I love Flickr and use it everyday. I have only uploaded my Apple pictures to my account and I think it will stay that way. Flickr is great!
Glenn Wolsey said:I love Flickr and use it everyday. I have only uploaded my Apple pictures to my account and I think it will stay that way. Flickr is great!
Clix Pix said:...
To be honest, I was a bit turned off by Flickr when I saw that it is part of Yahoo.... Not to be snobbish or anything -- LOL!
bousozoku said:I outdid the upload bandwidth my first time out with 6 photos, I think. I definitely need to use the pro account, if I decide that it's worth it.
bousozoku said:It wasn't part of Yahoo! at first.
Last night, I decided to go look at my account and figure out what to do with it. It wanted me to convert to a new account and use my existing Yahoo! account and...blah blah, 5 minutes later, I have an empty account and have no idea where all of my photos are.
I don't think I'll be using flickr again.
bousozoku said:I uploaded a bunch of photos yesterday and found that it's good for batch changes for dates and tags but the free account limits you to 3 sets and 200 photos. It says that everything you've uploaded is there but only 200 will show, whatever that means. With sets, I've got two right now: 2005 and 2006, but even then, I can see that it's inadequate because I have photos from many years and 2007 is coming fairly soon.
bousozoku said:They don't have a limit on the number of photos--just 250 GB in their free account. Of course, Google knows their competition, but whether it will be better or not, I can't even speculate. It looks about the same, including the uploader utility.
yoda_four said:The one thing I did before becoming pro is resize down my photos. Seeing as how they are generally viewed at smaller, internet sizes, there's no point in uploading the full-sized 5mp+ photo, unless you plan on sharing it with others for specific print quality use. With Flickr Uploadr (the app) you can easily set the preferences to automagically resize the longest side to 800 pixels, perfect for 'net viewing. By doing this, you can upload about 200 photos before maxing out on the free bandwidth.
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When I was still using the free account, I thought that once more than 200 were there, that they disappeared. I had no idea they are still are Flickr's servers and are saved, they not viewable. One easy demonstration of this, which I've discovered, is go into the Organizr, and delete a few pics. Now, go to the end, and you'll see what appears to be old pictures coming back to your account. Keep deleting, and the process continues. Very smart and interesting feature. So, if you do go pro, they are all there, still waiting for you.
Well, I'm pretty sure that limit is not 250 GB, but 250 MB... which kinda sucks. Because whereas Flickr is nearly unlimited, only by monthly bandwidth, once you hit 250 on Google, you've got to start deleting, on get a pro account. Picasa Web Albums really just reminds me of Google's version of Photobucket; it really has nothing on Flickr. Picasa doesn't have the features or the community that make Flickr great.
Okay, I may seem very biased towards Flickr, but it really is one of the best websites out there today IMO. While most of you have probably seen YouTube at one time or another, Flickr is just far and beyond a way better example of the social web/web 2.0 (except it's for photos).
I love what Flickr has to offer, and they resently gave me three free months of a pro account and I think I'll start paying for it after that.
Nope never used it, never even heard of it, flick what?
this will seem like a stupid post if i ever change my signature now
In my (way) over 30 way of thinking, the big risk of Flickr is the potential to get involved in a My Space, adolescent (not a generalization about myspace) environment. Just avoid the junk and the juveniles of all ages.