(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading...Before we discuss more about uploading and sharing photos on Flickr, there are two things that each Flickr user should know. These are sets and tags. We explain sets in this post, and will teach you more about tags in another post.
Sets are a way to group your photos so that they are easy to organize and identify. Figure 1, below, shows a few sets in our Flickr account.
Figure 1: A few of our Flickr sets
Think of sets as folders in your computer. You might have a different folder for your business correspondence, another for your spreadsheets, and yet another for presentations. Even then, sets are a little different than folders–let us explain this concept in a different way:
Why sets are like folders?
- Because you name them like folders to identify what’s inside the set.
- Because they make it easy for you to find something later. A set named Singapore Vacation August 2005 is so self-explanatory that there’s no way you don’t know which photos you placed in that set!
Why sets are not like folders?
- Because unlike folders, sets don’t contain the photo itself–just a link to the actual file you uploaded to Flickr.
- Also, one photo can be placed in more than one set without being uploaded more than once–since Flickr sets are basically only shortcuts (aliases) to the actual uploaded photo.
Viewing your sets
To view your sets, follow these steps:
- Make sure you are signed into Flickr.
- In the top navigation bar on the Flickr site, click the You menu, shown in Figure 2, below. Then, choose the Your Sets option.
Figure 2: Finding Your Sets in the Flickr menu- Doing so will open a page that contains thumbnails of all your sets. Figure 1, shown previously on this page showed some sets on our Flickr page.
- Here’s what you can do now:
- The number of photos in a particular set are mentioned below the set thumbnail.
- To edit the sequence of photos in the set, or to add more uploaded photos to an existing set, click the Edit button to open the Flickr Organizer interface.
- Just double-click any set thumbnail to view the photos in that set.
In later posts, we’ll explain how you can organize and view photos on Flickr.
You May Also Like: Flickr Tutorial Series
Related Posts
In the last post, we explained what Flickr sets are. Now, we'll explain tags in Flickr.Tags are like associated keywords for any picture. Thus, for a ...
Yes, this question has come up often since we use Scooby’s Flickr account to create all the screenshots.Scooby Gooseberry is an imaginary, fictitious ...
Before you ask people to see your photos on Flickr, spend a minute to create your own Flickr web address. A Flickr web address is an alias that you ca...
Now that you know what Flickr is, and how you become a Flickr member--it's time to learn how you can upload your first photo!To cook up this task, mak...