Using Flickr Guide
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1. sing technology for community k it HG superhighways Using Flickr Guide CONTENTS WAU NS RICKI oei coc essenesanentente cs cwenecenoaeesaccanonsssaccusthecesesvseneneen 2 What does It COS i sisse E E E 2 Privacy Copyright issues ssossoseseossossossssossossossssossossosossossossosossossossossssossossosossossosso 2 IN CY A E E E TE E A T T eta N E E EE T 2 CODAE D oone see crs eats E EA EOE car E EOE O EN EO 3 Getting started with a Flickr account sesessesessesessecsessecesescecssoecesoessecesesoscoesoecesseoeseeoeeee 3 vaoo em MAC OUN aaa AA NEE E EAA EEA 3 Primary TOODO Sierre en E E E N EE EREE 4 Adding your profile and background DannelrS csccccssecccesseceeesececeeececeeseeeeeaecesseecessees 4 Uploading your photos videoS cccccccccccccccceeeccceeeeessssseceecccecccsccseeeseesuaueeesssseeeeeeeeeesseseeess 4 Structuring your photo and video ASSETS ccceccccccscsccccccsceccccccscsceccccscsceccccecncececcecces 5 OS EPI E A ere ite cee A E OE E A A E E A A cua 5 EE a E N E E E N EA AE E EE sc EE E E E E T 6 LEE e E OEN E E A N P ee OE ee 6 Sharing your photos and video assets sessesesessesessecessecessscessecessscecssoesessecesoeoesseoeeee 7 Groups joining and setting up your OWN BIOUP ccccsssccccssececeececeesceceeecesseecesseneeesees 7 ENEEIER E E A A E E E E E T A N A EA 7 PICKE Mdi erene E T T E EE T 7 Reusing Flickr Content in other Online toOols csceccccsc2. individual This is useful if you need to get information signed off before publishing or send an email around to ask colleagues to send you a caption for a number of photos in a set This feature allows you to email other Flickr members It protects everyone s privacy as your real email address is not revealed You might want to use Flickr mail to contact another Flickr member to ask if you can use their photo or manage your group Having gone to all the trouble of setting up your album set and captioned it why not put that hard work to even more use Flickr photos can be reused on your website in a number of innovative ways including embedding in a blog creating a badge of from a set of photos There are also third party apps that allow you to reuse Flickr content For example moo com allows you to select your favourite photos and print them out as double sided business cards to showcase the work you do See uk moo com flickr for more information PAGE 7 Superhighways 2014 You can display either a single photo on a web page or you can create a Flickr Badge which allows you to have different photos from a set loading into the page each time a person opens your webpage To share any file on Flickr you need to Select Photostream from the top menu Choose your photo 3 Click the photo to open it this can be tricky as it does not always open in the view you require 4 Once the photo is open you will see a small tool ba
3. phrases see next section e Add people uses facial recognition software to identify individuals e Add to sets lets you add these photos to existing collections albums e Add to groups share your photos with groups you belong to e Owner settings none all rights reserved Visible to everyone Owner settings are either your default privacy settings or you can override them ona case by case basis private or shared with friends etc Once you are happy with your editing of these files select upload In an increasing sophisticated digital world taking photographs and recording video is an essential tool for a charity to demonstrate the reach and scope of its work With so much good content available it is critical that you have a good understanding of how to organise all your files so that you can easily find them reuse them and display them to their best advantage Remember that all of the following tools that group photographs and videos together can be displayed in your website as you arranged them Grouping your photos in sets allows you to put themes together for example Community Connected has 6 sets see illustration below A Flickr user who is more interested in PAGE 5 Superhighways 2014 photographic composition might for example create sets of photos based on colour all red images all predominantly blue images etc k lt Community PEELS F Get Online WeeK 2013 14 photo
4. count accounts you can guarantee it will be easier using a Yahoo account Sign in with Facebook or G oogle There are 2 toolbars that are most useful to navigate around Flickr The Primary Toolbar see Figure 2 and the secondary toolbar see Figure 3 flickr You Following Communities Explore Upload FIGURE 2 PRIMARY TOOLBAR THIS IS THE MAIN NAVIGATION FOR YOUR ACCOUNT CLICK YOU FOR THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS C Community Connected Photostream Sets Favorites Creations Edit FIGURE 3 SECONDARY TOOLBAR WITH NAME OF YOUR ORGANISATION AND PROFILE PHOTO ALSO KNOWN AS A BUDDY ICON PAGE 3 Superhighways 2014 To open the primary toolbar you need to select the word You From the drop down menu you have access to the following Photostream All your photos Maps where you tool your photos Geo tags to pinpoint the shot location needs to be enabled Sets Groups of photos on a theme Galleries your showcases Recent activity what you and any groups you belong to have been doing Stats a list of your photos that have been viewed in numbers good for monitoring Organize a back office file management area very useful Creations link to paid for service to create and print photo albums To complete the set up for your new Flickr account you will need to complete the following 1 Option to add a cover photo this image is very important as a marketing
5. dentified when you set up your Flickr Badge Below is the front page of Community Links Bromley s website with a feed of photos from local events To find out how to set this up visit www flickr com badge gne COMMUNITY LINKS BROMLEY Ww iPhone iPod Touch Acer Alcatel Archos Asus Dell Fujitsu Fujitsu Toshiba HP HTC Huawei Kyocera LG Motorola NEC Panasonic Pocket Book International Sony Sony Ericson Sharp Samsung NEC and ZTE list compiled 6 Jan 2014 Tablet iPad series Most of the above manufacturers have a tablet out follow this link to the Android site to view www android com PAGE 9 Superhighways 2014 Flickr has an online editing application Aviary There are a large number of controls that you can apply to your photos e Change the colour brightness and contrast and sharpness e Remove red eye e Crop information you don t want from the photo and also change the ratio to optimize your photos for use on different screen sizes e g wide screen ratio is 16 9 and a standard print is 6 4 e Resize the photo e Apply special effects including adding stickers like hats and glasses FIGURE 7 ORIGINAL 6 4 RATIO FIGURE 8 CHANGE FOCUS FILTER STICKER AND RATIO 16 9 Since the revamp of the Flickr site it has become slightly more difficult to open up photos to edit or download on to your computer To browse your photos e Make sure y
6. ff we can never find on our computers The options for tagging are based on setting up a system of categories that everyone in the organization knows of and uses An example tag is AGM2013 PAGE 6 Superhighways 2014 lein P Cliel r fei J Ap Using Flickr Guide There is also another tag that can be turned on or off for Geo Location Each time you record a video or take a photo your camera will include information about the exact geographical location you created this file In older cameras you might have to turn this feature on refer to your user manual or Google it on the net Flickr can use this information to create a map of where your project delivers its services As the largest community of photo and video sharing site in the world Flickr encourages you to share your photos across all social media and comment on other people s photos Using these feature for a local charity is useful as it is one more marketing channel for your project Groups are a good way to share your photos with other people who are collecting similar images to you and have a shared interest Community Connected is a member of a group called Kingston upon Thames with 336 members and over 5 057 photos Information about groups how to search and join a group is under the Communities drop down list on the Create Group Primary Toolbar You can send out a private invitation via email to a group of people or just one
7. message Option to add a profile photo use either a photograph of you or your logo By rolling your mouse over the buddy icon and the cover photo you will see an invitation to upload a photo in each instance e Dimensions for profile photo are minimum 100 x 100 I n practice you can upload any photo and you have the option to crop out the bit you want to use e Dimensions for Cover Photo are 3048x768 pixels There is also new secondary toolbar which makes it much easier to navigate your way around the site PAGE 4 Select Upload from toolbar 1 You have the option to either drag and drop your photos into the new window or to choose photos Once you have either dragged and dropped or selected your photos you will see the following window Superhighways 2014 a Add Cy Remove 5 oD Size t4 Sort LJ All Ed Info Ee Rotate 5 Editing 5 photos kaii N mu ome 7 1 i b UM ma y i aj az We IE aa a eplace 5 titles D A 2 C De Add a description Wa Jm Add tags IMG_2854 IMG 2851 IMG_0785 IMG_0766 Add people Add to sets Add to groups Owner settings None All rights reserved Visible to everyone FIGURE 4 PHOTOS FROM COMMUNITY CONNECTED EVENTS NOTICE THE OPTIONS ON THE LEFT THAT YOU CAN APPLY TO EACH PHOTO OR EDIT AS A GROUP e Replace 5 titles replaces file name e g img 2854 e Adda description you can add context background information e Add tags individual words or
8. nce NB registered charities can buy the Flickr pro account via CTX www ctxchange org ata discounted price of circa 10 per year Doublr 499 99 per year 2 Terabytes of photo and video space All the benefits of a free account When you set up your profile on Flickr you set up your default statement about privacy These are e Anyone can see my photos e Only friends and family can see my photos e Only I can see my photos be careful if you choose this option people have been blacklisted by Flickr in the past as a closed site looks suspicious PAGE 2 Superhighways 2014 When you upload your photos to Flickr unless you change the privacy settings on a case by case basis all your photos will have the same privacy setting Will be protected by the same copyright statement In the same way if you want to use an image you have found on Flickr you need to check its copyright Go to the home page www flickr com Select sign up from the far left of the screen at the top FIGURE 1 FLICKR LOGIN 3 To illustrate the step by step guide we have used Superhighway s community outreach project account at YAHOO www flickr com communityconnected Nato i ne aaa Keep me signed in flickr Explore Upload can t access my account Help There are a number of options to sign up for a Flickr account select OR the one you require Whilst you can log in using other email Create New Ac
9. ou are in the Photostream view e Select the arrows on the right of the caption at the bottom of the photo This will open up a general photo browser which you can flick through using the left or right arrows either side of the image To get out of this window click the cross on the right of the screen To access the menus where you have more fine grain control of the images e Make sure you are in Photostream view e Click on the photo itself Once it has opened the new window you will find the controls for many options by selecting the three dots on the far right of the screen PAGE 10 Superhighways 2014
10. r bottom right of the photo white icons in the black background 5 Select the share icon 6 You have the option to a Share this via email Twitter etc see more detail in the next section b Grab the link the exact file path to link to the photo which you can copy and paste into a website or newsletter c Grab the HTML BBCode depending on where you want to display this photo you will select one of the options Embed is when you want to add the images to the webpage htm will create a new page for you BBCode Bulletin Board Code is a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards Share this via gt Grab the link Grab the HTML BBCode lt iframe src nttps www flickr com photos communityconnected 10455202525 player 6dbd127b24 height 374 width 500 frameborder 0 allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen gt lt iframe gt Medium 500 500 x 374 e PAGE 8 Superhighways 2014 Using Flickr Guide Flickr has made it easy to share on the following web applications You need to follow the screen prompts and allow Flickr to be linked to these accounts e Blogs Twitter Tumblr Blogger LiveJournal and WordPress e Facebook amp Pinterest When you create a Flickr Badge in your website each time a visitor clicks on a link the webpage loads in a different combination of the photos you have i
11. s 43 photos 3 videos Technology Thursday 46 photos FIGURE 5 COMMUNITY CONNECTED SET You can create a set when you first upload your photographs see figure 4 or you can use another management tool called Batch Edit To open Batch Edit 1 Click You on the main tool bar 2 From the drop down menu select organise 3 In the new Batch Edit window you will see a range of tasks and a film bottom of the window flickr Your Photostream Batch Organize Sets amp Collections Print amp Create Groups Editphotos Permissions Editdates v Add People Add Tags Addtoset v Send to group Location v Clear this batch All your content gt Jump to date Need help 397 items 0 selected Select all www flickr com photos communityconnected 11410898823 in photostream FIGURE 6 THE PHOTO OF THE ROWER HAS BEEN DRAGGED FROM THE FILM STRIP AND DROPPED IN THE BLANDK AREA TO JOIN 3 OTHER PHOTOS SIMILARLY DRAGGED AND DROPPED FROM YOUR PHOTOSTREAM I E ALL YOUR PHOTOS 4 Once you have picked all the photos for your new collection you need to use SHIFT SELECT to highlight them all 5 Use the options from the menu above to add these photos to a set or add tags to the images or change the photo s permissions Creating a gallery is a showcase for your best moments Tagging has been around for a number of years but increasingly is becoming vital to file management because we all have too much stu
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