My experience with Flickr

I have made a start on the week 3 activity from the 23 things list, Photos & Images.

I have explored Flickr by uploading some of my photos to their site, which I have now connected to my blog! This was not hard (which should not have suprised me) but like creating this blog I now have a Flickr account and a Yahoo ID.

I suppose that these things (creating a blog and Flickr) have had to be fairly straight forward so that new users do not get frustrated, decide that its all too hard and give up.

Uploading the photos was easy, just follow the steps. I did not edit them at the time (although the option to do so was there). I named them, added a description and put them in a set. It took less than an hour from creating my account to feeling very accomplished in having 9 photos on my site.

I have now gone back in a second time and edited those photos that needed it. This process seemed to be fairly slow in loading each of the selected photos, considering that I was only cropping and changing the contrast on some. Although to be fair it may have been the time of day, the fact that it was the weekend or just my computer. (I would be interested to hear from any one else who had this problem/or did not.) I have not used any other photo software before so this may just be how long it takes.

When I returned to Flickr I was at a loss to how to edit my photos. Luckly just double clicking on the photo brings up the edit function (as well as a few others that I did not go into). Editing is through Picnik (I love these names) but Flickr has been set up to walk you through that connection as well.

I have a photo stream DiDee2010 and a set of photos "All creatures great and small" to which I have to add, since I have included neither the guinea pigs or the rabbits at this stage.

I was concerned about including photos that could identify me, my family or where I live, so using photos of our animals was best for me. There were privacy settings but I thought that if I did not pick the broadest settings that none of you would be able to see them.

I still have to have some fun with Flickr mashups (6) so I will let you know how that goes (once I work out what they are).

Enjoy my journey so far.