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Agenda

• What is Flickr• Protecting your images online• Getting an account – free vs. pro• Upload that first image• Find friends and interesting things• Organize your stuff• What else can you do

What is Flickr?

• Wikipedia says:– Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web

services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of June 2009, it claims to host more than 3.6 billion images.

Protecting your images online

• Licensing– All rights reserved © – Creative Commons

• Resizing your image– 72 dpi– 720 on longest side

• Watermarking– Image– Name

Getting an account

• Flickr is owned by yahoo.• http://www.flickr.com

Create your account

Sign up for Yahoo

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Click create to finish

Now we sign up for flickr

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Pick a Flickr name. Pick something fun you can always change it later

You did it!

Free vs. Pro

Free• 100 MB photos - per month

– You can’t recover space by deleting

• Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images

• 2 videos – per month• Post any of your photos in up

to 10 group pools • Only smaller (resized) images

accessible (though the originals are saved in case you upgrade later)

Pro• Unlimited photo uploads (20MB

per photo) • Unlimited video uploads (90

seconds max, 500MB per video) • The ability to show HD Video • Unlimited storage • Unlimited bandwidth • Post any of your photos or videos in

up to 60 group pools • Archiving of high-resolution

original images • The ability to replace a photo • Ad-free browsing and sharing • View count and referrer statistics

Personalize your flickr

Your address. CAN’T BE CHANGED

Information Optional

Setting up your account preferences

• Personal information• Privacy and Permissions• Email• Extending Flickr

Uploading images

• Tags• Sets• Collections

Connecting to others

• Contacts• Groups

Other stuff

• http://bighugelabs.com/ - fun things to do• Picnik - edit• http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-tools-to-

enhance-your-flickr-experience/ - more tools• http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-

9703620-2.html - newbie guide