We’ve talked about a lot of online presentation applications, both formal (Zoho, Google, Empressr, Thumbstacks, Preezo, Slideshare) and informal (RockYou, Filmloop, Scrapblog, Bubbleshare). Formatpixel is a flash-based crossover between the two, meant to design portfolio or brochure presentations that look more like fashion magazines than PowerPoint presentations. You can see an example I embedded below, a photo portfolio here, and one with an embedded video here. Note the cool page flip animation.
Formatpixel uses a WYSIWYG layout editor to publish presentations in a virtual magazine format. The editor lets you drop in uploaded photos, text, and shapes onto virtual book pages. Each of the items you place on a page can be hyperlinked, scaled, blured, colored, and blended. The page glossiness, color, and background color can also be changed. The feature list for each of these objects is fairly lengthy.
Formatpixel accounts are limited by file size and number of projects. The free account supports only one project of 512K in size, while the most expensive account allows for 20 projects with 20MB of storage for 40 pounds a year. The site is currently the work of a single developer.
The full-size version is available here.
the images in that sample are of high quality
all these new and upcoming photo sites are essentially the same - just each site adds their own visual theme concept, flash-based for the most part.
i see nothing really new, or compelling enough for any of these sites to make a sizable impact
WOW! This thing is HOT! Forget all the “others”!
Thanks for sharing Mike.
Pretty cool, unfortunately I work in a decidedly unsexy profession. Oh well.
pretty good for a single developer
Good job Mike, err, Nick;
That site is pretty nifty, but I’m not sure how big of a market it will serve.
A nifty flash app, but I don’t think anyone is going to pay $60/year or so to create a slideshow.
I’m impressed. Looks really good.
Neat, now they need to release an API to integrate the tool into other sites and offer print functionality on top for the ‘finished’ products.
Pretty cool and yeah this one is hot.On can think of creating an online magazine for himself.I will give it a try…
I opened one presentation. Doesn’t show an option of a slideshow? Is that true? Too bad.
@John - yuck, comment spam!
Re: formatPixel…very sexy but there are so many flash galleries out there that don’t take much work to set up. Agree with others…this service needs to do something to make it more desirable, or get cheaper…
Nothing innovative, a free and powerful Flash-PageFlip component can be found at - http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/
What are you, some sort of Russian bride catalog publisher. If yes, I’ll take one Ellen and one Marja, please
In comparision to other slideshow applications, I found this one to be less than innovative. I think Zoho and ScrapBlog are better flash-based portfolio slideshow tools.
That’s a lot of hard work for one developer, done a very good job. Thanks for the link.