The concept of PicApp is great. The implementation sucks. I wrote a delusional article last week about the joys of PicApp. Now I am writing an article to say my assessment of the app pretty much sucked. If you use the larger pics in a post you get the black band advertisement. This annoys me. The visitors to your site can click on the slider and have it collapse to the left so they can view the pic. But most people aren’t going to go through that hassle just for your typical post decoration.
Even if you are posting up photos of your favorite actress or something and it shows options for other photos they can view, they still pretty much leave your site for more. It may be free but it’s virtually useless. I mean, who the hell wants a third of the photo covered with an ad? It looks fugly. The only saving grace is that if you use the small photo it doesn’t show the advertisement.
When I came across this application I was at work. I posted a few photos on a blog or two and the advertisement band did not show up. Yea, our firewall pretty much blocked the script it uses to pull the black band ad. I get home and see the ad and think it’s not as great as I thought but hoped that it wouldn’t be plastered on each photo all the time. No, it’s pretty much plastered on each photo all the time.
So back to self creation, theft and ugly public domain freebies.
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Darn you Splork, I was on a productivity run until this post showed up in my feeds!
I didn’t comment on your PicApp post, but I was thinking what the heck has Splork been smoking when I saw the text all over the pics. That’s a whole lotta distracting FUG right there.
What sites do you normally use for pictures?
The ones I use are http://www.morguefile.com/ and http://sxc.hu/ and they pretty much suck.
The same.
I still use PA for satellite blogs. But for any super sites, it was, and is, a bad idea.
I’ve decided to start using my own photos when needed.