Here are a few of the points that Brian Morgan and I talked about this
morning.
Flickr is a really wonderful way of displaying your photos to your family
and friends, and you can use it free of charge. You can put on up to 200
photos free of charge, and lots more if you sign up for Flickr Pro, which
costs about £12.50 a year.
With Flickr, you can choose what level of privacy you’d like ~ yourself
only, a select group of family and friends (whom you can invite to view
your Flickr site), or you can show your photos to the general public ~
share your photos with everyone, which is the main idea behind Flickr.
To register with Flickr, click below for a link to the website, or just google “Flickr” to find a link to it.
http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr is owned by Yahoo, and you’ll be asked to create an ID / email
address with Yahoo. With the latter you should send yourself an email
every month or two, to keep the email address alive … (just say “Hi” to
yourself). For a password, choose a mix of letters and numbers which you
can easily remember … eg ssmapmgttf57. Don’t use the one you use for
your bank.
You will be asked to choose a title for your Flickr site (which you can
change at a later date, if you so wish).
Photo sizes
Ideally your photos should be about 700-800 pixels across (in landscape
format) and 100-200kb in overall size.
In Photoshop, use Image > Image size.
In Gimp, use the Scale tool (see my website below about how to use this)
.... http://jwebdesigns.angelfire.com/
Small photos are brilliant for fast uploading onto the internet, and are
a deterrent to anyone who attempts to print out any of your photos (they’d
be rubbish!). BTW, I label my small photos by adding the letters “min”
onto the image number.
Uploading your photos onto Flickr
A couple of ways to upload your photos … click on “Upload your photos” on
the main Flickr page. Select your pics to upload, in small themed batches.
Do this in REVERSE order, if you wish to show a time sequence say as
regards uploading wedding photos. So put the post-wedding photos on first.
You can change the way you see the photos you wish to select … click on
the tiny window at the top of the photo menu, and select “Thumbnail”
rather than “List”. Press “Upload” when you’re ready.
At this point, you can add a title, a description and a tag to your photo(s),
or later on you can add this info or change it. For a tag name with more
than one word in it, put quotation marks around the words, eg “garden shed”.
Google will collect this tag (and the photo title), and in due course, if
you google “garden shed photos”, you should be able to see your photo in
amongst many.
You can also select or change the privacy settings now also. Press “Save”.
The second way of uploading your photos is to use the Flickr Uploadr tool.
Click on the link below to see the downloading page.
http://www.flickr.com/tools/
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If you’ve got Windows XP or an earlier version of Windows, remember to
create a Restore Point on your computer, before you download any new
program onto your computer. If your computer were to crash during the
downloading process, you would then be able to go back in time to the
Restore Point (and restore your computer to its previous state of health).
Start > Control Panel > Help & Support > “Undo changes to your computer
by using a Restore Point”.
Choose a name for your Restore Point and then select “Create”.
Windows Vista and I think Win 7, create their own Restore Points automatically.
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When you first click on the Flickr Uploadr icon on your Desktop, you
will be asked to go through a process to link the icon to your Flickr
site, which is easy to do. When you get the Uploadr screen up and
running, you can then add photos to the main area by a “drag and drop”
technique from one of your photo folders (reduced in size and
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Some extra notes for those of you interested in web design / blogging:
Underneath the above photos, there is HTML code for the photo on display,
which you can copy and paste onto your website. So you can create a link
from your website to your Flickr site.
The following photo is on our Nottm U3A Flickr site. However, if you
visit the Flickr site, you won’t see it there, as I’ve made the photo
for private viewing only.
I’ve copied the HTML code for the photo on my Flickr site, and then
posted it onto Blogger, the result of which you are looking at now.
If you click on the photo above, you won’t be able to enlarge it, or
access other photos on this Flickr site. I hope all this makes some
sense to you.
Another interesting feature of Flickr is that it sharpens photos for
you, during the uploading process, which is very handy too for website
use.
With Flickr, you can also create a “badge” of your photos to go on
your website / blogsite … see the Sitemap section on Flickr on how
to set one up. I’ve placed one of the badge designs on the right hand
side of this blogsite.
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BTW, the best time of day for uploading photos is first thing in the
morning when most people in the US are fast asleep.
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To create SETS of your photos, have a look at Organizr
in FAQ.
To put on a small photo of yourself at the top of the Flickr page, click on “Accounts”. You can also change the title of your Flickr
site here.
Click on SITEMAP, to look at your Flickr stats / most frequently viewed photos.
Remember to SAVE your Flickr website address (URL) onto your list of
“Favorites”, or “Bookmark” it on the top toolbar.
You can also save the URL onto a Word / Open Office document / an email
page (and then email it to yourself / others), or onto a Powerpoint slide,
as follows ...
First of all, click inside the address (URL) box at the top of your Flickr
page.
This will highlight the address in blue. Now use your keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl + the letter C to copy, and then Ctrl + the letter V to paste.
I hope you’ll have a lot of fun using Flickr. Please let me know how you get
on with it in due course.
