Thing 3- Flickr

Fun with photos! Fun with flickr!
Who doesn't love sharing their pics with friends and family? This is a great place to start our technology journey! Well, to be honest, photo sharing websites aren't new, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to take the idea of “sharing” pictures and growing it into an online community.
Simply put, photo sharing is publishing a user's digital photos to a website, enabling the user to store and share them – either privately or publicly. With over two billion images, Flickr is the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web, and is one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. (More about tags later!)

With Flickr, it's easy to spend hours looking at photos of every possible person, place, and thing you could imagine, especially if you are looking for something to use in a project with copyright permission! Go to Flickr and explore. Choose a simple keyword, like Texas, cats, or trees. Do you realize your searching is enabled by the tags attached to these photos?

After you’ve looked around for a bit, go ahead and create a Flickr account. If you have a Yahoo account, then you already have one. Sign in to Flickr and upload some images to your new account. Once you sign in to Flickr, just click on the link to “Upload photos” and Flickr will guide you through. You can either navigate to some pics already on your computer, or put on some new ones. (If you've never done this, you might need to call for help!)

Be sure to consider copyright laws when using pictures from the site. When viewing a photo on Flickr, scroll down the page and look in the right hand column where you will see the rights to the photo under "Additional Information". If it says "All Rights Reserved", you do not have the right to use it without obtaining permission from its owner. A good solution is to use photos that have Creative Commons licensing which gives certain rights to users.

After you’ve uploaded some photos, and downloaded a few others, go back to your blog and write about your experience. Provide a link to your Flickr photostream in your blog when you write about having fun with flickr. This can be done with the Link menu at the top of your post box and the html address of your photostream. Just choose a word to make the link, select it, and click on link. A box will pop up that allows you to copy the URL address in it.

FYI, an alternative site you can use is Photoshop.