Flickr Photo Archive

Auto-Upload and the Camera Roll

DENISE BARRETT OLSON

Why Flickr?
Flickr offers 1TB of free storage
for photos and video. Your
uploaded photos are stored at
their original size and resolution
and you control who can view
and/or download them. There
are a number of organization
and editing tools to help you
organize and manage your
archive.
But thats just the beginning.
With Flickr you control the
licensing rights (copyright,
Creative Commons, public
domain) and privacy settings
(only you, family, friends, public)
assigned to each photo. Add
your own titles, descriptions
and tags then invite others to
add their comments. Flickr is
very search friendly and has a
number of social features too,
making it a great place to meet
research cousins.
Your abundance of choices can
also be a curse. This guide will
help you develop a storytelling
style that enhances your family
history project and supports
your workflow.

The Flickr Uploader

Once you have set up your Flickr
account, youll see a graphic
recommending you install the Flickr
Uploader. Its available for Windows
and Mac computers.
Once it is installed, Mac users will
see the uploader icon in the status
bar at the top of the screen. Click
the icon to display the uploader
panel.
From here you see your user profile
image, thumbnails of recent uploads
as well as a link to view your Camera
Roll in your web browser. If an
upload is in progress, you can click
the Pause button at the bottom of
the panel to stop it.
The Gear icon at the bottom of the
panel displays a menu to upload a
folder, open the uploaders
preference panel (below) or quit the
uploader app.
The example below shows your
account information with buttons to
change settings on the uploader or
go to the Camera Roll online.

Click the Upload icon to display the folders containing image files on your
computer. In this example from my Mac, that even includes Dropbox and
external hard drives. Click in the check box to the left of a folder to include it
in the uploaders watch list.
Note that the Pictures folder has a triangle icon on the left. This means there
are sub-folders in the Pictures folder. Click that icon and those sub- folders
are displayed with checkboxes so you can make your selections.
If you have photos in folders not shown here, click the plus (+) button at the
bottom of the panel to navigate to that folder and add it to your list.
You can select all the folders you want and the uploader will begin the initial
upload. Depending on the size of your collection, this could take some time.
Once done, the app will monitor your system and upload new photos as they
are saved to your computer.

The mobile apps for iOS and Android

devices also include an auto-upload
option with settings to choose if
uploads will use cellular transfer along
with wi-fi. Since many of today's
phones can take high-resolution
photos, it is probably best to limit
uploads to wi-fi connections unless
absolutely necessary.
On iOS devices, the app will autoupload all photos in the Photos app.
In this example, you are looking at the
Camera Roll on my Flickr profile. It
contains all the photos, videos and
screen captures I've uploaded from
my Mac and mobile devices.

The Camera Roll

Every uploaded photo lands in my Camera Roll organized as batches by date.
This example shows the Camera Roll as it appears in a web browser. Notice
that most of the photo thumbnails have a padlock icon in the lower left corner
identifying them as private photos only visible to me.
From this screen, I can quickly change settings, add metadata, move to albums
and even delete unwanted photos. I can select individual images by clicking
them or select an entire batch using the Select all link found next to the batch's
date.

After selecting one or more items in the Camera Roll, a set of command icons
appears at the bottom of the browser's screen. These include:
Privacy - with options for Public, Private, Friends, Family or Friends &
Family
Edit - displays an options panel
Share - allows sharing these photos on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest or by Mail
Add to an album
Download the selected photos
Delete the selected photos from Flickr.

This is the editing panel that is displayed when the Edit icon is selected
on the Camera Roll screen. Changes made to this panel if apply to
each selected photo (14 in this example).
Here I can add titles
and descriptions,
change the privacy
setting determining
who can view these
photos and set who
can comment and add
tags to these photos.
If my photos are
explicit, I can use the
Safe setting to set
them as Restricted.
Flickr users can
choose to only view
Safe or Moderate
photos when browsing
Flickr and this setting
defines that.
The copyright options
include all rights reserved, public domain work, public domain
dedication and several Creative Commons options. These are best
described as some rights reserved and are explained in detail at http://
www.creativecommons.org.
When uploading photos, the dates are automatically included from the
embedded metadata. This is not true when uploading scanned photos.
If I know when one of those photos was taken, I can manually enter the
information here.

Now I am ready to add

my batch to one of the
albums in my Flickr
profile. With the photos
selected in the Camera
Roll, I tap the album
icon to display this
screen. If I have a large
number of albums, I use
the search box to find
my album quickly.
I just click the
appropriate album's
icon/title then click the Done button. These
photos also remain in my Camera Roll.
It's easy to share a
selected group of
photos from the Camera
Roll at any time. Just
select the photo(s) you
want to share and tap/
click the Share icon.
When this panel
appears, choose the
platform then click the
Done button. What
happens next will
depend on the platform
you choose.

Resources
Visit Moultrie Creek @Scribd for
additional guides on Flickr and
other digital storytelling topics.
The free Flickr Uploader is
available for Windows and Mac
desktops and can be
downloaded at flickr.com.
Mobile apps are available for iOS
devices (iPhone and iPad),
Android devices and Windows

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