Quick Guide Using Flickr

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HOW TO UPLOAD AND ORGANIZE PHOT S ONO

FLICKR

What is Flickr?Flickr is a website whose main purpose is to store, organize, and share photos and shortvideos on the web. Flickr is available at http://www.flickr.com

Browsing other user’s photos/short videos is free, but uploading your own requires either a free account or a paid membership. The free account lets you do everything the paidmembership does, except it limits you to uploading 100Mb worth of photos per month.

Flickr Terminology• Photostream – a list of all your uploaded photos, with the most recent at the

beginning and oldest at the end

• Photo Set – a group/folder of “like” photos. Photo Sets may consist of “like”photos from events, similar items (such as buildings, locations, people, etc..)

• Collection – this is a group of “like” Photo Sets and is a way to organize your photos and sets. Collections may go 2 levels deep. Example – “Athletics” Æ “Men’s Sports”Æ Photo Sets Here

• Mosaic – Each collection is represented by a small graphic. This graphiccontains a mosaic of various photos inside that collection.

• Tags – each photo may have keywords assigned. This is called “tagging” aphoto. When you “tag” a photo with a particular keyword, such as “hockey”, thenusers who search for “hockey” will be find this photo. It is important to putmeaningful and relavent tags with each of your photos.

• Geo Tagging – much like keyword tagging, you may also specify on a mapwhere the photo was taken. Example – if a photo was taken at Jay Cooke StatePark, you could “tag” that photo with it’s location at Jay Cooke.

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Chapter 1 – Finding your way around Flickr

• The main way to find photos on Flickr is to search.

• The Search Results will display:

Click on the photo that you want…

• You will brought to that Photo “ details” page:



A = View All Sizes – if the photo has additional sizes available, this link will take

you to the original-sized, high resolution version

B = Photo Title

C = The owner of the photo – their information

D = The Photostream this photo belongs to

E = Photo Sets the photo belongs to – a photo may belong to multiple photo sets

F = all the tags/keywords that are assigned to this photo

• Photostream page – lists all the user’s photos with the most recent first, oldestlast. This page may also contain “mosaics” of photo collections off to the right:



• Photo Collection page – contains all photo sets and/or photo collectionsorganized within the current collection:

• Photo Set page – displays all “like” photos that were put in a set together.Clicking on a thumbnail will take you to the “details” page for that photo:



• View original/large size version of a photo – at the photo “details” page click the

icon above the photo. You will be brought to the following page:

Here you view/download the sizes available

Chapter 2 – Uploading Photos

1. Sign into Flickr.com:



2. Once signed in, click on the “You” menu, and select “Upload Photos andVideos”

3. Now you will be brought to the “Upload” page, click the link “ChoosePhotos and Videos”



Clicking it will display the File Selection Dialog window. Browse for andselect the photos you want to upload, from your computer. NOTE: Toselect multiple photos, hold the Control key down and click on each photoyou want to upload:

4. Once you selected all the photos you want to upload, click the “Open”button. The dialog window will close and you will see…

This screen lists all the photos you have chosen to upload. If you want toadd more photos to this list, click the blue “Add More” link. When youhave all the photos you want, listed, click the button “Upload Photos and

Videos”





7. You will be brought to the following screen. This screen is where youassign tags/keywords, photo titles/descriptions, and organize it into anexisting photo set or create a new photo set:

When finished, click the button at the bottom of the page.

8. You will be brought to your Photostream with your newly added photoslisted first.

Chapter 3 – Organize Your Photos1. Now we are going to put your new Photo Set into a Collection. This helps

organize your photos into logical groups so we (and everyone else) can better find the photos we/they are looking for.

2. Select the “Organize” menu and click on “Your sets & collections”



3. The “Organize” screen will display:

Here you can put unassigned photos into various photo sets and put Photo Setsinto Collections. This screen is “drag and drop”, which means, click on your

newly added Photo Set (should be the first photo set listed) and drag it to thePhoto Collection (left-hand “folder-like” column) and drop it where-ever in the listit best fits.



4. You can make sure that your photo set is assigned into it’s proper collection bygoing to your Photo Stream, click on “Collections” and finding it from there. Itshould be within the collection you dropped it into:

Chapter 4 – Edit an existing Photo Set1. After you uploaded photos, assigned them to a Photo Set, and organized the

set into a collection, you might decide you want to add more tags/keywords toall the photos within that set, or you want to do other “batch” operations to aPhoto Set.



2. Get to the Photo Set page of the set you want to edit.. click on the “Edit”menu and select “Batch Operations”

3. You will be brought to the “Batch Operations” screen, where you can performmany functions on all the photos within the Photo Set all at once:



Chapter 5 – Edit an individual photo’s/collection’s/photo set’s

title/description

1. Flickr really makes this easy – whatever page you are at – a Photo Set page, aPhoto Collection page, a Photo details page, if you hover your mouse over a titleor description, and the background of that title/description changes to lightyellow, you may click on it, which makes it “editable”



Flickr Help and Instructions

This document touches only a portion of what Flickr can do. For further help andinstructions, a “Help” link is located at the top of any Flickr webpage:

To put a Flickr Photo Set on a UW-Superior webpage as a Slideshow, please visit theWebmaster’s site for instructions.

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