Flickr... How do you organise yours?!

kelvin · 26-03-2008, 5:37 PM

I'm normally an "organised" sort of person, but just can't seem to find a way to neatly store my images on Flickr. What do others do when it comes to creating Sets and Collections?

I must have re-jigged mine half a dozen times now - based on date, based on subject matter, based on location. No matter what I do I seem to struggle to collate them in such a way as to have them "easily" accessible, and organised in a relevant fashion. Any tips?!

K.

jonandjen · 26-03-2008, 5:43 PM

Hi Kelvin,

I just organise mine by subject matter, i.e. Kids, The family, Sunsets etc, etc.

Regards, jonandjen

sbowler · 26-03-2008, 6:47 PM

By genre, Architecture, portraits, hols, landscapes, macro. Or by the event, air show, concert, sports meetings, ect.

Holowlegs · 26-03-2008, 7:10 PM

Hello there

Here a little tool that might help you.

Flickr Set Manager

Cheers Holo

meansizzler · 26-03-2008, 7:15 PM

Never used flickr, use webshots, but recently tried out .mac web gallery, not the best looking out there, but with iphoto you can add new images and rearrange them and it automatically syncs them...

salubrious_k · 26-03-2008, 7:47 PM

I use Sets mainly as public facing displays of my work. I use tags to access my own photos.

electrolyte · 26-03-2008, 9:29 PM

I have my photos stored in sets according to genre, event or type. But the beauty of flickr is that one photo can be stored in any number of sets. I also then have 4 collections that I store the sets in. These are "My Most Interesting Photos", "Travel", "Creative & Artistic" and "Family & Friends". These 4 collections are on the opening page of my stream.

The set manager that Holow linked to is good plus flickr's own organize tool is useful too.

monkeyboy1982 · 26-03-2008, 11:34 PM

I don't have a pro account, so i'm limited to just 3 sets or collections (i can't remember which), and I link to my account from my website that uses a flash applet to read a given set/collection.
So... I have the three sets as follows:

My Favourites
Flora and Forna
All Photo's

If you have a Pro account though, it's a completely different kettle of fish, although I would always have a 'My Favourites' set, and if I were a popular Flickr contributor, I'd probably have a 'Your Favourites' set too, for the photo's deemed interesting by the community. Along with the usual Landscape; portrait; family; friends; pets; B+W; Wild Animals; plants; Holidays; Sunsets; abstract; macro...

julian_fraser · 26-03-2008, 11:43 PM

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If you have a Pro account though, it's a completely different kettle of fish, although I would always have a 'My Favourites' set, and if I were a popular Flickr contributor, I'd probably have a 'Your Favourites' set too, for the photo's deemed interesting by the community. Along with the usual Landscape; portrait; family; friends; pets; B+W; Wild Animals; plants; Holidays; Sunsets; abstract; macro...

Damn, I'm going to have to upgrade to Pro now!

**Steven** · 26-03-2008, 11:47 PM

Casually using sets for now but I really need to tag and do collections/sets properly

Other day I spent nearly an hour just organising my photos on LR into sets - not even tagged them... I dread having to do it on flickr

Should have thought this out

Stinja · 13-01-2010, 6:36 PM

Is there a recommended plugin for iPhoto to Flickr uploading?

I found a few links, but just wondering what others use or feel works best for them?

Flickr uploading alternatives for the discerning iPhoto user

Martin.D · 13-01-2010, 8:15 PM

perhaps click on my Flickr link for an example..

I think its easy to follow..

denno75uk · 14-01-2010, 6:48 PM

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Originally Posted by julian_fraser

Damn, I'm going to have to upgrade to Pro now!

Don't know if it's still the case, but BT customers get Pro accounts for free. Look into it.

shotokan101 · 14-01-2010, 6:59 PM

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Originally Posted by denno75uk

Don't know if it's still the case, but BT customers get Pro accounts for free. Look into it.

Interesting is/was that BT Broadband or BT Telephones ?

Jim

elektrobix · 15-01-2010, 1:08 PM

I organise mine by year and month because i'm mostly using it as a place to backup my photos and often i have a picture that fits more than one category so i find it easier.

Strobe · 15-01-2010, 3:12 PM

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Originally Posted by shotokan101

Interesting is/was that BT Broadband or BT Telephones ?

Jim

Is/was BT Broadband (now BT Yahoo). My flickr pro account is fixed in to a BT email which expired 18 months ago!