FotoFlexer Smart Resize feature can be applied in many ways. It relies upon sophisticated computational algorithms to resize an image, while maintaining original photo scale and composition. This represents a vast improvement over traditional resize tools which typically distort an image into an unusable form. Here’s an example of how Smart Resize works.

Original photo of two girls who just enjoyed eating a nice picnic lunch at the beach:

FotoFlexer Smart Resize is used to choose a photo element to preserve (in green) and another to eliminate (in red):

And the magic of FotoFlexer Smart Resize creates the new, desired image while maintaining the scale and composition of the entire photo:

There are many fun ways to apply this feature, imagine the possibilities. You can view a demo video discussing FotoFlexer Smart Resize here: http://fotoflexer.com/demos.php

Happy FotoFlexing!

Here’s a post for people who design and run websites: FotoFlexer wants your site to succeed, which means that we want your site to be as valuable as possible to your customers. FotoFlexer’s API enables you to differentiate your Web site from competitors and develop stronger customer loyalty by offering them an integrated, powerful online image editing solution that they can utilize from within your site.

FotoFlexer moves far beyond mere photo editing and allows users to edit all of their images, including the ability to personalize digital photos, edit online images and even apply real-time Webcam effects. FotoFlexer far surpasses the functionality of basic online photo editing products, but it allows users to easily and intuitively accomplish exactly the effect they want to achieve in less time than any other editing system.

Since launching the company, FotoFlexer has seen traffic skyrocket to over 40,000 unique users per day, with an extremely high average engagement time exceeding 20 minutes per person, per visit. It has also become the #1 most used image editing tool on Facebook, with nearly double the amount of active users than any other image editor.

Users are flocking to FotoFlexer in large part due to its seamless integration with sites like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Picassa and Yahoo! Search, enabling users to simply grab and edit their images from any of these sites. With the FotoFlexer API, the company seeks to return the favor by now providing a simple way for all other Web sites to integrate with FotoFlexer, providing their visitors with the added value of direct access to the most powerful online image editor available.

Please click here to learn more, http://fotoflexer.com/api.php

Attention please, all loyal FotoFlexers, including the thousands of news users who have just started on the site in the past week! You will soon see some interesting new developments on the site…please stay tuned to www.fotoflexer.com

It has been a very hectic week, getting the site up, running, and stable. Lots of people seem to be using and loving the app, which is a very rewarding experience for us, as we have been developing this product for months. We are working to ensure the app works well for as many users as possible, and are working as fast as possible to remedy any potential problems users are encountering. We are looking forward to providing even more functionality very soon.

With the press release today, we have gotten a lot of interest from the photo, tech, and silicon valley community, which has been great, as we are eager to talk about what we have done, and will do in the future.

Welcome To FotoFlexer!FotoFlexer at www.fotoflexer.com is one of the most powerful photo editing applications available. It uses advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to perform functions previously only available to professionals using expensive software!It can easily:- Change your skin color and maintain the texture.
- Cut objects out of images automatically.
- Enlarge your muscles in a photo.
- Enhance your figure.
- Anything your imagination can come up with!

FotoFlexer Offers Easy Access To Tons Of Photos:Once in FotoFlexer, you will have access to all of your Facebook photos and all of your friends’ Facebook photos as well, so there’s no need to upload any additional photos to have fun with this application! After you’ve finished editing your photos, the photos are saved back to Facebook with the click of a button.