I Just Realized Something About Flickr.

The download button can be edited so only you can download the photo and nobody else. It's been a while since I've been on there, so I forget where in settings you can disable the download button.

really? :) Awesome!! I didn't know you could disable the download button.

Also, I only ever uploaded low resolution images, 800 pixels on the longest side. I wouldn't put my full resolution images there.

We just hope these auto click transfers to sm sites do only transfer low res images... else its meltdown coming

I might be uploading high res images without realizing... i'm just uploading photos i took with my camera. not sure where to find what the res is..or how to lower the res.

If you click on the download button you'll see what your original (uploaded) size was. I resize mine in Photoshop but if you don't have that, I believe you can download Gimp for free and downsize pictures that way.

If i can only share a photo 30 times in different groups.... and then that's it... what if i have other photos i want to share in groups? Sounds like flickr is very limiting. Unless people will be able to find me on keywords/tags alone.
with having over 600 photos.... what i can only share 30 of those photos in groups 30 times? or one same photo in 30 groups at least once? what about the rest of my photos?

that can be turned off an restricted, but now that smugmug bought them, i have no idea what will become of them. before yahoo bought them the site was easy to use. it had a good search, i used it all the time to research places. but yahoo messed the site up, installed their lousy search, and also made it a pain and a half to get your stuff removed if its stolen.

flickr is just a viewing site though, they used to sell stock and print for a while but that ended a while ago.

as far as groups go, i think it depends on the group. when i first joined long ago i think there was a limit to how many things you post to a group in a day. not sure if that changed. you'll have to experiment.

best not to flood a group with images, and i would assume the site has an anti-spam thing, i think if it sees you posting 30 of the same image to every group, who knows what they will do.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

So if i have over 600 photos.. i can only ever share 30 of them? or 60 if i pay for a subscription to the site?

can't answer, i haven't logged on in years. don't know how its setup now. i wouldn't worry about pushing the images hard. if you post too many people in that group will see you as a spammer and ignore you or report you. best to dole it out a few every day, make it last. 600 doesn't go as far as you think.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Some groups the daily limit is one photo, sometimes it's three different photos. However, there's thousands of different groups. Or hundreds and hundreds of them. You can post your 600 photos in different groups. Or, like I used to do, post one photo in three hundred different groups. The next photo, in hundreds of different groups, etc. You can post a photo in only one group, three groups, or in hundreds of different groups.

There's so many different ways to do it. Look at other people's photos and see all of the different groups they're posting to.

Let's say for example.. 1 photo. a photo of clouds. if i joined 30 different cloud groups and posted my 1 photo in each of the groups. would that be it? Would i not be able to share any of my other photos in any groups?

that will take you all day.... and in the end they will look at your flickr page, chances are they may not keep going on into faa. i still suggest to try it and find out, its the only way you'll know for sure.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

You don't have to put the cloud photo in just cloud groups. There are a lot of different groups you can put the cloud photo into. Go to a group you're interested in and read what they're looking for and allowing. After you submit your photo to the groups that you like, upload a new photo and look for groups that suit that photo.You can do it on the same day, or a week or a month later. As long as you're not trying to put different photos in the same group on the same day, because there is a daily limit of how many you can submit. In fact, the group won't let you submit more than the daily limit. The only thing Flickr is strict about is when they tell you to fav three other photos, or one other photo, with their group badge, you have to make sure you do it or they will delete your photos. Not all groups ask you to do the badge thing.

Flick is really easy, and really friendly, and not hard to figure out. Like Mike has suggested, the only way you're going to learn is if you start reading the group rules, and submitting your photos.

Have fun!

if the groups are anything like facebook, and i bet they are, i think you'll find that there aren't as many groups as you think that will accept pictures in the way you want to post them. i go through dozens of groups in FB just to find things that have my interest and don't mind advertisements. and even then there are the ones that make it an invisible rule, where its not allowed and you get yelled at.

i wouldn't worry about being a power user yet. just send what you have and work slowly.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Mike, I find Facebook groups difficult to understand. And I don't like the interface in Facebook groups either. Flickr has the best interface I've ever dealt with.

In addition, Facebook groups are totally different than Flickr groups. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle with the SmugMug buyout, plus see what kind of changes they're going to be making. If it's all good, I'll probably rejoin Flickr.

I have had my photos on Flickr since 2009. I LOVE Flickr. My entire world began with Flickr. I cannot tell you the amount of money I have made on this site. I have gotten many publications. a book cover for a best selling author, 2 Greeting Card contracts. Getty Images found me there and I have about 600 images commercially selling on that site because of Flickr. Joining Groups is really not the big reason for all my sales at all. It is so much like here.... i.e, tagging/key wording..... Flickr is very well known. I get contacted alot by "outsiders" having nothing to do with joining groups.

I have had my photos on Flickr since 2009. I LOVE Flickr. My entire world began with Flickr. I cannot tell you the amount of money I have made on this site. I have gotten many publications. a book cover for a best selling author, 2 Greeting Card contracts. Getty Images found me there and I have about 600 images commercially selling on that site because of Flickr. Joining Groups is really not the big reason for all my sales at all. It is so much like here.... i.e, tagging/key wording..... Flickr is very well known. I get contacted alot by "outsiders" having nothing to do with joining groups.

basically on facebook, every mod is a god and often there are quite a few heads. each seems to make their own rules or forget the main ones. and you just have to hope they like your images. i only post 1 a day to different groups, no more than 10. as it is it takes 20 min or more.

i was going to join flickr, but just never did. i'm waiting too, to see what smug will do to the site. make it worse, make it better? who knows.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Best to post full res on Flickr. I'm pretty sure if you don't your image wont be considered for Explore, if that is important to you. Plus, if you want people to see the fullness of your work best to post full res. The thing or trick is that you activate sharing on your pictures, because once I did that pirating of my images then plummeted.

I just went into Flickr and looked at settings for picture size. They have an option for ‘best display size’. With this:

“Note: This setting does not determine who can view and download your original files, only resized versions created by Flickr.”

So what this mean is you can post full resolution and not worry about it being downloaded, as long as you have the download option turned off. Flickr will resize your images based on the device viewing the image.

If you don’t want to show people your best work in the best possible way, then don’t post it on the internet.

i don't follow that.... you allow a large image, then they will show the largest size that can be used however. i think the site should be a sample, you control the size on your side, and not take chances people can get the full size. if they want to see it up close, they can come here.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Alice, if you have 50 images on Flickr, you can put all 50 images in up to 30 groups if you're on a free account and the groups don't opt out of the 30/60 thing. The limit is for each image. not all of your images as one, if that makes sense.

I had a Pro account, so I paid for a yearly membership. So, yes, the rules would be different than those people that have the free accounts. I never thought about that.

I'm going to have to disagree with Frank. Although I just posted for the first time in 5 years there, while I was active I had over 400 photos that made it to Explore. I always post low resolution images so the resolution has no bearing on whether or not something makes it to Explore. I also don't allow sharing. To reach his or her own though!

Regarding pro accounts, etc. ... I believe I was grandfathered in.

I've been on Explore a few times, I don't think it matters if it is high res or not.

Peggy - Not sure 1600px is hires anymore, but that is the minimum requirement. That's for the longside. (seems your Explore images just missed this rule update) If I can jog my brain where I read it, I'll share the link here in this post. If you view from a computer browser, the lo res images size smaller, and you should not find any on Explore.


With regards to groups, here is a dated article yet still the basic information is still relevant on the true power of groups (and its not about the 60 / 30 thing)

http://thomashawk.com/2012/07/flickr-groups-are-the-hidden-social-network-that-yahoo-doesnt-even-realize-it-owns.html

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Here you go about image size and Explore, and more: https://inexploreblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/the-ultimate-explore-checklist-its-insane/

More FYI https://www.flickr.com/groups/inexplore/discuss/72157651931730424/#comment72157654272095495

"i'm just uploading photos i took with my camera. not sure where to find what the res is"

If you're uploading straight from your camera, odds are they are high resolution, or at least higher resolution than you might want. Check your cameras manual, to see if it is downsizing automatically for web uploads.