Flickr

Kristin- Flickr

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. There are many things you can do on Flickr that I found to be very interesting. The many options of Flickr include uploading pictures and videos, editing your pictures and videos, organizing them, sharing them, putting them on maps, making stuff, and keeping in touch with others. This is what I learned from the tour.

There are 5 different ways to upload your pictures and videos. You can upload using Flickr uploader,iPhoto, Aperture, or Windows XP plug-ins, their upload web page, email, and 3rd party desktop prgrams.

You can edit these photo's using their partner Picnik. You will have to authorize Picnik in order to upload your photo's. With edit you can get rid of red eye, crop the photo, or add effects that they provide.

You can organize your photo's with Flickr in any way that you see fit. You can organize by themes (animal pictures, vacations, etc), by pictures taken from a particular camera, by the year the photo was taken, or even by people and travels.

You can share your photo's on Flickr in a couple of different ways. You can join a group according to interests, you can create a group of your own, and you can invite people. You can also set your privacy settings so you can manage who can see your pictures and videos. You can control privacy level (who can see), privacy license (copyright is protected), content type (picture, video, illustration, etc), and safety level (others only see whats in their comfort level.)

You can use maps in a couple of different ways. You can drag and drop your own photo's onto a map to show where the picture was taken or you can browse the map to see where other people have been, their pictures, and what they have seen.

You can also make a variety of things using Flickr and your photo's. You can make prints (large or small), calling cards, photo books (large or small), slide-show DVDs, postage stamps, and even calendars.

You can keep in touch using Flickr. You add people as contacts to your account and then you can choose to add them as a friend or family. You can also provide guest passes for those people you would like to share your pictures or video's with but they do not have a Flickr account! You can also expire the guest pass whenever you like so you don't have to let them have access to your account forever. People can also leave notes and comments on your pictures to provide feedback to you. Notes are left directly on the picture but you will only see them when you drag your mouse over the picture. Comments are just like facebook and are left under the picture.

At the end of the tour you can keep exploring without having an account. You can see maps of the world and there is even a Flickr blog! You can also explore through tags, camera finder, most recent uploads, and geotagged photo's.

__**Pro's**__


 * Easy to upload photo's (KM)
 * Great for editing photo's (KM)
 * Great for organization of photo's (KM)
 * Great for creative people who like to make things (KM)
 * Can make holiday cards with pictures (save money!) (KM)
 * Great for feedback if your an artist looking to improve your photograghy (KM)
 * Easy for people who don't have Flickr to be able to see pictures of friends and relatives with a guest pass (KM)
 * Easy to keep in touch with people (KM)
 * Easy to create an account with your yahoo account (KM)
 * Great for being able to see places around the world and others experiences (KM)


 * Con's**


 * For school use there is too much potential to see inappropriate material (KM)
 * Too much public information allowed to be seen by anyone (KM)


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I think that in order for me to find more con's with this application I am going to have to make an account. I cannot really tell if the privacy settings are strong enough to protect your privacy from those who you don't want seeing your information. I also don't know how user friendly it really would be for people with limited technology knowledge. It seems very easy but hard to say without actually trying. So I will be adding more to this page after I get to make an account.

Also I wasn't sure how to add this information in a link like Julie and Barbara, so I guess I have some more "fooling around with the wiki" to do. How did you guys do it?Type in the content of your page here.