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20+ Great Adobe AIR Apps for Photos & Videos

via Mashable! by Sean P. Aune on 14/01/09

Adobe AIR is proving more and more useful all of the time. A slew of tools are targeted towards designers and developers, but AIR apps can also be used for photo and video enthusiasts.

Whether it be for video editing, simple playback, or organizing and browsing your photos, there seems to be an application to suit everyone's needs. Take a look through the 20+ apps we've gathered for you, and you are sure to find something useful.

What are some of your favorite Adobe AIR apps for working with photos and videos?

Photo

Albelli Photo Book Creator - Assists you in creating photo books from images on your hard drive or from online resources such as Flickr, Smugmug, Photobucket and Picasa.

CleVR Stitcher - An easy way of joining photos into a panorama by just dropping in all of the required photos. Allows you to correct exposures, add tags, make hot spots that are interactive and more.

DestroyFlickr - DestroyFlickr is all about finding other ways to view Flickr photos that emphasize the photos, and not what is around them. You can view on a dark background, keep a history of where you have been that is easy to navigate and a lot more.

Flickr Flipper - Allows you to search all of Flickr, or just the images of a specific user. Also gives you the ability to download any images you come across that you like.

FotoBooth 2 with Pixel Bender - This app works in conjunction with your web cam to share images on Flickr, and also incorporates Pixel Bender to add effects to those images.

ImageDropr - A simplified method for uploading images to Flickr: drag the images onto the app, add tags, click upload. Can't get much easier than that.

Jigsawlite - Quick and easy way to make a jigsaw puzzle game out of any photo. Simply drag it into the app and it will take care of the rest for you.

OrbitZoom - Drop a picture into the program and zoom in on sections, pan around, and get to know your pictures better.

PhotoTable - A great way of collecting images you find on the Web that you like. Simply drag them out of your browser onto the app and they are saved there until you decide to get rid of them.

Picasa Image Browser - Browse public images from Picasa and save the ones you like to your own hard drive.

Shrink O'Matic - Ever needed to resize several images at the same time? This bulk resizer will take the tedium out of the process for you.

Splashup Light - A simple photo editor for computers that includes effects such as levels, contrast/brightness, hue saturation, text editing and shapes.

StudioCloud PSG (Proofing, Sales, and Gallery Manager) - A perfect tool for photographers of all levels. You can change the images inside the app to please the customer, crop, take orders, organize your work and more.

Webcam to GIF - Allows you to easily take images with your webcam and convert them into an animated GIF for use in forums and so on.

Video

Adobe Media Player - Adobe Media Player allows you to download your favorite TV content, play it while offline, track future episodes and more.

DeskTube - DeskTube is a desktop client for YouTube that allows you to view, search, comment, upload and even download the video you are currently viewing.

Doppelganger - An easy video download app that only requires you drag the link for a video into it to start the download. Currently only supports YouTube.

FLVPlay HD -This app allows you to play local or remote flv and MP4 videos as well as search YouTube from your desktop and play them inside the application.

RichFLV - RichFLV allows you to edit FLV files and do things such as read flv metadata, cut flvs, convert the sound of the flv to MP3 and more.

SideShow - A simple player built just for the playback of flv video files.

Xe-MoviePlayer - A full featured video player that will play F4V, MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, 3gp, 3g2 and flv files. You can also stretch the video to Fullscreen, copy screenshot to the clipboard and more.

YouTube Widget - Allows you to browse Top Rated, Top Favorites and browse more from each member right in the widget.

Miscellaneous

Bookmash - Bookmash does a little bit of everything by searching for videos (Daily Motion, Metacafe, YouTube), music (Last.fm and Seeqpod), photos from Flickr, news from Digg and a lot more, all from one easy interface.

uvLayer - A desktop counterpart to the web app of the same name. Manipulate your media as you like with a simple drag and drop interface, and then you can share your creations via the web or with your friends on AIM, Facebook, GaduGadu, GTalk, MSN and Yahoo!.