I decided to test my bookmarklet skills once more and write a little script that could convert a black-on-white Flickr page into a white-on-black Flickr page. The reason for this is that some photos just look better on black.

There are some other solutions that do this but they require you to load the image in a different site, and I thought a bookmarklet could probably do the work faster as it doesn’t need to reload the photo. There was an issue that I bumped in though: quite a few elements on Flickr are white images, which can’t be changed to black. 

So I decided on a different take: hide the Flickr GUI elements, append a new element, load the image in it on black, and show it to the user. This seems to work at the moment with the below bookmarklet.

Flickr on Black

Go to any Flickr photo page, and press the bookmarklet. It should load a black screen with the photo. Either pressing the “Back to Flickr” or the bookmarklet again would bring you back to Flickr in white.

There are two major issues at the moment, The one is critical and that is that somehow mouse overlays, menus, and other items in the Flickr GUI, don’t seem to work after use of this bookmarklet. I don’t know why at the moment so please let me know if you do.

Secondly I would love for the script to autoload a larger sized image for you, as that makes viewing even more pleasant.

So, think you can help, let me know. The source can be found here:“Flickr On Black” source