If you have problems, let me know. Flickr is not the easiest online photo sharing site to use so it will take some time to get used to. Also, please don't rush through the process. Each photo should have a unique title, description, tags (keywords), and belong to the same set. Descriptions should tell a story about each photo like what you were trying to do when you took the photo or what you saw in the photo or why you like the photo, etc. Again, let me know if you have trouble.
We will have another photo assignment next Thursday. If you have any unique photos of the snow, you can always upload them to Flickr as well!
Uploading Photos to Flickr
- Open web browser and go to www.flickr.com
- Sign in as holderphotoclass (no uppercase and no spaces)
- Password is saints (no uppercase)
- On the Home page click on 'Upload Photos and Videos'
- Now click on 'Choose Photos and Videos'
- Your photos will either still be on your camera card or if you have taken them off the camera memory card and put them on a flash drive - I do have camera memory card readers in AA113 that you can use to retrieve photos. I do suggest that you find a place either on your home computer or somewhere to store all you photos. Don't ever delete any of your photos. Keep them all even though they won't all be uploaded to our class Flickr account.
- Now you will need to select the drive where the photos are located that you want to upload.
- Once you have selected the drive and the photo filenames are visible, hold down the 'Ctrl' key on your keyboard and click on each filename you wish to upload. Then release the 'Ctrl' key and click OPEN.
- The photo filenames you selected will now be in a box waiting to upload.
- FIRST click on the 'Private' radio button.
- Then click on 'Upload Photos and Videos'
- Wait for the upload process to finish. You will see a green check mark saying Finished!
- Go ahead now and click on 'add a description'
- This will now allow you to add a Title, description, tags and even put your photos in a set
- You will need to do all of these
- The title can be anything - be creative. If someone where to be looking at your photos, what would the title be?
- The description is just a few sentences about why you took the shot, what you were seeing, thinking etc. Fill us in on what was going through your mind when you chose the Vancouver Carpentry shop, the red window, the knott hole that looked like an eye
- Tags are keywords that describe the photo: picture in picture, carpentry, Vancouver, red, knott hole, eye. These keywords are what help a person searching for photos of Vancouver, etc. find your photo.
- Finally you want to add each photo to a set, which you will have to create. The set is always 'yourname - lesson name'. So I would create a set called 'Mindy - Pic in Pic'. You will add all the photos you just uploaded for this assignment to that set. So in our case, a set represents an assignment.
