Flickr is one of the most popular photo services for photographers, amateurs and anyone else who loves images. With 1 TB, the service offers a large amount of storage space to store and share your photos. In this article we will discuss the basic functions of the photo service.
Tip 1: Flickr
Flickr is popular for its huge range of beautiful photos. Visit the website, click Explore and let yourself be surprised. The photos you see are from others, however, this article is about your own collection on Flickr. You get 1 TB(!) of storage space for free. This is enough to store 873,813 4 megapixel photos or 582,542 6 megapixel photos.
If you have no idea what kind of pictures your camera shoots: a 16-megapixel photo is an extremely large format that can hold 218,453 photos. Flickr is very user-friendly. You can add photos via the site, with special programs or via an app on your smartphone. Signing up is free and very easy if you use your Facebook or Gmail account.
At Flickr.com you get 1 TB of storage space for photos and videos, can you fill it up?
Tip 2: Upload via browser
There are many ways to put photos on Flickr and maybe even more options that you can set afterwards. We cover the basics and some smart extensions, such as adding directly from Windows and Flickr to your smartphone. The basis starts with the website itself. Surf to Flickr.com, sign up and click Upload. You can drag photos directly from Windows Explorer to the browser window to get them on Flickr. This principle works with all modern browsers.
If this doesn't work, first click on Choose photos and videos and point to the images on your hard drive. Select multiple photos by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on the files. You select all files in a folder with the key combination Ctrl+A.
Add photos to your Flickr account via a modern browser: just drag, drop and upload!
Tip 3: Set visibility
Flickr shows a thumbnail of the photos you want to add. You can directly describe photos with Add a description (optional). You can also use the images with Add to set add to a set (see tip 5 and tip 7). It is important to check two settings before adding the photos: permissions and visibility. The settings can be found under Owner settings (owner's settings). The permissions are set by default to None, all rights reserved. This means that you do not give third parties permission to do anything with the images. You can leave this setting unchanged or opt for a Creative Commons license.
The institution Privacy is important! By default, the photos you add are searchable and visible to everyone. If you want to hide images (for now), click on Visible to everyone (visible to everyone). Change this setting from anyone (everyone) to only you (visible only to yourself).
Set the permissions for the photos and decide who can see the photos.
Tip 4: Upload photos
Are all photos properly oriented; are they not tilted or even upside down? Click on the top right of the screen Upload photos. The images are sent to Flickr. If a photo is on its side, click on the image. click on Rotate to rotate the photo. You can rotate multiple images simultaneously by making a selection: hold down the Ctrl key while clicking the photos. Is there a photo you would rather not have on Flickr? Select the photo(s) and click Remove (remove).
Click Rotate to fix rotated photos.
Tip 5: Sets and collections
You can group your photos on Flickr into a sort of photo album. These are globally available in two flavors: sets and collections. The difference is simple. A set is a collection of photos, for example around a person, subject or theme. This can be a holiday, for example with the name France 2013. You can place several sets in a collection. An example of this is a collection called Vacations. Here you can store all sets with your holiday photos.
Working with sets and collections is not mandatory, but useful. Sets are even indispensable if you post a lot of photos on Flickr. Not only do you keep an overview, but you can also apply settings (such as rights) directly to all photos in a set.
A set is a series of photos, a kind of photo album on Flickr.
Tip 6: View photos
There are many different ways to view your photos, for example by opening a set or a collection (these have not yet been created). Do you want to quickly see all your photos? Then look at You / Photostream. A view of your images is shown. The operation and navigation is so intuitive that we probably don't need to explain this. If you accidentally get lost while watching: you always return to your photo overview via You / Photostream. Is the you not visible? First click on the Flickr logo.
In your Photostream you will see an overview of all the photos you have put on Flickr.
Tip 7: Photos in a collection
To add photos to a set or to edit a previously created set, go to You / Sets. Give the set a good name, for example Holiday France 2013 and (optionally) create a description for the set. At the bottom of the screen, you'll see the photos you've uploaded to Flickr. The images you just uploaded are in front.
Drag the photos you want to add to the collection (set) upwards. You can also make a selection first and place multiple images in a set at once. The order of the photos is easy to determine by dragging the images. Satisfied? Save the set with Save. You can always easily find your sets via You / Sets.
Organize the photo collection: place your images in a set.
Tip 8: Edit with Organize
The place on Flickr where you can arrange everything around your photos, sets and settings can be found via You / Organize. It would go too far to discuss all functions here. Play with the settings to find your way. Bee batch organize you can perform actions simultaneously on multiple photos. Drag photos from bottom to top and choose in the second menu what you want to do with these images, for example add them to a set with Add to set or set permissions with Set permissions.
Use Organize to perform operations with multiple photos, such as adding them to a set.
