How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution (Paperback)

~ Richard Giles (Author)

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Product Description

Looking for a unique and creative place to store, organize, search, and securely share your digital photographs? Welcome to Flickr - a revolution in digital photography! How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution is your one-stop guide to the capabilities of Flickr. All the basic Flickr features are presented, including how to create and set up your account and profile and how to upload your photos. Later chapters detail more advanced Flickr features such as how to organize your collection, share your photos, utilize print services, and get involved in the Flickr community. Once you're accustomed to Flickr, you'll learn to take advantage of cool capabilities such as publishing your photos to a weblog, uploading photos with a camera phone, and using Flickr with other useful applications. More than just a how-to guide, this book features interesting anecdotes, interviews, tips, and real-life photos and examples from actual Flickr users. Get ready to embrace and share the Flickr revolution!

About the Author

Richard has been in the technology industry for more than 15 years. He started his career in the early nineties with the largest cell phone provider in the UK, and he was one of the first to demonstrate that thieves could steal people's phone numbers to make free phone calls. When he returned to Australia in 1992, Richard discovered the Internet and worked with organizations to build intranets and extranets before most knew what a Net was. After working for Sun Microsystems for almost 10 years, Richard set up his own consultancy, Clique Communications, to focus on authoring, consulting, and entrpreneurship. Richard now specializes in online social software, like Flick, weblogging, and podcasting. he consults with many organizations, explaining the ramifications of technology on society and business. he also produces The Gadget Show podcast (http://gadget.thepodcastnetwork.com), which was voted Best Australian Podcast in The 2006 Australian Blog Awards.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (March 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598631373
• ISBN-13: 978-1598631371
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #341,787 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Evolution, June 7, 2006

By	Conrad J. Obregon (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I must have come late to the party! How did I know so little about Flickr? It is such a natural outgrowth of the Web and digital photography.

Flickr is a web site for the storage and display of photographs by anyone who wants to take the time to post them. In that way, it's similar to an individual website. But Flickr is so much more.

In the first case, it's so much easier to load a picture onto Flickr, than to create a website. Sign on, click upload a picture, browse through your computer, find the image you want and click. There it is on screen.

Flickr lets you limit access to the photo in various ways or open it up to the whole world to see. Then you can add tags (or keywords) to your picture that let that photograph be integrated into the larger Flickr community. Note that word community. That concept is a central tenet of Flickr because the site aims at tying its members together. It does this through a number of devices, like allowing its members to set up groups of like minded photographers. For example, there's a group that features pictures of members looking at pictures of members, or a group that is concerned with the development of Flickr. Members get to comment on each others pictures, and communicate back and forth. And Flickr offers a number of controls so that one can decide just how much or little one wants to participate. And that's just the start.

I had a number of questions about Flickr. Setting up a website for your pictures lets you exercise far more control over how people view your pictures. I was also concerned about how you protect your property interest in your pictures until I saw that Flickr will import your EXIF data (if you don't know what that means, it's probably not an issue that will bother you) including an imbedded copyright.

Meanwhile, what about the book? You can probably learn all of the potential of Flickr by banging around the website, clicking links. But what Giles has done is put it into order with explanations of capabilities of the program and detailed steps on how to access them and set up your pictures the way you want. For those who are interested in the history of the community or in learning about some other participants, there are sidebars which are not essential to read but interesting to get the feel of Flickr. Giles' writing is accurate and helpful. I easily got onto Flickr (which offers a free membership, although heavy users will want a paying account), uploaded my pictures, and even used those pictures as a feed to a blog. Giles is an apostle of the community aspects of Flickr, and even an old anchorite like me could see where it might be fun to get in on Flickr. My only worry with pursuing Flickr is that I can see where this could easily become an addictive time suck.

If you are not afraid of that, and if you are a digital photographer and don't know the in-and-outs of Flickr, it's time to get Giles and get started.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally the book I waited for, July 22, 2006

By	J. Kertesz "julie70 on the web" (London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While this wonderfully written book is one for the beginers too, as a veteran of almost two years in flickr, not only had I have joy of reading it but also learned and discovered things I never knew.

Not only teaching, but agrable interviews with those around or working for flickr or products usefull for those having pictures in it, it also conveys so well the spirit of communication of flickr.

I recomend it to all, not only all ages but all competences too, and all over the world who understand english. Hope, soon will be also translated in other major langagues.

In one word: one excellent, usefull and enjoyable book.

1.0 out of 5 stars Flickr censorship, October 26, 2009

By	Shepherd Johnson (Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Do not buy this book. Flickr engages in censorship. Do not support Flickr or Yahoo! they have no respect for free speech.