Flickr has been testing out its design overhaul for a couple of weeks and now, they’ve finally let the redesign go live to all its users. The new release will bring the photos themselves to the spotlight, as they should be.

The biggest thing to have been changed are the default photo sizes themselves. They’re now 28% larger—that’s 640 pixels wide.

Flickr has also debuted a new lightbox feature, which will allow users to browse through images on a dark background, so there are less distractions to come between you and the photos.

The other improvement Flickr has made comes in its navigation. Users can now browse through different photostreams and groups via the upgraded film strip, which will carry different titles for different contexts.

All photos will also carry the ‘who, what, where, when and how’ information, giving users the ability to craft narratives and stories as opposed to single, decontextualized images. According to Flickr, this will push photosharing into “story-sharing” instead.

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