Sunday, March 8, 2009

Flickr

What is Flickr?

It is an image and video hosting website and online community powered by Yahoo! that allows users to upload, organize, edit, and share images and videos.  User can designate their images to be public, private, or group specific in order to control who has access to the images.


Features:
Free Account:
  • Displays only the most recent 200 pictures, the rest are hidden (not deleted).
  • Free 100MB of space each calendar month.
Paid or Pro Account: 
  • $25.95/year
  • Unlimited uploads.
Users can title, tag, edit, resize, and add comments or descriptions to their uploaded images and videos. Users can also share and post images and videos on blogs or social networking sites with the generated image tags or URL links.

You must have a Yahoo! account.  Have your photos ready on your desktop of one of the portable drives.

  1. Go to http://www.flickr.com & log in.
  2. Upload your photos.
  3. Edit your photos.
  4. Share your photos.
Because of copyright issue, the best way to go about finding images is to go through Creative Commons.
  1. Go to http://search.creativecommons.org/
  2. Select Flickr Tab
  3. Type in your search keywords

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