#6 - Flickr
Flickr is simply the best way to store, search, sort and share your photos online. I love to take pictures, but getting them online and sharing them has always been a hassle in the past. Now it is a very simple process for me. I simply upload all my pictures to flickr, add them to a set, and send that link to everyone who I want to share it with. The best feature about flickr is that it stores your high resolution shots online for you. No need to downgrade your photos to store them online. If you ever want to print a photo and don’t have it on your computer anymore you can still grab it from the website to print it off.
Flickr is free, but has limitations to how much you can upload per month. If you don’t upload a lot of photos the free version will be enough to get by. If your like me and love to shoot pictures, you can sign up and upgrade your account for unlimited access. It is well worth the money for about $2.00 per month.
Tips
- Download Flickr Uploadr for a faster way to upload and batch organize your photos. I use this tool rather than uploading images through the web browser, it makes it a lot easier.
- Organize your photos by adding them to Sets, every event you attend and shoot pictures at create a new set and add those photos to it. Think of it as a photo album.
- Add tags to your images. Adding tags allows you to quickly search for someones name, which would bring up all photos that person is in. The more tags you have added to a picture, the better.
- Add your friends so you can easily see their newly added pictures. By clicking “Contacts” you will see a photostream of all of your friends pictures. Its a nice quick way to keep up with what your friends have been doing lately.
- You can join Flickr Groups for your favorite types of photos. Love dogs? Simply join the group “Dogs! Dogs! Dogs!” to get instant access to tons of photos of dogs. There is a endless amount of groups out there, find which ones you like!