Getting Started with Flickr

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Getting Started with Flickr

• A Training Session for Librarians
• Susan Knisely
• Online Services Librarian
• Nebraska Library Commission

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What can you do in Flickr without an account?

• Search for Photos, People, and Groups
• Explore by popular tag, geographic location,
  camera, calendar, etc.
• View Public Photos

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What can you do in Flickr with an account?

• Upload your own photos
• Comment on photos
• Tag photos (i.e. add descriptive keywords)
• Join groups / post photos to groups
• View Private photos of people who have marked
  you as family or friend
• Post your photos to a blog
• And much, much more!

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Free Flickr account

• 100 MB monthly upload limit (5 MB per photo)
• 3 photosets
• Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent
  images
• Post any of your photos in up to 10 group pools
• Storage of smaller (resized) images

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Flickr Pro Account

• Unlimited uploads (10 MB per photo)
• Unlimited storage bandwidth
• Unlimited photosets
• Permanent archiving of high-resolution original
  images
• The ability to replace a photo
• Post any of your photos in up to 60 group pools
• Ad-free browsing and sharing
• Cost 24.95 / year

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Create a Free Flickr Account
Already have a Yahoo! ID and Password (e.g., from
an email account)? If so, use those.
If not Sign Up here
http//www.flickr.com/signup
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Create Your Yahoo! ID
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Choose Your Screen Name
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Click Flickr Logo to Get Home
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Go to Your Profile
Click here to open the You drop-down menu, then
select Your Profile
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Edit Your Profile, Buddy Icon, Screen Name
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Decide what information you want to include in
your Profile
You can control how much of your profile is
visible, and to whom, when you set your account
privacy settings. Reveal a little or a lot
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Create a Buddy Icon . . .
. . . to go from
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Change Your Screen Name
If you dont want to use your Yahoo! ID as your
Flickr screen name, change it here. You can
change your screen name whenever you want.
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Go to Your Account
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Your Account
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Account Settings Worth Reviewing

• Personal Information Tab
• Your profile privacy - Control who is able to see
  different parts of your profile
• Anyone
• Any Flickr member
• Any of your contacts
• Friends and family
• Nobody
• Your Flickr web address Create your own
  permanent, user-friendly Flickr address
• www.flickr.com/photos/bluedonkey65 as opposed to
• ww.flickr.com/photos/52423626_at_N00

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Choose Your Address Wisely!
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Account Settings (cont.)

• Privacy Permissions Tab
• Defaults for new uploads
• Control who will be able to see, comment on, and
  annotate your photos
• Set photo safety level
• Safe
• Moderate
• Restricted
• Set image content type
• Photos
• Art, Illustration, CGI or other non-photographic
  images
• Screenshots

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Upload Options

• Web-based upload form
• Flickr Uploadr for Windows
• Flickr Uploadr for Mac
• Send to Flickr Windows XP Explorer Wizard
• Upload by email
• and more . . .

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Your Flickr Home
Click Home from anywhere in Flickr to return to
this page
Click here to upload photos
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Web-Based Upload Form
Keep track of how much of your monthly upload
capacity youve used
Click on Choose photos
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Choose Photos to Upload
Locate and select the image file on your
computer. Click Open to transfer the file path
to the upload form.
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Upload Photos to Flickr

• Select additional photos to upload if desired
• Change default upload settings if desired (etc.,
  privacy, safety level, content type)
• Click Upload Photos

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Describe Your Photos
Once your photos are finished uploading, click on
describe your photos
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Describe Your Photos
Add Title, Description, and Tags. Click on Save.
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Your photos
When viewing the Your photos page, click
directly on a photo to access additional options
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Things to do with a photo!

• Delete or add a tag
• Edit licensing information
• Place on map
• View camera info.
• Edit title, description, and tags
• Edit privacy settings

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Why arent my photos showing?

• New accounts are marked Pending until Flickr
  administrators have reviewed them.
• Photos in pending accounts wont show up in
• Public photo lists (e.g., Everyones Photos)
• Pages that show all photos tagged with a certain
  tag
• Groups, if you arent a group member
• Upload at least 5 public photos to get your
  account in the review queue
• Review process takes 3-5 days

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What are Groups?

• Places to share photos related to a particular
  theme (e.g., a geographic location, subject
  matter, photographic technique, etc.)
• There are 3 types of groups
• Public Anyone can join instantly
• Public (invite only) The group page is public,
  but the only way to join is by invitation
• Private Only group members and those who have
  been invited can view the group page

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Search for a Group / Create a New Group
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Search for a Group by Name
Click here to go to the Groups page
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Join a Group
Click on Join this group
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Request an Invitation to Join Public (Invite
Only) Groups
If the group is an invite only Public group,
you will be taken to an invitation request form.
Fill it out and send it in to request an
invitation!
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Adding Pictures to a Group
While viewing a photo, click on the Send to Group
icon. Choose a group to add your photo to. Only
groups you belong to will be listed.
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What are Sets?

• Sets are a way to group related pictures together
  within your account sort of like creating
  thematic photo albums!

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Creating Sets / Adding Photos to Sets
While viewing a photo, click on the Add To Set
icon. Choose an existing set to add your photo
to or create a new set.
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Editing Sets
Click on Organize ? Your sets to open the Flickr
Organizr. Next double click on the set you want
to work with.
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Batch Edit Options
Batch edit options
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What are Contacts

• Contacts are other Flickr users with whom you
  want some level of relationship.
• Making someone a contact gives you easier access
  to their public photos.
• Making someone a contact is the first step in
  sharing private photos with them the second step
  is marking them as
• Friend
• Family
• Or both

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Adding Contacts
Click on right side of a buddy icon to open the
drop-down menu select Add as a contact option.
Decide if you want to designate this contact as
Friend or Family
Your new contact will appear on your Profile page
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Time to get to work!
Questions?

• Susan Knisely
• 402-471-3849
• 800-307-2665
• sknisely_at_nlc.state.ne.us