Weeks 3 & 4-Explore Flickr

#5. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.
# 1.What Flickr is?
Flickr-is photo - sharing website that lets you upload photos and make them interesting to the audience by adding comments , descriptions.
#2. What can you do with Flickr?
You can - Upload pictures from your desktop , send by mail or use your cameraphone.
- Organize your photos using collection(grouping of sets) ,sets (grouping photos
that you can organize around a certain theme ex. Places from Romania) ,
tags (keywords or labels that you add to a photo to make it easier to find later
ex. adinaromanina)

- Share - use groups and privacy control to share your photo.
- Maps - share were your photos were taken and see photos taken nera to you.
- Make stuff -sexy cards , photo books ,frame prints.
- Keep in touch -get updates from your family and friends.

#3.How to become a Flickr's member?

Sign in at http://www.flickr.com/( if you have a yahoo email address you can use it -Flickr is owned by Yahoo). Once you sign in you'll get an option to change your screen name on Flickr and your screen name can be different from your yahoo login"http://www.flickr.com/photos/" URL.
ex.www.flickr.com/photos/adina-romania.Your alias cannot contain any spaces, and may contain alphabet letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens--normally a combination of these works well too.
Once you have created an alias, you can send your Flickr web address to anyone--and people can see your public photos even if they are not Flickr members.

#4. How do I post photos to my blog?

There are 2ways to do that:
A.
First you'll have to configure an external blog. You'll be guided through the set-up process, and at the end you can try a test post to make sure everything works.
When that's done, you can blog any public photo you see on Flickr. When you're looking at a single photo, for example, http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=23754, you'll see a "Blog This" button above it.
Note: If you don't see the "Blog This" button, you probably need to make the photo public (click "edit" next to the privacy indicator under "Additional Information" on the photo's page).
Click the "Blog This" button for the photo you want to post. If you've set up your blog, you can post immediately by adding a title and body for the post. There's a link to your blog as well so you can check that the entry looks OK.
You can set up as many blogs as you like.
You can also create your own Flickr moblog. When you upload a photo to Flickr via email, and you have at least one blog set up in Flickr, we can post your photo to your blog automatically.


B.
You can now upload photos using Blogger Images — the image icon in the post editor's toolbar lets you upload images to your blog(s):
When you click this icon, you'll get a window that allows you to select an image or multiple images from your computer. Just click the "Browse" button to locate the ones you want. Alternatively, you can enter the URL of an image that is already online and have it inserted into your post.
If you click on the link for choosing a layout, you can customize the way your images will appear in your post:
The left, center and right options will determine how the text of your post flows around the pictures. This size option lets you scale the pictures to different sizes within this posting area. Note that the picture will still be uploaded in its full size; this option just determines how it is scaled within the content of your post.