The PhotoOnWeb service and server have been shut down. While the end of service was announced years ago, the final server shutdown by OVH ( removing the support for the hardware server online since 2011) is imminent. Users who relied on PhotoOnWeb as their sole photo backup must immediately use FTP to download their photos or contact us.
To replace PhotoOnWeb, we collaborated with Google Teams to enable photo album creation on photo.google.com using our PhotoLikr Photo Viewer software. PhotoLikr, a local Windows application by Obviousidea.com, allows you to review and sort your pictures, and now integrates with Google Photos for sharing photo albums. Google Photos offers extensive photo editing features, album privacy controls, and affordable, expandable storage.
PhotoOnWeb.com and app, were first developped at the time of the VSO-Software company. Then moved to Obviousidea portfolio after the split of the VSO founders. The app was designed to resize local photos, then choose from a list of templates ( birthday, holidays, halloween ) choosing a layout. it was first developped as an alternative to simpleviewer, but as Adobe Flash technology has been closed, the other alternative was a pure html web gallery.
Photolikr a more recent app from Obviousidea was already supporting the upload to dropbox, but dropbox photo albums are very business oriented. Google photos is something popular as anyone with a gmail account has already a free space to host pictures and photo albums. the management of your albums, such security and privacy , is managed from https://photos.google.com/
PhotoLikr has passed thru a validation process from the team of Google, and if you look quickly, there are not that many software to upload your photos to a web album.
Migrate from PhotoOnWeb to PhotoLikr today and ensure your photos are safe and accessible. Visit Obviousidea.com to download PhotoLikr and continue sharing your memories. More details on the new features and developpement of PhotoLikr app will come later. PhotoLikr is a minimalist photo (re)viewer, tuned for speed and support of recent modern formats such heic avif or jpeg xl.
We are glad to announce minor updates for our software LRToolbox, TAPOPanel, PhotoLikr And Light Image Resizer.
Everyone can use Obviousidea Software !
List of Obviousidea software updated :
LRToolbox is a windows software to recover lost images from Adobe Lightroom catalog, by extracting the preview thumbnails of the .lrcat catalog, managing the orientation, and manage 1 to 5 stars ratings. RAW to Jpeg conversion and more. The program is totally free ! please let us know if you use it and it has been useful to recover lost pictures.
TapoPanel is a freeware to use your TP-Link Electricity Plugs. From your Windows display, Monitor the live electricity consumption of each of your Tapo Plugs. Using smartphone can be boring to just watch the change of your home energy use. The little windows is an alternative to home assistant ( even if we love Home Assistant project too ). A Electricity-meter plug cost around 12 euros / Usd but the software is free !
Photolikr is our under-estimated photo viewer. The best feature to consider is to use this software for your photo culling. Less is more ! the interface is clean and minimalist. Display your images in full screen, very fast, generate windows thumbnails, and support the more popular photo format. This new build is installing for you the jpeg xl thumbnails codec from this Github open source projet . PhotoLikr will replace PhotoOnweb and next version will add export and sharing to Google Photos albums.
Light Image Resizer 7 is also updated. Please let us know if you experience any problem with antivirus solution, as we still need to report for false positive detection. Unfortunately, It takes a few days at every release now and it’s a lot of wasted time.
Greencloud Printer doesn’t need any update ! as it continues to be a eco-friendly software solution to save on your daily print task.
Where to download ?
The minor update are available on our download page, you just need to install the new version over your existing one.
Thanks :),
Fabrice Meuwissen CEO and founder of Obviousidea ( this message has been written in my bad english, local version could be translated automatically , please apologize for the mistakes and weird translations )
This year has been a remarkable one for Obviousidea: five years after the release of Light Image Resizer 6, we have finally launched version 7 of our software for Windows, Light Image Resizer 7.
However, we acknowledge some missteps. Specifically, some users felt it was unfair to pay again for this update. Similar to a new iPhone model or the latest version of a car, we opted to offer perpetual licenses rather than subscriptions. These licenses, referred to as “lifetime licenses,” remain valid: licenses for version 6 do not expire but are not valid for version 7 updates. The costs of maintenance, development, and storing previous versions are significant, preventing us from offering major updates for free. Nevertheless, we understand your frustration and have implemented discounts for existing customers.
Regarding Light Image Resizer 7, there is still room for improvement. Many new features lack sufficient documentation and will evolve in 2025 based on your feedback. Whether you are a personal or professional user, understanding how you use our software is crucial for us. This helps us deliver better tutorials and features tailored to your needs (e.g., for real estate agencies, photographers, bailiffs, or garage owners).
In 2025, we will continue improving PhotoLikr, our photo sorting software, which now supports new formats like JPEG XL and offers innovative features such as reading prompts from generative AI tools like Fooocus, Stable Diffusion, or ComfyUI. With the end of PhotoOnWeb, Photolikr will be updated to easily cull your best photos, and share them in online albums.
We are also delighted to see that GreenCloud Printer users are increasingly contributing to reducing their ecological footprint by saving paper and ink daily.
This year, we also plan to expand our services, particularly in the legaltech sector, by offering solutions for managing large volumes of documents, images, or audio files with OCR and voice-to-text transcription technologies. These tools are very useful in modern world legal investigation, when proof of evidence are deeply hidden in our large archives of Facebook Messenger or Instagram private messages.
We sincerely thank you for your support and encourage you to share your experiences with our products and your needs. Your feedback forms the foundation of our future development.
Microsoft finally released a fix for a rotation issue. Indeed, you could have experienced with PhotoLikr and preview window of Light Image Resizer such problem, while the final output is correctly processed. The easiest way to check if you have the orientation problem is to check if a portrait photography has been wrongly rotated. CR2, CR3, RAF, or any raw digital camera format could be impacted.
Canon CR3 Portrait not oriented
After the fix, you still need to run the disk cleanup tool. Use the last option of the files to remove : thumbnails. It will force the thumbnails in windows explorer to be cached again.
You can find information about the fixes in the Microsoft’s Blog
[RAW format images] Fixed: They show in the wrong orientation. [JPG files] Fixed: You cannot use an API to find rotation information.
So maybe the problem wasn’t the update of the RAW Camera update but the operating system files themselves who causes wrong rotation in windows explorer.
Run Windows Update or refer to the documentation. If you are experiencing the problem, it’s important to contact us, as there are so many file format, the sooner we know about it, the sooner Obviousidea software could find a workaround. Please contact Obviousidea support team with screenshot and a description of the problem.
Orientation such portrait and lanscape are available in the exif information provided by digital camera manufacturor. The information could be read by the system such windows extension, or some core files like by the windows operating system directly. Obviousidea can use his own library or 3rd party library, embedded jpeg preview, ImageMagick library. The wrong thumbnail rotation problem in windows explorer is complex as there are so many different Windows builds. Latest main Windows build is 24H2.
PhotoLikr and photo orientation
With all the settings available in Photolikr (re)viewer , you could control the behavior of your photo display.
With Light Image Resizer, you can convert all your photos without losing quality. Instead of using Exif orientation when viewing the picture, you can completely reconvert the pixel using the portrait option . Go to the tab Misc -> Adjust Resolution for portrait
New versions of Light Image Resizer 7.1.2 and PhotoLikr 1.4.1 are available in our download section. Each software page contains the changelog and the updates are free. As a reminder, only a change of a major version could require an upgrade of the licence.
Light Image Resizer is a Windows software which can batch convert images. Convenient solution to change file format from JPEG to PDF, PDF to JPEG, JPEG to HEIC, HEIC to JPEG, JPEG to AVIF, AVIF to PDF, and more combinations. Change resolution of your photos, or convert the picture aspect ratio.
PhotoLikr is also a Microsoft Windows software to quickly (re)view a set of your pictures. PhotoLikr stands for photo liker. You can rate your pictures with stars and then sort them in your local hard drive. Once you have done your selection of your best images. Share photos on Dropbox.
Since this morning, several users reported a virus issue with GreenCloud Printer. After investigations and the first reports, it is a false alarm from some antivirus solutions, and the main one seems to be BitDefender.
What is a antivirus False positive ?
Security software sometimes unintentionally identify a program or file as harmful if it has code or behavior that resembles known harmful programs. This is known as a False Positive. A False positive means the antivirus wrongly identify the app as a virus.
Action from Obviousidea about false positive
We reported the false alarm. In the meantime, please don’t deinstall / reinstall the GreenCloud Printer package, as it won’t solve the problem. The only solution is to turn off the antivirus or flag it as safe. You can also report the false alarm at : Bitdefender false positive report . The BitDefender form is weird and won’t confirm by email if the ticket is created. You can contact support of Bitdefender, this page contains the list of the phone numbers.
Another method is to “restore” the binary GCPrinter.exe, in notification, watch the history and find the entry about the software infected. Then Restore the program.
We are sorry for the inconvenience. Especially because the latest version of GreenCloud Printer hasn’t been updated since a few months. It may happen also with Light Image Resizer. To fight against virus, we are using VirusTotal, a well known service in the industry to check URLs and setup package available in our download page.
Here the link of the VirusTotal report for GreenCloud Printer : november 11th, 2024 : 10/73 vendors are reporting a problem november 12th, 2024 : 4/73 vendors are reporting a problem november 13th, 2024 : 2/73 vendors are reporting a problem november 14th, 2024 : 1/73 vendors are reporting a problem ( https://www.deepinstinct.com/ didn’t reply to our report ) november 19th, 2024 : webroot solution was not in the virustotal report but cause issues, it’s fixed now.
How to report a false positive ?
Don’t hesitate to contact Obviousidea, to report any issue with antivirus, it’s the best and safest way to let us know and report and investigate the problem.
there is no rule to report a false positive you need to fill a form ( when it works ) or contact by email one by one the antivirus vendor. This list from VirusTotal can save a lot of time.
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