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September 3, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Flickr

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Originally uploaded by cakejournal

While browsing the vast amount of awesome Flickr photos, I found the cutest little RSS feed icon made into a COOKIE! Not a browser cookie, but a true edible cookie. How cool is that!

Take a look at some of the other photos in Cakejournal’s photostream while you are there. She is fantastic! What an artist!

Sharing Photos Online - Choosing an Online Photo Management Service

August 24, 2007 by debbie T | Digital Photography • Flickr • Picasa 2

Uploading your digital photos online is a great way to share your memories with friends and family. But which online photo album is best? I will walk you through a few of the popular choices for online photo sharing sites; I hope it helps you to choose the one that fits your needs.

Flickr.com (Yahoo)

Personally, I love Flickr. Besides easy to use photo management, there is a great community of passionate photographers. As a member, you can post & receive comments, save other photos to your “favorites”, join community groups, and save other members as your “contacts”.

Don’t mistakenly think that to use Flickr, you must be social. Not so. Some or all of your photos can remain private, or only available to specific “friends and family” contacts. You choose who can view, download, print, blog, comment on, annotate, search, and view Exif info for your photos. You set the license for photo use, whether full restriction or a creative commons.

Flickr’s Upload Tools

Flickr offers a free membership consisting of a 100 MB photo upload limit per calendar month, along with the ability to organize your photos into 3 “sets” (another word for albums)

If you need more, the Flickr pro membership is only $25 per year. It offers unlimited upload, bandwidth, sets, and ad free browsing. (Note: The advertising for the Flickr free membership, is not as blatant as other photo management web sites.)

There are several options to upload a photo file to Flickr:

The Flickr Uploader is easy to use. Click to browse to your photos on your hard drive, then choose one file, or multiple photo files by holding the Ctrl key and clicking on each file you would like to upload. After all photos are uploaded to Flickr, add tags, title, and description.

There is also the Flickr Basic Uploader, which is old fashioned, and time consuming if you have a lot of photos with different tags and settings.

There are several other upload tools for Windows and Mac users. I use the iPhoto plugin (Mac only) and I love it because it is so easy to add titles, descriptions and tags for each separate photo or for all photos I am uploading.

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