52 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Photographers

Posted by Site Administrator in article Apr 11th, 2010

Photography may have existed long before personal computers, but these days photographers spend a lot of time using computers for their work. You can make that work easier by taking advantage of these Firefox add-ons for photography. Here you'll find tools for sharing, editing, and more.

Bookmarking & Browsing

Use these tools for bookmarking and browsing photos.

1. FotoMarklet: Bookmark images and organize them visually using Fotomark.
2. FireShot: Fireshot creates webpage screenshots that you can edit and annotate.
3. Clipmarks: Clipmarks allows you to save specific parts of articles, images, and more.
4. Feedly: Feedly will keep your favorite inspiration sources in a magazine-like start page.
5. AutoSlideshow: AutoSlideshow offers a slideshow of all images on a page.
6. FoxSaver: FoxSaver will turn your idle FireFox into a screen saver and photo viewer.
7. Canvas: Canvas will allow you to make your own Firefox theme with our photos, colors, and more.
8. PWS Toolbar: Replace ads on web pages with your own images, or images of your choice.
9. ImgLikeOpera: ImgLikeOpera will only allow the images that you want in the Firefox browser.
10. Adblock Plus: Use this add-on to keep ads out of your Firefox.
11. Cooliris: Use the Cooliris 3D Wall to browse photos and videos from the web or your desktop.
12. Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer: The S3Fox Organizer will help you organize your files on Amazon S3.

Design

With the help of these add-ons, you can design through Firefox.

13. ColorSuckr: ColorSuckr can be used to extract colors from images and build color schemes.
14. Color Management: Color Management allows color management in Firefox.
15. svg-edit: Use this add-on to draw images in the vector format.
16. ColorZilla: ColorZilla offers an eyedropper, color picker, page zoom, and more.

Stock Photos

These tools offer great resources for stock photography.

17. iSyndica Tools: Use iSyndica to track your microstock earnings on more than 40 different agencies.
18. SpiderPic: SpiderPic allows you to compare prices for stock photos online.

Communication & Networking

Stay in touch with the help of these add-ons.

19. LinkedIn: This companion will help you keep up with LinkedIn contacts.
20. Flickr Buddy: Check out the Flickr Buddy to get updates from your Flickr friends.
21. TwitrPix Express: Share photos from any site on Twitter using this add-on, and you won't even have to leave the site you're on.

Sharing

These add-ons will help you share your photos online.

22. FacePAD: FacePAD is a photo album downloader for Facebook.
23. FotoFox: FotoFox will allow you to create albums on a variety of online photo services.
24. Photostream Transloader: The Photostream Transloader will allow you to upload photos from Firefox to Photostream.
25. Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery: Upload directly to your Kodak EasyShare Gallery using this companion add-on.
26. ImageBot: ImageBot uploads, syncs, and prepares images for sharing.
27. Firefox Universal Uploader: You can upload and download files from your favorite sites using this uploader.
28. GPhotospace: This photo album builder works with Firefox and Gmail.
29. Fotofox: With Fotofox, you can create and upload albums to a variety of online photo services.
30. Picnik: Make importing images into Picnik easier with the help of this add-on.
31. Photobucket Uploader: Upload images directly to your Photobucket account with the help of this add-on.
32. Pixelpepe Media Uploader: Upload to Pixelpipe, and you'll be able to post content to your favorite social network, photo service, and more.
33. GMiF: GMiF embeds Google Maps into your Flickr photo page to show where the photo was taken.

Editing

Edit your photos right in Firefox using these add-ons.

34. Picture2Life: With Picture2Life, you'll edit photos, create collages, and animate pictures.
35. MeasureIt: MeasureIt makes it possible for you to draw out a ruler and get the pixel dimensions of any elements.
36. Dfacer: Paint on webpages using the Dfacer add-on.
37. Shrunked Image Resizer: Use the Shrunked Image Resizer to make your photos smaller and easier to share.
38. Lunapic Image Edit: Lunapic Image Edit adds right click image editing to your images.
39. ZoomInto: ZoomInto will give you the ability to crop, print, and zoom into web images.

Viewing & Downloading

View and download images through these add-ons.

40. zoomFox: zoomFox will add a context menu item to view images using advanced controls.
41. Bulk Image Downloader: You can download full sized images from thumbnailed web galleries using the Bulk Image Downloader.
42. ImageTweak: ImageTweak allows you to zoom images and display them on a custom background.
43. Save Images: Save Images makes it easy for you to save images from your current tab.
44. ResizR: ResizR allows you to resize images right in Firefox.
45. Rehost Image: Rehost Image will easily upload pictures to alternate hosting.
46. Aviary Screen Capture & Quick Launch: This add-on will allow you to take screen shots and edit images in your browser.
47. Image Zoom: Image Zoom adds zoom and rotation functionality for images.
48. Lexmark Toolbar: Improve web printing by removing unwanted stuff with the Lexmark Toolbar.

Search

Make use of these add-ons to find what you're looking for.

49. TinEye Reverse Image Search: TinEye makes it easy to find your images being used and modified.
50. Image Search Options: Image Search Options will give you a customizable image search in the right click options.
51. GazoPa Similar Image Search: Find images similar to yours with the help of this add-on.
52. Exif Viewer: Use the Exif Viewer to see Exif and IPTC data in local and remote JPEG images.

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