What is Flickr?
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Let us show you why!
Flickr is a way to get your photos and videos to the people who matter to you and since basic accounts are free, there’s no reason not to explore further.
Flickr is the name of an online application to which Yahoo! Go 2.0 provides access. Through Yahoo! Go 2.0, Flickr enables you to manage and share digital photos—in fact, any image saved in the JPEG format. You can use Flickr for uploading images taken with your device’s camera and for titling, describing, tagging, and setting security on the image during the upload process. You can share the device’s photos with the entire community of Flickr users or securely and privately share them with the Flickr users who are your friends and family. In return, your contacts—friends or family—can share their photos with you as well as leave comments about your photos. You can use searching to look for comments, tags, titles, and descriptions as well as a particular photo stream belonging to a flickr user. Photo sets as well as your contacts’ photos that you mark as favourites appear in a special section of Flickr in Yahoo! Go 2.0.
To share photos using Flickr, sign in to your Yahoo! account and create a Flickr account if you don’t already have one. Because you have a Yahoo! account to access Yahoo! Go 2.0, you can easily set up a Flickr account that you need to have to use it. Note that although Flickr screen names and Yahoo! account names can be different, both names are tied to the same account.
Photos available to any user are shown in the Explore Flickr sections Everyone’s photos and Interesting photos. As you scroll through the photos, use the Options menu item View person’s stream to see all the photos from the owner of the highlighted photo.
Flickr Features:
- Upload. Upload from your desktop, send by email, or use your camera phone.
- Edit. Get rid of red eye, crop a photo, or get creative with fonts and effects.
- Organize. Use collections, sets, and tags to organize your photos and videos.
- Share. Use groups and privacy controls to share your photos and videos.
- Maps. Share where your photos and videos were taken, and see photos and videos taken near you.
- Make Stuff. Sexy cards, photo books, framed prints, target pick up, DVDs, etc.
- Keep in Touch. Get updates from family and friends.
