In the last post, I explained what Flickr sets are — and now I’ll explain to you what you can do with tags in Flickr.
Tags are like associated keywords for any picture — thus for a vaction picture from Japan of Mount Fuji, you could use these tags:
japan
vacation
mount fuji
snow
The next time, you are searching for that particular picture in the 21,894 pictures you have uploaded to Flickr — all you need to do then is use these tags as search terms — and you’ll find the picture you are searching for!
Not only can you search for tags that you have provided to your photos, you can also search for tags that other Flickr users have applied to their uploaded photos.
Adding Tags
Most of the time, all sorts of uploading options allow you to apply tags when you are uploading your photos to Flickr. But there might be times when you want to add tags to photos already in your Flickr account. To do that, follow these steps:
If you want to choose from tags you have already applied to existing, uploaded photos, click the Choose from your tags option that you can see in Figure 2 above.
In upcoming posts, I’ll teach you how you can add the same tags to all photos in a set. If you don’t know what Flickr sets are, look at this previous post…
See Also: Flickr Tutorial Series
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