So before that happens, you better start backing them up. Your computer or tablet might go cranky and if worse comes to worst, it would already be too late for you to realize that all of your photos (including your other important data) are all wiped out. After all, you can never tell what lies ahead. I also missed the ability to see any photo metadata-even the filename!įar from offering a full social photo community and tagging like Flickr does, the Revel for Windows 8 app doesn't even let you add the comments and favorites as the service's iPhone and Web apps do.Got lots of photos? Well, maybe it’s time for you to back them up.
For high-res photos, the final sharp image took a couple seconds to crystallize, but the app doesn't show you that it's sill loading, so you might think you had a not perfectly focused shot. I could swipe a finger or thumb to quickly move through gallery photos, but I couldn't pinch to switch back to album view, as I could in the default Windows Pictures app. You can also add media or change the sort order. Calling up the app bar presents options for adding photos to an Album, sharing to Facebook (more on that in the Sharing section below), deleting, viewing in "Card view" which presents a pleasing, swipeable post-card style view of your photos. Creating new libraries requires a paid account. The first lets you select among any Revel, or remaining Carousel libraries attributed to your Adobe account login. Revel's very simple initial interface just shows two options, Library and Albums. Adobe may take note that SkyDrive options in Windows 8.1 let users have their photos and videos automatically uploaded to a folder on SkyDrive, which, by the way, offers very respectable online galleries itself. Any video entries in your Windows 8 Revel app appear as still photos, and no editing or playing is possible. There's no camera mode to the Revel app, though, so you can't add photos from within the app.Īnother big thing that the iPhone version of Revel can do that the Windows 8 version can't: Upload videos. Of course, you could also set up a Windows 8 device to upload to SkyDrive. So for Windows 8, Revel can act like iCloud Photo Stream. For paid accounts only, however, this uploads photos as soon as they appear in a specified folder, the most likely candidate for which is the Pictures folder, where photos you shoot with the Windows 8 device are saved. I was surprised to find that the Windows 8 Revel app can do an important thing that the iPhone app cannot: auto-import.
The $5.99-a-month paid account allows unlimited uploads, and enables auto upload from the Windows 8 app. I mentioned the free account, but with that you're limited to just 50 photo uploads per month. To use Revel, you need to create or sign in to an Adobe account, as the appealing welcome page notes. I installed the app on a Surface Pro tablet with a dual-core 1.7GHz Core i5 processor and 4GB RAM, and it ran just as speedily as I could have wanted. Unfortunately, it only works on x86- and 圆4-based CPUs, not on the ARM-based RT tablets it requires 2GB minimum RAM. And Revel no longer locks you into Apple's ecosystem, with mobile clients for Android, the Web, and now Windows 8.Īs with any new-style Windows 8 apps, you get Revel from the Windows Store. Not only does Revel have both those capabilities (though, unfortunately, the video bit isn't supported by the Windows 8 app), but there's also a free option. What iCloud didn't-and still doesn't-offer is Web-based galleries and video uploads. A roadblock to its success as I saw it was that, early on, the only mobile OS it supported was iOS, for which it duplicated the functionality of Apple's iCloud Photo Stream-which didn't carry Revel's $5.99-a-month fee. For a long time I had my reservations about Adobe's photo syncing service, Revel, which previously went by the name Carousel.
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