After starting PiQture you will see the image gallery. All the alums located on your phone are shown in the form of little icons. You can click on one of these items in order to see a list – in the form of thumbnails – of all the images within the folder. Click on one of these thumbnails in order to open the photo.
There’s a tab (located at the top of the screen) that allows you to access the Facebook gallery. Enter your account details; you will then be able to see all of your contacts in the form of thumbnails. By clicking on one of your friends you will be able to see the available albums; clicking a second time will show you a lost of the photos within the album.
You navigate either by sliding your finger across the screen or by using the arrows located to the left and right of each photo. You can see all of the photos contained within one album as thumbnails in the bar at the bottom of the screen. Again, you can slide through this thumbnail-view and click on images that you want to see enlarged. You can zoom in by double clicking. This takes a short while to get used to, as you literally zoom right into the picture. The image is shown in its entirety in small at the top of the screen, the part that you’ve zoomed into is shown within a frame. You can move around the image by holding your finger pressed down and sliding around, and zoom in and out using the plus and minus icons. Nothing to complain about here: works really well.
Pressing the menu button shows you the following options:
• Edit
• Details
• Set as
• Share
• Delete
Use Edit to rotate and cut the image.
Details lets you add descriptions for individual photos, as well as details that will be displayed above the image.
Use Set as if you want to have a photo as a screen saver or profile picture.
Share lets you use email, SMS, possibly also Bluetooth to let others see your photo. There’s also the QpicX Facebook option that lets you upload to Facebook albums, but as previously mentioned, the success rate for this option wasn’t exactly staggering.
When you’ve opened an album you will find the follwoing options when you press the menu button:
• Slideshow
• Reload
• Upload ( "Download" for Facebook galleries)
• Sort mode (not available for Facebook galleries)
• Delete (not available for Facebook galleries)
• More (Help & About)
Photos within an album can be displayed as a slide show. You can also choose in what order images are shown within a list (according to date, name, size).
Upload provides a lot of options if you’re looking to upload to Facebook (you can choose several images, select folders, create folders), but at the moment this function isn’t working very well (yet?).Theoretically, you can also download images from Facebook albums, but, again, this only sometimes did what it was supposed to do.
Bottom line:
Controls are excellent and work really well, and it certainly offers a lot of options for simply looking at photo galleries and Facebook albums. That’s why it’s such a shame that the upload function isn’t up to par yet, otherwise PiQture would have gotten a stellar rating.
Dawn
Apr 1, 2012 8:20:48 PM
facebook? This app would be just about perfecy, IF I COULD GET INTO FACEBOOK! It did eliminate the need for seperate apps for flickr and photobucket though...
Jeremy
Nov 30, 2011 3:51:18 AM
Doesn't work on ICS Doesn't work on ICS
Jack
Nov 8, 2011 5:45:02 PM
login? I too can't login to facebook :(
Chris
Oct 21, 2011 3:26:06 AM
Crashes on Xoom tablet Unfortunately the app crashes when I try to view a picture. I'm able to view videos but not pictures.
Tae
Oct 16, 2011 10:25:48 PM
Not sure, I can't login to facebook :(
Robert
Sep 4, 2011 2:10:50 AM
This App is fantastic for viewing photos from so many different sources. This deserves more Stars than it has. Take a look!
Mao
Aug 7, 2011 12:35:21 AM
Thank you! Works great! LG G2x.....
enya
Jul 29, 2011 11:20:30 AM
This is really poor. You can't even search for photos.
vadiveloo
Jul 25, 2011 4:37:47 PM
So easy 2dwnload 4m web,n fast velu-jb
Sheila
Jul 20, 2011 9:37:59 PM
This app has been very user friendly for me. Pictures are easy to organize, upload & download. I like it.