Flickr Photo Archive - The Camera Roll

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Flickr Photo Archive Auto- load and the Camera Roll

DENISE BARRETT OLSON


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Why Flickr?

Flickr offers 1TB of free storage

for photos and video. Youruploaded photos are stored attheir original size and resolutionand you control who can viewand/or download them. Thereare a number of organizationand editing tools to help youorganize and manage your

archive.

But that’s just the beginning.With Flickr you control thelicensing rights (copyright,Creative Commons, publicdomain) and privacy settings(only you, family, friends, public)assigned to each photo. Add

your own titles, descriptionsand tags then invite others toadd their comments. Flickr isvery search friendly and has anumber of social features too,making it a great place to meetresearch cousins.

Your abundance of choices canalso be a curse. This guide willhelp you develop a storytellingstyle that enhances your familyhistory project and supportsyour workflow.


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The Flickr Uploader

Once you have set up your Flickraccount, you’ll see a graphicrecommending you install the FlickrUploader. It’s available for Windowsand Mac computers.

Once it is installed, Mac users willsee the uploader icon in the status

bar at the top of the screen. Clickthe icon to display the uploaderpanel.

From here you see your user profileimage, thumbnails of recent uploadsas well as a link to view your CameraRoll in your web browser. If anupload is in progress, you can clickthe Pause button at the bottom ofthe panel to stop it.

The Gear icon at the bottom of thepanel displays a menu to upload afolder, open the uploader’spreference panel (below) or quit theuploader app.

The example below shows youraccount information with buttons tochange settings on the uploader orgo to the Camera Roll online.


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Click the Upload icon to display the folders containing image files on yourcomputer. In this example from my Mac, that even includes Dropbox andexternal hard drives. Click in the check box to the left of a folder to include itin the uploader’s “watch list”.

Note that the Pictures folder has a triangle icon on the left. This means thereare sub-folders in the Pictures folder. Click that icon and those sub- foldersare displayed with checkboxes so you can make your selections.

If you have photos in folders not shown here, click the plus (+) button at thebottom of the panel to navigate to that folder and add it to your list.

You can select all the folders you want and the uploader will begin the initialupload. Depending on the size of your collection, this could take some time.Once done, the app will monitor your system and upload new photos as theyare saved to your computer.


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The mobile apps for iOS and Androiddevices also include an auto-uploadoption with settings to choose ifuploads will use cellular transfer along

with wi-fi. Since many of today'sphones can take high-resolutionphotos, it is probably best to limituploads to wi-fi connections unlessabsolutely necessary.

On iOS devices, the app will auto-upload all photos in the Photos app.

In this example, you are looking at theCamera Roll on my Flickr profile. Itcontains all the photos, videos andscreen captures I've uploaded frommy Mac and mobile devices.


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The Camera Roll

Every uploaded photo lands in my Camera Roll organized as batches by dateThis example shows the Camera Roll as it appears in a web browser. Noticethat most of the photo thumbnails have a padlock icon in the lower left corne

identifying them as private photos only visible to me.From this screen, I can quickly change settings, add metadata, move to albumand even delete unwanted photos. I can select individual images by clickingthem or select an entire batch using the Select all link found next to the batchdate.


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After selecting one or more items in the Camera Roll, a set of command iconsappears at the bottom of the browser's screen. These include:

• Privacy - with options for Public, Private, Friends, Family or Friends &Family

• Edit - displays an options panel

• Share - allows sharing these photos on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest or by Mai

• Add to an album

• Download the selected photos

• Delete the selected photos from Flickr.


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This is the editing panel that is displayed when the Edit icon is selectedon the Camera Roll screen. Changes made to this panel if apply toeach selected photo (14 in this example).

Here I can add titlesand descriptions,change the privacysetting determiningwho can view thesephotos and set whocan comment and addtags to these photos.

If my photos areexplicit, I can use theSafe setting to setthem as Restricted.Flickr users canchoose to only viewSafe or Moderatephotos when browsing

Flickr and this settingdefines that.

The copyright optionsinclude all rights reserved, public domain work, public domaindedication and several Creative Commons options. These are bestdescribed as some rights reserved and are explained in detail at http://www.creativecommons.org.

When uploading photos, the dates are automatically included from theembedded metadata. This is not true when uploading scanned photos.If I know when one of those photos was taken, I can manually enter theinformation here.


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Now I am ready to addmy batch to one of thealbums in my Flickrprofile. With the photos

selected in the CameraRoll, I tap the albumicon to display thisscreen. If I have a largenumber of albums, I usethe search box to findmy album quickly.

I just click the

appropriate album'sicon/title then click the Done button. Thesephotos also remain in my Camera Roll.

It's easy to share aselected group ofphotos from the CameraRoll at any time. Justselect the photo(s) youwant to share and tap/click the Share icon.When this panelappears, choose theplatform then click theDone button. Whathappens next willdepend on the platform

you choose.


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Resources

• Visit Moultrie Creek @Scribd foradditional guides on Flickr andother digital storytelling topics.

• The free Flickr Uploader isavailable for Windows and Macdesktops and can bedownloaded at flickr.com.

• Mobile apps are available for iOSdevices (iPhone and iPad),Android devices and Windows

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For More Inf orma tion

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