IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi! I am Derrick Story, and welcome
to Flickr Essential Training.
| | 00:08 | Flickr is an exciting online photo-
sharing community, where you can post your
| | 00:12 | pictures and enjoy those of others.
| | 00:14 | In this course, I will explain how to
get the most out of Flickr, including how
| | 00:18 | to add titles, descriptions, and tags
that will help others find your work;
| | 00:23 | set permissions so you remain in
control of your online image library;
| | 00:28 | navigate the Flickr universe to
discover fantastic images by others;
| | 00:33 | edit your pictures online using a
variety of powerful image-editing tools;
| | 00:38 | organize your work into sets and
collections; use search tools to find images
| | 00:44 | and the people who took them; and
access Flickr from mobile devices, so you can
| | 00:49 | always stay in touch.
| | 00:50 | Come see how to leverage all the
benefits that this application has to offer by
| | 00:55 | joining me in Flickr Essential Training.
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1. Getting StartedCreating your Flickr account| 00:00 | Well, if you don't have a Flickr account,
you have to create one, and it's easy
| | 00:04 | enough, and I'm going do that right now.
| | 00:06 | So, actually, let's do it together.
| | 00:09 | So you just go to Flickr.com,
F-L-I-C-K-R.com, and you get a homepage like this.
| | 00:16 | This is not the Flickr homepage;
| | 00:17 | this is--I would say this is the
greeting page actually. And up here at the
| | 00:22 | top, you see this Create Your Account, and
we are just going to click on that right now.
| | 00:27 | Now Flickr is from Yahoo! now and
so what they want you to do is have a Yahoo!
| | 00:33 | account in order to have a Flickr account.
| | 00:36 | So if you already have a Yahoo!
| | 00:38 | account, as we do here,
then you can just sign in.
| | 00:42 | If you don't have a Yahoo!
| | 00:43 | account, then you have to take a minute, and
they give you a link to create your Yahoo!
| | 00:48 | account, and then you come back to
this, sign in, and then you get to create
| | 00:52 | your Flickr account.
| | 00:53 | So it is two things.
| | 00:55 | You only have to do this once, and the Yahoo!
| | 00:58 | account does take I say
about five minutes or so.
| | 01:01 | But once you have it, and then you can
sign in right here, and actually create
| | 01:06 | your Flickr account.
| | 01:07 | So I am going to go ahead
and sign in with our Yahoo!
| | 01:09 | account and just click Sign In.
| | 01:15 | Now, we have to give our Flickr account a name.
| | 01:19 | So this is what we are going to be known by.
| | 01:21 | This is our, as I say, our handle.
| | 01:24 | So we have to come up with something
right here, and since this is Flickr
| | 01:30 | Essential Training that we
are doing, let's call it that.
| | 01:32 | Of course, I'm hoping that someone else
hasn't taken Flickr Essential Training,
| | 01:39 | which I think the odds are good since
I'm the only one that have done this.
| | 01:43 | If someone else had, then when we click on
the big blue button here, they'll let us know.
| | 01:49 | So let's find out.
| | 01:51 | So now you get this page where you get
to start personalizing your page, and we
| | 01:56 | are actually going to do that.
| | 01:58 | This is nice because this sort of gives
you a roadmap as to what you have to do
| | 02:01 | next, and we are going to
do movies on all of these.
| | 02:04 | So we are going to personalize our profile
and we are going to set up our preferences.
| | 02:10 | We are definitely going to be uploading
some photos, and then we'll be finding
| | 02:14 | some friends on Flickr.
| | 02:17 | If we don't have friends on Flickr,
then we will go tell them to sign up, and
| | 02:20 | then we'll be friends.
| | 02:22 | And then of course, we'll do all the
fun things where we get to explore our
| | 02:26 | photostream and our
contacts and all the other goodies.
| | 02:29 | So it's really that easy to get things set up.
| | 02:33 | Now, it's a matter of sort of shaping
this site so it's exactly the way that
| | 02:37 | you want it.
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| Exploring the home page| 00:00 | Well, I would like to show you
the Flickr homepage right now.
| | 00:03 | It's this link right here.
And it's customized for you.
| | 00:08 | So we are looking at The Digital Story!
I thought I would show you my homepage,
| | 00:12 | show you all the interesting
things that are happening here.
| | 00:14 | So at the homepage,
| | 00:16 | just think of it as like a virtual
water cooler for the whole Flickr
| | 00:20 | universe where everyone sort of comes
together right here and you can see what's going on.
| | 00:25 | Now I am actually going to start at the
bottom of the homepage, because we are
| | 00:29 | going to start broad and
then slowly narrow down.
| | 00:32 | So Explore is very broad, and what they
say here, believe it--you can lose hours
| | 00:38 | exploring the Flickr universe.
| | 00:41 | They pulled together interesting shots
for you and they streamed through your
| | 00:44 | homepage. And if you see something that
you like, that you're inspired, or that
| | 00:49 | may be a technique that
you want to learn more about,
| | 00:51 | you can click on the photo itself.
| | 00:53 | You will go to that person's page,
and you can see what they're up to.
| | 00:57 | This is a great way, as Flickr says, to
spend some time when you have time on your hands.
| | 01:04 | I am going to go ahead
and collapse out right now.
| | 01:07 | So that's the broadest, and then we
are going to get a little bit more narrow
| | 01:10 | with your groups. These are things that
you're interested in, and believe me, if
| | 01:15 | there's something you're
interested in, there is a group for it.
| | 01:18 | One of the groups I'm interested in
is I like the Canon PowerShot S90, so I
| | 01:23 | joined that group, and you can
see other groups down here also.
| | 01:27 | So sign up for as many as you want,
and now you're looking at topics that
| | 01:32 | you're interested in.
| | 01:34 | And then of course, you have your
contacts, and these are people that you said,
| | 01:37 | "You know what, I like your photos.
I want to see them. I even want them to flow
| | 01:41 | through my homepage," and we're going to
spend more time with contacts. These are
| | 01:46 | people that you've made
a direct connection with.
| | 01:49 | And at the very top is your own stuff,
or in this case my stuff, and the most
| | 01:55 | recent photos that I've
published also flows through my homepage.
| | 01:59 | So we start with me and work
out to the entire universe.
| | 02:03 | Just a couple of other things on the
other side here. The Flickr Blog is
| | 02:07 | quite good and not only is it about
Flickr, but it's about photography in
| | 02:11 | general, and this is definitely
worth a look, and especially if you see
| | 02:15 | something here that catches your eye.
| | 02:18 | And then you have just a couple other
little goodies, Make stuff with your
| | 02:21 | photos, printing, all that, and that's
over here on the right side, just so it's
| | 02:27 | at your fingertips if you decide
you want to do something creative.
| | 02:31 | So this is a quick look at the homepage,
and you can see how they bring so much
| | 02:36 | together just on one page right
here, right at your fingertips.
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| Setting up your account and profile| 00:00 | Well, now that we have our Flickr
account, let's do a little basic setup.
| | 00:05 | Let's make it ours.
| | 00:06 | Start out right away, number one
thing is to create your buddy icon.
| | 00:11 | I am going to click on that link right
here, and because the last thing we want
| | 00:14 | is the robot face icon,
| | 00:17 | we want something little nicer than that,
| | 00:19 | so I have an image on the
computer from Flickr Central Training.
| | 00:23 | This is a little graphic, and
I'm going to use that instead.
| | 00:26 | So I am just going to click on this link
right here, and we are going to choose a file.
| | 00:30 | We are going to go to desktop.
| | 00:33 | Here is my little icon
right here, and I hope it works.
| | 00:38 | So I am going to click
Choose, and I'm going to upload it.
| | 00:40 | It's going to say, hey, this
is what it's going to look like.
| | 00:41 | Actually, I like the crop.
| | 00:46 | I am going to say that sounds
good to me, and it's processing.
| | 00:52 | Look, just like that, we have a cool
little icon, and now this can be your face
| | 00:56 | or this could be something
meaningful to you. It's up to you.
| | 01:00 | Now the next thing we get to do is choose our
custom Flickr URL, and this is a one-time thing.
| | 01:07 | So, as they say, choose wisely.
| | 01:10 | So we are going to call it flickresst.
| | 01:14 | So we'll preview it here and see how it looks.
| | 01:17 | I think we are good there.
| | 01:18 | All right, lock it in. This is it.
| | 01:22 | Now, just a little bit about you.
| | 01:25 | Now, this is something that you only
have to do what you're comfortable with.
| | 01:30 | This is not required.
| | 01:31 | So first name, last name, your timezone.
| | 01:35 | This whole thing about if you're
single, taken, or rather not say,
| | 01:38 | I mean, for me personally
Flickr is not a dating site,
| | 01:42 | so I don't even get into any of that.
| | 01:45 | One thing I will describe though is
what this is about, and I will say "A site
| | 01:53 | dedicated to Flickr
Essential Training on lynda.com."
| | 02:08 | That way people will have
some idea of what this is.
| | 02:12 | Do I want to format it?
| | 02:13 | No. I am just going to go
to next. Now, look at this.
| | 02:16 | Already, things are taking shape here.
| | 02:19 | So we've personalized our profile.
| | 02:21 | It's quite easy, as you can see.
Think about the graphic that you want, think
| | 02:25 | about that URL that's going to be your
personal URL because you can't change it
| | 02:29 | afterwards, and then just walk through
the steps exactly as we did here, and
| | 02:34 | you're ready to start uploading your photos.
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| Uploading photos| 00:00 | Well, now that we've set up our basic
account, let's upload a few photos because
| | 00:04 | after all, that's one of
the great things about Flickr.
| | 00:08 | So we're here on the How to get
started page, and they provide a link for us
| | 00:12 | because they also want us to have a great start.
| | 00:15 | But just so you know that if you go
up under you, right here, you also can
| | 00:21 | upload photos there.
| | 00:22 | So I just wanted to show you that so
that you'll know for future reference, and
| | 00:27 | I'm going to be showing you all
sorts of different ways to add photos.
| | 00:31 | Right now, we're going to
go with the most basic approach.
| | 00:34 | So I will go ahead and click on the link.
| | 00:37 | And will click Choose Photos and
Videos, and I will go right here to Flickr
| | 00:43 | upload, and we have a whole bunch of shots here.
| | 00:46 | We're going to be adding all sorts of
fun pictures. But for right now, I'm just
| | 00:50 | going to add this shot. Actually, I
am going to add this shot right here.
| | 00:55 | Let's just start with one easy shot.
| | 00:58 | And you see the name of the file, and you
see the size, and you go okay, that's great.
| | 01:05 | We are going to add one file.
| | 01:07 | Now, you have a couple of permissions
to set here, and one of the nice things
| | 01:12 | about Flickr is that you always have
control over who can see the photos.
| | 01:17 | So, most of the time you're going to
want to pick public, because after all,
| | 01:21 | that's what this is all about,
right sharing photos with the world.
| | 01:25 | However, there may be instances where
you want to upload photos and only have
| | 01:30 | you be able to see them,
or your friends and family.
| | 01:33 | And you can set the settings here, and
when we use the other types of uploaders,
| | 01:39 | you will also have the ability to
control those, and we're going to get more
| | 01:43 | into that when we talk about privacy
and permissions in some upcoming movies.
| | 01:48 | Right now, I want the whole world
to see them, so I am going to click
| | 01:51 | Upload Photos and Videos.
| | 01:55 | It's uploading right now.
Finished? Add a description.
| | 01:58 | Well, I think we should add a description.
| | 02:01 | So here's our image right
here, and here's a title.
| | 02:05 | So you notice that these fields are editable.
| | 02:09 | Flickr picks up the file name of my
image, but I want to give it something else,
| | 02:15 | so I am going to call it
Rain clouds on Interstate 5.
| | 02:26 | And I could type a little bit of
information about this. Okay, great.
| | 02:32 | And then tags--and boy, we are
definitely talk a bit more about tags.
| | 02:37 | But they are one of the ways that
other people can find your photos.
| | 02:42 | So right now I'm just going to add a few tags,
and I am going to add my name as a tag, too.
| | 02:48 | That way if people want to find
photos by me, they can do that.
| | 02:55 | Now, when there are words in a
tag, you enclose them in quotes.
| | 02:59 | If it's just a single word, you just
type out the single word and click Add.
| | 03:06 | Here we go. Now I am going to click Save.
| | 03:11 | And we have just uploaded our
first photo, and look at this.
| | 03:15 | They even give us this
little welcome message here.
| | 03:18 | Welcome to your photostream.
| | 03:20 | Well, our photostream now
is actually more of a brook.
| | 03:23 | We have one photo in our photostream,
| | 03:25 | but it's a start, and we
are going to add a lot more.
| | 03:29 | So they give you this nice little
welcoming here, and I go okay, that's great.
| | 03:33 | And here's our photo, and you'll see
that the title that I entered is above
| | 03:38 | it, and you'll see that anyone can
see this photo, and you'll also see the
| | 03:44 | caption information.
| | 03:46 | And if you click on the photo, you
can even get a larger version of it.
| | 03:51 | And then down here, you see our tags,
which mean if someone searched on Derrick
| | 03:56 | Story, this would probably be one of
the photos that came up, along with a
| | 04:01 | whole bunch of others.
| | 04:04 | So now we have uploaded our first photo.
| | 04:06 | We're going to be doing lots more of
this, but you have your feet wet. And why don't
| | 04:11 | you upload a few right now, and then
come back and we'll keep moving forward?
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| Finding friends| 00:00 | Now, I want to find one of my photo
friends who I know she is on Flickr, and I'm
| | 00:07 | going to add her to my account
so she shows up on my homepage.
| | 00:12 | And so we're going to be doing this
more, but let's get that first friend.
| | 00:17 | We've got our first photo.
| | 00:18 | We got our account set up.
| | 00:19 | Let's get that first friend there, too.
| | 00:22 | So here we are, Find your
friends on Flickr. Just click on that.
| | 00:27 | Now this is a screen that comes up
when you haven't done anything yet.
| | 00:31 | And they're trying to make it as easy
as possible, and I think that's terrific.
| | 00:36 | So one thing that you can do is Flickr
will look for people that are in your
| | 00:42 | Facebook address book and so forth who
are on Flickr and then suggests them to
| | 00:47 | you, or if you already know, as I do,
a friend's name, then you can type that down
| | 00:53 | here and hopefully she will come up.
| | 00:55 | So I'm going to type Samara's name, and
I'm going to click Search, and there she is.
| | 01:03 | So it did find Samara, so now
all I have to do is add as contact.
| | 01:09 | If I want to see Samara's page, I can
click there, and that will take me right to
| | 01:13 | her site, but I know she is a good photographer.
| | 01:16 | I think you're going to see some of
her shots also, so I'm just going to go
| | 01:20 | ahead and add her as a contact by
clicking on this link right here.
| | 01:23 | Now, when I do that, there are different
levels, and the reason why they have Also
| | 01:29 | mark as Friend, or Also mark as Family,
because when we're talking about those
| | 01:35 | privacy issues, those viewing
issues, you have different options.
| | 01:39 | You have a public only, yourself only,
and then you have two other levels.
| | 01:44 | Photos can only be viewable by people
that you've marked as friends or people
| | 01:49 | that you've marked as family.
| | 01:51 | Generally speaking, I don't use the
friend or family thing, but it's a nice
| | 01:55 | filter to have if you need it.
| | 01:58 | So in this case, even though Samara is
a friend, I'm just going to add her as
| | 02:03 | a regular contact. But if you do think
you want to use those other filters,
| | 02:08 | then these are handy.
| | 02:09 | So I'm just going to go
ahead and add her as a contact.
| | 02:13 | Now if I go back to my homepage, look at
this: under my contacts, Samara is your
| | 02:21 | first contact, and she has 23 other contacts.
| | 02:25 | So if you want to meet all of her friends,
you can do that right now, which again,
| | 02:30 | Flickr is a social site.
| | 02:32 | What it is trying to do is introduce
you, the photographer, to all these other
| | 02:37 | photographers, so that you can start
sharing work and getting even more excited
| | 02:41 | about your hobby, or your craft.
| | 02:43 | So I appreciate that.
| | 02:45 | It is like a good host at a
cocktail party, wouldn't you say?
| | 02:48 | So we have added our first contact now,
and Samara gets that honor, and I think
| | 02:54 | we have the basics under control here.
| | 02:57 | So now let's start drilling down and
get into some of the finer points of this
| | 03:03 | wonderful online application.
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2. Specifying Settings for Your AccountEditing your personal information| 00:00 | Well now that we have our basic stuff
set up, we have an account, and we have a
| | 00:06 | uploaded a photo, and have even a contact,
| | 00:08 | let's get into shaping things a bit.
| | 00:12 | So I'm going to take you up
to the You link right up here.
| | 00:15 | Click on that, and we are going to do
down to Your Account, which is our account,
| | 00:22 | all of ours together.
| | 00:23 | And you will see that you have four
tabs here. Personal Information is where we
| | 00:28 | are going to start, and then we're
actually going to do a movie on each of the
| | 00:31 | other three tabs, so that you'll be
absolutely clear where everything is in this area.
| | 00:37 | It's very important.
| | 00:38 | This is where you set up a lot of stuff.
| | 00:40 | So we have already done that, but if you
need to change something relating to your
| | 00:46 | account, you want to come to
this Personal Information tab.
| | 00:50 | Now the first thing you see at the top
here Upgrade to Pro Account. You may not
| | 00:54 | have known there was a pro account,
but there actually is a pro account, and I'm
| | 00:59 | going to show you the difference
between this--what we have right here--a free
| | 01:02 | account and a pro account.
| | 01:04 | And I can even show you where that little list is.
| | 01:06 | I am going to go to Home, going to go
over here to get Pro, and here you go.
| | 01:12 | So for $24.95 a year, this is what you get.
| | 01:16 | And it really removes the limits
on how much you can store on Flickr,
| | 01:22 | how many sets and collections you can build,
| | 01:25 | and I am going to show how to
do those in upcoming movies.
| | 01:28 | You get access to your original
files of the pro account, and if you
| | 01:31 | are wondering what original files are,
there are actually the file that you uploaded.
| | 01:37 | I am going to go here to Help.
| | 01:40 | So what Flickr does is it shows web
versions of the images that you upload.
| | 01:46 | But if you upload a big image, let's
say 4,000 pixels wide, as your original
| | 01:51 | file, if you have a free account, you
actually cannot get to that full 4,000-
| | 01:57 | pixel size image again.
| | 01:59 | You can get to all the other different
versions here, but not to the original
| | 02:04 | file, and that's what they
mean by that Pro accounts,
| | 02:07 | they eliminate that restriction.
| | 02:10 | Okay so that's the Pro account.
By the way, you get rid of those ads if you
| | 02:14 | don't like them, and you get
HD playback. Yay. Good stuff.
| | 02:18 | All right, so let's go back to our
page right here, and we're going to go
| | 02:24 | back to our account.
| | 02:28 | So there is the whole notion of Pro.
| | 02:29 | A lot of times what I recommend is that,
get to know Flickr, enjoy it for a bit,
| | 02:35 | and if you really think that this is
going to be something that you are going to
| | 02:38 | stick with, that's usually the time to upgrade.
| | 02:41 | Okay, you can change your buddy icon
here, if you decide you don't like that.
| | 02:46 | Just click on the Edit link, and you
can delete this one and upload a new one.
| | 02:51 | You can also change your screen name,
although I don't suggest that's something
| | 02:55 | that you do very often.
| | 02:57 | Try to think of a screen name that you
like and stick with it, just to avoid
| | 03:02 | confusion for yourself and for others.
| | 03:06 | If you decide you want to add more
information or change information about
| | 03:09 | yourself, you can do that right here.
| | 03:12 | And then this is what I
think a very important one.
| | 03:15 | If people want to see the photos in
your photostream, they want to your Flickr
| | 03:20 | page, that is the URL that you give them.
| | 03:23 | This is sort of like having your own
web site URL, and I'll click on it and you
| | 03:28 | will get to see how that works.
| | 03:31 | So I share this link with somebody,
and they will all the photos on my Flickr
| | 03:36 | page, and I think that's kind of neat
where you can send someone that link.
| | 03:41 | And then also, if you want them to see
just your profile page, there is a link
| | 03:45 | to that. And in my case, that's not very
useful, because I haven't put very much
| | 03:49 | information here. But if this was an
important part of Flickr to you, and you
| | 03:53 | wanted to share that, maybe even
like a little, mini photo resume, you could do that.
| | 03:58 | We are going to get into page layout a
little bit more later, but this is one of
| | 04:02 | the places you can edit your images
and sets, and there are other places, too--
| | 04:08 | and we are going to play with that, because
that's a lot fun in Flickr. So that's in an
| | 04:11 | upcoming movie, so stay tuned for that.
Save some popcorn for that movie.
| | 04:16 | And then remember, you have to have a Yahoo!
| | 04:18 | account in order to have the Flickr
account, and you can access your Yahoo!
| | 04:24 | account here, and edit your password and
your preferences. And remember, the Yahoo!
| | 04:29 | account is more than Flickr.
| | 04:31 | For instance, a lot of people use, Yahoo!
| | 04:34 | email, so you can manage
your account right here also.
| | 04:39 | So all nice and handy in the personal
information. And then finally, if you just
| | 04:43 | decide that you've had enough of all
this stuff, you can delete your Flickr
| | 04:47 | account right here and go on to
something else, but don't do that. Stay with me.
| | 04:53 | I'll make sure that you never want to do that.
| | 04:55 | I'll have you so enthused.
| | 04:57 | So this is the Personal Information tab.
| | 04:59 | We're also going to look at Privacy and
Permissions, and there's a whole bunch
| | 05:03 | of stuff there that I
think you need to know about.
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| Specifying privacy and permissions settings| 00:00 | We are going to take a look at the
Privacy & Permissions page, and this is very
| | 00:04 | important because it sets a lot of the
boundaries for how your photos are viewed online.
| | 00:09 | Now again, it's under the You tab,
so go to You > Your Account, and then
| | 00:15 | Privacy & Permissions.
| | 00:16 | Now there are two basic areas:
| | 00:19 | Global Settings and Defaults for new uploads.
| | 00:23 | In Global Settings, you have different
editable fields here, things, who can
| | 00:28 | add to your photo, who can share your photos or
video, who can blog your stuff, things like that.
| | 00:35 | If you want to change any of those, then
all you have to do is just click on the
| | 00:40 | Edit tab next to it and you'll see
what's becoming the familiar set of options
| | 00:45 | here, ranging from the most strict, which
is only you, to the most lenient, which
| | 00:52 | is any Flickr member.
| | 00:54 | And remember, Flickr is a social site.
| | 00:57 | The whole idea of it is to share imagery.
| | 00:59 | So a lot of times that's what they are
going to recommend, that you let others
| | 01:04 | see and view your photos, okay.
| | 01:06 | So, we are going to go back to the Account page.
| | 01:09 | I want to point out a couple here
that I think are particularly important.
| | 01:13 | One is hiding your EXIF data, and that's
saying such as what camera was used to
| | 01:19 | take the picture, the
timestamp, things like that.
| | 01:23 | And personally I find that information
helpful when I look at a photo to see
| | 01:28 | some of the data that goes with it,
| | 01:31 | and so I like for people to be able to see that.
| | 01:33 | You will see that the default is that
people can see it, but if you decide
| | 01:37 | that you want to hide it, change this from No
to Yes, which means that yes, I want to hide it.
| | 01:43 | Then you click on the edit button.
| | 01:45 | A couple of others here in the Global,
Hide your stuff from public searches and
| | 01:50 | your profile from public searches.
| | 01:52 | So if you don't want your photos to
show up in search engines, then you would
| | 01:56 | make those changes there.
| | 01:58 | And even who can see what on your profile,
| | 02:02 | you have a fair amount of control over that.
| | 02:04 | So, if you only want your friends and
family to see your real name or your
| | 02:09 | email address, click the Edit
button and you can make that change.
| | 02:15 | Now, another highlight here in this
particular section is do you want your
| | 02:19 | photos eligible for invitation by Getty.
| | 02:22 | And Getty of course runs a big, big
agency business, stock photos also, and so
| | 02:30 | a lot of times their editors are looking Flickr
for fresh images, and there's a partnership there.
| | 02:37 | And if you want to find out more
about that, actually go ahead and click on
| | 02:41 | that Edit button. And there's quite a
bit of information on this page, and you
| | 02:46 | have a couple of choices.
| | 02:47 | If you're not interested at all, then
just go ahead and click No here. But if you
| | 02:52 | are interested, you may want to pick
one of these two, and then there are links
| | 02:57 | to Learn more about that and in Help--
which is flickr.com/help/gettyimages--
| | 03:04 | they actually spell out the whole
agreement here, the whole partnership.
| | 03:09 | So, this is something that you're
interested in, read it carefully. If you are
| | 03:13 | open to having your images licensed
by Getty, then take a look at this and
| | 03:19 | make the choice that's right for you.
| | 03:22 | Okay, let's go now to a
couple of the defaults for uploads.
| | 03:29 | The highlight here that you want to pay
close attention to has to do with licensing.
| | 03:35 | Now, by default, the most conservative
license, which is All Rights Reserved, is
| | 03:40 | the one that's selected.
| | 03:41 | But there is actually a number of options here.
| | 03:44 | Flickr also supports Creative Commons
licensing, and you may look at this
| | 03:49 | listing, oh my gosh!
| | 03:51 | There's all sorts of options here
and I don't really understand them.
| | 03:54 | Well, you know what, they realize that,
and they give you a lot of information
| | 04:00 | and links to explanations.
| | 04:02 | This one right here is a very
good one, particularly right now.
| | 04:06 | It's the actual Creative Commons page,
and they will explain all of the
| | 04:11 | different types of licenses.
| | 04:13 | Now, I think the one that you might
want to consider, if you are willing to
| | 04:18 | budge off All Rights Reserved--which
means no one can use your photos without
| | 04:22 | your permission--is to allow others to
download your works and share them as
| | 04:27 | long as they give you credit, but they can't
change them and they can't use them commercially.
| | 04:32 | So, if you want to kind of ease
into this, that's not a bad Creative
| | 04:37 | Commons license at all.
| | 04:39 | Now, why would you even consider this?
| | 04:41 | Well, this is a way to get your work
out into the world, and having people
| | 04:47 | be able to use your photos and stories and
give you credit can expand your visibility.
| | 04:52 | And so it's something that you may
want to consider, especially if you're
| | 04:57 | considering the career in photography, or
just really want to have your name out there.
| | 05:03 | So anyway, so that's that and that's where you get to
set up that stuff, and then there are a few
| | 05:09 | content filters here for
search settings and for video play.
| | 05:14 | And again, all you have to do is
really click the Edit button and you're
| | 05:19 | presented with the different options for
the search filters. And I think they do
| | 05:25 | a pretty good job of explaining them.
| | 05:28 | I think the real key here is to
know where to go in general for all of
| | 05:33 | these settings--and again, that's the
Privacy & Permissions tab that's in
| | 05:39 | the Your Account area.
| | 05:41 | Pay particular attention to things
such as the EXIF data, the copyright
| | 05:47 | licensing, and the Getty Images.
| | 05:50 | Make sure that you have
the right choices for you.
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| Specifying email settings| 00:00 | So let's take a look at the Emails
& Notifications tab, and again we are
| | 00:05 | under Your Account.
| | 00:07 | There are a couple really
interesting things here.
| | 00:10 | First, I will show you the
more straightforward stuff.
| | 00:13 | Again, that lets you know what your contact
email is, and this is what you set up with Yahoo!
| | 00:19 | and they can use this email to let
you know about certain notifications.
| | 00:24 | For instance, on these notification
emails, I am going to click on Edit,
| | 00:29 | you'll see that for instance, would
you like to receive emails when someone
| | 00:33 | makes you their contact?
| | 00:35 | You can do yes or no on the stuff, and
it's a good way to stay in touch with your
| | 00:41 | Flickr account if your not
always on your Flickr account.
| | 00:45 | Email, most of us are
checking email quite often.
| | 00:48 | You can also get some activity emails
also, and they're right here under Edit,
| | 00:55 | and pretty straightforward stuff.
| | 00:57 | If you find that you are getting too
much email, then you can always tone it
| | 01:00 | download a little bit by coming back
to this page and changing your settings.
| | 01:04 | Now a couple things that I want to
show you that I consider a little bit more
| | 01:09 | exciting, and I love this first one, which is
uploading to your Flickr account via email.
| | 01:15 | You click on this link here, and they
assign you an email address. And when
| | 01:23 | you use this email address and you
attach a photo to it, it gets posted on
| | 01:28 | your Flickr account.
| | 01:29 | The subject line of the email becomes
the title for the photo, and what you put
| | 01:33 | in the body becomes the description.
| | 01:36 | This is a very handy when you're
posting from a mobile phone, for example.
| | 01:41 | Keep this address right here in your
address book, because it's not always a
| | 01:47 | very easy one to remember.
| | 01:49 | Then you take a picture with your
smartphone, and then you just send it using
| | 01:53 | this address, and it goes on your Flickr account.
| | 01:55 | I just think that's really neat. I really like it.
| | 01:57 | I use it all the time personally.
| | 01:58 | I use it with my iPhone.
| | 02:01 | I have that email in my address book,
because mine is really weird and hard to remember.
| | 02:07 | You have a couple other options here also.
| | 02:10 | You can upload to your blog
simultaneously as you are uploading to your
| | 02:14 | Flickr account, using email, and if you
have a blog, you can set all that up by
| | 02:21 | clicking on this link.
| | 02:22 | If you use Twitter, again, you can post
to Flickr and Twitter at the same time.
| | 02:28 | So, very handy when you're on the
go and you're using mobile devices.
| | 02:33 | I think it's a very creative use of
email, and you should take a look at this
| | 02:37 | page. And if you're on the go a lot, you
might want to set some of the stuff up.
| | 02:41 | I find it really handy.
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| Adding functionality| 00:01 | The last tab that I have to show
you under the Your Account area is the
| | 00:05 | Sharing & Extending.
| | 00:07 | Really to me what this is is
adding some functionality to Flickr.
| | 00:11 | Now, if you have a Facebook account
and you want to connect it, you do that
| | 00:16 | here under this tab, and I'm actually going to
explain more about that in an upcoming movie,
| | 00:22 | so stay tuned for that.
| | 00:24 | And then there are a couple of other
things here that I want to point out.
| | 00:29 | If you actually want to start printing
photos from Flickr, they explain that
| | 00:33 | here. And as you upload your stuff to
Flickr and you decide that you want to
| | 00:37 | order prints from some of it,
| | 00:39 | you can do that, and they've
connected all that for you.
| | 00:42 | And then the thing I really want to
point out--and this is fun--are the
| | 00:46 | third-party applications, and I'm going to
click on this link and take you to this page.
| | 00:51 | These truly extend the functionality of Flickr.
| | 00:56 | Now there's a whole bunch of them, and a
lot of them were written by people who
| | 01:00 | love Flickr and wanted to, as
we say, scratch their own itch--
| | 01:05 | do something that will solve the
problem for them--and then they were kind
| | 01:09 | enough to share this with the whole community.
| | 01:11 | By the way, every time you refresh this, I
believe you'll get a different app featured. Yeah.
| | 01:18 | So you know that's kind of one way to
browse it here, and then you'll have all
| | 01:23 | of these other apps that are down here,
and they're really pretty interesting.
| | 01:27 | And if you find something that catches
your eye, then just go ahead and click on
| | 01:31 | it, and you can learn more about it.
| | 01:33 | For instance, here's a good
mobile app for uploading to Flickr.
| | 01:38 | There's tons of great stuff in here,
and once you've gotten comfortable with
| | 01:43 | Flickr, but yeah you go, "Okay,
wouldn't it be great if it just did this?"
| | 01:48 | well, come to this page and hopefully
someone else has said the same thing and
| | 01:53 | actually written an app to solve your problem.
| | 01:56 | So all of this is under the You tab >
Your Account > Sharing & Extending, and
| | 02:05 | we'll come back to this page
again when we talk about Facebook.
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3. Uploading Photos and VideosUploading photos the simple way| 00:00 | Well, I'm looking at our Flickr
homepage here, and it's so lonely;
| | 00:04 | we only have one photo here.
| | 00:06 | We need to add some more content.
| | 00:09 | So I am going to show you a
couple different ways to do that.
| | 00:12 | Let's start with the simplest of all
where you go up to the Upload link right
| | 00:17 | here, click on it, and you
choose photos and videos.
| | 00:22 | So we are going to add just a couple of
photos to our Flickr homepage here, and I
| | 00:27 | have some waiting for us.
| | 00:29 | Just click on these photos that I have ready.
| | 00:32 | So let's add a few in the spirit of our shot,
| | 00:37 | so we are going to add this one right here.
| | 00:40 | I am going to hold down the Command
key and hold down one more right here.
| | 00:48 | So we are going to add three this time.
| | 00:50 | I am going to click Open. There we go.
| | 00:53 | And you can see that we have the names of
our files right here, and their file sizes.
| | 01:01 | We have the basic privacy
choice between private and public.
| | 01:06 | I am going to make these public;
| | 01:07 | I want everyone to be able to see them.
And then I'm going to click on the button.
| | 01:13 | Here is our little activity monitor right
here, and now we are offered to add a description,
| | 01:21 | so let's do that.
| | 01:24 | Here are our photos that have been added.
| | 01:26 | So now I'm just going to give it a name,
| | 01:30 | so we will just call this I5 Storm 1.
| | 01:35 | I am going to copy this.
| | 01:38 | I am going to call it, not
being very, very artistic, you know.
| | 01:43 | Well, we will just leave that one Rains
Clouds on Interstate 5. I sort of like that.
| | 01:47 | We already have some metadata here
as you can see, and we have some tags.
| | 01:55 | I am going to add these tags actually.
| | 01:58 | Now these tags were part of the photo;
in other words, this image already had
| | 02:03 | some metadata and Flickr was smart
enough to recognize it and pre-populated the
| | 02:08 | fields for us, which is very handy.
| | 02:10 | So if you do a little bit of metadata
work ahead of time, then Flickr will
| | 02:16 | reward you by saving you
some time during upload.
| | 02:19 | Now, I am not going to add any descriptions here.
| | 02:22 | I think we are all right.
| | 02:24 | You notice that do we
want to add these to a set.
| | 02:27 | We haven't established any sets yet.
| | 02:29 | We are going to do that a little bit later.
| | 02:32 | So we'll talk about sets in a bit.
But once you get going with sets, you can
| | 02:37 | create sets here or add
images to an existing set.
| | 02:40 | So that's pretty handy, too.
| | 02:42 | Now I am just going to save. And here
we go, and you'll notice that I picked a
| | 02:52 | photo that we had already uploaded before,
and we didn't get a warning. Oh my gosh.
| | 02:58 | That's not right.
| | 03:00 | I should have been warned, and
they are called two different things.
| | 03:02 | Well, that doesn't seem right either.
| | 03:05 | So what I'm going to do is--it's
very simple. When this happens, when you
| | 03:10 | accidentally upload something, you just
go to the Delete key, and it confirms and
| | 03:17 | it goes away, and now we are set.
| | 03:20 | Now, we are on our You page here.
| | 03:23 | We are looking at our photostream,
but we'll go back to the homepage because
| | 03:27 | that's where we started. And now
you see we have a few more images.
| | 03:32 | So it's not quite as lonely as it was
when we started this movie, but we're going
| | 03:37 | to add some more stuff different ways,
| | 03:40 | so just stay tuned.
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| Using the basic uploader link| 00:00 | So there are a number of
different ways to upload your photos.
| | 00:05 | In a previous movie, I showed the
simple uploader, which I actually really like,
| | 00:09 | which is you just click on the Upload
button and then you just choose what you
| | 00:14 | want using this link.
| | 00:15 | There is also the basic
Uploader, which is down here.
| | 00:22 | Here's a different way to do it, and
you have a lot of different ways to
| | 00:25 | accomplish the same thing in Flickr.
| | 00:28 | So now we are going to add two
more files using this approach, and you
| | 00:33 | just choose the file. So you click that.
| | 00:35 | So let's add this one right here, and it
listed for you, and then we will add one more.
| | 00:42 | We will add two this time.
| | 00:45 | We will choose files. There we go.
| | 00:47 | And if I want to add tags to the whole
batch, I can do that right here, as well
| | 00:53 | as the privacy setting, and I am just
going to do that as Public. And now I am
| | 00:59 | going to click Upload.
| | 01:04 | It processes our image for us, and here we go.
| | 01:08 | Now again, if I wanted to do some tag
work, I could go ahead and do that there.
| | 01:13 | And you know the titles here aren't very good.
| | 01:15 | You know what I will do?
I will just take out these.
| | 01:17 | I am feeling very mathematical today,
and then we'll do the same thing here.
| | 01:29 | Instead, we'll call it 2.
| | 01:30 | So I am just going to copy that, and
then we will just paste it right here and
| | 01:36 | replace that with 2.
| | 01:39 | Now again, it's picking up the metadata,
and sometimes when it does that, when you
| | 01:44 | have the same caption entered for a
number of photos, they repeat here, which I
| | 01:48 | don't think looks that great on Flickr,
| | 01:51 | so I am just going to get rid of one
of these here, or write something else.
| | 01:56 | In this case, I am just going to get rid of one.
| | 01:58 | I don't like it on my page when five or
six photos have exactly the same description.
| | 02:03 | It shows lack of imagination on
my behalf. We look good here.
| | 02:09 | I am going to click Save, and now
they've added to our photostream.
| | 02:13 | You may be noticing the trend now that
the photos that you add most recently
| | 02:19 | show up at the top of the
photostream, and then it works its way down.
| | 02:23 | We are going to go to our homepage
| | 02:28 | because we will get our little thumbnails also.
| | 02:30 | Again, most current photos, they are
going to be over here, working our way back
| | 02:34 | to the older images.
| | 02:37 | So that is the basic
Uploader, but wait. There's more.
| | 02:42 | Come back for the next movie and
see another way to add images to your
| | 02:46 | Flickr account.
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| Using the Flickr Uploadr software| 00:00 | So there's another tool that Flickr has
created for us to upload photos, and it's
| | 00:04 | a desktop uploader, and I really like this.
| | 00:07 | I want to show it to you.
| | 00:09 | The way that you get to it originally,
because you have to download this, is you
| | 00:12 | go ahead and go to Upload.
| | 00:13 | We are going to add some more photos.
| | 00:16 | And you go down here to the Flickr Tools page.
| | 00:20 | There is a link to it.
| | 00:21 | You click on that and
right here, Flickr Uploader.
| | 00:26 | This is what I have on my computer,
and you can get a copy of it for Windows or Mac.
| | 00:33 | Choose which one you want.
| | 00:34 | In my case, I'm using a Mac and
that's why I am going to show you at the
| | 00:38 | moment, but they both work
almost exactly the same,
| | 00:42 | so it doesn't make any difference.
| | 00:43 | So, I am going to flip over to it right now.
| | 00:47 | So the first time that you use
it, it doesn't know who you are,
| | 00:51 | so you have to sign in.
| | 00:52 | So let's go ahead and sign in right now.
| | 00:55 | So it's going to say it requires
permission to connect, and this is something
| | 01:01 | that you are going to see over and over again.
| | 01:03 | Whenever you want something from
outside of Flickr to connect with your Flickr
| | 01:08 | account, you have to grant it permission.
| | 01:09 | So I am going to click OK. Okay, here we go.
| | 01:15 | Now, look at this.
| | 01:16 | I am going to give it permission.
| | 01:19 | Okay, I will authorize it, and we
should be set. Let's find out.
| | 01:25 | Now, look at this.
| | 01:28 | Now, I have set up both
accounts, and this is one of the,
| | 01:31 | I think, nice things about this desktop
application that's running right on the
| | 01:36 | desktop of your computer.
| | 01:38 | If I want to switch back to the other
user, I have them both now here in this
| | 01:43 | pop-up menu, along with
settings for each of these accounts,
| | 01:49 | so we're in great shape.
| | 01:50 | So now I want to add a few photos.
| | 01:52 | So I can click and drag into this big
space here, or I can click on the Add
| | 01:59 | button, and let's go to my Desktop.
| | 02:02 | So I have more photos, as you may have guessed.
| | 02:07 | Well, we have been in kind of a black
and white mode for a lot of these shots.
| | 02:11 | Now I can just drag them right out of
this dialog box, just like that. Or I can
| | 02:18 | just click on one here and add it that way.
| | 02:23 | Now, I can select all of these photos
and add metadata or descriptions to them
| | 02:29 | all at once, or I can do it individually.
| | 02:35 | So you can do a lot of this setup
that before we were doing later on.
| | 02:39 | So I am just going to call this
Portrait 1 and go ahead and copy that.
| | 02:45 | Then I will click here, call it Portrait
2, and right here, Portrait 3. Great!
| | 03:01 | Now you notice that there was some
pre-population here, and remember, I said
| | 03:06 | where I didn't like the same
description over and over again?
| | 03:09 | So, I'll just like a few changes.
| | 03:14 | This is a fun photo shoot that I
did in my hometown, Santa Rosa.
| | 03:20 | And here are the tags, and we will leave
Michaela's whole name out. There we go.
| | 03:29 | So we will just clean that up a little bit.
| | 03:32 | You can see all the other options
here, these look familiar to us.
| | 03:36 | We've been looking at them in different
places and then go through. Again, same thing.
| | 03:41 | This time I am just going to take the
whole description out, and we'll go ahead
| | 03:45 | and take this out right here.
| | 03:47 | It's nice that you can review this
metadata before it actually gets uploaded
| | 03:53 | to the Flickr site. And then we will go,
this one here doesn't have any metadata at all.
| | 03:59 | So heck! Let's fix that.
| | 04:01 | I am just going to go ahead and copy
this, and now we will bring this over here.
| | 04:06 | All right, I think we are set.
| | 04:08 | So we have everything ready to go.
| | 04:12 | If I select all the photos again, I can do a
batch-change to their metadata. We don't need to.
| | 04:17 | I'm happy with everything,
| | 04:19 | so I am just going to unclick and go
down to the Upload button. And you can
| | 04:28 | see, it's very fast.
| | 04:29 | So you can see that it's asking me if I
want to go to Flickr, and I need to do
| | 04:33 | that because I'm not in Flickr right now.
| | 04:34 | This is a separate application.
| | 04:37 | So I am going to click on Go to Flickr.
| | 04:40 | Now, it gives me one more chance,
if I want to make any changes.
| | 04:44 | I'm happy with how things are,
so I am going to click Save.
| | 04:47 | And now, here we are in our photostream.
| | 04:50 | And, by the way, it's giving me a
little notice here because it still
| | 04:53 | recognizes that I'm a new user, and so
as I go along here, it's being helpful, and
| | 05:01 | I appreciate that very much.
| | 05:03 | But now, I am going to say goodbye to it.
| | 05:06 | So here's my photostream, and again,
most current photos on top, working our way
| | 05:11 | down to the older ones. And if we go to
the homepage, you will see that we have
| | 05:18 | some new shots added there.
| | 05:20 | So, the desktop application is very
nice and you can download it there on the
| | 05:26 | Upload page. Just go here,
| | 05:28 | remember to go to Flickr tools, and you
have yet another way to add images to
| | 05:34 | your Flickr library.
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| Uploading from photo-management programs| 00:00 | We're looking at iPhoto right now,
and you may be wondering, why?
| | 00:04 | Flickr allows you to work within photo
management applications on your computer,
| | 00:10 | and the two can talk to each
other, and this works with iPhoto.
| | 00:13 | This works with Aperture.
| | 00:15 | This works for the Lightroom on both
Mac and Windows. And I'm sure it worked
| | 00:20 | with other applications, too; those
of the three that I used the most to
| | 00:24 | communicate with Flickr.
| | 00:26 | So what I am going to do is show you
how this works in iPhoto, and I will tell
| | 00:29 | you right now it works pretty much
the same in the other applications also.
| | 00:34 | So let's get to it. Now, before you do
anything, you actually have to establish
| | 00:39 | the connection between
your application and Flickr.
| | 00:43 | In the case of iPhoto, let me go up to
Preferences, go to Accounts, and you see
| | 00:50 | that I've already established
the Flickr account with iPhoto.
| | 00:55 | That's why it's showing up over here.
| | 00:57 | If you wanted to add another account,
or if you want to do this for the first
| | 01:01 | time, you just click on the Plus button,
choose the type of account you want,
| | 01:06 | add it, and enter in your
password, and you're ready to go.
| | 01:12 | So we've established a connection.
| | 01:13 | Let just take a look here.
| | 01:16 | This is really neat.
| | 01:17 | So we are in iPhoto and
I double-click on this,
| | 01:21 | and here are our shots.
And you see the little radio waves here?
| | 01:24 | That tells you that the two
are talking to each other.
| | 01:27 | iPhoto and Flickr are talking. Same thing here.
| | 01:32 | Lots of communication going on.
And if I make some sort of change here, the
| | 01:39 | two will talk again.
| | 01:40 | So what I'd like to is add a photo from
my iPhoto library that will show up on
| | 01:46 | our Flickr page. And as you may
have guessed, I have one ready to go.
| | 01:51 | We are going to take the shot on
Michaela, and I am going to go up to Share.
| | 01:57 | I am going to share it on Flickr.
| | 02:01 | Now I have a few options:
| | 02:02 | I could start a new set, which I
don't want to do because we're already
| | 02:06 | working with Michaela here;
| | 02:08 | I could just add it to the photostream;
or I could add it to an existing set.
| | 02:13 | We're going to add it to the Michaela sat.
| | 02:20 | The photo that I'm uploading is 1024 x
1024, and we have that here in the pop-up menu.
| | 02:27 | You'll see that if you have pro accounts, you
have some other sizes available to you also.
| | 02:34 | The account that we're working with
right now is a free account, and so we have
| | 02:39 | this option, and I'm fine with that option.
| | 02:41 | That's the size that I want anyway.
| | 02:43 | Okay so let's click Publish, and you can
see the communication going on right here.
| | 02:52 | This means that they're talking.
iPhoto is talking to Flickr.
| | 02:55 | Let's see if it worked.
| | 02:56 | I will go over here. So, this is our view
into Flickr from iPhoto. It's the first place
| | 03:04 | we're going to check. Duble-click.
And according to iPhoto, these two are
| | 03:13 | talking to each other, and it's here,
but the real proof in the pudding is going
| | 03:18 | to be, will it show up on
Flickr, so let's go there.
| | 03:21 | I am just going to refresh right here.
| | 03:31 | She is in our photostream now. Let's go here.
| | 03:38 | She has been added to our set. Isn't that cool?
| | 03:44 | But let's really push the envelope here;
| | 03:47 | let's change the title of
the photo here in Flickr.
| | 03:53 | Save it. Now, let's go back to iPhoto.
| | 03:58 | So now we are back in iPhoto, and
let's go to the actual image here.
| | 04:04 | Double-click on it.
| | 04:05 | I am going to click on Michaela.
| | 04:08 | I am going to click on Info, because
that's where we get to see what's going on,
| | 04:13 | and look at that, the name changed.
| | 04:16 | So they talk back and forth to one
another, so you truly can manage your Flickr
| | 04:21 | Library from this application, and
then if you're in Flickr, and you make
| | 04:26 | changes, they will be saved back to iPhoto.
| | 04:30 | It's a pretty nice little system, and
as I said before, it works with Light-
| | 04:33 | Room and Aperture also.
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| Uploading video clips| 00:01 | Well, Flickr isn't just for still photos.
| | 00:03 | You can also upload videos, too. And they say
it's like a photo, but it moves. So let's do one.
| | 00:09 | Let's see how this actually works right now.
| | 00:12 | I think probably the easiest way to go
is to go to the Upload link, and we're
| | 00:17 | going to choose, and we are going to go
right here, and I have a movie in here somewhere.
| | 00:23 | Here it is, right here.
| | 00:26 | Now this is a full HD movie. This is
full size, and I chose this because I want
| | 00:32 | to see what Flickr does with it.
| | 00:34 | You think I would have
tested this first, but ha!
| | 00:36 | We are all going to do this together.
| | 00:38 | So let's see how this works.
| | 00:40 | So I am going to highlight it. Click Open.
| | 00:43 | Now, because we are working with a
free account, we do have a limit, and that
| | 00:48 | limit is stated up here.
| | 00:49 | We haven't really used any of it yet.
And we also have a limit of how many
| | 00:54 | videos, so I only have two
chances to get this right here.
| | 00:58 | So we'll take a look.
So now we also get to denote the Privacy level.
| | 01:04 | I am going to make this
public, and let's let her fly.
| | 01:13 | Now, Flickr will show you
the progress of your upload.
| | 01:18 | They do show HD with a Pro
account, and we have a free account.
| | 01:25 | So we'll see what they do with our
HD movies when we have a free account.
| | 01:33 | So yes, let's add a description.
| | 01:35 | I think that's an excellent suggestion.
| | 01:38 | The video is being
processed, so while it's doing that,
| | 01:41 | I will just call this--this was
actually shot on Market Street in San Francisco,
| | 01:51 | so we might want to add a few tags here.
| | 01:56 | Now remember, use quote marks when you
have two words that you want to show up
| | 02:00 | as one tag. I'm also going to put the
camera that I used--I shot this as the Canon
| | 02:08 | 60D--and then I will put my name too. Okay.
| | 02:17 | So there are our tags, and then I
will just add a brief description.
| | 02:21 | All right, so everything is
in pretty good shape here.
| | 02:29 | They are still processing the video,
and we're not going to add it to a set, or
| | 02:34 | set up any sets, because we are going to
take care of that in an upcoming movie.
| | 02:39 | But I can go ahead and click Save while the
video is being processed, so I will do that.
| | 02:43 | You see that the movie shows up here
on our photostream, right alongside our
| | 02:51 | still images, and that's one of the
neat things about Flickr is that it really
| | 02:56 | does integrate short video--
not really long video;
| | 03:00 | you are not going to put your
documentary on here--but short video along with
| | 03:05 | images, so that you can tell a more
complete story. And since so many cameras
| | 03:10 | capture both video and stills these
days, I think that's a very nice service.
| | 03:16 | Well, our movie has finished processing,
and the first thing that I notice is
| | 03:19 | that it kept the dimensions of the
original movie. And let's play it here,
| | 03:24 | and see how it looks.
So I just click on it.
| | 03:29 | (video playing)
| | 03:34 | I am just going to lower the volume there.
| | 03:37 | So I think it looks pretty
good compared to the original.
| | 03:40 | You get a nice big size here, you have
full dimensions, and it is right here
| | 03:46 | alongside my still photos.
| | 03:48 | And you have the Play control and
as you see, you also have the Volume
| | 03:52 | control and you can also go to a
larger view if you want, although a lot of
| | 03:56 | times I don't think it looks as good
as when you play it at the dimensions
| | 04:00 | that they have right here.
| | 04:02 | You also see that we have our title, and we
have the little description that I put with it.
| | 04:09 | So, this looks pretty darn good.
| | 04:10 | I am going to go back to my photostream
here, and we have now successfully added
| | 04:17 | a movie that sits
comfortably alongside our still images.
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| Connecting Flickr to Facebook| 00:00 | So one thing that you can do is
connect your Facebook account to your Flickr
| | 00:04 | account so that when you upload to
Flickr, the images also show up on Facebook.
| | 00:09 | So we're going to walk through that
| | 00:10 | right now. I'm over in the Your Account
area, and you get to that under You, and
| | 00:18 | to Your Account, and then we go
over to the Sharing & Extending tab.
| | 00:24 | When you go there, you'll see this area
right here that shows us that we can connect.
| | 00:29 | And then while I'm here, now we
are on the Digital Story account.
| | 00:34 | We are on my account, and you see
that I've established a number of other
| | 00:39 | connections using Tools, and that
those are all linked right here.
| | 00:46 | The point being that Flickr is a
great tool for just connecting, or bringing
| | 00:51 | all sorts of stuff together, and there is a lot
of tools out there that allow you to do that.
| | 00:57 | In fact, we're even going to talk about
connecting to your blog in an upcoming movie.
| | 01:01 | But right now, let's connect to Facebook.
| | 01:06 | So the first thing you have to do
is log in to your Facebook account.
| | 01:11 | So I am going to do that right now,
and go down here to the Login button.
| | 01:21 | Now, we bring Yahoo!
| | 01:23 | into the picture here because they are
the glue that does some of this connecting.
| | 01:31 | But I am going to uncheck this box here,
Share this account link as an update on Yahoo!
| | 01:35 | because I don't really work in that space.
| | 01:39 | However, I am going to allow these right here:
| | 01:41 | Share updates and other
public activity on Yahoo!
| | 01:44 | Flickr to your Facebook account and Use your
Facebook Picture as your Yahoo! public photo.
| | 01:50 | Fine! Really what I want to do
is just connect to Facebook.
| | 01:54 | But you have to do this step because Yahoo!
| | 01:58 | and Flickr are now one.
| | 02:00 | It will do a little bit more work,
and then we get this message:
| | 02:09 | Your Facebook account has been
connected to Flickr via Yahoo! Updates.
| | 02:14 | Okay. Now under Sharing & Extending,
we have this little setup here.
| | 02:24 | Now you can go back and
edit this if you want to.
| | 02:28 | If you decide that you want to remove this
connection, you have this link right here.
| | 02:34 | So let's upload a photo
right now and see what happens.
| | 02:38 | So go back to You, and I'm going to
upload an image, and we'll pick--let's see
| | 02:51 | here--something fun.
| | 02:56 | Let's go with this shot right here.
| | 03:03 | Just go ahead and click Open.
| | 03:06 | We'll make this public,
because that's the way this works.
| | 03:10 | It's your public photos that will also be
shared. And Flickr will go to work for us.
| | 03:23 | Let's add a description.
| | 03:25 | I always think that's a good idea.
| | 03:39 | We'll just go ahead and just go with
Michaela's first name, and we'll do
| | 03:49 | the same thing here.
Just take out that tag.
| | 03:52 | It's picking up metadata that I had
entered in Aperture, which I think is very handy.
| | 04:00 | Now, we'll click Save.
| | 04:02 | Now, I've added to this shot to my photostream.
| | 04:06 | So let's log in to Facebook and see if this
also shows up on my wall. I am in Safari,
| | 04:13 | so I'm going to hit
Command+T to open up a new tab.
| | 04:17 | I will log in to Facebook.
| | 04:19 | I'll go to my Profile, and
here we go. Look at this.
| | 04:35 | I have the shot that I uploaded from Flickr.
| | 04:37 | I actually did another shot
also while you weren't looking,
| | 04:40 | so we should have two shots
there from the same thing.
| | 04:44 | The way that works is that now this
link right here on my Facebook page will
| | 04:52 | take me back to Flickr.
| | 04:53 | It's all just sort of connected.
| | 04:55 | So I am going to click on this,
and now we're back in Flickr.
| | 05:04 | The shot that you saw that I've uploaded and
then the next shot, they're right here side by side.
| | 05:12 | If I click the back arrow,
I go back to Facebook.
| | 05:17 | So not only does this allow you to put
images on Facebook on your Facebook page
| | 05:23 | that you want to share, it also helps
expose your whole Flickr page a lot better
| | 05:29 | too, because now all the people
are following you on Facebook,
| | 05:32 | if they see something that they like,
they become aware of your Flickr site too.
| | 05:37 | So that's connecting
Facebook and Flickr together.
| | 05:41 | The one thing I want to mention is that
when you first set this up and you first
| | 05:46 | upload a photo from Flickr,
| | 05:48 | it may take a while before it shows up
on Facebook, and you may be wondering if
| | 05:53 | you did or did not do things correctly.
| | 05:56 | Only time will tell on that.
| | 05:58 | So be patient, and maybe go have a cup
of coffee and then come back to your
| | 06:05 | Facebook page, refresh, and
hopefully after a while it will show up.
| | 06:10 | Chances are it will show up.
| | 06:12 | We just can't tell you when. Okay.
| | 06:14 | Facebook and Flickr. You got it!
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4. Viewing PhotosGetting around in your photostream| 00:00 | Well, let's take a look at the photostream.
| | 00:02 | This is one of the spots where you are
going to spend a lot of time on Flickr.
| | 00:06 | It's sort of a home base for your pictures.
| | 00:09 | Now the photostream is here when you
click on You. That's who you is is your
| | 00:15 | photostream right here.
| | 00:17 | And as I've mentioned before, all of
your pictures are here, and it starts with
| | 00:23 | the most current photos and videos
on top and working its the way down.
| | 00:28 | Now you have some control
over how this page looks.
| | 00:31 | This is the default page right here,
but I am going go down to the bottom.
| | 00:36 | Did you know you can
change the layout of this page?
| | 00:38 | Yes, I did, actually.
| | 00:40 | So we have a Small + sets, but since we
don't have any sets right now--and these
| | 00:46 | sets are these little icons to the side--
| | 00:49 | we're not really showing anything, so we
could just go to small images only, and
| | 00:54 | our photostream is going to look the same.
| | 00:56 | However, if we had sets,
they would have disappeared.
| | 01:00 | Since we don't have a lot of photos
right now, maybe we want to do something
| | 01:04 | like Medium images only, and we will click Save.
| | 01:10 | Now, when people come to our photostream,
they see what they call medium; these
| | 01:17 | look rather large to me.
| | 01:18 | I go actually I'm just a little
uncomfortable with that, so I'm going to change
| | 01:24 | it one more time, and we are going to
go back to Small + sets because we are
| | 01:29 | going to add sets in an upcoming movie.
So, we are going to do that right now.
| | 01:34 | All right, so you have some
control over how things look.
| | 01:39 | Now you'll see right here we have our
copyright and who can see the video or who
| | 01:45 | can see the photo, and you can change
that on the fly because you have a little
| | 01:49 | Edit link right here.
| | 01:51 | So if I wanted to make this a private
photo, I could change that right here and
| | 01:57 | then save it. Do that right there.
| | 02:01 | If you wanted to delete the photo, you
can do that: just click the Delete button
| | 02:06 | and Flickr will remove it altogether,
and then you will have too reinstate it if
| | 02:11 | you decide up the road
that you want to have it.
| | 02:15 | Then a lot of these fields that you see
are editable, and so you can just click
| | 02:20 | on them, type, change the title, for
example, and save it, and same thing here.
| | 02:27 | So, for example, I have this thing--I
mentioned this in an earlier movie if you
| | 02:33 | caught it--where I don't like having
the same caption over and over again,
| | 02:37 | so I'm going to change
one of these captions here.
| | 02:40 | I will just put "against a
stone wall" and click Save.
| | 02:50 | As you scroll through your shots,
if you find an image doesn't have a
| | 02:54 | description, you can just click there,
click Save, and now you have changed that
| | 03:02 | caption, and it's very simple, and here you are.
| | 03:05 | One last thing I want to show you,
but I am not going to get into great detail
| | 03:08 | because we are going to cover that in
an upcoming movie, is that anywhere on
| | 03:13 | your photostream if you want to see a
larger version of this thumbnail--and it's
| | 03:18 | not really the thumbnail,
| | 03:19 | it's just a small version of
the shot--just click on that.
| | 03:22 | That takes you to a page where you
get a larger view of the image and more
| | 03:27 | information. Then any time that you
want to go back to your photostream, just
| | 03:33 | click on You and it brings you right back.
| | 03:37 | It's not home, because home as we
talked about before where everything comes
| | 03:41 | together, but it's your home.
| | 03:43 | So maybe it's your room in
your home, something like that.
| | 03:46 | So that's the photostream.
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| Viewing larger versions of a photo| 00:00 | So you are in the photostream and you
are looking at the photos and going,
| | 00:04 | "I would love to see a larger view of one these."
| | 00:08 | There are some interesting Flickr
interface things now that we're going to
| | 00:12 | immerse ourselves in,
| | 00:14 | so let's start that by
clicking on the image itself.
| | 00:17 | So you can stop right here really, and
we have a larger version of the shot, and
| | 00:23 | you can navigate to the shots on both
sides of it and just enjoy the images this
| | 00:32 | way. But you notice we have
this little plus thing here.
| | 00:38 | So this is a link to the light box,
which is a different way to see your photos,
| | 00:42 | so we will click on that.
| | 00:44 | So now it's like being in a darkened
room, and you can look at your photos this way.
| | 00:49 | It sort of illuminates that white background,
which some photographers find distracting.
| | 00:57 | But there's more, as you would imagine.
| | 00:59 | So over here we have View all sizes and Close.
| | 01:04 | Now if I click Close, that's really
taking me out of the light box and bringing
| | 01:10 | me back to this view here.
| | 01:12 | If I want to go back to that view,
I click on the Plus sign again.
| | 01:16 | However, we can also view all
sizes while in this light box.
| | 01:21 | And listen closely. However, when you do
that it, takes you out of the light box.
| | 01:27 | So here we see the largest size.
| | 01:30 | Now, this is the size that I uploaded,
| | 01:33 | so you may have uploaded a smaller
photo or a larger photo, and depending if you
| | 01:39 | have a Pro account for a free
account these numbers will change.
| | 01:44 | But you can also see scaled-down
versions. Here is the medium-size, and we have
| | 01:49 | medium 500, so we have medium 640 and 500.
| | 01:52 | Again, these are all relative to the
content that you originally uploaded.
| | 01:58 | And then even the small size.
| | 02:01 | Now at some point when you start
playing around with these you're going to feel
| | 02:06 | possibly a little disoriented,
and I'll show you how to get back.
| | 02:08 | But I want to show you one more thing
first--that whatever size that you happen
| | 02:14 | to be on at the moment, if the
permissions allow, the person can download that
| | 02:21 | size of the photo. Or in this case if
you're doing the viewing, you can download
| | 02:26 | that size of the photo.
| | 02:27 | So if you want the large version of
the photo and you want to download that,
| | 02:32 | then you would go to the large version,
and then you can download the large
| | 02:37 | size. Okay, that makes sense.
| | 02:40 | Now, what happens is you do this for a
while, and then you are going to go I
| | 02:43 | just go back to my photostream.
| | 02:45 | I just want to go back to my safe room in
my Flickr house, and the easiest way to
| | 02:53 | kind of right yourself is to go back to
You, get back to your photostream, and
| | 02:59 | then you can go to a different
shot and start all over again.
| | 03:04 | So now we have a new shot.
| | 03:06 | We want to go to the light box, so we
click on the light box. We can navigate
| | 03:11 | back and forth that way.
| | 03:12 | If we want to get out of light box and
we click Close. But if we decide that we
| | 03:18 | want to download a version of this
photo, we have to go back to the light box,
| | 03:24 | go to View all sizes, decide which
size we want, then download it, and once we
| | 03:32 | are finished we go back to You.
| | 03:35 | Actually since looking at photos is so
much fun and clicking around a little
| | 03:39 | bit isn't such a terrible thing, just
remember, if you want to right the ship
| | 03:44 | all you ever have to do is go to You,
and you come back safe and sound to your
| | 03:48 | little flicker room.
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| Viewing photos as a slideshow| 00:00 | Well a fun way to look at your images
is using the Slideshow tool, and there's
| | 00:04 | actually a couple of
different Slideshow tools in Flicker.
| | 00:08 | I am going to show you both right now.
| | 00:10 | The first one allows you to
start at a specific photograph.
| | 00:14 | So for instance if I want to start my
slideshow with this image right here, I
| | 00:18 | just have to how to click on it, and
then I go to the light box, and then I
| | 00:24 | click the Play button, and
off to the races we go.
| | 00:28 | Now, I can use my Spacebar
to control the slideshow.
| | 00:31 | I have paused it, and now I will turn it back on.
| | 00:33 | Now you don't have many other controls,
but this does allow you to start at a specific photo.
| | 00:39 | So I am going to go ahead and close
this and show you the other method.
| | 00:43 | I will go back to my photostream.
| | 00:46 | Now the other method is to use this
icon right up here, the Slideshow icon.
| | 00:52 | I click on that and it just begins
at the beginning of your photostream.
| | 00:58 | Now again, I can use the Spacebar to
pause it, but if I want to go to the next
| | 01:03 | image right away, you see I
have these overlays right here.
| | 01:07 | But you can also just click on the
right and left side of the image itself and
| | 01:13 | that will take you to the next image.
| | 01:15 | We will do that again.
| | 01:19 | Now on a vertical shot if you want
to go back, I think you have to go out
| | 01:23 | here into this realm.
| | 01:26 | So that takes a little getting used to.
| | 01:29 | Now the other thing you can do is go up
to the Options button right here and you
| | 01:34 | have some nice choices.
| | 01:36 | You can make things bigger.
| | 01:37 | You can sample them up by
clicking this box to fill the screen.
| | 01:41 | You can always show the title and description.
| | 01:44 | You can play backwards, which I'm sure
there is a great use for that, and you can
| | 01:50 | control the transitions.
| | 01:51 | In the words, they can be slow, medium or fast.
| | 01:54 | I actually like a little faster.
| | 01:56 | Then we click Options again.
| | 01:59 | I am going to hit the Spacebar, and we
start playing our slideshow. And this is a
| | 02:08 | nice way to view it.
| | 02:10 | I like the black background where you
can really focus on the images. And you can
| | 02:15 | share the slideshow and
this is actually kind of cool.
| | 02:19 | You go up to the Share button
here, and you have a couple of URLs.
| | 02:24 | I am just going to take this one and I
am going to copy it. I am going to hit
| | 02:28 | Command+C. And we will go to a new
window, and you can send this to somebody.
| | 02:33 | So I will just open a new window.
| | 02:35 | I'll paste that URL, hit Return.
| | 02:38 | So you send this link to
somebody, and this is what they get.
| | 02:42 | Now, they are actually on the
Flickr site; it just brings them to the
| | 02:48 | slideshow function.
| | 02:49 | That's very handy. And there is help
that will show you some of the keyboard
| | 02:56 | shortcuts and things that you
can do. Close that right here.
| | 03:03 | At any time you can see the info for the photo.
| | 03:07 | Click on the center area. That also
gives it to you. And then when you are all
| | 03:11 | done, just go back to your photostream.
| | 03:13 | Handy little tool built right in, and I
especially like the part where you can
| | 03:19 | share a slideshow with somebody else.
| | 03:21 | Now, you can also create a set and play
that as a slideshow, so for example, if
| | 03:27 | you just wanted to use a particular
group of images, put them together in a set,
| | 03:33 | and then use these slideshow tools.
And I'll bring that up again when we talk
| | 03:38 | about creating sets.
| | 03:39 | For right now, click on an image
and make a slideshow yourself.
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| Sharing photos via email| 00:00 | An easy way to share photos of somebody is to
send them via email, so let's do that right now.
| | 00:06 | I am going to go down here. I want to
send this to me, and I am going to click
| | 00:12 | on Share this, and I just
have to enter in my address.
| | 00:15 | I want to add a message. And then all I
have to do is hit Send, say all right.
| | 00:24 | Now I am going to take
you over to my email client.
| | 00:27 | Now I sent this earlier, but I
want to show you what it looks like.
| | 00:32 | So this is what appears in your email box.
| | 00:35 | It gets this nice little Flickr logo,
| | 00:38 | and you get who is sharing the photo
with you, and you get the image itself.
| | 00:42 | And if I click on the image or if I
click on the link here, it brings them
| | 00:47 | back to Flickr where they can see
different sizes of the photos or maybe
| | 00:51 | different photos in the set.
| | 00:52 | Now, you'll notice here
that the caption is different.
| | 00:55 | That's because I did do this one first
because I wanted to have it all ready for you.
| | 01:01 | So, there you go,
but you get the idea.
| | 01:03 | Actually it looks quite
lovely and I think it's very nice.
| | 01:06 | So sharing photos is an
absolute breeze in Flickr.
| | 01:10 | Just pull up the shot that you want,
go to Share this, enter the email
| | 01:13 | address, and click Send.
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| Searching techniques| 00:00 | Flickr is also great for looking at
other people's photos, and I am going to show
| | 00:04 | you how to do that right now
using just a few basic search tools.
| | 00:09 | So you have the search box up here.
| | 00:11 | However, if I enter a phrase in there, I
am just going to be searching in my own
| | 00:16 | photostream and I pretty much
already know what's in there.
| | 00:19 | However, if you have a large photostream and
you need to find something, it's very handy.
| | 00:24 | So you're probably better off to go
to the homepage, and now when you enter--
| | 00:29 | let's see, we will just enter building here--
| | 00:34 | now, if I just click Search, it is
going to search everyone's uploads.
| | 00:38 | There are some filters available
via this pop-up menu right here.
| | 00:42 | So you are going to search Contacts, Friends,
photostream, Groups, all of that stuff.
| | 00:47 | We just want to search everyone's
stuff right now because that's where you
| | 00:51 | really kind of get this eclectic mix,
so we will do that.
| | 00:54 | Just click the Search button.
| | 00:57 | Now there are three basic types of sorts:
| | 01:00 | Relevant, Recent, and Interesting.
| | 01:03 | Relevant is a nice filter.
| | 01:05 | It usually shows you stuff that is
useful based on the term that you're using,
| | 01:10 | and a lot of times you can
find what you want right here.
| | 01:13 | Recent will give you the latest stuff
that has been uploaded. But the one that I
| | 01:18 | really like is Interesting.
| | 01:20 | This is a little special Flickr magic,
and the photos are usually quite nice here.
| | 01:26 | So when you're looking for inspiration,
I think Interesting is a great way to go.
| | 01:31 | When you see something that you like,
| | 01:33 | you can click on that
image and just go, oh my gosh!
| | 01:36 | I wish I had taken that.
| | 01:38 | By the way, you can view
different sizes on this right here,
| | 01:44 | so if you want to enjoy the thumbnails
more. Now, we are searching photos right
| | 01:51 | now, but you can also search within
groups, and you can search for people.
| | 01:56 | So if you know of a photographer who
in on Flickr and you'd like to see that
| | 02:00 | person's work--I know a good one here
and I am going to click People, and there
| | 02:05 | we go, and there is
Derrick's work, just like that.
| | 02:11 | So you can search for
photos, groups, and people.
| | 02:14 | Just go back to our homepage.
| | 02:16 | It is very easy to do.
| | 02:19 | Just use the Search box right here.
| | 02:21 | If you want to do a little upfront filtering,
there is a pop-up menu, and go get inspired.
| | 02:27 | There is a lot of great stuff on this platform.
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5. Adding Information to PhotosCreating and editing titles and descriptions| 00:00 | We're going to spend a moment
adding titles and descriptions.
| | 00:04 | Now, normally I would do that on
upload when I'm bringing the pictures into
| | 00:08 | Flickr, but I was in hurry when I uploaded
these shots and I didn't have time, but I
| | 00:14 | wasn't worried because I know
that it's easy to do afterwards.
| | 00:17 | So all you have to do is wave your
mouse over the field here, click on it, and
| | 00:23 | the title becomes editable. And we'll
just call this Standing Portrait #1, like
| | 00:33 | this, and I'm going to copy it because
you can probably guess what I'm going to do.
| | 00:38 | We hit Command+C to copy that.
| | 00:39 | Now I just save and we do the same
thing here; just click on the field.
| | 00:45 | This time I hit Paste, Save,
and once again. Very easy.
| | 00:52 | They make it very easy to do your photo work.
| | 00:57 | And the description works the same way;
| | 00:59 | just click on that field and click Save.
| | 01:05 | You can go back and edit it again if
you want by just clicking on it, or cancel.
| | 01:11 | Click Save, one more time, and click Save.
| | 01:16 | So as you can see, Flickr makes it very
easy to add titles and descriptions, and
| | 01:22 | I recommend that you replace the file
names, which is the default titles,
| | 01:29 | with something that's a bit more
interesting, because it is not as much fun to
| | 01:34 | see img_0321, 22, 23, and so
forth on your photostream.
| | 01:41 | Just having the most simple title adds
a little bit more life and makes it a
| | 01:45 | bit more interesting.
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| Adding tags to make photos easy to find| 00:00 | I am going to talk about tags for a
second because tags are an important
| | 00:04 | search tool in Flickr.
| | 00:06 | It helps people find your photos.
| | 00:09 | Before I actually add tags to one of my
images, let me show you what I'm talking about.
| | 00:14 | Let's do a search real quick.
| | 00:16 | Go to home, search on 'building', and we
are here under Relevant. And you notice
| | 00:25 | that off to the side of search box,
we have Full Text which searches on
| | 00:31 | everything, and then we have Tags Only,
and you will see that the sort of images
| | 00:37 | changes when we go to Tags Only.
| | 00:39 | I get a whole different look.
| | 00:42 | So all of these shots have the tag
'building', whereas the Full Text search just
| | 00:49 | has building possibly somewhere in the
description or in the title or anywhere
| | 00:55 | there in the metadata.
| | 00:57 | So by adding tags, I think you are
really doing a service to people that are
| | 01:01 | looking for a specific thing.
| | 01:04 | So let me show you how to do that.
| | 01:05 | I am going to go back to my photostream by
clicking on You, and we will take this shot here.
| | 01:12 | Now, in order to work with the tags, you
have to click on the image to go to the
| | 01:17 | larger view, and you see that tags are off here.
| | 01:22 | Now I have some tags entered already,
and if I decide that I don't want to
| | 01:26 | include an existing tag,
that's easy enough to do.
| | 01:30 | I just have to click on the
X that's right next to it.
| | 01:34 | Now that tag is gone.
| | 01:36 | Now, let's say that I want to add a tag.
| | 01:39 | Let's say I want to add my
name, since I'm the photographer.
| | 01:42 | I am going to use quotes because it's
two words, and I want those two words to
| | 01:47 | exist as one tag. And then I click Add,
and now I have added that tag to the shot.
| | 01:57 | Now when you are in organize mode,
which we'll be talking about in an upcoming
| | 02:02 | movie, you can actually add tags to a
number of photographs at once. Or if you
| | 02:08 | just want to add individual tags as
you're working on stuff, you can do that
| | 02:12 | also, just by clicking from image
to image just as I'm doing here.
| | 02:20 | So tags are very important tool to help
other photographers and people viewing
| | 02:25 | images on Flickr find your photos, and
I will tell you, that's what you want.
| | 02:30 | When people do the search, you want your
stuff to come up in the search results.
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| Searching with tags and improving visibility| 00:00 | So I want to use tags to help
me find a specific type of shot.
| | 00:05 | Let's say that I'm going to look for a
brick building, and using tags I think
| | 00:10 | increases my odds of having a photo come
out that I'm looking for and that I can use.
| | 00:15 | So I'm going to make sure
I'm here on the homepage.
| | 00:18 | I'm going to use search.
| | 00:19 | I want to search everyone's uploads, and
by clicking here I'm actually going to
| | 00:25 | get a different screen where I
can add some advanced conditions.
| | 00:29 | So you have Everyone's Uploads.
| | 00:31 | Here is my search box.
| | 00:32 | I want to search for photos, and I'm
going to go to Advanced Search right here.
| | 00:38 | And I'm going to search for tags
only, click on that right here, 'brick
| | 00:44 | building', The exact phrase.
| | 00:49 | So I don't want just like brick
and building in there willy-nilly;
| | 00:53 | I want the tag brick building.
| | 00:56 | Tag brick building. Here
we go, everyone's photos.
| | 01:00 | Hold your breath. And here we have a
bunch of shots and they're better be bricks
| | 01:06 | and every one of these buildings, or
someone's got some explaining to do it.
| | 01:10 | So take a look at these.
| | 01:11 | They look pretty good.
| | 01:13 | So in order to prove to you,
I'm going to click on an image.
| | 01:18 | Let's take a look at the tag, and there
better be the tag 'brick building' in here
| | 01:25 | and I'm looking for right now,
painted brick and 40 more tags.
| | 01:30 | I actually picked a photo
that has a whole lot of tags.
| | 01:34 | Here it is right here.
| | 01:35 | This guy is making sure that
his building comes up, and it did.
| | 01:39 | So there's our tag, 'brick building', right there.
| | 01:42 | So we go back to our search results.
| | 01:45 | So by using tags and then by using
Advanced Search to find those images, it
| | 01:51 | allows you as the image provider to
hopefully have your image come up for people
| | 01:56 | that are looking for a specific thing.
And then when you're searching by using
| | 02:00 | tags, it will help you find the
shots that you want more quickly.
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| Adding a photo to your map| 00:00 | A fun thing to do with your photos is to
actually add some location information,
| | 00:05 | add them to your map, so people can
see where the shot was actually taken.
| | 00:10 | So I'm going to go down to--oh,
let's take the shot right here.
| | 00:14 | This is great. So you go, "Ooh!
| | 00:16 | That's kind of an interesting infrared
shot," and it says in the caption here that
| | 00:21 | it was taken in Santa Rosa,
but where in Santa Rosa?
| | 00:25 | Well, let's take care of that right now.
| | 00:28 | So I just click on the photo to come to
this view right here, and now I go over
| | 00:33 | here to Add photo to my map.
| | 00:35 | Now you can start out by getting close
to where you want to go by just typing
| | 00:41 | up here in the field.
| | 00:42 | So I am going to just
add Santa Rosa, California.
| | 00:47 | Here we go. And it just takes us to City
Center Santa Rosa. But I actually want to
| | 00:55 | be more accurate than that.
| | 00:57 | I know where this location
is, so let's go over here.
| | 01:03 | Go over this way just a bit.
| | 01:05 | So what I like to do is try to get it
close, and then I make the view bigger,
| | 01:11 | like this. See, I am just
moving that little thing.
| | 01:15 | I'm enlarging the view, and actually we
should be somewhere like right about here.
| | 01:21 | It's in a community called Casa Del
Sol actually, and it's right over here.
| | 01:29 | This shot was taken right
about there, I remember.
| | 01:34 | So what you have to do is drag your
image over to where you want it to be, and
| | 01:40 | then once you have it ready, I have
some choices. Do I want to be the only on
| | 01:44 | that can see this information or anyone?
| | 01:46 | Well, in this case, I am fine with anyone,
and then I am going to save this location.
| | 01:54 | And there it is.
Got the--look at--
| | 01:55 | we had a little Flickr dot right there.
| | 01:58 | We'll go ahead and close this.
| | 02:00 | So now when other people look at this
photo, they will see that it has a map, and
| | 02:07 | they can go here. And then when they
wave over it, they get a better look, and
| | 02:12 | then they can actually click on the
little Flickr dot there, and they can see
| | 02:16 | this enlarged version that I created
just by dragging my image right to the
| | 02:21 | right location on the map.
| | 02:24 | They can see almost precisely,
exactly where that photo was taken.
| | 02:28 | By the way, you do have some location
information right here, which I think is a nice touch.
| | 02:34 | Now, we go back to You.
| | 02:38 | Let's go back down here to this
shot, and you'll see that even in your
| | 02:44 | photostream now a new link has been added.
| | 02:47 | We have a Map link. So, it isn't on
these other shots, which means even when I
| | 02:52 | am in the photostream and I want
to see where this shot was taken,
| | 02:56 | I just click on that and boom!
| | 02:58 | Right there in the
photostream, and I can even enlarge it.
| | 03:04 | We have the coordinates. I probably
want just to here too far there. And then
| | 03:11 | you can also view it on my map. It's really neat.
| | 03:17 | It's all hooked together, and it works very well.
| | 03:20 | For instance, if you've been traveling
or any situation where you want people
| | 03:26 | to see where the photos are taken,
this is a great tool, and it's built right
| | 03:30 | into Flickr.
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| Creating notes to identify things in a photo| 00:00 | A feature that you have in Flickr
allows you to add notes to images so people
| | 00:05 | can see what's going on.
| | 00:07 | And you may have run into
these when you were exploring.
| | 00:10 | Let me show you what I'm talking about.
| | 00:12 | So I am going to take this shot right here.
| | 00:14 | Now we know this shot has notes
because even in our photostream right here it
| | 00:18 | says it has five notes.
| | 00:20 | So I will click on that, and when we mouse
over you'll see that we have these boxes here.
| | 00:27 | If you put the mouse in one of the boxes,
you get to see exactly what that is.
| | 00:32 | You can see how useful this could
be when you want to describe a lot of
| | 00:36 | different items in a shot.
| | 00:37 | I mean you could go into great detail
in the description, but isn't it easier
| | 00:43 | just to create a little note?
| | 00:46 | And then one thing that I do is that I
let them know in the description to mouse
| | 00:50 | over the components in the photo
for descriptions. So they go,
| | 00:54 | "Oh yeah, notes."
| | 00:56 | So let me show you how to do that.
| | 00:57 | Let's go back to You.
| | 00:59 | Let's do it with this shot right here.
| | 01:02 | So we have a camera with
the kit lens and a zoom.
| | 01:06 | So let's just create two notes.
| | 01:08 | We are going to go up to the Actions menu.
| | 01:10 | We haven't spent a lot of time here,
but we will be because there's a lot of
| | 01:14 | stuff in here, and look what
happens when I click on this.
| | 01:17 | Look at all of these things;
well, we are going to go to note.
| | 01:19 | So you get the little box,
and you get the label.
| | 01:24 | So I'll go over here, and we are just
going to put the box on the item, and we will
| | 01:31 | call this Olympus micro 4/3 zoom lens.
| | 01:38 | That way they'll know they can see that
it's 40 to 150, but they can't tell that
| | 01:44 | it's a micro 4/3rds mount.
| | 01:46 | So that's where the note helps.
Then we just click Save.
| | 01:51 | Then here because the camera is
blurred a little bit in the background but
| | 01:54 | they may wonder what type of camera that is,
so we will help them with that via a note.
| | 01:58 | Let's take this over here, kind of make
it something like this, and we will say
| | 02:07 | it's an Olympus E-PL2 micro 4/3 camera.
| | 02:16 | So now we've made this image even more
useful for the viewer, and especially if
| | 02:23 | they were searching using tags for an
E-PL2, they'd get this image, and then
| | 02:30 | they could just mouse over the notes
and see exactly what lens is this and
| | 02:34 | exactly what camera this is.
| | 02:36 | So I think this is a terrific feature.
| | 02:39 | I think it's particularly useful for
shots like this, where you want to describe
| | 02:43 | items in the shot, and you can go crazy with it.
| | 02:46 | I don't recommend that you do
that, especially with people shots.
| | 02:50 | But for your things that you want to
let people know what those things are,
| | 02:55 | this is a great tool.
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| Adding the name of someone who appears in a photo| 00:00 | One of the relatively new features in
Flickr is that you can actually add names
| | 00:05 | to photos through a tagging system
that's actually similar to Faces in iPhoto,
| | 00:12 | and what that means is that when you
wave over the face that's been tagged, as
| | 00:17 | I've done here, then I'm a Flickr
member and so then this shows up. And you can
| | 00:23 | click on this link and it can take
you to other instances of me and Flickr,
| | 00:29 | especially places where I've been tagged.
| | 00:32 | The way that you actually tag a person
is you go to the Actions menu and you
| | 00:36 | go to Add a person, and then you have the
little box and you type the name of the person.
| | 00:43 | Now if the person isn't a Flickr
member, then you don't get very far.
| | 00:48 | Let me show you how that works.
| | 00:50 | We'll go back to our photostream here.
| | 00:52 | We'll go to Michaela. So, Michaela is not
member of Flickr, so if I go to Actions
| | 00:59 | and I go to Add a person and I start typing--
I'll go ahead and put the square on her face--
| | 01:07 | so right away she's not in my contact
list--that's the first the Flickr does.
| | 01:12 | So then I can search through all
Flickr members, and we have a couple of the
| | 01:18 | Michaelas here, but neither
one of them are this Michaela.
| | 01:22 | So that really doesn't do me any good.
| | 01:24 | I am not going to use them.
| | 01:28 | So then we are all done here.
| | 01:31 | So I just end up having to cancel
because she isn't a Flickr member.
| | 01:35 | Now, let's go back to me.
| | 01:38 | I am a Flickr member.
| | 01:39 | Now, when you type my name here, of course
The Digital Story comes up, and you can choose it.
| | 01:48 | If you click on this link, then you get a
little bit more information and a few more options.
| | 01:55 | It actually explains a little bit
about what's going on with this naming a
| | 01:59 | person in the photo.
| | 02:01 | If I wanted to, I could
search through public photos of me.
| | 02:06 | Some of them have been tagged and some
of them are going off other information.
| | 02:10 | Now the thing that you may be
thinking here is, well, are people tagging me?
| | 02:16 | Well, they may be, and you do
have some control over that.
| | 02:19 | I am going to take you over to Your Account.
| | 02:23 | We'll go to Privacy & Permissions, and
right here, Who can add you to a photo?
| | 02:28 | That's what this is.
| | 02:30 | Right now, I have it set for this
account, which is the lynda, the lynda account,
| | 02:36 | as to Any Flickr Member.
| | 02:38 | But if you're not comfortable with that,
you can change the permissions that
| | 02:42 | only you can tag photos of you or your
friends and family or family, friends,
| | 02:48 | contacts, and then everyone.
| | 02:51 | So you do have some control over your
pictures being tagged, and it totally has
| | 02:57 | to do with what works best for you.
| | 03:00 | I'm okay with Any Flickr member,
and then we go back to You.
| | 03:05 | So that's a look at adding names to
photos, and I think it's particularly
| | 03:12 | helpful with a group of friends where
you tag your friends and then you're
| | 03:17 | curious about seeing photos that
they appear in taken by other people.
| | 03:22 | I think within that context
this is a wonderful little feature.
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6. Working with PhotosDeleting a photo that you've uploaded| 00:00 | One of the easiest things to do in Flickr
is to take out a photo that you've uploaded.
| | 00:06 | You have this little Delete link right
here, and I can't think of a better shot
| | 00:11 | to remove from this library
than the shot of me in my studio.
| | 00:15 | So I am just going to go to Delete. Click on it.
| | 00:20 | You'll get the warning, and
I am very sure. I click OK.
| | 00:25 | It's gone. And then usually what I do is I
refresh by just clicking on You.
| | 00:30 | The previous photo moves over,
and it's like it never happened.
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| Replacing a photo that you've uploaded| 00:00 | If you have a Pro account of
Flickr, as I do right here--we're on The
| | 00:06 | Digital Story site--
| | 00:07 | you can actually replace photos.
| | 00:09 | And now, first you go,
well, why would I want to do that?
| | 00:12 | Well if you have metadata already
associated with the shot, and in this case we
| | 00:18 | even have views and a comment, but you
want a different version of the shot--
| | 00:23 | you want the shot a little bit different--
| | 00:25 | you can literally replace it
and retain all this information.
| | 00:29 | I am going to show you how to do that.
| | 00:30 | Let's bring the photo up right here, and
we'll go to the Actions menu and go down
| | 00:36 | here to Replace this photo.
| | 00:38 | Now if you have a free
account, that won't be there;
| | 00:41 | that won't even show up.
| | 00:42 | I am going to choose the file.
| | 00:48 | Here it is right here.
| | 00:49 | So what I did so we could really tell
what's going on is that I cropped the
| | 00:54 | image and sharpened it a bit.
| | 00:57 | And I literally want to
replace this photo that's here.
| | 01:00 | So we're going to choose, and now we're going
to upload, and now the photo has been replaced.
| | 01:09 | Let's go back to our photostream.
| | 01:12 | So we didn't lose our views.
| | 01:13 | We didn't lose our comment.
| | 01:15 | We still have all of our metadata.
| | 01:18 | All we did was just replace the photo,
and this will happen most often when
| | 01:23 | you want to fine-tune an image but it's
been on your site for a little bit and
| | 01:27 | you don't want to lose all the good stuff
that's accumulated while it was on the site.
| | 01:32 | So it's Replace Photo, and you'll find
that they're under the Actions menu.
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| Changing the license for a photo| 00:00 | I'd like to show you how to
change the license for a photo.
| | 00:04 | Now, in our original permissions setup
that we did under You > Your Account >
| | 00:15 | Privacy & Permissions, we set what the default
license is for the photos that I upload here.
| | 00:22 | However, there may be photos that you
want to have a separate license for, and
| | 00:27 | this is a good example here,
| | 00:28 | this shot of the Olympus.
| | 00:30 | I would like it if people were to
use it in articles and so forth when
| | 00:34 | talking about this camera.
| | 00:36 | But right now, the way that I have it
set up, All Rights Reserved, they can't
| | 00:40 | really do that without
getting direct permission from me.
| | 00:43 | So I am going to change that.
| | 00:45 | So if I click on the photo to go to the
enlarged view and then I go down here, and
| | 00:51 | see where we have All Rights Reserved,
| | 00:53 | I am going to edit that.
| | 00:54 | I am just going to change the license
right here, and we'll just do a basic
| | 01:02 | Creative Commons license, and I click Save.
| | 01:06 | We have success, and even when we go
back to the photostream now, you'll see
| | 01:12 | that we have the Creative Commons icon
instead of the All Rights Reserved, and
| | 01:17 | that means that folks can use this.
| | 01:19 | They can even modify the image if they need to.
| | 01:22 | So, yes, set up your basic license
that you want to have most of the time.
| | 01:27 | But if you need to change the license
for a particular image, it's easy enough
| | 01:31 | to do just by clicking on the
bigger view and editing the attribution.
| | 01:37 | Piece of cake!
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| Changing the location where a photo was taken| 00:00 | So I've brought in a photo that was
geotagged, but it doesn't show up on the Flickr map.
| | 00:07 | It was geotagged slightly incorrectly,
| | 00:10 | so we want to kind of clean all that up.
| | 00:13 | That's what we're going to do right now.
| | 00:14 | The first thing I do is click on
the photo itself, and I am going to add
| | 00:19 | this photo to my map.
| | 00:21 | You'll notice that there's
nothing on the map right now.
| | 00:23 | So even though it has geotags,
I have to add it to the map.
| | 00:26 | So I am going to do that.
| | 00:28 | Now Flickr can read some of the
metadata, and then it goes, aha!
| | 00:34 | We see that this photo appears to
have been taken in St. George, Bermuda.
| | 00:40 | And you know what?
They're pretty darn close.
| | 00:42 | I am going to zoom out a bit here.
| | 00:43 | Unfortunately, it looks like
they've placed it in the water.
| | 00:50 | So what I want to do now is
just change this location a bit.
| | 00:53 | It's so easy to do in the map.
| | 00:56 | So I am just going to move it, and move
it on to land, and this location will be
| | 01:03 | visible by anyone, and then I save it.
| | 01:09 | So we've actually done two things now.
| | 01:12 | We've sort of cleaned up that geo metadata,
and at the same time we've added it to our map.
| | 01:19 | When I go back to the photostream,
we'll also have the Map link right here.
| | 01:28 | So if you bring images that are
geotagged, you can still make adjustments and
| | 01:35 | add them to your map just by
using the Map function in Flickr.
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| Changing the date that a photo was taken or posted| 00:01 | A neat feature in Flickr is that you
can actually change the date of the
| | 00:04 | photo of the timestamp.
| | 00:06 | This is particularly handy if you screw up.
| | 00:09 | If you don't keep up on the menu
settings on your camera, and then you
| | 00:14 | realize afterwards that, oh my gosh,
| | 00:16 | that was wrong and I want to
fix that, you can do that.
| | 00:19 | I'm going to show you how to do that right now.
| | 00:22 | I am going to click on this photo.
| | 00:24 | We're going to go back to the Actions
menu, and we're going to go to View Exif
| | 00:30 | info and this is actually
a neat thing unto itself.
| | 00:34 | So here we have the photo itself,
and then we have all of this data
| | 00:40 | associated with it.
| | 00:41 | Most of this is from the camera, Exif
data, but some of it is stuff that I've
| | 00:47 | added, such as copyright, and all that good stuff.
| | 00:50 | So you can see there are tons and tons
of information in here. And by the way,
| | 00:57 | if you don't want this showing for your
photos, this is one of those permissions
| | 01:01 | that you can turn off and
on in your Account Settings.
| | 01:05 | Now, you notice that Taken on January
30th, 2011, if I mess that up, I can fix
| | 01:12 | that because there's an Edit link right here.
| | 01:14 | So I'll click on that.
| | 01:15 | The date was right,
but let's say that I was an hour off.
| | 01:20 | I'm going to change it to 15,
click Save, and now we are set.
| | 01:27 | So if we go back to Actions and we go to
view our Exif Info, we have now changed
| | 01:37 | the date of when that photo was captured.
| | 01:40 | By the way, you can also change the
timestamp for when you posted it to Flickr.
| | 01:44 | So you have control over both--not to
mention that you have all this other
| | 01:49 | bonus metadata. And I tell you, just about
anything here that you want to know about your photos,
| | 01:55 | it's listed.
| | 01:56 | It's actually quite impressive.
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| Posting photos from Flickr to your blog| 00:00 | If you have your own personal blog, you
can use the photos that you have in your
| | 00:04 | Flickr account for your blog also.
| | 00:07 | I think this is really handy,
| | 00:09 | so let me show you how this works.
| | 00:11 | I am going to take this shot right here,
and I'm on The Digital Story Flickr site
| | 00:16 | and I'm going to post to my
blog, thedigitalstory.com.
| | 00:22 | So I pull up the photo that I want to
post and I go up to Share this, and we go
| | 00:26 | down here to blog it.
| | 00:29 | Now I've set this up ahead of time and
before this movie is over, I'll show you
| | 00:32 | where you do that. And we are
going to post to The Digital Story.
| | 00:36 | I'm going to go ahead and change the title.
| | 00:38 | It's using the title that came with the photo.
| | 00:41 | This is going to be--it remembered from before.
| | 00:46 | Then since you don't want to watch me
type a post, I have it on the clipboard,
| | 00:51 | so I'll just paste it in here.
And basically what this story is about is I have
| | 00:55 | my camera set on low resolution for a
class, and then I saw a really neat photo.
| | 01:00 | I took the shot not remembering that
I still have it on a low resolution,
| | 01:05 | so now I have a low
resolution version of a cool shot.
| | 01:08 | So, moral of the story, make
sure you change your settings back.
| | 01:13 | So we are all set here, so all I have to do
now is post the entry by clicking on this button.
| | 01:18 | We're in Flickr, but now it's going to
post it on my blog, The Digital Story.
| | 01:23 | I can tell you right now because I do
this all time, that we'll probably get an
| | 01:26 | error message but that the post will still work.
| | 01:30 | The error message is one of
those false error messages.
| | 01:35 | Now, I'm going to go to The Digital Story.
We'll see if I am right; I think I am.
| | 01:47 | There we go. Look at this. Isn't this cool?
| | 01:50 | So here is the new tile that
I gave it. Here is the photo.
| | 01:55 | Here is the text. And Flickr puts in
line breaks for you. And you can go
| | 02:02 | through and clean this up if you want to later on,
but I didn't have to use my blogging software.
| | 02:08 | So you can imagine the possibilities
when you're traveling, let's say using a
| | 02:13 | mobile phone or an iPad or something.
| | 02:15 | You know you have images in
Flickr, you want to put one on your blog.
| | 02:19 | You just go to Flickr on your iPad or
your mobile phone and send it over, add a
| | 02:24 | little text to it, and wow!
| | 02:26 | You have a blog post.
| | 02:28 | Also if you click on this, it actually
takes you back to Flickr. It's really nice.
| | 02:36 | Now, how do you set this up?
| | 02:38 | Well, let's go over to the other Flickr
site that we're working with because it
| | 02:43 | hasn't been set up at all on this
lynda Flickr Essential Training site.
| | 02:47 | So it's under You, and you
go to Your Account Settings.
| | 02:52 | You go over to the Sharing &
Extending tab, and then you go down to Your
| | 02:56 | Blogs and you just click on this, and
then you have a link and you go ahead
| | 03:03 | and just set it up.
| | 03:05 | You choose the type of blog that
you have, Typepad or Movable Type.
| | 03:12 | You put in the information that it needs.
| | 03:17 | You choose the Layout. And by the way,
the layout thing is sort of cool.
| | 03:21 | Let me switch back.
| | 03:24 | We'll do it here where I already have it
set up. Down at the bottom here, just edit.
| | 03:33 | So once you have it set up,
then it looks like this.
| | 03:36 | Before you have it set up, it looks
like the last screen that you saw.
| | 03:40 | Here it is. And we just choose Layout,
and you can pick the layout that you want.
| | 03:47 | And as you can see, I used this layout
where it's a 500-pixel image on its own
| | 03:52 | line, but if you want
something else, then that's great.
| | 03:55 | So then when Flickr sends the photo
over to your blog, it will use the layout
| | 03:59 | that you've select.
| | 04:01 | So I have to say that this is something
that I really like, and it's quite easy to do.
| | 04:07 | So if you have your own personal blog
and you want to connect it in Flickr, just
| | 04:11 | get your settings from your blog, enter
it in Flickr, and then you have another
| | 04:16 | easy way to publish on your blog.
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7. Editing and Enhancing Photos Using PicnikEnabling online editing| 00:00 | One of the things that you can do after
you've uploaded images to Flickr is that
| | 00:05 | you can actually edit them online.
| | 00:08 | Flickr has partnered with
a service called Picnik.
| | 00:11 | So the first thing that you want to do,
if you want take advantage of this,
| | 00:15 | is to get that set up. So, let's do that.
| | 00:18 | So, for example, let's say that I want
to work on this shot of the two rhinos.
| | 00:25 | I would go to Actions.
| | 00:26 | I would go down here to Edit photo in
Picnik. But we haven't set it up yet.
| | 00:32 | So it's going to say, you know, we
want to set up this connection.
| | 00:37 | I'm going to say that's
a good idea. Here we go.
| | 00:48 | So we're right here in Picnik, and now
we can actually do our online editing.
| | 00:55 | Now, some of the features that we have
that I'm going to go over in upcoming
| | 00:59 | movies, the auto-fix, cropping,
exposure, color, and sharpening, they're all
| | 01:06 | right up here at the top, and then the
nice thing about it is that you can either
| | 01:10 | overwrite the photo that's already in
your Flickr gallery using save, or you
| | 01:15 | can save a copy next to the original photo.
| | 01:18 | Actually, it won't be next to the original
photo, but it will be in your photostream.
| | 01:22 | Now, one thing I should mention
about Picnik is that it's Flash-based,
| | 01:26 | so it works great on computers that
have Flash loaded, but it doesn't work on
| | 01:32 | iPad and iPhones and things like that.
| | 01:35 | However, when we get to that section
of the training, I have other tools
| | 01:40 | that work fantastic.
| | 01:41 | So just be aware that this is a Flash-
based tool and you need to have Flash
| | 01:46 | enabled on your computer.
| | 01:49 | Okay, so let's get to editing some photos.
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| Rotating, cropping, and resizing| 00:00 | Well, I am going to do little editing now.
| | 00:02 | We are going to rotate, crop,
and maybe even a little resizing.
| | 00:07 | So we'll work on the rhino shot.
| | 00:10 | I am going to go to the Actions menu.
| | 00:13 | Now, I don't have to go to online edit or rotate.
| | 00:16 | It's right here built into Flickr. And I
can choose the direction that I want to
| | 00:21 | rotate, but I'm not very interested in
having upside-down rhinos at the moments,
| | 00:25 | so I'll just go ahead and cancel out of that.
| | 00:29 | So let's do some cropping.
| | 00:31 | So I am going to go back to Actions, and
now we are going to use our online editor.
| | 00:35 | We've already set up that connection, so
the image should come up fairly quickly.
| | 00:41 | There it is. I am going to click on the Crop button.
| | 00:44 | It's fun because you get little
information here, which I appreciate.
| | 00:50 | You could just move your little
cropper around and do whatever you want.
| | 00:54 | Now, if you want constraint--for
instance let's say that you know that you are
| | 00:59 | going to make a 5 x 7 print--
| | 01:01 | you can go up here, choose that.
| | 01:05 | Now if it comes the wrong way, don't
worry; just grab the handle and it will
| | 01:09 | behave. And now when I move this,
it'll stay within those proportions.
| | 01:18 | Same thing 4 x 6, and you have
some other constraints here, too.
| | 01:23 | So I am going to go with
no constraints right now.
| | 01:26 | I can just have a specific crop I want to do.
| | 01:27 | I just want kind of
eliminate some of those foreground.
| | 01:31 | I find it a little distracting.
So, I'll do something like that.
| | 01:35 | You see I have the actual size that I
am cropping to, and I am just going to
| | 01:40 | click OK, and now we have cropped our image.
| | 01:45 | While we are at it, let's do a little
resize. And again, you get some information here.
| | 01:51 | We are going to keep the proportions,
in other words that way I only have
| | 01:55 | to enter a dimension in one direction and
we'll get the corresponding other direction.
| | 02:01 | So I want to make it 800, and it
fixes that for me, and then I click OK.
| | 02:11 | You can also do percentages. So, if you
want to say 50% or 70%, you can do that,
| | 02:17 | and it's actually going to
resize that photo for me. Click OK.
| | 02:22 | So now we have both cropped and resized.
| | 02:26 | I am going to save the photo, and you
notice we still have the same information
| | 02:30 | that we had, and this came in from Flickr.
| | 02:34 | Now before I click the Save button, I
want to show you something, that when I
| | 02:38 | click Save it's actually going to
save my changes as a copy, so there'll be
| | 02:43 | another photo there on the Flickr.
| | 02:45 | If I want to replace the original photo,
then I have to upgrade to a Flickr Pro account.
| | 02:52 | You may recall when I did the Replace
movie, this one of the previous movies in
| | 02:57 | this training, you need the Pro account
to replace a photo, even within Flickr.
| | 03:01 | So that's what's going on there.
| | 03:03 | I am going to go ahead
and click the Save button.
| | 03:05 | Now, what it'll do is I'll actually be kicked
back to Flickr and so the photo has been cropped.
| | 03:15 | Let's go back.
| | 03:16 | So now we have our cropped-and-resized
image here in our photostream, and we have
| | 03:23 | our original image, and we'll
keep working with this one.
| | 03:27 | I think in the next movie, we'll play
with the exposure and colors a little bit.
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| Working with autofix, exposure, and colors| 00:00 | Well, now we have our cropped version
of Rhino Play, and I notice that when it
| | 00:05 | came in that we had a typo here.
| | 00:08 | It picked up some metadata.
So easy to fix in Flickr.
| | 00:12 | I just have to click on the area
there. Get rid of that. Click Save.
| | 00:18 | By the way, these shots were taken
at Safari West, which is in Santa Rosa,
| | 00:21 | California, and I do photography
workshops, and it's one of our shoots.
| | 00:26 | It's a lot of fun, and we're going to call
this Edited version, so easy to work in Flickr.
| | 00:33 | You just point out what you
want to do and you can do it.
| | 00:36 | I wish everything in life was that easy.
| | 00:39 | So let's play with exposure and color now.
| | 00:42 | So again, go back to our online editor.
| | 00:44 | I am going to open it up.
| | 00:52 | So our Exposure and our Colors are
right here, and they have this nifty thing
| | 00:57 | called Auto-Fix, which sometimes
works great, sometimes doesn't.
| | 01:02 | But it never hurts to try.
| | 01:03 | So let's try Auto-Fix right now.
| | 01:06 | Now, it says that it's fixed. I beg to differ.
| | 01:10 | It did brighten it up a bit,
but the colors are just all wrong.
| | 01:14 | So I am just going to undo Auto-Fix, and
I'm going to take matters into my own hands.
| | 01:19 | Now the rule is when you have exposure
adjustments and color adjustments, which
| | 01:23 | one do you do first?
| | 01:25 | You do the thing that needs the most work,
and in this case I want to fix the color first.
| | 01:30 | So I am going to click on Colors,
and you have some nice controls here.
| | 01:35 | You have Auto Colors.
| | 01:36 | We can always give that a try, and
that's great if you want magenta rhinos.
| | 01:42 | I am not real crazy about that.
| | 01:44 | I like mine more gray.
| | 01:45 | So I am going to reset Auto Colors.
| | 01:48 | And you have this thing called the
Neutral Picker, which I'll come back to in
| | 01:53 | just a moment, and then you have
your Temperature and Saturation sliders.
| | 01:58 | Now I like to do Temperature myself.
| | 02:02 | If you go this way, you warm things up.
| | 02:04 | If you go this way, you cool things off.
| | 02:06 | Now, these guys are little cool to begin
with, because they're shot in the shade
| | 02:10 | and that light tends to be cool, and
look how I can just bring back to life.
| | 02:15 | Now, you can go too far and get orange rhinos.
| | 02:18 | I want to keep the rhinos gray.
| | 02:20 | I just don't want them blue--
maybe with just a hint of warmth.
| | 02:25 | You can also play with the saturation.
| | 02:26 | You can desaturate and basically
create a black-and-white shot, or you can
| | 02:31 | really just make some orange rhinos there.
| | 02:35 | We'll just, again, moderation, as with
so many things in life, is a good thing.
| | 02:42 | So I do like doing hand corrections.
| | 02:46 | However, there is one other tool here
that's not too bad--
| | 02:49 | I am going to just reset again--
and that's the Neutral Picker.
| | 02:52 | Basically, what you do is you pick a
neutral tone in the image, and then it will
| | 02:58 | key off that and do a color correction for you.
| | 03:01 | Now you can see that works much
better than Auto Colors. Not bad at all.
| | 03:07 | I think all I'll do is
maybe just warm it up a bit.
| | 03:10 | We still have the eyedropper, and we probably
will have the eyedropper for the rest of this.
| | 03:15 | I've had it stick before, and I just pretend
that it's a regular mouse pointer. All right!
| | 03:21 | So I have things pretty much the way I want.
| | 03:23 | Basically, I just warmed up the tones here.
| | 03:26 | So I'm going to click OK, and now
we're going to do an exposure adjustment.
| | 03:33 | Now you have two sliders:
Exposure and Contrast.
| | 03:35 | You also have an Auto-Fix.
| | 03:39 | In this case, Auto-Fix wasn't terrible.
| | 03:43 | I'm going to reset it.
| | 03:44 | I want to do it myself. But it
did brighten things up a bit.
| | 03:49 | So we're in the shade, so
the contrast is a little low.
| | 03:52 | So we can up the
contrast a bit with the slider.
| | 03:57 | Now when you up the contrast, you're
deepening the dark tones and brightening
| | 04:01 | the bright tones at the same time.
| | 04:05 | Then you also have just plain exposure.
| | 04:07 | I actually want to pull the exposure
down just a bit to make it more realistic,
| | 04:13 | because they were in the shade.
| | 04:14 | It was sort of darkish here, and the
rhinos are more that sort of color.
| | 04:20 | Then you have an Advanced button here,
and you actually get a histogram, and you
| | 04:25 | get to see what's going on.
| | 04:26 | You'll see that there isn't a lot
of information on the right side.
| | 04:33 | You can fix that with the highlights.
| | 04:36 | We kind of up those highlights a bit.
| | 04:39 | We're doing pretty good on the shadows.
| | 04:41 | There is just a little gap there,
and we can fill that out a bit.
| | 04:46 | So highlights work on this side
of histogram, the bright tones;
| | 04:49 | and shadows work on this side.
And the brightness tends to be the gamma, the
| | 04:53 | middle stuff, and you just do a
gamma adjustment right there. Really nice!
| | 04:56 | We have Local Contrast, which
is a little too contrasty for me,
| | 05:05 | so I am going to just turn that off.
| | 05:09 | Sometimes it's fun to do just to see what more
contrast would look like. Do a little bit more.
| | 05:14 | Bump it up little bit more,
lower the brightness. There we go.
| | 05:18 | I think we are pretty good now.
| | 05:20 | So I am pretty happy with this.
| | 05:22 | Now, because we are working with the
free version of Flickr, this is actually
| | 05:26 | going to save another copy back to our
photostream, and we do that by clicking
| | 05:31 | OK, and we click Save.
| | 05:34 | OK backs us out of Exposure, and Save
will send us back to our photostream, and
| | 05:41 | we're going to call this Edit
Version 2. And look at this.
| | 05:47 | We got another just typo madness today.
And then we'll click Save, and here we go.
| | 05:55 | We are now traveling back to Flickr.
| | 05:58 | Okay, let's go back to our photostream, and
you can see the difference here. Look at this.
| | 06:08 | So here we've done some
exposure and some color corrections.
| | 06:13 | These rhinos look, to my eye, too blue, too cool.
| | 06:16 | We've warmed them up a bit, and you
can always keep playing with this.
| | 06:20 | So that it is exposure and color
using the online editor in Flickr.
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| Sharpening photos| 00:00 | Another very nice tool that's in the
online editor is a sharpening filter, and
| | 00:06 | I want to demonstrate that for you right now.
| | 00:08 | So, let's work on a different shot.
| | 00:10 | We will play with ostrich shot here.
| | 00:12 | I am going to click on
that. Boy, I love this guy.
| | 00:15 | These guys are so ornery I tell you.
| | 00:17 | They will come after you.
| | 00:19 | You know, they'll try to eat the leg of
your pants or something if you stand still.
| | 00:24 | So we are going to go down here to
Edit photo in Picnik, open up our online
| | 00:30 | editor, and you see that we
have our Sharpen button there.
| | 00:35 | But a lot of times even when I come in just
to do one thing, I will look at and go, oh!
| | 00:39 | You know what I want to maybe just
make a sight exposure adjustment first,
| | 00:44 | so we are going to do that.
| | 00:45 | We will just go to Exposure real quick,
and I am going to go to Advanced because
| | 00:50 | I want that histogram.
| | 00:51 | See how we have these little gaps here? I just
want to brighten it up and add a little bit of--
| | 00:55 | So we are just going to brighten it
up a bit, and then we are going to pull
| | 01:01 | those to give us some shadows there.
| | 01:03 | See how you just sort of bring it to
life a little bit? Just these simple controls.
| | 01:08 | Then something like right about there.
That's all I want to do. Now I'm okay.
| | 01:15 | So now we will just click OK.
| | 01:18 | Now we can go to Sharpen.
| | 01:22 | Now, there are actually two sharpening
filters built into this application.
| | 01:27 | The first one here, the one that
comes up first, sharpen, just don't use it.
| | 01:31 | That's why I advice to you right now.
| | 01:33 | It is not as sophisticated as the
Advanced tool, and the Advanced tool is so easy
| | 01:39 | to use, once you know the settings,
which you are going to know right now.
| | 01:43 | The Advanced tool is Unsharp Mask and
is a much better sharpening filter.
| | 01:49 | The thing that I like about Unsharp
Mask is that it only works on the areas
| | 01:54 | basically that have edges that need
sharpening, and it doesn't do things like
| | 01:58 | sharpen continuous tones which a
regular sharpening filter will do.
| | 02:03 | And a regular sharpening filter will add
noise to this area, which you don't want.
| | 02:07 | You just want things to
be a little sharper here.
| | 02:10 | So then they key is, well, how do I set this up?
| | 02:14 | Here are my magic settings
that I use as a starting point.
| | 02:17 | For radius, I usually go to 0.8, right
in that area there, and then I just move
| | 02:23 | the Strength to taste,
| | 02:25 | just sort of up a little bit.
| | 02:29 | I just make that just a little bit sharper.
| | 02:31 | Now, this will come in as a
copy so we can compare it.
| | 02:35 | You see how you can get away
with more on Unsharp Mask?
| | 02:40 | It's not ruining these continuous tones,
but yet we've sharpened this up quite a bit.
| | 02:45 | The regular sharpening filter is not as elegant.
| | 02:51 | Then all you have to do is just click
OK, and now we will save and it will be
| | 02:57 | saved alongside.
| | 03:00 | So just do this Edit, and let's go
on typo patrol here. There we go.
| | 03:11 | Everything else looks okay. Okay.
| | 03:13 | Let's save it and we will do
side by side. Here we are.
| | 03:19 | This is looking pretty good.
| | 03:20 | Let's go back to our photostream.
| | 03:25 | So here is our original shot,
which I mean is not terrible at all.
| | 03:30 | It looks pretty good. But just by doing
a side exposure adjustment and adding a
| | 03:38 | little bit sharpening, look at how
much better that looks, and now this is
| | 03:42 | something that I don't
mind having on my Flickr page.
| | 03:45 | So that's the sharpening filter,
just remember to go to Advanced and use
| | 03:51 | Unsharp Mask, start with 0.8 on that
radius, and then move that sharpening
| | 03:56 | slider to taste.
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| Applying effects| 00:00 | We can apply some pretty nifty
effects to our photos right online;
| | 00:04 | we don't need to have an
application on our computer.
| | 00:07 | To do so, first pull up the file that you
want to work on. Go over to the Actions menu.
| | 00:14 | Go to Edit photo in Picnik.
| | 00:16 | We will switch over into editing
mode now. It launches Picnik, and we see
| | 00:23 | our photo, and we are going to go over to the
Create tab because we are not doing basic stuff.
| | 00:28 | We are going to apply effects.
We are going to have some fun.
| | 00:32 | Click on Effects right here, and you'll
see that we have all sorts of stuff.
| | 00:38 | We will start with Black and White.
| | 00:40 | Black and white is just one of the
standard effects that's fun to apply.
| | 00:44 | You just click on it and right away
your photo is converted to black and white.
| | 00:50 | Now, they add a twist to this.
| | 00:52 | They have a brush right here.
| | 00:54 | You see this. And you can
restore some of the original image.
| | 01:01 | So you can do one of those things
where one part of your photo is black and
| | 01:05 | white and the other part is color.
| | 01:07 | We have Brush controls here,
and it works really quite well.
| | 01:11 | I am going to the cancel it.
If I really liked what I did, I would apply it.
| | 01:16 | You can also apply a sepia effect,
and you have brush controls for that also.
| | 01:21 | Here is a wild one. Prepare your eyes for this.
| | 01:27 | We are going to go to Boost.
| | 01:28 | That's if you want sort of the,
let's say Andy Warhol effect.
| | 01:33 | Well, you know what I'm
talking about: dramatic color.
| | 01:37 | So we will cancel that.
| | 01:38 | Here is a downright useful one, Soften.
| | 01:42 | We have a softening filter built into this,
| | 01:45 | and this is where I think
the brush is really nice.
| | 01:48 | Let's make a nice big brush for this,
where you can brush away the softening.
| | 01:54 | So you can leave just your person softened but
have your background un-softened. Is that neat?
| | 02:05 | Right here just a little
online thing that's free.
| | 02:11 | Does it really get any more fun than this. Look at that.
| | 02:13 | That's really nifty.
| | 02:16 | Then if you like what you did,
you can go ahead and hit Apply.
| | 02:20 | We will cancel because I got couple of
things I want to show you. They have Vignette.
| | 02:26 | Now, when you use Vignette, generally
speaking, you want to show a little restraint.
| | 02:32 | You just don't want to go crazy on vignetting,
| | 02:34 | or it looks too contrived.
| | 02:38 | So just back off a little,
just a little in the corner.
| | 02:40 | If you wanted to go crazy, you can do that,
| | 02:43 | just really have a dramatic effect there.
| | 02:47 | We will cancel that.
| | 02:50 | Do you like black lipstick?
| | 02:52 | If you do, then Infrared Film is for you.
| | 02:56 | So you can see she is
wearing bright red lipstick.
| | 02:59 | We will probably skip this one for this shot,
but on landscape it can look really fun.
| | 03:06 | Then you have all sorts of really kind of
neat ones here, wild things like Night Vision.
| | 03:14 | I don't know why you would use it,
but it is here if you want it.
| | 03:17 | So I am going to go back to Black and
White, so now I went to switch effects and
| | 03:23 | it said, do you want to
apply Night Vision? No I don't.
| | 03:25 | I want to go Black and White.
| | 03:27 | Smart, look at this--brains too.
| | 03:30 | Once I decided what I want, I can either
go to Save to save the effect, or I can
| | 03:35 | go to Close Photo and just
play without any saving at all.
| | 03:42 | Now if I hit Save, it will save it as
another photo next to the original if I
| | 03:48 | have a free account.
| | 03:49 | If I have a Pro account, I get the
option of replacing the original photo or
| | 03:55 | adding a copy next to it, and just click on Save.
| | 03:59 | First, it wants me to
apply the black and white. Sure.
| | 04:02 | And you see it puts a number one there,
and so there will be a copy next to it.
| | 04:09 | And of course if I go Pro
account, I can replace the original.
| | 04:12 | I am just going to cancel right now.
| | 04:15 | I am just going to close the photo,
| | 04:18 | navigate away, and come
back to our original spot.
| | 04:24 | So there is a lot of stuff you can with effects.
| | 04:27 | It is free. Just remember to go to the
Actions pop-up menu, choose Edit photo in
| | 04:33 | Picnik, choose Effects, and have some fun.
| | 04:38 | This is great stuff.
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| Adding text| 00:00 | One last thing that I want to show you with
our online editor is I can add text to a photo.
| | 00:06 | So we'll add a
little text to our friend here.
| | 00:10 | I am going to go to Actions,
go to Edit photo in Picnik.
| | 00:17 | Here is our image.
| | 00:18 | Now, we are going to go back to Create tab.
| | 00:20 | We did Effects before; now
we are going to go here to Text,
| | 00:28 | and you'll see that we have a
whole lot of fonts to choose from.
| | 00:32 | We will go with our friend Arial.
| | 00:37 | Now, you start by just typing text here.
| | 00:40 | Select that. And then you click the Add
button, and now you get something to work with.
| | 00:51 | The first thing which you probably want
to do--at least that I want to do here--
| | 00:55 | is let's bring the size down a bit.
| | 00:57 | So we will just the Size slider.
| | 01:03 | Then you can drag the text to the area
that you want. And if you want to change
| | 01:09 | the color a bit, you can.
| | 01:11 | I want to go with something let's say over here.
| | 01:13 | Well, that's too strong.
| | 01:18 | Something like that maybe, get a little bit darker.
| | 01:22 | All right. I just kind of want to
play off some of these tones right here and
| | 01:28 | go with a--bold it up a
bit, just by clicking Bold.
| | 01:32 | You even have blending modes, and what's
neat as you go over the Blending modes,
| | 01:40 | you will actually real time previews.
| | 01:43 | I have to say I am pretty impressed with
the online tools that you get these days here.
| | 01:48 | I think we are pretty good here.
| | 01:52 | So then you can just leave
it exactly where you want.
| | 01:54 | You can still move it if
you change your mind a bit.
| | 01:57 | And then once you are ready,
just go ahead and save your photo.
| | 02:00 | And remember, it saves a copy
because we don't have a Pro version.
| | 02:08 | I will just call this With
Text. Clean up our typo there.
| | 02:18 | I think we are in good shape.
| | 02:20 | Go back to your photostream and now we
have our ostrich welcoming us to Safari West.
| | 02:29 | So adding text is a very
versatile and pretty powerful tool.
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8. Working with Your PhotostreamCreating a set| 00:00 | I want to show you one of my favorite
organizational tools in Flickr called
| | 00:04 | sets, and I'm here on The Digital Story
Flickr site because I have a bunch of
| | 00:10 | these already created.
| | 00:12 | Then we will go to our training site
and we will create one together. So here
| | 00:17 | they are, right here, sets, and you can
see the little icons off to the side with
| | 00:22 | the title and you get some
views, things like that.
| | 00:25 | If you click on one of these, it will
open up and you have a group of images
| | 00:30 | here, and you can add text and even
add a link if you have a reference piece
| | 00:36 | somewhere else and then go
back to your photostream.
| | 00:40 | And I use it for all sorts of stuff.
| | 00:42 | You can use them for a collection of
images, all right, and then you just
| | 00:45 | click on one of the shots and you
get to see it, and then you can motor
| | 00:50 | through other images in the set.
| | 00:53 | And I use them for telling the story.
| | 00:55 | Like for instance here, this is a set of
instructional images that tell people how
| | 01:01 | to make custom greeting cards
inside of Aperture, and I have a series of
| | 01:08 | screenshots with text that shows how to do this.
| | 01:12 | They are very handy.
| | 01:14 | Now, one of the interesting things
about sets is that when you create a set of
| | 01:19 | images and you add information like
this, Google will catalog it. Google will
| | 01:24 | treat it as a web page, and I
will show you how that works.
| | 01:28 | Let's go over here to this next tab,
and I entered Custom Cards in Aperture in
| | 01:36 | Google and here are the search results,
and look at the top hit right here, which
| | 01:40 | is my flickr.com/digitalstory/set.
| | 01:45 | So Flickr treats this absolutely as a web page.
| | 01:49 | So if you create a set of
images and you add data to it,
| | 01:53 | title, and some text, then just know that
Google will spider that and it can show
| | 02:00 | up in search results.
| | 02:02 | And this to be really
makes sets even more exciting.
| | 02:06 | So let's create a set.
| | 02:07 | Let's go over to our lynda site here,
and I want to create a set with all those
| | 02:12 | work that we did around Safari West,
| | 02:14 | just put it in one nice little
place where you can refer to it.
| | 02:19 | So we go to Organize and
Create and we go to Your Sets.
| | 02:24 | Now, we don't have any sets created yet,
so they're not showing up here. But we
| | 02:29 | can create our first set, and the way that
you do that is you just drag stuff up here.
| | 02:34 | I want all these to be in a set.
| | 02:41 | Now the nice thing is when you
create a set that you can reorganize stuff,
| | 02:48 | because one Flickr adds images to a
photostream, it does it according to
| | 02:54 | timestamp, and you don't
have any control over that.
| | 02:58 | But in a set you have control.
| | 03:00 | So you have six items here, and you can also
choose which item is going to be your set icon.
| | 03:07 | So we will make this guy our set icon.
| | 03:11 | You can just drag him right over there,
and then you give it a name. And then I
| | 03:17 | recommend that you add a little bit of
information here because again this gives
| | 03:21 | Google something to work with if it
spiders your set. And I even go as far, if I
| | 03:27 | have an article or something,
| | 03:28 | blog article, I'll put the URL in here also.
| | 03:31 | And a lot of times another thing I will
do is that I will write an article just
| | 03:36 | put one image and then put a link to
the set of images on Flickr and let people
| | 03:40 | click over and see more stuff.
| | 03:41 | Now, I just click Save and it has saved my set.
| | 03:47 | I can always come back and edit it
anytime I want just by double-clicking on it.
| | 03:52 | But let's go back to our photostream
because I am pretty happy with it, and now
| | 03:57 | you see we have our first set here.
| | 03:58 | It hasn't moved anything
in our photostream at all.
| | 04:01 | It has just created a set off to the
side. And anytime that I want to go to that
| | 04:06 | set or a visitor wants to go to that set,
| | 04:08 | all I have to do is just click on it.
| | 04:10 | It is a beautiful thing.
| | 04:12 | It is a very powerful
organizational tool inside of Flickr.
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| Adding photos to a set| 00:00 | Now once you've created a set, as we
have with us Safari West, and you have more
| | 00:05 | photos come in that you
may want to add to the set,
| | 00:08 | that's easy enough to do.
| | 00:10 | You have a couple of different ways to do it.
| | 00:12 | One is, you notice that you have Edit
set right here, you just click on that, and
| | 00:16 | that's the fastest way to go.
| | 00:18 | It actually opens up the set in the
Organize tool, or you could do it the
| | 00:23 | old-fashioned way where you go to
Organize & Create, go to Your Sets, and click
| | 00:31 | right here to open this up. Either way.
| | 00:34 | So, you choose. I think it's easiest
to just go to that other Edit set link
| | 00:39 | that's right there on the page.
| | 00:41 | Now once you're in this interface
you'll notice that all the photos from
| | 00:45 | your photostream are down here and including
the new photo that we want to add to the set.
| | 00:50 | So all we have to do is just drag it up here,
and you can put it anywhere that you want.
| | 00:55 | Let's drag it that way. And if you
wanted it to be your thumbnail for the set,
| | 01:01 | you can drag it there.
| | 01:02 | I don't want to because of the way
that it sort of chops things off.
| | 01:07 | And so we're going to go back
with our ostrich friend right here.
| | 01:10 | And then when you're all done just click Save.
| | 01:13 | Now you can go back to your photostream.
| | 01:15 | And now you click here, and you'll notice
that the image has been added to your set.
| | 01:23 | So it's quite easy and you can take
them out of the set just as easily.
| | 01:27 | So again, sets are very
powerful and very easy to use.
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| Creating a collection| 00:00 | I'm going to talk about collections for
a moment, and collections are groups of
| | 00:05 | sets, so this allows you to organize your sets.
| | 00:09 | You can think of it as like a folder
that albums go into, and you'll notice that
| | 00:14 | I've changed the homepage on
The Digital Story here, the Flickr page,
| | 00:19 | so that I'm showing collections now
instead of sets, and I have two collections
| | 00:24 | right over here. And you can change
that easily, by the way, if--I'm just going
| | 00:28 | to go down to the bottom of the page
here. You choose layout of this page.
| | 00:35 | So now I can have Small Photos plus
collections, or I could have Small Photos
| | 00:41 | plus sets, so you can change that around.
Right now we're at collections because
| | 00:44 | I want to talk about that.
| | 00:47 | So we have collections here.
| | 00:48 | So let's take a look inside of a collection.
| | 00:51 | I'll take this Micro Four Thirds,
and you can see now that I have all these
| | 00:57 | sets of images in here. So there is that set
| | 01:01 | we've seen before, and we have
another set, and it just goes on and on.
| | 01:07 | So this allows me to create a
collection of sets in this case under a
| | 01:12 | theme Micro Four Thirds.
| | 01:14 | Now, if I want to organize a
collection, just go to Your Sets & Collections
| | 01:19 | here. My collections will be off to
the side and then my sets will be here.
| | 01:26 | We're in the organizing tool. And then all
of my images are down here at the bottom.
| | 01:31 | So if I want to change something in the
collection, I could open it up right here.
| | 01:35 | It shows that I have eight sets and
they're listed, and let's say that I found
| | 01:40 | another set that I want
to add to this collection.
| | 01:43 | I can just drag it right over, put it
wherever I want, and I can even move it
| | 01:48 | around once it's inside of here.
| | 01:49 | And then I'm all done I just close and back up.
| | 01:53 | Let's go back to my photostream, and now
when I open this collection, you'll see
| | 02:01 | that I have the new set that I added
in the position that I added it to.
| | 02:06 | So again, you need a Pro account to do this.
| | 02:09 | The free accounts have sets but not
collections. But if you find yourself
| | 02:14 | getting a lot of sets and you want to
start organizing them, then it might be
| | 02:19 | time to upgrade to the Pro account;
otherwise you're going to have a very long
| | 02:24 | list of sets on the right side of the page.
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| Organizing sets and collections| 00:00 | Well, I am going to talk just a moment
about organizing sets and collections, and
| | 00:05 | I am here on The Digital Story Flicker
site because this is Pro and because that
| | 00:10 | allows us to look at collections also.
| | 00:13 | So sets, here we are, and what you
see here is the way that they would be
| | 00:18 | organized on your photostream
page, that as if you're showing sets.
| | 00:24 | So if you decide that, for example, you
wanted to move a set up higher on the list
| | 00:29 | here in the organizational tool, all
you have to do is drag it and drop it.
| | 00:34 | Now of course, the way that you get to
this area right here--let's go back to
| | 00:38 | the Photostream, so you can see--
| | 00:40 | you just go to Organize &
Create > Sets & Collections.
| | 00:45 | That brings you right to where we started.
| | 00:49 | Now, organizing collections is also quite easy.
| | 00:53 | If you decide that you want a
collection to move to the top, now we're
| | 00:57 | putting Travel to the top.
| | 01:00 | Go back to our Photostream and you see
that that change is reflected right there.
| | 01:06 | Let's go back and go--no, no, no, I want
Olympus Four Thirds at the top, and there you go.
| | 01:15 | So very easy is mainly just getting to
this area here, the Sets & Collections
| | 01:20 | page, and then dragging and
dropping the things that you want.
| | 01:24 | I did mention in an earlier movie
about collections that you can move sets
| | 01:29 | around within a collection, too, and again,
| | 01:32 | it's a drag-and-drop affair.
| | 01:34 | So really the key to this is
just getting to the right place.
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| Applying changes to a batch of photos| 00:00 | A handy organizational feature is being
able to apply a change to a number of
| | 00:06 | photos at once, batch changing.
| | 00:09 | For example, as I look at my photo
stream here, I see that I have the All Rights
| | 00:14 | Reserved copyright on a number of images.
| | 00:17 | So I could change each of them
individually, but in that case, it would mean
| | 00:22 | that I had to open the image
and then scroll around here.
| | 00:28 | There it is down here. Change this and then
start all over again right with next image.
| | 00:33 | So I don't want to do that; I want to do
something a little bit more efficiently.
| | 00:38 | So instead, I'm going to go to Organize &
Create. Batch Organize is the first tab.
| | 00:44 | I am just going to on the first image,
hold down the Shift key, click on the
| | 00:49 | last image, drag them up here, then go
to Permissions, go to Change Licensing,
| | 00:57 | go to NonCommercial License right
there, Change License, and we're done.
| | 01:07 | Go back to my Photostream, and now that you
see the licensing has changed on all of those.
| | 01:14 | So its just a lot faster.
| | 01:15 | It's a lot easier, and there are a
number of things that you can do in batch.
| | 01:20 | You can edit photos; in other words, you
could Rotate a whole bunch of shots at once.
| | 01:25 | That's particularly handy when your
camera isn't rotating them for you and you
| | 01:28 | got like 30 shots that come
in sideways. Permissions,
| | 01:32 | as we looked at before, Dates and you
can do Time Shift just kind of cool. Tags,
| | 01:39 | Add to the set and even change the
geoprivacy settings. So, let's say that your
| | 01:46 | default is the Geo data can publish
with your photos, and then you discover
| | 01:52 | there's like 10 of them were you don't
want the heo data showing, so then you
| | 01:57 | can batch-change that setting.
| | 01:59 | So very handy and very easy to get to.
Again, from your photostream, just go to
| | 02:04 | Organize & Create, go to Batch Organize,
drag the images that you want to the
| | 02:12 | area, and then choose the
change that you want to make.
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| Creating a gallery| 00:00 | We've spent a fair amount of time
organizing our own images, but sometimes you
| | 00:05 | may want to organize pictures by other
people, especially when you're out there
| | 00:09 | in Flickrland and you
see something that you like.
| | 00:12 | There is a tool that we have here
called Galleries that allows us to pull
| | 00:17 | together up to 18 images that we
see and like into a collection.
| | 00:23 | So you get to be the art director here,
and you get a show other people's stuff
| | 00:28 | that you found that you
like and it works really well.
| | 00:31 | So for instance, I have a small gallery
started of Pets that I like, and it has
| | 00:37 | a couple photos in it and
you can open it up right here.
| | 00:41 | I get a couple shots by my friend Jim
Heid, and I'd like to add a couple more to it.
| | 00:47 | So let's do that. Go back to You.
| | 00:49 | So I'm going to hop over to Jim's site.
| | 00:53 | I found the shots that I like. So, you
go over to Actions, click on Actions, go
| | 00:59 | to Add to gallery, click on
Pets I like, and click Done.
| | 01:06 | Now let's keep looking around here.
| | 01:08 | I like the shot also right here, so I'm going
to add that's to the gallery also. Pets I Like.
| | 01:15 | It gets a little check mark. Click Done.
| | 01:19 | Now when we go back to our site here
and we click on galleries, we have Pets I
| | 01:25 | Like, and we have the images here that
we've collected when we've been out
| | 01:30 | nosing around on Flick, and
you can move them around a bit.
| | 01:34 | For example if I want this one here,
I can do that and I can save that, and
| | 01:42 | then we have this wonderful, beautiful
collection of pets that certainly make me
| | 01:50 | smile. And as I continue to go out into
the Flickr world and when I find shots I
| | 01:57 | can either start a new gallery--
| | 01:59 | Let's go back to this here.
| | 02:00 | Let me show you how that works.
| | 02:03 | So if I wanted to create doggy and
kitty, If I go to Add to Gallery here,
| | 02:10 | I could add it to Pets I Like, or I
could create a new gallery and you can just
| | 02:15 | create as many as you want.
Remember they can only hold 18 photos, and these are
| | 02:21 | images by other people that you admire
and that you wanted to collect on your
| | 02:26 | page and show to the world.
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| Viewing your archives| 00:00 | After you've been using Flickr for a
while, there will probably be shots that
| | 00:04 | you don't remember when you took them.
| | 00:05 | So we have this link called
Archives, and it is right here.
| | 00:10 | Let me click on that. And this is
like the blog archives that you see with
| | 00:16 | WordPress blogs or movable-type blogs
where you have the dates and the little
| | 00:22 | numbers next to the dates--so the
number of photos that are there--of all the
| | 00:26 | shots that you've logged into Flickr.
| | 00:28 | This is my Digital Story count and
you can see there's a few in here.
| | 00:33 | So let's look at the very first
picture that I've published in Flickr.
| | 00:37 | I'll go to November.
And appropriately for Northern California, a shot of
| | 00:44 | the Golden Gate Bridge.
| | 00:45 | You can see that on the Map. I even mapped it.
| | 00:50 | This is the Golden Gate Bridge,
but now they have a railing all along here.
| | 00:55 | So this is a shot before they put up
that railing. When I first lived up in
| | 00:59 | Northern California, you would
walk right alongside the cars here.
| | 01:04 | Anyway, so let's go back.
| | 01:06 | Let's play with this a little bit more.
| | 01:08 | I'll go back to my photostream.
| | 01:09 | Go to Archives and let's see here.
| | 01:14 | I'll go to--this is kind of fun if
nothing else, just to see what you've been up to.
| | 01:21 | Let's go to December here.
| | 01:24 | So in December of 2007, I took this shot.
| | 01:31 | Actually, I published it to Flickr.
| | 01:33 | This is from a trip to Universal
Studios. And they have this show and I knew
| | 01:38 | there was going to be a grand finale,
| | 01:40 | so I have my camera ready and sure
enough, out of nowhere, this plane up here
| | 01:44 | with all aflame and everything, and I
got the shot because I was ready to go.
| | 01:48 | I knew something was going to happen.
| | 01:53 | So I think you get the idea on archives here.
| | 01:55 | It's a calendar-based look at your
entire Flickr library, and it's just
| | 02:00 | another way to find stuff.
| | 02:01 | So if you go, you know, that trip that
we took in April of 2008? Just go over
| | 02:07 | here, click on it, and you can see those shots.
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9. Participating in the Flickr CommunityAdding a comment to a photo| 00:00 | I'm going to talk about
commenting on other people's photos.
| | 00:04 | I'm on the homepage here, my homepage
for Flickr Essential Training, and I have
| | 00:09 | a couple of contacts set up.
| | 00:11 | And I notice that this one shot by
Samara here is interesting to me.
| | 00:15 | So I click on it and I go,
| | 00:17 | oh my gosh, look at that.
| | 00:19 | That is one frosty leaf.
| | 00:21 | Samara is a contact, and I
want to give her a shout-out here.
| | 00:25 | So all I have to do is scroll down,
and the Comment box is below the photo, and
| | 00:30 | just go, "Oh my, what a chilly
morning that must have been."
| | 00:42 | So might not be one of my most
witty comments ever, but here we go.
| | 00:47 | So then all I have to do is either
post the comment or I can preview it if I
| | 00:52 | want, if I want to just
make sure everything is okay.
| | 00:56 | If I want to format it, look at this,
I can actually even do some HTML.
| | 01:01 | It gives you a little
guide to HTML right here.
| | 01:05 | Really, I'm just saying 'hello'
and acknowledging the photo.
| | 01:09 | So I am going to post the comment and
there we go. My little icon is there,
| | 01:14 | and I get to give her shout-out.
| | 01:16 | Now if I decide that I said
something really silly, I can delete it.
| | 01:21 | I have Delete right here.
| | 01:23 | It's not like email where you send
it off and then go, oh my gosh,
| | 01:27 | oh my gosh, and can't pull it back.
| | 01:28 | This you can get out of
and you can even edit it, too.
| | 01:31 | Just hit the Edit button, and it brings
you right back, and then you could add
| | 01:35 | something else if you wanted.
| | 01:36 | But I'm pretty happy with this. So there we go.
| | 01:40 | So next time Samara goes to her site
and takes a look at things, she'll see on
| | 01:46 | her photostream, she will see a comment,
a little one comment right there, and
| | 01:51 | she can click on it and she'll see my
shout-out, and that's part of the fun of
| | 01:56 | Flickr is the community aspect.
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| Viewing recent activity on your photos| 00:00 | One of the nice things about Flickr is
that you actually get feedback on your images.
| | 00:05 | That's a wonderful thing about
social networks and photography networks
| | 00:09 | and things like that.
| | 00:10 | Other people look at your stuff and
they comment, and then you just have raw
| | 00:14 | numbers also, and you can sort of figure out
the types of images of yours that people like.
| | 00:21 | So let's just take a
little tour of that right now.
| | 00:25 | So these two shots, I just put up, and
right here you can see I'm on my site The
| | 00:31 | Digital Story site and there has been 40
views. And then if someone comments, you
| | 00:36 | get the little comment thing here.
| | 00:37 | You can click on that, and you can see
what people are saying. And a lot of times
| | 00:44 | it's just a shout-out, 'nice work', or
they will ask a question in the extra
| | 00:50 | lighting. And lot of times if they
ask a question, I try to get back at him
| | 00:55 | giving them an answer, go back here.
| | 00:59 | Now one of the things that I do with
Flickr is that I will put a group of shots
| | 01:04 | up and see which one kind of rises to the top.
| | 01:09 | I did that with these Olympus cameras
here. And a lot of times I think I'm going
| | 01:15 | to know what the hero shots going to
be and almost every time I'm wrong.
| | 01:20 | So in this group of photos here, I
am just looking at these numbers right
| | 01:24 | here, great shot, and I'm going
overnight okay, 378, that's 562. 734, that's
| | 01:33 | looking like our winner. Oh!
| | 01:34 | Here is a close second right here.
| | 01:37 | Now I would have guessed that
this one would have been the winner.
| | 01:41 | It was sort of what I considered one
of the better shots, and if people were
| | 01:45 | writing articles or something about
this camera, this might be a shot that they
| | 01:50 | would like because it shows a lot of
camera, shows some of controls, and shows the
| | 01:54 | lens, and all that good sort of stuff.
| | 01:56 | But people were even more interested in
the two cameras side by side, the older
| | 02:03 | version the first generation, the EPO1
and then the new generation, and that was
| | 02:08 | probably used for articles where they're talking
about the differences between the two cameras.
| | 02:15 | So you never really know for sure,
but it's definitely fun to take a look at
| | 02:19 | the stats. And one of the ways to bump
up your stats, if you want to get more
| | 02:25 | numbers on your photos is to get your
photos out there. For instance, use the
| | 02:29 | blogging link that I talked about
where you place a photo in a blog. That way
| | 02:34 | when people click on it it brings
them back to your Flickr site and you'd
| | 02:38 | also get a view for that.
| | 02:40 | But at any rate, looking at the comments
and looking at the views gives you a very
| | 02:44 | good idea of what's going on with
your photos and which ones people like.
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| Marking a photo as a favorite| 00:00 | When you're out looking at other
people's photos on Flickr--which I hope you do a
| | 00:04 | lot because it can be quite inspiring--
| | 00:07 | if you see something that you
really like, that you want to hang on to,
| | 00:10 | like creative bookmark for it, you can do
that, and it's called selecting it as a favorite.
| | 00:16 | You'll notice right up here we
have our little favorite star.
| | 00:20 | If you see something that you want it
to be a favorite, I'll like to just click
| | 00:24 | on the star and it turns to
that beautiful Flickr pink.
| | 00:28 | And now that photo is a Favorite.
| | 00:32 | So if I go back to my photostream here,
you'll notice that Favorites is one of
| | 00:38 | the items that I have in the
nav bar, and I click on that.
| | 00:42 | And there's my photo that
I've marked as a favorite.
| | 00:45 | And since it's so easy to do,
let's do it again. Go here.
| | 00:51 | Here's that shot and you go, oh my gosh!
| | 00:53 | I just love that shot.
| | 00:54 | So you mark it as a favorite.
| | 00:56 | It's just something you can do while
you're out browsing around anyone's photos.
| | 01:02 | Now we'll go back to our Flickr
stream, and any time that you want to enjoy
| | 01:09 | your favorites just click on the Favorites
link right there and they'll all be lined up.
| | 01:14 | You can have these as many as
you want; there's no limit.
| | 01:17 | And then if you decide maybe you fall
out of love with the shot, maybe you don't
| | 01:21 | want it to be your favorite anymore,
then you can click the pink star again.
| | 01:26 | And alas, it's no longer a
favorite. Don't tell the person.
| | 01:31 | They might be sad they find
out that you've unfavorited them.
| | 01:36 | And now it's missing from our Favorites gallery.
| | 01:39 | So favorites, a terrific way to bookmark
photos that you really like and you want
| | 01:43 | to return to again and again.
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| Adding contacts| 00:00 | Well, here we are on the homepage again
of our Flickr Essential Training site,
| | 00:06 | and we have a couple of contacts,
but I'd like to add another one.
| | 00:10 | I'd actually like to add me, because
I want to be a contact on this page.
| | 00:15 | Let's just go through the steps here to
find other members, and then if you want
| | 00:20 | to add them as a contact, you can.
| | 00:22 | Go up to the Search box. Now remember
you wanted to be on the homepage when you
| | 00:27 | do this search because if you're on
your photostream, you are just really going
| | 00:31 | to searching within your photostream
| | 00:34 | and chances are you won't get
a lot of results that way.
| | 00:36 | So let's go back to Home right here,
and you want to search on the name of the
| | 00:42 | person. It works a lot better when you
search on the name. And hopefully they
| | 00:46 | have their name in their account,
Derrick Story. Look at that and just hit
| | 00:54 | Return, and we're going to go to
People, right, because we want to go to photos of
| | 01:00 | Derrick Story. We you want to go to People.
| | 01:04 | And here's Derrick, and he is
up the all sorts of stuff here.
| | 01:08 | The Digital Story, he has a Flickr
site, he has DexStory which was his
| | 01:14 | original Flickr site going way back,
and then Flickr Essential Training. Now, look at this.
| | 01:19 | You'll get little "Hi, you!"
| | 01:22 | Flickr knows I'm searching myself here.
| | 01:24 | Well, we'll just go to The Digital
Story. It shows up. Now remember when you do
| | 01:28 | this search, make sure you have All
Flickr members here as a condition, type the
| | 01:34 | name of the person, and then go to the
People filter, and that way you will get
| | 01:40 | the actual person; otherwise you're going
to get photos of Derrick Story, or at
| | 01:45 | least photos tagged as Derrick Story.
| | 01:48 | And if Derrick Story has any groups,
those will show up. But right now we're looking
| | 01:51 | for People, and you want
this one selected right here.
| | 01:55 | So then we just go here and you
probably recognize this page, right?
| | 02:00 | You've seen a lot of it lately.
| | 02:03 | And I want to add me as a contact, so I'm
just going to click right here, just as
| | 02:08 | a regular contact.
| | 02:10 | I, by the way, save the Mark as friend or Mark
as family for special occasions because
| | 02:16 | you can set up galleries that only
a friend or a family member can see.
| | 02:21 | And so I don't want to have a
whole bunch of people in that category.
| | 02:25 | I just want to have usually one or two
people at a time, so I can control the
| | 02:29 | viewing of that gallery.
| | 02:31 | So I almost always just go just
as a regular contact. There we go.
| | 02:36 | Now let's go back to our page. There we go.
| | 02:40 | And let's go to the Homepage, and now
we have Derrick's photos from the Digital
| | 02:47 | Story added to our contacts list.
| | 02:51 | And I'm now a contact of Flickr
Essential Training, which really it only
| | 02:56 | seems right, doesn't it?
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| Knowing when someone adds you as a contact| 00:00 | Well, when someone makes you one of
their contacts--for instance now you will be
| | 00:06 | gracing their homepage--how do you know?
| | 00:10 | Well, there's a couple of ways.
| | 00:12 | First, you have Flickr Mail, and I'm
going to be talking more about Flickr Mail
| | 00:16 | in an upcoming movie,
but we'll take you there right now.
| | 00:20 | Go up to Flickr Mail, and one of
the categories of mail is Contact
| | 00:26 | Notifications, and so Flickr HQ
actually send you a note when someone adds you
| | 00:32 | as a contact. And you go,
oh wow, that's really cool.
| | 00:35 | You can click on it.
| | 00:38 | And you get some information about
the person, and you can go over to their
| | 00:43 | page, and if you go, wow,
| | 00:45 | this is interesting, or I didn't
know that Tom was on Flickr, then you
| | 00:49 | can return the favor.
| | 00:51 | That's one way to go.
| | 00:53 | Now if you have it set up in your
Account Settings, you can also be notified in
| | 00:58 | your regular email, because you
might not be over at Flickr every day.
| | 01:03 | So here we go, and we get the same
note right here in our regular email.
| | 01:10 | We have the images turned off right now.
| | 01:12 | Let's show the images.
| | 01:14 | Now, this is in my regular email.
| | 01:16 | Again, you have the opportunity to
go over to Impronut's page and see
| | 01:20 | what's going on there.
| | 01:21 | Now, I just want to show you
where you turn this off and on.
| | 01:26 | You go to You, to Your Account, go to
Emails & Notifications, and you have this
| | 01:33 | right here, your Notification Email.
| | 01:35 | If you want to change this, see I have
everything set to Yes right now, which
| | 01:39 | means I want to know when someone makes
me a contact, but you can edit that and
| | 01:44 | change those Yeses to Noes.
| | 01:48 | Also on this page, your primary
contact email is listed in case you forget
| | 01:54 | which of your various emails you're
using for Flickr is right here on the
| | 01:58 | Emails & Notifications page.
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| Inviting non-Flickr members| 00:00 | Well, as you get rolling into
Flickr, you may have a friend or two who
| | 00:04 | you like to participate, but they
are not members yet, and they're
| | 00:07 | photographer friends.
| | 00:09 | That's easy enough to do.
| | 00:10 | Just go up to your Contacts up here,
and you can either invite people via the
| | 00:16 | pop-up menu or you can just
go to your Contact page itself.
| | 00:20 | That way you can kind of check and
see what the latest photos are by your
| | 00:24 | contacts, because this
updates as they add more photos.
| | 00:28 | You can go to the Invite
link here. It's quite simple.
| | 00:33 | You just add the email address and the
name of the person you'd like to invite.
| | 00:37 | You have up to three just on this page here.
| | 00:40 | However, if you go to Advanced,
you can invite more at once.
| | 00:45 | Use common sense there. Don't be a spammer.
| | 00:48 | You can also set them as a friend
or a family member at the stage.
| | 00:53 | Again, I mentioned this in an earlier movie.
I usually reserve these for special occasions.
| | 00:58 | I usually just invite as a contact.
And then the email will show up from your
| | 01:03 | Flickr email address, and they'll
give you this little thing here.
| | 01:08 | They would even write a little blurb for you.
| | 01:11 | However, I'm not so sure how I feel about this.
| | 01:15 | I might change that, because this is editable.
| | 01:17 | We can add to it, too, like that.
| | 01:23 | Once you have everything all set up for
one, two, or three people, then go ahead
| | 01:28 | and click Send, and the email that
shows up in their inbox will have a link and
| | 01:34 | they could come over to your
photostream and they can join Flickr.
| | 01:39 | There is a link that will take them to
the Sign-up page, and of course it's free.
| | 01:43 | There is no obligation.
| | 01:45 | If they want to just ignore it, they can
ignore it, and that will be the end of it.
| | 01:49 | But if you do want your photographer
friends to participate, this is a great way
| | 01:53 | to do it, and it's under
Contacts > Invite Your Friends.
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| Creating and using guest passes| 00:00 | Let's talk about Guest Passes for a moment.
| | 00:04 | Now Guest Passes allow you to share
images from either your photostream or from
| | 00:11 | a particular set with basically anyone.
| | 00:15 | Now the reason why they are different
is because, for example, the world can
| | 00:19 | see your public photos on Flickr.
| | 00:22 | This URL right here, you can
send that to anyone and they can see
| | 00:27 | everything that's public.
| | 00:28 | Where Guest Passes come in to play is
that if you have images marked as friends,
| | 00:35 | family, or private--only you--then you
can send a Guest Pass to someone, and then
| | 00:41 | they can see those shots too, even
though they're not marked as public.
| | 00:45 | So it sort of is a temporary release
on permissions for a specific person.
| | 00:52 | Now if you want to share your photo
stream and if your photostream has friends
| | 00:57 | and family shots in it that
wouldn't be viewable to the general public,
| | 01:01 | you just land here at your photostream,
and then you click on Share This, and
| | 01:07 | you enter the email address.
| | 01:09 | Now here's where the Guest Pass comes into play.
| | 01:12 | Right here it says, "Some of the
items in the photostream aren't public.
| | 01:16 | If you like, you can include a Guest
Pass to share those items," and then you
| | 01:19 | can mark it what level:
| | 01:21 | the Friends or the Family.
And then you can add a message.
| | 01:26 | By the way, there's this
little question mark right here
| | 01:28 | that has pretty good information in terms
of explaining this Guest Pass situation.
| | 01:34 | Now when you share the photostream, if
you have private photos in here, those
| | 01:38 | won't show up on a Guest Pass.
| | 01:40 | If you want to go that route, what you
have to do--I am just going to go ahead
| | 01:43 | and close this--is actually go to a
set, or create a set, and if there are
| | 01:50 | private photos in there, then when you
go to share this, I don't have a private
| | 01:55 | photos here, but then you would also be
able to do Friends, Family, or Private.
| | 02:00 | So if you want to do private photos,
you have to have them in the set and
| | 02:03 | then you share the set.
| | 02:05 | If you're mainly concerned about sharing
friends and family photos, then you can
| | 02:10 | share the photostream.
| | 02:12 | So the choice is yours.
| | 02:13 | Now once you send out a Guest Pass or
two or more, you can keep track of them.
| | 02:19 | Under Contacts right here, you will
see that you have the Guest Pass History,
| | 02:25 | and you can see all of the
Guest Passes that you have sent out.
| | 02:29 | You can also manage them
right here. There you go.
| | 02:33 | Guest Passes.
| | 02:34 | The main thing to keep in mind is that
everyone can see your public photos just
| | 02:40 | by going to this URL.
| | 02:42 | If you have friends and family photos
in your photostream, you can use a Guest
| | 02:46 | Pass for those. And if you want to
share private photos, put them in a set and
| | 02:51 | then create a Guest Pass for that set.
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| Using your contact list| 00:00 | Let's take a look at contacts
because you can manage your contact list--
| | 00:05 | both people who call you a contact
and the folks that you call contact.
| | 00:10 | Now remember, one of the nice things
about the folks that you call a contact is
| | 00:15 | you would stay abreast of what
they're doing because their photos will flow
| | 00:19 | through your homepage.
| | 00:21 | So, let's take a closer look at this.
| | 00:23 | We are going to go over to the Contacts link
here, and I am going to go down to Contact List.
| | 00:31 | So we have Contact List.
| | 00:33 | These are the folks that I call
contacts, and there is some basic
| | 00:37 | information about them,
| | 00:38 | how many public photos, their last upload.
| | 00:42 | And if I decide that I don't want
them to be contacts anymore, for whatever
| | 00:47 | reason--let's say that I click on their
site and I say, well I don't want that
| | 00:54 | person as a contact--then I can either
make that edit right here by un-checking
| | 00:59 | this box, or I can go back and do it right here;
| | 01:05 | it works the same way.
| | 01:06 | So those are the folks that I call
contacts, and then these are the folks
| | 01:12 | who call me contact.
| | 01:14 | Now this is a brand-new site.
| | 01:15 | Over a period of days, months, and
years, this list will grow because people
| | 01:21 | will see your stuff, and some of them will
like it and they'll want you to be their contact.
| | 01:26 | Now, the one thing that I point out
when I'm looking at the Contact List of
| | 01:31 | people who call me a contact, and if I'm
considering adding them, like right here, I
| | 01:36 | always want to make sure
that they have a real name too.
| | 01:39 | I usually don't add contacts that only
have a screen name. And a lot of times if
| | 01:46 | I don't know the person I can go over
to their site right here and take a look
| | 01:50 | at what they're up to.
| | 01:51 | Okay, that looks kind of fun.
| | 01:54 | So then I can add them as a contact here,
as I mentioned before, or just come back
| | 02:00 | and add them right here.
| | 02:02 | So we will add Impronut as a
contact and there we go.
| | 02:08 | Now, that should be added to
my contact list. Look at this.
| | 02:12 | It is growing as we speak.
| | 02:14 | So just a quick look at Contacts,
but it is a fun part of Flickr because as you
| | 02:20 | run across photographers whose images
you like, you can add them as contacts,
| | 02:25 | and then it is kind of fun and
flattering to have people add you as a contact,
| | 02:29 | and you can reciprocate if
you like their stuff also.
| | 02:32 | It is great part of Flickr.
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| Managing FlickrMail| 00:00 | A tool that you have to get notified
about stuff and to also send notes to your
| | 00:05 | contacts is Flickr Mail.
| | 00:07 | Yes, it has its own built-in mail service.
| | 00:12 | And here's my little envelope up
here, and let's go to Flickr Mail.
| | 00:16 | Now it is divided into three areas.
| | 00:19 | So you have a basic inbox.
| | 00:22 | So if someone sends me a message, "Hey Derrick!
| | 00:25 | You want to go on a Photo Walk next week?
| | 00:27 | I can see that you're going to be in
Washington DC," then that note from that
| | 00:32 | Flickr contact would show
up here in my regular inbox.
| | 00:36 | Now, notifications have their own tab.
| | 00:40 | So, when someone adds you as a contact,
then that will show up here in Notifications.
| | 00:45 | And of course, anytime you want to read
mail, it's just like any other mail program.
| | 00:49 | You get that little notification,
and then you can delete it or you can return
| | 00:54 | back to your message list.
| | 00:55 | Now once you have read it,
then it is no longer in bold.
| | 00:59 | Then of course, Your Sent Mail.
| | 01:01 | Now I haven't sent any mail yet from here.
| | 01:03 | So let's do that right now.
| | 01:04 | We will send something to my
good friend. I'll just start typing.
| | 01:10 | So Derrick Story, The Digital
Story is a contact. Flickr knows that.
| | 01:15 | I've first established him as a contact.
| | 01:17 | "I am Excited by this
Training," and it is true, I am.
| | 01:26 | "I can't wait for this to publish."
| | 01:32 | Then you can preview your mail if you
want and you go okay, that good. And if you
| | 01:39 | don't like it of course you can
reedit it and then send it. Off it goes.
| | 01:44 | Now over in The Digital Story's Inbox,
this mail will show up, and now I can go
| | 01:51 | to your Sent Mail, and there it is.
| | 01:54 | There is the mail that I have sent.
| | 01:56 | It's very basic, but actually a very
handy little tool for Flickr members to
| | 02:02 | communicate with one another, and for
you to get contact notifications.
| | 02:07 | And by the way, in your Permissions here under
You, in Your Account > Email and Notifications,
| | 02:16 | you can set it up so that this mail
that is sent via Flickr also goes to
| | 02:22 | your regular email.
| | 02:23 | In this case, it is the one that you
set up as your primary. So, all of these
| | 02:28 | notes will be copied there also.
| | 02:30 | Just in case you don't go to Flickr
every day, you can still keep up on
| | 02:34 | what's going on.
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10. Participating in GroupsWhat are groups?| 00:00 | Personally, I think it's a lot of fun
to hang out with other photographers who
| | 00:05 | have the same interest as me,
| | 00:06 | and groups on Flickr
allows you to do that virtually.
| | 00:11 | So what are groups?
| | 00:12 | Well, groups are a collection of
photographers, and pictures, and discussion
| | 00:18 | centered around a topic.
| | 00:20 | And as they say right here,
believe us when we say there is probably a
| | 00:24 | group for everyone,
| | 00:25 | and I think that's true.
| | 00:27 | I mean, you can use just about any
search term and come up with a group for that.
| | 00:32 | Now you can join another group,
or you can create your own group.
| | 00:38 | Either way it usually involves you
sharing some of your photos, participating
| | 00:43 | in discussion, and looking at the photos
that other members of that group contribute.
| | 00:49 | And the groups will show
up also on your homepage.
| | 00:51 | I'll click over there right now.
| | 00:55 | At the moment, we have Photostream and
we have Contacts, but as we add groups,
| | 01:01 | Groups will show up here too.
| | 01:03 | So as people add images to the group
that you're participating in, those
| | 01:09 | pictures will flow through your homepage also.
| | 01:11 | In short, groups are just a lot of fun.
| | 01:15 | And so what we're going to do now is
learn a little but about how to find a
| | 01:19 | group and how to participate
and how to set up your own group.
| | 01:23 | Stay tuned.
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| Joining and contributing to a group| 00:00 | So we're here on my Groups homepage,
right here, and there isn't any group
| | 00:07 | activity going on because we
haven't joined the group yet,
| | 00:09 | so let's take care of that right now.
| | 00:12 | All I have to do to start shopping for the
right group for me is enter a search term here.
| | 00:19 | I'm going to enter 'dog lover'.
| | 00:22 | Let's see what we get.
| | 00:28 | So as I mentioned before, there
is going to be no shortage of
| | 00:34 | options. Flickrs Dog Lovers. Look at this one.
| | 00:38 | It looks pretty good.
| | 00:40 | Show me your doggy photos!!
| | 00:41 | Any breed of dog is welcome here!
| | 00:44 | You can post up to three photos a day.
| | 00:46 | So each group will have its own rules
and kind of own battle cry, or focus.
| | 00:54 | Home for Dog Lovers.
| | 00:55 | Now this is interesting:
| | 00:58 | Cats and Dogs Lovers.
| | 01:00 | I wonder how they get along,
and you can just keep going and going.
| | 01:05 | I like this one right here,
| | 01:07 | Flickrs Dog Lovers.
| | 01:10 | So I'm just going to click on that page
and take a look at what's going on here.
| | 01:15 | This looks like a place I
wouldn't mind hanging out at all,
| | 01:19 | so I'm going to join, and it is very easy.
| | 01:22 | Only members can add to the pool, and
that's normally the way that it is.
| | 01:27 | So yes, let's join this group.
| | 01:29 | Yes, I really do want to join this group.
| | 01:34 | I'm a full-fledged member now.
| | 01:36 | I can add doggy photos too.
| | 01:39 | So let's go back to my photostream here,
and I want to show you how this works.
| | 01:45 | I'm going to upload a photo
and add it to the Doggy group.
| | 01:51 | So we have this cute doggy shot right
here, contributed by Samara who works here.
| | 01:59 | Now there is a couple of
different ways to do it.
| | 02:01 | The way that I usually do it is that I just
go to the Actions menu and go Add to a group.
| | 02:09 | And what happens is my Dog Lovers
group that I've already joined is right
| | 02:14 | here, and I'm done.
| | 02:18 | That's all there is to it.
| | 02:20 | Now, my photo has been added to my group.
| | 02:23 | Let's go to homepage. And remember
when I said that once you joined a group
| | 02:33 | that shows up on your homepage?
| | 02:35 | So now I have joined a group and
look at, my little guy is right here.
| | 02:41 | If we go over there, he is
right there with everyone else.
| | 02:46 | It's really that simple.
| | 02:48 | The other thing I want to point out
about groups as a lot of times there's
| | 02:51 | discussion going on, and you'll see the post.
| | 02:57 | Members of the group can chat with
each other and share their views.
| | 03:01 | Usually, if you scroll down a bit
more, you'll get the rules of the road.
| | 03:10 | So, this is very easy, and it's a lot of fun.
| | 03:13 | You might want to search out a
couple of groups that align with your
| | 03:16 | interests and start sharing some of your photos.
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| Starting and administering your own group| 00:01 | We are now back at our group's homepage,
a page that you get to when you just
| | 00:05 | click on Groups straight up, and you
see that has changed. That's because we've
| | 00:09 | joined a group and so now that's listed here.
| | 00:13 | And I want to talk about creating
your own group because if you have a
| | 00:16 | passion for something and you want to
administer a group around it, it's very
| | 00:21 | easy to set up on Flickr.
| | 00:23 | There's a link right here, and really
the only thing that you need to do up-
| | 00:28 | front before you get going on this,
read this information here and decide which
| | 00:34 | group you want to create.
| | 00:36 | So you can have totally public groups that
anyone can join like we did with the Dog Lovers.
| | 00:42 | You can have a public group that's
invite only, or you can have a private group.
| | 00:47 | And the big thing about private groups,
and they state it right upfront here, is
| | 00:52 | that if you start it out as a private
group then it has to stay a private group.
| | 00:55 | It can't be made public later.
| | 00:58 | And a lot of times private groups
are family, events, or families sharing
| | 01:03 | photos. Sometimes they will want to
start a private group where they can share
| | 01:08 | any type of picture and not worry
you know about the public watching it,
| | 01:13 | seeing those images.
| | 01:15 | I don't mean anything bad.
| | 01:16 | I just mean intimate moments in a
family, you know, mother bathing her child
| | 01:21 | and things like that.
| | 01:22 | So a lot of times private groups
are centered around family activities,
| | 01:27 | especially when the families are spread out.
| | 01:29 | But for most part, most people are
going to be creating public groups because
| | 01:34 | that's where anyone can join, and that's
where you get pictures coming from all
| | 01:38 | over the place and you get interesting
discussions and all that sort of stuff,
| | 01:42 | and they're very easy to get going.
| | 01:44 | You just click on the Create button,
and then you just follow a few basic steps.
| | 01:51 | So you have to start out by
giving your group a name, so we'll call
| | 01:56 | this Lynda.com Fans.
| | 02:00 | Now I'm not going to actually go all
the way through and create this group,
| | 02:03 | but I do want to get you to the next screen
and to do that we have to give this a name.
| | 02:07 | I am just going to call this
People who like Lynda. That includes me.
| | 02:17 | This group is safe for everyone?
| | 02:19 | Yes. We're not even going to
wander over to this territory right now.
| | 02:23 | This will be a nice G-rated,
fun group, and we will click Next.
| | 02:29 | Now nonmembers, people who visit this
page, do you want them to be able to see
| | 02:34 | group discussion and the group photo pool?
| | 02:37 | On public groups I recommend yes,
because I think that's part of the allure.
| | 02:41 | If you want to attract people to your
group, show them what the group is about.
| | 02:46 | So I am going to say nine times out
of 10 you are going to have both of
| | 02:50 | these boxes checked.
| | 02:54 | Then we are just going over a few of
the details here. Administrators will be
| | 03:00 | called admin and moderators will be
called moderator, and then you're all done.
| | 03:07 | Click All Done and you will
actually have created a group.
| | 03:11 | Now there are other parts. One is that
usually you want to create some rules
| | 03:16 | for the groups, and once you have
established administrative status, which you would
| | 03:21 | be since you created it, you can write
up some rules and those will be posted
| | 03:25 | on the group page. And actually I think
if we go to our Dog Lovers group right
| | 03:32 | here and we scroll down, you see you
get a few of the rules, and that's set up
| | 03:41 | by the administrator.
| | 03:45 | And then just start posting shots
yourself, and when people comment on the
| | 03:51 | discussion group, answer them,
and just be a member. You know,
| | 03:55 | I have always said running group is
like maintaining a garden. Just do a
| | 03:58 | little bit every day, stay on top of it, and
you will have lots of fruits and vegetables.
| | 04:04 | Okay, so there we go.
| | 04:06 | There's a look at creating
your own group here on Flickr.
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11. ExploringExploring the Explore page| 00:00 | In this movie and actually for the next
few movies, we are going to explore some
| | 00:05 | of the other great
photography that you can find on Flickr.
| | 00:10 | This is such a big part of this site
that it actually even has its own place up
| | 00:16 | here in the nave bar, Explore, and I am
going to click on this dropdown menu.
| | 00:21 | Now you see that there are lots of
things here and we're going to explore many
| | 00:26 | of those things, but I think right now
I just want to give you an overview of
| | 00:30 | the Explore page itself,
so I will click on the link.
| | 00:35 | If you want inspiration, if you want to
go take a picture of something and you
| | 00:40 | want to get inspired before
you go out, come to this page.
| | 00:44 | There is so much good photography on
Flickr and the editors of Flickr do a great
| | 00:52 | job of finding that and presenting it to
you and on this page is one of the best
| | 00:59 | places they do that.
| | 01:01 | Now this is the overview of Explore page
and so every time you refresh, you will
| | 01:07 | get a different shot right here and
then this is something that was picked by the
| | 01:13 | editors of Flickr, and then you can
explore by month, going back in time.
| | 01:21 | You have these links to explore
interesting photos in the last seven days.
| | 01:26 | We are going to actually take
a look at some of the stuff.
| | 01:30 | Those are some good stuff
here in upcoming movies.
| | 01:34 | And then you scroll down the page and you
know they show you something from a year ago.
| | 01:40 | They show you sets that they found
that they think are interesting and we've
| | 01:45 | talked about sets and I think sets
are one of the important tools in Flickr
| | 01:51 | because not only are they presented to
you, here for instance is a good set, but
| | 01:56 | it's something that's also searched by Google.
| | 02:00 | And then Groups and we've talked about
groups some and if you want to explore
| | 02:06 | interesting groups, you
know it's like the old thing.
| | 02:09 | If you don't know exist,
you don't know to look for it.
| | 02:12 | So that's what Explore helps you with.
| | 02:14 | It presents things to you that
you may not have thought of such as
| | 02:19 | Graffiti Archaeology.
| | 02:21 | I would've never thought the search for that.
| | 02:25 | You can also explore by location, so
you could actually enter a location and
| | 02:32 | go searching for that and then in the
spirit of the Explore page they present
| | 02:37 | places that they think are worth
looking at also, and then you have the tag
| | 02:43 | cloud itself and the way that tag clouds work,
the bigger the type, the more things are there.
| | 02:52 | So for instance, a lot of images are
tagged with wedding and not as many images
| | 02:58 | are tagged with white.
| | 03:01 | So you can look at a tag cloud and see
what people are doing and right now you
| | 03:07 | can see a lot of people are tagging
things with California and Canon and Japan
| | 03:12 | and party and travel and not as much
with flower and festival and England.
| | 03:19 | So all you have to do is just
click on one of these right here.
| | 03:23 | You want to try snow and it will
actually take you to a collection of images
| | 03:28 | that are related to that tag.
| | 03:31 | These images all have been tagged with snow.
| | 03:34 | So that's an overview of the Explore
page and you can see already that you could
| | 03:39 | spend hours of working off this page
and looking at all the great photography
| | 03:46 | that's on the site.
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| Looking at videos and analog photography| 00:00 | I'm going back to the Explore pop-up
menu and I'm going to show you some analog
| | 00:05 | photography and I'm going to
show you some video here on Flickr.
| | 00:11 | Two areas that you may not
initially think about that is something that
| | 00:16 | you'd find on Flickr, but there is a
lot of video and actually here I am
| | 00:20 | talking about. It's true!
| | 00:21 | There is video on Flickr.
| | 00:23 | You can upload your own videos as
we've talked about, but I like the Explore
| | 00:27 | page because for a lot of us, who
are primarily still photographers,
| | 00:33 | we're still learning video, still
learning how to use this new function that
| | 00:36 | we find on our camera.
| | 00:38 | So coming to Explore / Video is a great
place to do that and you can play these
| | 00:43 | short movies and just go oh my gosh,
I never thought of doing that with my DSLR
| | 00:49 | or my compact camera.
| | 00:50 | And then there's also analog
photography and of course, these are film
| | 00:56 | pictures that have been digitized
and I like what they say here.
| | 01:01 | Film photography is a beautiful thing.
| | 01:02 | Yes, it is, because it has a different
quality and then if you get a good scan
| | 01:07 | on it, you can capture that quality
and present it on a site like this.
| | 01:12 | So if you're a fan of film photography
then definitely come here and take a look
| | 01:18 | and another nice thing that they've
done, not only do you get to look at
| | 01:22 | pictures and so forth,
| | 01:23 | they present groups to you that are
focused on film photography and you can
| | 01:29 | join this group and share your passion with
other people and look at what they're doing.
| | 01:34 | So Film Photography is also here.
| | 01:36 | It's under the Analog link, under Explore.
| | 01:41 | Two things that you might not have
thought of that are on Flickr that are
| | 01:45 | alive and thriving.
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| Investigating the Flickr Clock| 00:00 | Well, you may be wondering
what you're looking at right here.
| | 00:03 | This is the Flickr clock and it's under
Explore, right here, and it takes a minute to load.
| | 00:10 | So a lot of times you can load it and then
maybe do something else just for a minute or two.
| | 00:16 | These strips here indicate the videos and
you notice that we are on the timeline here.
| | 00:22 | So these videos have been uploaded to
Flickr and actually they're part of
| | 00:28 | the Flickr Clock group.
| | 00:30 | It's a group on Flickr dedicated to
this and these videos are pulled from there
| | 00:36 | according to this timeline.
| | 00:38 | It's really interesting.
| | 00:39 | So you just pick somewhere here, just
pick something, just pick this right here,
| | 00:45 | and you click on it and then the video
will start to play and we're in the 11 a.m. place.
| | 00:55 | So it plays away and you sort of look at
this and you can either watch the whole
| | 01:01 | video-- they're all short--
or go on to the next one on the timeline.
| | 01:09 | This is a time lapse. This is fun.
| | 01:14 | I love stuff like this, just motoring along,
okay. And then I go, okay, that's great.
| | 01:22 | I want to go to the next one.
| | 01:23 | Now it looks like a backyard and
you go "meh, not for me," go on to the
| | 01:34 | next one here, and a little low quality for me.
| | 01:38 | Go to the next one.
| | 01:42 | There we go, feeding birds, gulls
to be exact, and it goes on and on.
| | 01:51 | So yet another way to look at content
on Flickr this time on the timeline,
| | 01:59 | this time videos, pulled from the Flickr
Clock group and you can join that group and
| | 02:04 | contribute your videos also.
| | 02:08 | You'll never know what
you're going to find here.
| | 02:09 | I think I'll just close with that.
You just never know what you're going to find here.
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| Charting the Flickr Map| 00:00 | Well, right here we have the world in
front of us and all of these pink Flickr
| | 00:06 | dots on our world represent photos.
| | 00:10 | We are in the Map view of Explorer.
| | 00:14 | So just go right down here to World
Map and you get this view right here.
| | 00:19 | So this is kind of a neat place to be.
| | 00:21 | If I click on one of these,
I get a photo taken from that area.
| | 00:27 | Now it's going off the mapping function
that Flickr users have used to tag their
| | 00:32 | photos and then the Flickr database can
find the stuff and the Flickr editors can
| | 00:37 | feature it and we get to enjoy it.
| | 00:40 | Now another thing you get to do is on
this little Timeline down here, with all
| | 00:45 | these thumbnails, you click on one of
them and you get to see a bigger view of
| | 00:49 | the shot and you get to see where it was
taken. A little Flickr burst there and of
| | 00:54 | course you can go over to this
person's site if you want to.
| | 00:59 | So I think that's sort of the idea.
You find a cool shot in an area you're
| | 01:03 | interested in and then you explore more
on that person's site. Let's go up here.
| | 01:08 | Let's go to North.
| | 01:09 | See what's going on. Wow!
| | 01:11 | Look at this.
| | 01:13 | This is really nice. So obviously
lightning going on in the Great North there.
| | 01:18 | So right now we're looking at the
interesting shots, which I always enjoy in Flickr.
| | 01:24 | I think they do a great job
of showing us fabulous imagery.
| | 01:27 | If I wanted to see the most recent
stuff, I could click on that link and
| | 01:31 | that would change the filter to show
us another line of thumbnails that were
| | 01:35 | taken more recently.
| | 01:36 | Now let's go up here to
our navigation and views.
| | 01:39 | We're in the Map view right now.
| | 01:42 | We can also do Satellite.
| | 01:45 | And you can do Hybrid.
| | 01:46 | I like the Map view myself.
| | 01:49 | You can navigate the map by using the
arrow keys and this comes in more handy
| | 01:55 | when you actually zoom in a bit.
| | 01:56 | So I am going to say we zoom in a hair,
and then I can navigate one direction or
| | 02:02 | another, but I can also just click and drag.
| | 02:07 | So I can just navigate by clicking and dragging.
| | 02:11 | That's a lot easier.
| | 02:12 | And then I might see something that
I like when I get a little closer.
| | 02:17 | So let's go just a hair closer and
let's say I want to see what's going on
| | 02:22 | the Czech Republic. Click there and we
get a very interesting shot there also.
| | 02:29 | And again if I wanted to explore that
person's page, I just click on this and
| | 02:33 | I go to their page.
| | 02:35 | Now if I want to exit out of this and
go back to the World view, that's what
| | 02:40 | this icon here is for. it takes me back
to the Worldview and if I want to do a
| | 02:44 | specific search, I can enter a place
here, or I can search the map here where I
| | 02:51 | can enter both what I am searching for
and where I would like to find it and if
| | 02:57 | there are photos that are tagged,
meeting these two conditions, then I'll be
| | 03:03 | shown it here on the map.
| | 03:04 | So let's just back out to the World view here.
| | 03:07 | A lot of times, by the way, when I click on
this button, you'll see some tags show up.
| | 03:12 | Let's see if we get on
this time. Oh, look at that.
| | 03:14 | We do get tags.
| | 03:17 | Remember the bigger the tag,
the more photos you will see.
| | 03:21 | I'm not surprised about this with
Mubarak with all the activities happening in
| | 03:27 | Egypt right now. snowfest.
| | 03:29 | So again let's click on one of
these and now we get a whole new line of
| | 03:35 | photos related to this tag and if
we want to see where one was taken,
| | 03:42 | we click on it, we find out that it was
taken in Michigan, and then if we want to
| | 03:49 | explore this area of Michigan more, I can click
on this and we'll actually go to a Place page.
| | 03:57 | I'm going to talk more about
exploring places in the next movie.
| | 04:01 | So let's hop on over there together.
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| Discovering via the Places project| 00:00 | So what are we looking at here?
| | 00:02 | Well, we're looking at shots from Santa
Rosa, California, which is where I reside.
| | 00:09 | I've lived in Santa Rosa since 1989.
| | 00:13 | So I went to the Places project that's
under Explore right here, and I entered
| | 00:22 | Santa Rosa, California, and I came
up with these shots from Santa Rosa.
| | 00:26 | I love this shot right here,
no pun intended. It's very cool.
| | 00:30 | And actually get my own page here of
stuff, Flickr groups around Santa Rosa, some
| | 00:38 | Santa Rosa photographers or at least
photographers who took shots where they mapped
| | 00:42 | them in Santa Rosa, and even get the
local time right now in Santa Rosa. My gosh!
| | 00:50 | Okay, so let's take this from the top.
| | 00:52 | We go to Explore, we go to Places,
and you get a little explanation here
| | 00:59 | about this project.
| | 01:00 | Again, it's an interesting way to find photos.
| | 01:03 | So we're here in Ventura, California, right now.
| | 01:09 | So we just enter Ventura,
California. Now when I hit Return,
| | 01:13 | it will probably want to confirm.
| | 01:14 | We have got matches for Ventura, California.
| | 01:17 | One is Ventura and the other one is Palo Alto.
| | 01:21 | Okay, well, I'll pick
Ventura right here. Oh wow!
| | 01:27 | This is neat.
| | 01:29 | That was very spontaneous right there
and that happens to me when I'm playing
| | 01:33 | around in Explore, because you don't
know what's going to come up on the screen.
| | 01:37 | You are just sort of waving and then
suddenly, you go wow, that's really cool.
| | 01:41 | By the way, remember I talked
about Favorites in an earlier movie?
| | 01:46 | Now you can mark things that
you find as favorites here.
| | 01:49 | So here we are in Ventura and you get
the little place on the map just to make
| | 01:53 | sure where you think you are, and you
get a featured photo, and then you get
| | 01:58 | these interesting photos here, and you
can also click on the Recent filter if
| | 02:04 | you want to look at that differently.
| | 02:06 | You get to see what the local time is.
| | 02:07 | You get to see some of the popular
tags from this area and then Flickr
| | 02:12 | groups around Ventura.
| | 02:15 | Just for those of you that don't live in
California, Mendocino County is not near Ventura.
| | 02:21 | All right?
| | 02:23 | However, the Ventura County
group, I feel pretty confident, is.
| | 02:28 | And then some featured photographers.
| | 02:30 | So just enter something, some place
that you want to see shots from and find
| | 02:35 | out a little bit more about.
| | 02:37 | It's a great way to learn about an area.
| | 02:39 | How about maybe an area that you're
going to go to on vacation or for business
| | 02:44 | or maybe you have a friend
that just moved somewhere?
| | 02:47 | Enter that in the Find a place
and see what comes up on the page.
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| Perusing the Commons and the Creative Commons| 00:00 | We're going to explore some of the
great archives in the world. It's called
| | 00:05 | Commons and this is a project that
Flickr has done in partnership with The
| | 00:10 | Library of Congress.
| | 00:11 | Now that's under the Explore pop-up
menu and you get to it to right down here,
| | 00:15 | The Commons, and this is where we are right now.
| | 00:17 | They have a nice little welcome page and
they explain a little bit about what's going on.
| | 00:23 | And then here are just some of the
institutions that are participating.
| | 00:27 | I'll take you over to one of my
favorites, the Eastman Collection.
| | 00:33 | And all these photos are just
here waiting for you to look at them.
| | 00:37 | They're just fabulous.
| | 00:41 | This is this some of the great
heritage of the US and the world.
| | 00:45 | Right here on this page and
there are many of these archives.
| | 00:51 | This is just one of the archives that
we have access to via The Commons page.
| | 00:57 | Then you scroll down a bit more and
you have Sampler here and the sampler
| | 01:02 | updates, but just to give you feel of
some of the things that you can find.
| | 01:07 | Again, you don't know what to
search for if you don't know that it exists.
| | 01:14 | And they're really great
about helping you with that.
| | 01:16 | Then they give you a little bit more
information about The Commons itself, which
| | 01:23 | I think is just a wonderful
project and you even get FAQ.
| | 01:28 | So that's the Commons.
| | 01:31 | Now let's also do Creative Commons
and of course that's the license that
| | 01:37 | is available to us.
| | 01:39 | We talked about setting up these
different licenses in Flickr and a lot of
| | 01:44 | people have chose to offer their
photographs under these different licenses.
| | 01:51 | And you get a little kind of a
thumbnail explanation here, a key, so that you
| | 01:55 | understand what you're looking at.
| | 01:58 | And the cool thing about this is that
if you're a publisher, if you have a blog
| | 02:02 | or something, and you're looking for a
particular photo or a type of photo that
| | 02:08 | you'd love to run with the
story that you're working on,
| | 02:11 | you can come here to the Creative
Commons area and just make sure that you
| | 02:15 | choose the right license.
Usually it will be just Attribution.
| | 02:19 | In other words, you have to give
credit, and the easiest way to do that of course
| | 02:23 | is to just use the link so that the
photo shows up on your blog, but when
| | 02:29 | someone clicks on the photo, it takes
them back to the original Flickr page of
| | 02:35 | the person that took it.
| | 02:36 | That's a great way to do it.
| | 02:38 | And then NonCommercial, which means
you're not going to make a poster or
| | 02:41 | something like that.
| | 02:42 | So you're not going to make a
billboard where you get paid lots of money.
| | 02:47 | So this is a Creative Commons area
and very useful when you want to look at
| | 02:52 | other people's work and then
impossibly use other people's work, especially in
| | 02:56 | a noncommercial way.
| | 02:58 | And both of these, The Commons and
Creative Commons, you can find under
| | 03:02 | Explore, right down here.
| | 03:04 | Just a lot of great stuff!
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| Reading the Flickr Blog and code.flickr| 00:00 | Here I'm on the Flickr blog and
this is a very interesting page.
| | 00:05 | You get to it under Explore and I'll
take you back to that in a second, but I
| | 00:10 | want to show you this.
| | 00:12 | So they do a combination of just showing
you interesting photos that the writers
| | 00:17 | of the blog have come across, and then
they also will mix in... Look at this.
| | 00:25 | This is talking about the big storm in
Australia and what a mess it made and
| | 00:33 | then our previous post.
| | 00:34 | Again, you'll see where they're so
photo oriented here, which is just a joy for
| | 00:42 | those of us that are photographers.
| | 00:44 | This is a nice juxtaposition
you can say. It's kind of cool.
| | 00:49 | And then they also mix in
news about Flickr itself.
| | 00:52 | So if you want to keep up on the changes,
you know, they are constantly working on the site.
| | 00:57 | They are always trying to make it better.
| | 01:00 | Just in the years that I've been
using Flickr, I have seen so many positive
| | 01:04 | changes from their efforts and when
they do make a change, they'll post it on the
| | 01:09 | blog and a lot of times when you do a
Google search and you're trying to find
| | 01:14 | out something about Flickr,
the search will pull up a blog post.
| | 01:17 | So it's an interesting thing to follow
and the way that you get to it is you go
| | 01:22 | up to Explore and then click on the pop-
up menu and then come all the way down
| | 01:27 | to FlickrBlog and it actually
takes you over to another domain.
| | 01:32 | So the FlickrBlog is not on flickr.com.
| | 01:34 | It is its own thing, but if you hit the Back
arrow, you can get back to your Flickr page.
| | 01:39 | And then while we are here, for those
of you that are developers, they have
| | 01:44 | code.flickr and here's where you come
to do geeky stuff such as learn about the
| | 01:51 | joy of pop-up windows, so I'm going
to bookmark that for later tonight.
| | 01:56 | But if you're interested in developing
APIs for Flickr, this is definitely the
| | 02:01 | place to hang out and it is also under
the Explore menu and you'll see that it
| | 02:06 | also takes you to a different URL.
| | 02:08 | So I'm just going to hit the Back arrow.
| | 02:10 | So two interesting sites that are
related to Flickr, both the FlickrBlog and the
| | 02:15 | code.flickr for developers.
| | 02:18 | Something that you keep in your back pocket.
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| Exploring the Camera Finder| 00:00 | One of my favorite categories on
the Explore page is the Camera Finder.
| | 00:06 | I am kind of an equipment nut, so
you can imagine how I would enjoy this.
| | 00:11 | So you have the most popular brands here,
| | 00:12 | Canon, Nikon, Sony, and you can click
on any of these brands and you get this
| | 00:19 | little overview of the most popular
cameras used on Flickr within this category.
| | 00:27 | You can see that the 5D Mark II, that is doing
quite well, and the top cameras in the community.
| | 00:34 | Then you get this breakdown of
all the cameras used in Flickr.
| | 00:39 | It's really wild, and it's not just
like the major brands. Let's go back.
| | 00:44 | If you go to the pop-up menu here, you have
all sorts of stuff, including camera phones.
| | 00:50 | So if you're interested in seeing
what's going on in the BlackBerry world,
| | 00:55 | choose BlackBerry and you can see
that the BlackBerry Bold, for example,
| | 01:01 | has been hot on Flickr.
| | 01:04 | I mean this is something that you can
tell people at lunch when you get together
| | 01:08 | with your friends, hey!
| | 01:09 | Did you know that BlackBerry Bold is
the most popular BlackBerry on Flickr?
| | 01:15 | And they'll get you and go, oh!
| | 01:17 | You've been on the Camera
Finder page, haven't you?
| | 01:19 | So you can click on all this.
| | 01:22 | Then if you want to learn more about
that particular device, you can click on
| | 01:26 | that and it'll give you a little
overview here about it and then tell you like
| | 01:30 | it's a 2 megapixel thing.
| | 01:32 | And you can find photos or video
taken with this device, so you can search.
| | 01:37 | And then give you interesting photos
also down here and you can also see
| | 01:42 | the usage for the year.
| | 01:44 | So you can get to off the Explore page
or if you want just go up here to the
| | 01:48 | pop-up menu and it's at the
very bottom, Camera Finder.
| | 01:52 | That will take you back to
the Camera Finder homepage.
| | 01:57 | It's a hoot and again this is one of
those areas you could spend a lot of time.
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| Using Google to search inside Flickr| 00:00 | Well you may be wondering what I'm doing here
on a Google page since this is a Flickr title.
| | 00:06 | But actually you can use Google to
search within Flickr and it's a very
| | 00:12 | powerful way to do so.
| | 00:13 | Let's just take it from the top here.
| | 00:16 | We'll just go to Google, and then
we're going to search for Images, and then
| | 00:22 | you go to Advanced Image
Search. Go right there.
| | 00:26 | We're going to search for dog.
| | 00:31 | I want photo content.
| | 00:32 | I don't care about what size they are.
| | 00:35 | I don't care about dimensions or aspect ratio.
| | 00:38 | I only want JPEGs though.
| | 00:42 | Then here's the key.
| | 00:44 | This Return images from site or
domain and we're going to enter flickr.com.
| | 00:51 | We're not going to filter by license, but we
could if we wanted to, and then you search.
| | 00:58 | You get a pretty nice page here on
Google and the thing that you'll notice is
| | 01:03 | that all of these photos are from flickr.com.
| | 01:06 | You see that right down there in green.
| | 01:09 | flickr.com, everything here will be from Flickr.
| | 01:14 | So we're actually using the powerful
Google search engine to search within
| | 01:20 | Flickr and see what they come up with,
and it's actually quite good. Oh!
| | 01:27 | That's just adorable.
| | 01:28 | I love stuff like that.
| | 01:32 | So anyway, all we had to do then just
to revisit this is that we went to our
| | 01:38 | Advanced Image Search from Google,
and just entered the various conditions that
| | 01:44 | we wanted, make sure that we're
searching within flickr.com, and yet you have
| | 01:51 | another way to find exciting
imagery uploaded by Flickr photographers.
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12. Using Flickr with Phones and Other Mobile DevicesExploring Flickr from a mobile device| 00:00 | Working with Flickr isn't
limited to your desktop computer.
| | 00:04 | Many mobile devices interact well
with our online photo sharing service.
| | 00:09 | I am going to give you
just a brief overview of this.
| | 00:12 | I am going to start with an iPhone.
| | 00:14 | An iPhone is a great device
for interacting with Flickr.
| | 00:18 | You can upload images from your
iPhone and you can view other people's work
| | 00:24 | right here, all in the palm of your hand.
| | 00:27 | So let me show you a couple of
information pages here on Flickr so that you can
| | 00:30 | export just a little bit more.
| | 00:32 | They have a Mobile Tools page and it is
flickr.com/tools/mobile and it will give
| | 00:39 | you a nice overview and they
include your unique email address.
| | 00:44 | Now this is my unique email address.
| | 00:46 | You will have your own, and if you use
your mobile phone or another device and
| | 00:52 | you send an attached photo to this
address, it will show up on your Flickr site.
| | 00:58 | They have some tips for you around this.
| | 01:00 | You can use the subject line of the email
for the title and the body for the description.
| | 01:06 | Watch out for your signature.
| | 01:07 | If you have one of those wacky signatures,
that will show up in the description too.
| | 01:12 | So you might want to delete that.
| | 01:16 | Yahoo! also has a nice page that
describes Flickr for different devices.
| | 01:21 | So there is Flickr for the Blackberry
and you get to see some of the things that
| | 01:26 | you can do there, some nice
features, and Flickr for the iPhone.
| | 01:31 | And if you go to the App Store even,
there is the official Flickr application.
| | 01:37 | You can download it for
free and it has lots of power.
| | 01:40 | It has been around for a
while now so it has evolved.
| | 01:43 | It does this little slideshow in the beginning.
| | 01:46 | Images from you and your contacts stream
through and you can look at the timeline.
| | 01:52 | Here's what the photo stream looks like
on an iPhone and then if you click on any
| | 01:58 | of the images, you get a larger
version, and your contacts. Very nice!
| | 02:04 | And keep in mind that even though we
are talking about phones as mobile devices
| | 02:08 | right now, iPads and Tablets also
work great with Flickr. They're bigger.
| | 02:14 | The applications look fabulous on them.
| | 02:16 | It is easier to type and of course
you get to view images at a larger size.
| | 02:21 | So tablets, computing, and Flickr,
boy that's a beautiful combination.
| | 02:27 | So just know that you don't have
to sit at your computer in order to
| | 02:30 | enjoy images on Flickr.
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| Uploading from a camera phone using email| 00:00 | Well, from my mobile phone, in this
case from my iPhone, I can take a picture
| | 00:05 | with my iPhone and then upload it to
my Flickr account and there are lots of
| | 00:09 | great uses for this.
| | 00:10 | Let's say that while I'm on the road
traveling for business that I want my
| | 00:14 | family to see where I'm staying.
| | 00:16 | So I get out of the car when I arrive.
| | 00:18 | I take a picture of the hotel and now
I'm going to upload that picture directly
| | 00:23 | from my iPhone to Flickr
so folks can have an idea.
| | 00:27 | They can visualize what I'm talking to, oh!
| | 00:29 | He's staying at that lovely place.
| | 00:31 | I'm going to have the geo-data turned on
which you can do in Privacy & Permissions.
| | 00:39 | You can have that geo-data
defaults for new uploads, location data.
| | 00:44 | We are going to have that turned on so
then it will also show up on my map.
| | 00:49 | So does it sound like the kind of fun
that you want to have? So here we go.
| | 00:52 | I have taken the picture.
| | 00:53 | Now I am going to go to my photos and I
am going to pull up the shot and here it
| | 00:58 | is, a lovely shot of the hotel.
| | 01:01 | I'm going to go in the lower left-hand
corner, click on that button, and that
| | 01:06 | allows me to email the photos.
| | 01:08 | So I am going to click on Email Photo.
| | 01:10 | In the To line, I'm going to start
typing the Flickr address here and for the
| | 01:16 | Subject line, I am going to put "My
hotel" and you see it has a picture attached.
| | 01:22 | You can see I have the
signature information down there.
| | 01:25 | I am going to erase that, because
otherwise anything that's in the body will show
| | 01:32 | up in the description and
I don't necessarily want that.
| | 01:36 | But what I do want is to have just a little
sentence here and now I just hit the Send button.
| | 01:44 | Now I get a choice of the different sizes.
| | 01:48 | I am going to go with Medium
because it's a nice sized picture.
| | 01:51 | It will give me a good idea, but it's
only 161 kB, so it won't take a long
| | 01:57 | time to send over the cellular network,
and now my iPhone goes to work, sending
| | 02:02 | the picture to Flickr.
| | 02:05 | The picture has been sent.
| | 02:07 | Let's go to the Flickr
photostream and see what we see.
| | 02:11 | Click on You and I'll just refresh.
| | 02:16 | There is my photo right
here and you notice, look!
| | 02:20 | We have the little Map word right there
that tells us that it has place on the
| | 02:24 | map because the iPhone
has the ability to geo-tag.
| | 02:27 | So let's click on the image. So there we go.
| | 02:31 | Nice big picture even though that's
medium sized and it's on the map here.
| | 02:36 | Look at this and they can see
exactly where I am, right there.
| | 02:42 | Now, I am going to go back to the
Photostream for a second. This is on Flickr.
| | 02:46 | But let's say that you don't want
everyone to know at what hotel you're staying.
| | 02:50 | We have it as anyone can see this photo.
| | 02:52 | I can change the permission to Only me,
but that wouldn't do any good, or what I can do
| | 02:58 | is make my family, set them up as
contacts at the family level, and then I can
| | 03:05 | check my family as the
only people that can see this.
| | 03:08 | So, only people that are at my family
level would be able to see the shot.
| | 03:12 | So if you're concerned about everyone
being able to see the shot, just set
| | 03:16 | up that permission, have your family
members be rated as family on your Flickr account.
| | 03:22 | This box will come alive.
| | 03:24 | You can check that box and then you can
control who can see the photo. And we're set.
| | 03:30 | Now if you don't want the location data,
just remember all you have to do is
| | 03:35 | change that permission. Just go to
You > Your Account > Privacy & Permissions
| | 03:42 | and change this right here to No and
the geo-data will not be read by Flickr.
| | 03:49 | It's a very handy tool and
actually it's a lot of fun.
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| Uploading from a Flickr app| 00:00 | Another fun way to send pictures to your
Flickr account from an iPhone is to use
| | 00:06 | the actual Flickr mobile app. It's terrific.
| | 00:09 | It's like mini Flickr for your iPhone.
| | 00:11 | You can look at the pictures.
| | 00:12 | You can send pictures.
| | 00:13 | Right now, we are going to
send another shot from the hotel.
| | 00:16 | I want to give a second look.
| | 00:18 | I am in the Flickr account.
| | 00:20 | Now you have to log in first.
| | 00:22 | So you have to connect this
application with your actual Flickr account,
| | 00:26 | and that takes a minute, and once
you've logged in, then you're ready to
| | 00:31 | start uploading photos.
| | 00:32 | So I am going to tap on the little
camera icon in the upper right-hand corner,
| | 00:40 | and I'm going to choose Upload from
Library and I am going to pick a different
| | 00:44 | view of the hotel, and you notice
when I tap on it there is a check mark.
| | 00:50 | I can tap on more than one photo if I
want to send more than one photo, but
| | 00:53 | we are just going to send this one. Click Next.
| | 00:57 | Now you'll see that we have
easier-to-use controls here.
| | 01:01 | So I am going to type the Title,
and for Description, "I like this angle."
| | 01:10 | Nice thing about this, you don't have
to worry about removing your signature.
| | 01:15 | If I want, I could add it to
a set, but I am not going to.
| | 01:19 | If I wanted, I could add tags.
| | 01:22 | Share Location, yes, because I want to
show up on the map, and Privacy Level,
| | 01:29 | I could do Public, Friends, Family,
Friends and Family, or Private.
| | 01:32 | I am going to do Public,
but as I said in the earlier movie.
| | 01:35 | If you don't want everyone to see,
just your family, you could set it at that
| | 01:39 | level, and then I'm going to click on
the green Upload button. It goes to work.
| | 01:47 | You can see it sending. I like that.
| | 01:49 | So, now let's go back to the computer.
| | 01:51 | Here we are back in Flickr.
| | 01:54 | I am just going to refresh my photostream.
| | 01:59 | There is my second shot.
| | 02:02 | You notice once again, we
have the Map label here.
| | 02:06 | Medium seems to be plenty,
| | 02:07 | nice big view, and we can see where
it is on the map because the iPhone
| | 02:14 | automatically geo-tags it and
then go back to the photostream.
| | 02:20 | So if you're going to use your iPhone
to upload a lot of images to Flickr, if
| | 02:25 | it's something you are going to do on a
regular basis, the Flickr app is free and
| | 02:30 | it's lovely and it works absolutely
great, and you have a little bit more
| | 02:34 | control over uploading your images.
| | 02:37 | You can do some of the same things
with the email, but you have to add
| | 02:41 | little tags and stuff.
| | 02:42 | Here you just have to tap on little
buttons, and it is much easier and much faster.
| | 02:48 | It's really a joy to use.
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| Flickr apps for iPhone and Android| 00:00 | So if you enjoy doing stuff with your
mobile device, for instance if you tried
| | 00:05 | out the Flickr app that I
demonstrated in our previous movie, there's more.
| | 00:10 | There is a lot more waiting for you.
| | 00:13 | And the place to find it is you go to
Explore and go down here to The App
| | 00:17 | Garden, which is where we are right now.
| | 00:20 | And then you can search the
applications via iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and
| | 00:26 | look what we come up with.
| | 00:27 | Here we'll do iPhone first.
| | 00:31 | All of this cool stuff just waiting for you.
| | 00:36 | All loads up on your iPhone, but as
they say, don't wait. There's more.
| | 00:41 | Android, lots of stuff here for
the Android army. Great stuff.
| | 00:49 | Lots of Flickr apps.
| | 00:51 | So you can explore these,
play with them, upload them.
| | 00:55 | Upload the ones you like.
| | 00:56 | If you don't like them, take them off.
| | 00:58 | And we even have a few for BlackBerry.
| | 01:02 | Can't leave BlackBerry out. There you go.
| | 01:05 | So as you can see if you embrace this
mobile lifestyle and you fall in love with
| | 01:10 | Flickr, which I hope you will after
doing this training, then we have lots more
| | 01:17 | for you to play with on your iPhone,
Android, Smartphone, and BlackBerry.
| | 01:22 | Lots of good apps here.
| | 01:23 | Explore and have fun.
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13. Tips and Advanced TechniquesSingle-key keyboard shortcuts| 00:00 | But once you start to really get
comfortable in Flickr, you may want to try some
| | 00:05 | keyboard shortcuts, so
that you can move even faster.
| | 00:10 | Now I have a handful of favorite
single key shortcut that I like to use.
| | 00:15 | They are very easy.
| | 00:16 | So we only have all like a half a
dozen of them, but they are really useful.
| | 00:21 | So you're just here on a picture
page and you want to enter a tag.
| | 00:26 | You could mouse around or
you could just hit the T key.
| | 00:30 | It will take you straight to Tags,
and you see we're right there in the Tag
| | 00:34 | dialog box, or if you decide, you know
what, I want to comment on a photo,
| | 00:41 | any photo, yours or someone
else's, you hit the C key.
| | 00:45 | C as in comment, and that takes
you right in the Comments box.
| | 00:51 | All right, pretty good so far.
| | 00:54 | Now you'll like this next one. New in the
latest version of Flickr is the Lightbox.
| | 01:00 | And I like the Lightbox a lot, and you
can get to it by hitting the L key and
| | 01:07 | that takes you into the Lightbox.
| | 01:10 | And then you can use the arrow keys to navigate.
| | 01:14 | And I just hit the Right Arrow key to
go to the right and then the Left Arrow
| | 01:20 | key to go to the left.
| | 01:23 | And you can also use the K key to go to
the right and the J key to go to the left.
| | 01:35 | I use the arrow keys most of the time.
And then if you hit the L key again,
| | 01:40 | you come out of the Lightbox.
| | 01:42 | So let's go back to the photo that we
were viewing, so I'm going to hit the
| | 01:46 | Right Arrow key that
brings me to where we started.
| | 01:52 | Hit the L. It gives me the Lightbox.
| | 01:56 | Hit the L again, and we're back out of there.
| | 02:00 | Now if I wanted to add this photo
to a set, this is another good one.
| | 02:06 | Hit the S key and all of your sets come
up and you can just choose which one you
| | 02:13 | want to use and add it to that set.
| | 02:16 | That's a pretty handy key.
| | 02:18 | So that's something that you might
spend a minute looking around for, and then
| | 02:24 | down here you have the little filmstrip.
| | 02:26 | Now, if you hit either the Right or
Left Bracket key, it changes its focus and
| | 02:34 | now we can see that image in the
Natural Light Portrait Photo Assignment group,
| | 02:41 | which is where it also resides.
| | 02:43 | And I hit the Bracket key again,
and it shows that image in my Photostream.
| | 02:48 | So if this image lives in other places,
like in other groups, by hitting either
| | 02:53 | the Right or Left Bracket key,
allows you to change that.
| | 02:57 | So a handful of very useful single key
keyboard shortcuts, and they will help
| | 03:03 | you work even faster inside of Flickr.
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| Setting up Flickr email notifications| 00:00 | Even though we have email within
Flickr you can set up Flickr to notify your
| | 00:07 | regular email account when there's
activity and it's real easy to set up.
| | 00:11 | I just want to show you this.
| | 00:13 | So where we are right now?
| | 00:15 | We're under You, and Your
Account, in Email & Notifications.
| | 00:22 | And this line right here, if we click edit,
then basically we can set the parameters.
| | 00:29 | If we would like to receive emails to
our regular email account, concerning
| | 00:33 | invitations, when someone makes us
as a contact, and when people send us
| | 00:39 | personal messages in Flickr
using the regular Flickr mail.
| | 00:43 | So just set the parameters in the way
that you want, and then you can save your
| | 00:47 | changes if you do make changes,
and you come back to the account page.
| | 00:52 | And then when something happens on
Flickr, suddenly you have a new contact,
| | 00:58 | someone makes you contact, then you
will get the mail within your Flickr mail,
| | 01:03 | the Contact Notification here, but it
will also show up in your regular email box.
| | 01:10 | It's just a convenience in case
you're not on Flickr everyday.
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| Licensing your photos through Getty Images| 00:00 | Flickr has formed a partnership with
Getty Images and essentially what that
| | 00:06 | means to you is that if you want you
can make your images available for request
| | 00:13 | by Getty editor for possible licensing
through Getty Images, which means you
| | 00:19 | could receive some money for your shots.
| | 00:22 | Now, the way that works is you'll notice
that there is a little badge right here,
| | 00:26 | Available for Request to License.
| | 00:28 | So I've turned that on in my
Preferences and essentially by doing so,
| | 00:34 | Getty editors know that if they saw an image
that they liked by me, then they could
| | 00:40 | approach me about adding
it to the Getty Library.
| | 00:43 | Now where you turn that off and on is in
your Preferences, your Account Settings.
| | 00:49 | You can do it directly here by clicking on
the Edit button and you have three options.
| | 00:54 | Allow Getty Images editors to
invite my photos and display a "Request to
| | 00:59 | License" link on my photos.
| | 01:01 | Not the best written sentence in the
world, but we get the idea. Or we can
| | 01:06 | allow them to do that to
invite my photos, but no link.
| | 01:11 | There'll be no badge there, or
you don't want to participate at all.
| | 01:16 | Now before you make your decision, I
mean if you're curious about this at all,
| | 01:20 | there is information published
that will help you make your decision.
| | 01:25 | So you just click on that and
you can read up on all of this.
| | 01:29 | It's very, very helpful.
| | 01:33 | So if you're contemplating this,
read the information and then make the
| | 01:38 | choice that you want.
| | 01:39 | I'm going to change my setting here to
allow them to invite my photos, but no
| | 01:45 | link, no badge, and then we'll go back
to this page and you can see that that
| | 01:51 | badge is no longer there.
| | 01:53 | So that's the deal with Getty Images.
| | 01:55 | It's worth investigating if you're
thinking about offering your stuff up
| | 01:59 | as stock photography.
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| Printing your Flickr images| 00:00 | I am going to talk about printing for
a second, both prints that you can make
| | 00:04 | and then also allowing other people on
Flickr to make prints from your photos
| | 00:09 | and we'll cover each of these areas.
| | 00:12 | So let's first talk about
you printing your own stuff.
| | 00:15 | Now if you have a shot that's on Flickr
and you decide that you want to create a
| | 00:20 | print of it, just pull up
that shot, as we've done here.
| | 00:23 | Go to the Actions menu and then go down
to Order prints and more, and basically
| | 00:29 | it loads this little interface for
you and you decide which you want to do.
| | 00:33 | You want to make three prints
that are 4 x 6, it gives you the cost.
| | 00:37 | This doesn't include shipping, by the
way, but you can see in the US anyway
| | 00:42 | it's a quite affordable, it doesn't
cost a whole lot, and then there are other
| | 00:47 | things that you can make via Snapfish.
| | 00:49 | By the way, Snapfish is the
printing partner for Flickr.
| | 00:52 | They're the folks that handle all the stuff.
| | 00:55 | Now what if you decide really though
you want to print a bunch of stuff?
| | 00:59 | It's not really convenient to click on
each photo and place an order and there is
| | 01:06 | an easier way to do that.
| | 01:08 | So we go to Organize & Create, and then
you click on the Print & Create tab and
| | 01:16 | then essentially all you have to do is
just drag the images that you want into
| | 01:23 | the work area there.
| | 01:24 | I am going to drag one more, like this.
| | 01:30 | So you have a group of shots, just like that,
and then you can decide what you want do.
| | 01:34 | You want to make prints?
| | 01:38 | So you can make 4x6 prints here and
now you notice that it's $.36 because it
| | 01:45 | knows that you've got four prints here.
| | 01:47 | Let me cancel that.
| | 01:49 | But you can also do other fun stuff.
| | 01:51 | You can do Cards, Canvas, Photo Books,
Collages, Calendars, all that stuff's here.
| | 02:00 | So Print & Create is probably a better
place if you're not doing a one-off, but
| | 02:06 | if you're actually thinking about a
project because you can add items as you
| | 02:12 | want and then place a batch order.
| | 02:16 | Now what about other people printing your stuff?
| | 02:18 | Well, you know that is something to
consider. You have a control for that.
| | 02:23 | We are going to go down here to Your
Account and we're going to go to Privacy &
| | 02:30 | Permissions and then here we have the
printing area and we're going to click Edit.
| | 02:38 | So by default you should have
Only You can make prints from your stuff.
| | 02:45 | However, if you want to change that,
you can allow You and your family or You
| | 02:51 | and your friends, Family and friends,
Any of your contacts or Any Flickr member.
| | 02:57 | Now even if you have the most lenient
control here, Any Flickr member, that's
| | 03:02 | only referring to prints. People
can't make photo books and other bigger
| | 03:07 | items from your stuff.
| | 03:09 | However, if you do open this up to
Any Flickr member, then people can order
| | 03:15 | prints from your photos.
| | 03:18 | So that's where you
control that. That's right here.
| | 03:20 | As I said, the default is Only You
and you would have to change that.
| | 03:27 | So, making prints is very convenient.
| | 03:30 | Snapfish does a great job.
| | 03:31 | You have quite a few options here and
then even if you want to use Flickr to do
| | 03:35 | bigger projects, such as make books,
they can certainly accommodate you.
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| Exploring Flickr add-ons| 00:01 | Well, here we're in the Flickr App Garden.
| | 00:03 | This is a great place.
| | 00:04 | Now the way that you get to it is under
Explore and you'll see it right down here.
| | 00:11 | And these are little add-ons, many of
them written by people who use Flickr
| | 00:16 | and wanted to solve their own
problem and then they solved it and now
| | 00:20 | they're sharing it.
| | 00:22 | So what Flickr does is they highlight
certain apps and for instance right now
| | 00:27 | they're highlighting Picnik, which is
the image editor that we used in some
| | 00:33 | earlier movies to change the
exposure and color and so forth, and it's
| | 00:37 | fabulous, absolutely great.
| | 00:39 | But as you go through here, you start to see
some of these other little apps and they're kind of fun.
| | 00:46 | You know if one catches your eye, like
Flickr Badge Maker, you just click on it
| | 00:52 | and you learn about it.
| | 00:54 | They tell you about it.
| | 00:58 | If you like it, you can visit the web
site and download it and start using it.
| | 01:04 | And then as you go through here,
it's not just this first page.
| | 01:09 | You can click More, please!
| | 01:10 | And you'll get more apps and
there is a bunch of apps in here.
| | 01:15 | They created a tag cloud and of course,
the way tag clouds work is that it makes
| | 01:20 | the bigger letters, means
that these are more popular apps.
| | 01:24 | But you can check out Geo Apps and Groups
Apps, all that kind of stuff, all right here.
| | 01:31 | And then Apps By You, so if you've
written an app, you have an area where you
| | 01:35 | can keep it. Apps that you're using.
| | 01:37 | You can mark apps as your favorites
just like you can photos, and you can get
| | 01:41 | the information to start
creating your own apps too.
| | 01:44 | And then they even highlight some of
the developers that they've noticed.
| | 01:49 | So just a wonderful place.
| | 01:50 | It's so in the spirit of Flickr where
it's open and people are participating
| | 01:56 | and creating and sharing, and then you
can go there and download some stuff and
| | 02:01 | maybe find just the right app for you
to solve one of the workflow issues that
| | 02:07 | you'd like to overcome.
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| Using an Eye-Fi card when traveling| 00:00 | You're headed out the door
and you want to travel light;
| | 00:03 | you just want to take your iPhone or
your mobile device and your suitcase and
| | 00:08 | your camera and you don't want to
lug all your other electronics.
| | 00:11 | You just want to go have fun.
| | 00:13 | Can you still share photos?
| | 00:15 | Can you still put photos up online
while you're gone with just those devices?
| | 00:19 | And the answer is yes.
| | 00:21 | There's a couple of ways.
| | 00:22 | Obviously, your mobile device can
connect to Flickr, but your camera can connect
| | 00:28 | directly to Flickr too, using something
called an Eye-Fi card, and let me just
| | 00:34 | click out of this screen for a second.
| | 00:36 | Now Eye-Fi card is basically a memory
card that has a WiFi transmitter in it
| | 00:42 | and it can connect to public hotspots,
which means then you could take a bunch
| | 00:49 | of pictures, go to Starbucks, and
upload the shots that you want to Flickr
| | 00:53 | directly from your camera.
| | 00:55 | Now you have to set this up ahead of time.
| | 00:58 | This is the one thing you have to know.
| | 00:59 | You put your Eye-Fi card in your computer.
| | 01:02 | You launch the software.
| | 01:03 | This is the Eye-Fi Center here.
| | 01:05 | You set up all the parameters and then
you can leave your computer behind and
| | 01:09 | just put your Eye-Fi card in your camera.
| | 01:12 | So one of the things that you are
going to set up is your Flickr connection,
| | 01:16 | so the Eye-Fi card knows where to go,
and you're also going to set up public
| | 01:21 | hotspots so that when you go to Starbucks or
McDonald's or wherever you go to public hotspots.
| | 01:27 | You can connect there. And then here's
the thing that makes us all work is then
| | 01:33 | you get to choose which images go up to Flickr.
| | 01:37 | You select Selective Transfer.
| | 01:40 | What that means is then when you're
sitting there in Starbucks, having your
| | 01:46 | latte, connected to the network, you
go through your pictures on your camera
| | 01:51 | and the images that you protect, those are
the images that can be uploaded to Flickr.
| | 01:57 | So you use the protect key on your camera.
All cameras have this and the reason
| | 02:02 | why there's a protect key in the
first place is when you do the Erase All
| | 02:06 | function on your camera, those images
that are protected will not be erased.
| | 02:11 | So it's really Erase All except for
the images that have been protected.
| | 02:16 | So now you can take off on your trip
with just your camera with an Eye-Fi card
| | 02:22 | in it and your mobile phone and your
suitcase and your loud print shirt and have
| | 02:27 | a great time and yet still share
photos with friends and family back home via
| | 02:33 | Flickr, via the card talking to
Flickr directly from your camera.
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| Seeing your site as the world sees it| 00:00 | When you spend a lot of time working on
Flickr you get used to seeing certain things.
| | 00:05 | You get used to seeing the stats for
your photos, the comments, the option to
| | 00:10 | delete, the editing of
permissions, all that good stuff.
| | 00:14 | However, if you want to see your site
the way the world sees it, who aren't
| | 00:20 | Flickr members and you send them
that link, here's how you do it.
| | 00:23 | First of all, the link to your
photostream is right up here.
| | 00:27 | If you ever want to double-check that,
just go to Your Account and it will also
| | 00:34 | be listed right here,
Your Flickr web addresses.
| | 00:38 | But in all honesty, just go to You.
| | 00:40 | I am going to copy this.
| | 00:42 | Now I am going to sign out.
| | 00:43 | Now, I am just going to paste in that
link. And I am not signed in to Flickr.
| | 00:49 | I am just Joe, anyone right now,
and this is what the world sees.
| | 00:55 | So there isn't a lot of those goodies.
| | 00:57 | They see just some of the basic
information and if they click on a shot,
| | 01:03 | they're not going to be able to comment
because they're not logged into Flickr.
| | 01:08 | But they can still see what's going on
and they can still click through the shots.
| | 01:16 | So if you're ever curious about what
Aunt Jane is going to see when you send her
| | 01:22 | your Flickr link, all you have to do
really is log out and put the URL for your
| | 01:27 | photostream in there, and you can see
exactly what Aunt Jane is going to see.
| | 01:31 | Just a nice way to stay in
touch with what's going on.
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ConclusionNext steps| 00:00 | We've certainly covered a lot of
ground in Flickr. So what now?
| | 00:05 | What's next?
| | 00:05 | Well a couple of things
I'd like to leave you with.
| | 00:08 | One is I really want you to explore the
world of Flickr, and it can be exploring
| | 00:15 | groups and finding other photographers
who have similar interests to yours, and
| | 00:20 | joining those groups, and sharing
photos, and looking at those photos.
| | 00:24 | Or it could be exploring Flickr even on a
grander scale where you use the Explore page.
| | 00:30 | And you look at video, and analogue
images, and the world map, and just really
| | 00:37 | find these great shots
that inspire and educate you.
| | 00:42 | But really the most important thing
is to upload your own work to Flickr.
| | 00:47 | Do it at a level that
you're most comfortable with.
| | 00:50 | But get those photos off your desktop
computer and get them out into the world
| | 00:55 | where other people can enjoy
them and give you feedback.
| | 00:58 | And at the end of the day I think that's
the part about Flickr that excites me the most.
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