You can check your feedback via the ‘Recent Activity’ link in the drop down menu, which shows all the comments and Favourite marks you’ve received. Such is the speed at which flickr works that you can often find that people have already left comments about your first photo while you’re still uploading your second and third. The ultimate challenge is to get enough comments and favourites for your photo to make it into the ‘interestingness’ pages. One of the most fun things about flickr is reading the comments people have made about your photos, and it’s hard not to get a thrill when you find that someone has marked one as a favourite. If you see a picture you like, you can click on the star in the corner and add it to your favourites page, where all such marked pictures appear as thumbnails which you can click on to view at any time. Once you’ve signed up you can start joining groups and commenting on pictures. Upgrading to the Pro Account for $24.95 a year (about £13.00), gives you unlimited bandwidth, storage and sets, plus full-res archiving and the facility to replace photos already posted. Views are limited to the 200 most recently uploaded, and not at archive quality. With a free membership you’re limited to 100MB of bandwidth a month and are allowed three photosets. As you upload pictures from now on, you’ll be able to click on the Organise tab and drag and drop them into the sets you’ve created, or the groups that you have joined. You can add captions if you want to, and rename them. Either way, you can choose what resolution to upload at, add tags to make it easier for other people to find them, then arrange them into sets. The quickest way is to use the Flickr Uploadr (available for both Mac and PC) which enables you to drag and drop images from your desktop and have them automatically re-sized and uploaded in batches – way faster than using the Web-based upload form. ![]() Then you can begin uploading your pictures. This can be as brief or verbose as you like, as you’ll see by looking at the profiles of others. Once you’ve set up your account you’ll be invited to write a profile about yourself. Setting up an account is easy – just follow the instructions on the site. Or you can look for groups focused on your own local area.īefore you can start or join any groups, however, or add comments, you have to join Flickr itself. ![]() While there are 7,017 groups dedicated to pictures of dogs, there are also 121 groups specifically about spaniels. You can be much more niche than that, though. Interested in UK landscapes? Key the words ‘British landcapes’ into the group search box and you’ll find numerous groups dedicated to this subject. There are thousands of groups on Flickr, covering every conceivable interest or geographical area. One of the most focused ways to browse is through its groups. A click on a thumbnail reveals a larger version of the photo, along with other community members’ opinions of it, plus links to the photographer’s homepage where you’ll find yet more of that person’s work, and a self-penned profile of them. The tag ‘jaguar’ brings up 22,466 photos, viewable by most relevant, most recent and most interesting. For a less haphazard way to browse try typing a search term, or ‘tag’, into the search bar and see what you get. Flickr has its own word, ‘interestingness’ to describe pictures that have been viewed and commented on a lot, and by clicking the interestingness link you’ll be presented with a random selection that changes when you refresh the page or click ‘reload’. Start with the lucky dip that is the Explore page. ![]() You can browse randomly, chronologically, or in a more targeted way. You don’t have to sign up for an account to do this. The only way to appreciate Flickr though is to try it, and as with any user-friendly technology, it’s best to just dive right in.
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