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Loading...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 vacation picture from Japan of Mount Fuji, you could use these tags:
japan, vacation, mount fuji, snow,
The next time, what do you do when you need to search for one shot in the 21,894 pictures you have uploaded to Flickr? You should have added these tags to your photos while uploading. These then act as search keywords, 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, there are options 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 so, follow these steps:
- Make sure that you are signed into your Flickr account. If you don’t have a Flickr account, create one, as explained in our Signing up for Flickr page.
- Click the picture for which you want to add tags. This will open the Flickr page for that picture as you can see in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: The Flickr page for any photo- On the bottom right of the photo, you’ll find an option called Add a tag, as shown in Figure 1, above. Click this option.
- Doing so will show a text box where you can enter your tags. Type in your tags. Separate tags with spaces. If you are using a double word with a space such as water lilies, enclose them with the space within inverted commas (double quotes) like “water lilies,” as you can see in Figure 2, below. You can also separate your tags with commas if spaces confuse you (We always use commas).
Figure 2: Add your tags- 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.
- When you are done, click the Add button.
In upcoming posts, we’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 our a post.
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