Welcome to Flickr, the photo- and video-sharing site extraordinaire.
This book covers the ins and outs of Flickr, giving you a guided tour of the Flickr website and what it has to offer you. There are hundreds of Flickr features available to you, and they’re all coming up in this book.
Let’s take a look at a quick chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the contents of this book. Here’s what you’ll find:
• Lesson 1, “Essential Flickr”: The essential Flickr story, including how to sign up.
• Lesson 2, “Uploading Photos”: All about uploading photos and videos to Flickr—what the limits are, the ways to upload them, even how to upload from cell phones and email.
• Lesson 3, “Organizing Photos”: Using the Flickr Organizr, the tool that lets you drag and drop photos and videos to create sets and collections.
• Lesson 4, “Sharing Photos: Friends, Family, and Contacts”: All about how to share your photos and videos with others on Flickr. For most people, this is the whole point of Flickr.
• Lesson 5, “Sharing Photos: Groups”: All about sharing your photos and videos with Flickr groups.
• Lesson 6, “Editing Your Photos”: Flickr partnered with the Picnik editor to let you edit your photos. You can crop, resize, and apply all kinds of visual effects to your photos.
• Lesson 7, “Working with Video”: Flickr now supports video and video sharing, and this lesson shows you all the ins and outs.
• Lesson 8, “Favorites, Flickr Mail, and Printing”: Flickr Favorites is a collection of your favorite photos; Flickr Mail lets you communicate with other Flickr members; and now you can use various printing services to print your photos and have them mailed to you.
• Lesson 9, “Upgrading Your Account”: Most people have free Flickr accounts, but you can also upgrade to a paid Flickr Pro account. This lesson shows all the advantages of doing that.
• Lesson 10, “Troubleshooting and Tips”: There are plenty of things that can go wrong when you’re working with Flickr. This lesson is filled with the fix for problems you might experience and insider tips for new members.
This is the good part: You don’t need to have anything at all except a computer with an Internet connection—and some photos you’d like to store and share on Flickr.
Everything else you need is covered in this book: where to find Flickr, how to create an account, how to log in, how to use the various parts of Flickr, and even how to upgrade your account to Flickr Pro.
That’s all you need to get started, so let’s jump in and do just that in Lesson 1.