Have you been to Flickr? Wow, so this might be one of the most exciting places on the web I have been to yet!
If you are into taking, looking at, and/or sharing pictures….I HIGHLY SUGGEST checking out the tour of flickr to see what they have to offer! (Yippie….I just took the plunge and hit the “hide/show the kitchen sink” button and it gave me more options for editing my post…including changing font color…which i love!)
OK, back to uploading images….
I just joined flickr and started uploading pictures to my “photostream” as they call it. For now I have made my images “public” so anyone can see them, but you have the option to change that at any time and with every picture. Pretty cool.
Uploading to flickr from my computer was just like any other uploading an image experience (see my post Including an image on your blog post-take 2 for help with that). No problem. And then it’s just like “copying this link” from the web as in “Including an image on your blog post-take 2”.
What is different about Flickr…. it has made a way for me to get images from .mac photo books onto my blog (and I am hoping my e-newsletter) by allowing me to have a place on the web that I can upload the URL to my blog and my newsletter.
The easier way to do this for the blog is to just copy a picture (that you are allowed to…ask permission first if it is not your picture please) from an .mac photo library onto your desktop or computer and then upload the image from there. This works fine for the blog, but my e-newsletter will only allow me to use URL web based pictures and I have not been successful at doing so from a .mac photo library. Now I can drag the picture onto my desktop (or copy it into iphoto) and then upload it to my Flickr photostream. From my Flickr account I can then copy that link and upload it into my e-newsletter (I HOPE!).
They do video too…I’ll have to check that out later.
Let me know if you try it out!