Adding web photos to Flickr without downloading them first

One thing I used to hate about blogging or posting photos I found on the internet is that I'd have download the photo, save it, maybe crop or re-size it, and then upload it again. I say used to because you now there are few tools that make it a lot easier to grab a Web photo and save it to Flickr.

For a while, I used a Firefox add-on called Uploadr. With this plug-in you just right click and save it to Flickr. But you couldn't edit the photo before saving. A new Firefox plug-in, Snipshot, improves on this idea considerably by adding a ton of great editing options:

• One-click import from any web site (including Flickr) with our bookmarklet
• Save to a free permanent URL at WebShots or to your Flickr account
• Save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF
• One-click enhance improves most images
• Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
• Basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue
• Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ⌘Z and ⌘Y on your Mac)
• Nondestructive editing—we always work from the original
• Edit big pictures—up to 10 MB, or 25 megapixels (5000x5000 pixels)
• Import PDF (first page only), EPS or SVG

A few of you (I'm looking at you, Jacob), should find this incredibly useful. Enjoy.

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UPDATE: A few more great things about this tool I want to point out. First, you don't have to install any plug in at all. As the first bullet above suggests, you can use the bookmarklet. When you click, it shows you all the pics on a given page and allows you to choose the one you want to edit and import. Also, you don't have to save it to Flickr (or Webshots). You can also save to your desktop. Finally, you don't have to register to use this tool. Go to the Web site, install the plug-in or save the bookmarklet, and it works perfectly.

One of the best free tools I've seen in a long time.