We’ve just released a new tool in our web application that allows you to edit and crop images for your address book. This has been a much requested feature and we’re happy to be able to announce this.
Adding photos
Now you can easily add photos to contacts in your address book. Right now we are storing one photo per contact with a maximum size of 160×160 pixels. And we also provide an easy way for you to select a contact gravatar (if available on the contact’s email address).
How it works
You can upload pictures from your computer or choose the contacts gravatar image (What’s Gravatar?). If you choose to upload a picture you can grab a file from your computer and then you can crop and choose a particular area of your picture to use as the photo for that contact.
Contact editor let's you crop and select your photo for your contacts
Try it out!
Hop over to Soocial.com, login and browse through your address book and add your contacts gravatars or upload pictures for them.
Next steps
Of course this is a work in progress and we are looking into adding the following:
- Adding twitter images
- Automatically grabbing gravatar or twitter images (and adding it to your address book)
- Saving the versions of images per contact (so have multiple images over time)
Please let us know your thoughts and what you would like to see in our contact editor.
7 Comments
For me Facebook and occasionally Google are where the vast majority of my contact pictures come from.
Thank you!! I love it!!!
@antgiant Cool. Facebook images are private URL’s though so would require more integration. If your images in Google are in your Google Contacts then of course they’ll be synced to Soocial already.
@Richie, thanks!
Oh yeah and for the record. That’s not me in the above screenshots…
Uh huh, Stefan, of course not…
Excellent news! Great work, just tried it out myself. The import from other services is an excellent treat as well.
Since you mentioned Facebook and Twitter in the post/comments, I got to ask – when is the support for them coming?
P.S. My Android phone (Galaxy S) can pull Twitter and Facebook pics. Are you saying acccessing FB profile pics (not ALL photos, just profile photo) is some sort of proprietary API unavailable to you?