Submit your best image of the year to Your Best Shot 2020, and share your 'worst' image in Your Worst Shot 2020:). Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the 'finding' Flickr tag. Flickr's photo search engine helps you find photos of anything from the huge library of photos uploaded by photographers from around the world Huge photo sharing service with tagging and commenting on pictures, maps showing where geotagged photos were taken. Find pictures of anything, including beautiful art images. According to Flickr’s blog, as of January 8th, 2019, users who have more than 1,000 photos in their accounts were no longer able to upload additional files. Worse, as of February 5th, any photos.
Flickr is a great resource for finding top quality free pictures to use on your blog. Lately, I’ve explained how to find and use free pictures on flickr to several people so for future reference here’s a short guide on the best way of finding and using pictures on flickr.
Search Creative Commons Pictures
Head on over to the flickr Creative Commons search to find pictures you can use on your blog for free. The only stipulation is you must attribute the original owner of the picture, but that is a small price to pay for free top quality pictures.
Download and optimize
Once you find a nice picture, click the all sizes button. You can then select from a variety of resolutions to download to your computer. I usually choose a larger option, which I then crop, scale and compress in GIMP. The GNU Image Manipulation Program is an open-source image editor that has many of the same features of Photoshop but at a much more affordable price (free). I also rename the file from the random letters and characters flickr assigns it to a more descriptive filename that better describes the picture.
For instance, the picture you see at the top of this post was scaled down to 500 pixels in width, and compressed at 85% quality. It was also renamed as “flickr-badges.jpg”.
Upload and tag
Once you have your picture optimized for the web (scaled to fit your blog post width, compressed to a smaller size and renamed to be descriptive) you’re then ready to upload it to your blog. Once it’s uploaded, make sure you give it a good description and fill in the alt tag so that you can have a caption and so that visually impaired individuals (including the Googlebot) can figure out what the picture is about.
Attribute your source
Once your free flickr picture is optimized, uploaded and tagged, you’re ready to attribute your source. If you scroll to the bottom of this post you’ll see my attribution to “poolie” for the picture of the flickr buttons inserted at the top of this post. My personal method is to link the person’s username to the picture’s page so that my readers can easily access the picture themselves. This way provides proper attribution and also helps with the next recommended step.
Comment on the owner’s picture page
Once your post is published, use the attribution link to head back to the flickr page of the person who originally took and uploaded the picture. Leave them a brief comment thanking them for kindly uploading the picture under the Creative Commons license and leave them a link to your post (note, you can use html link tags in the flickr comments). The owner will likely check out your post to see how the picture was used and so might other people who stumble upon the post. It might generate a little bit of traffic but more importantly notifies the owner that his/her picture was used.
There you have it, the short, simple guide to finding and using top quality free pictures from flickr. If you have any additional tips please let us know in the comments.
Thanks to poolie for the great picture of the flickr badges.
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Anyone can poke around on the web or use Google to find images, but the re-use of them is highly questionable as a practice. For this workshop, you are asked to use only images that have been Creative Commons licensed with permission for reuse and.or for modification. This page is provided with suggestions on how to find images and will be references from several of the workshops as a reference.For any image you use, keep a record (in a text file or even on paper) of information for each image:
- The URL where the image was found
- The name of the photographer (in flickr this might be the account name)
- The file name (if you download it-- flickr creates cryptic names)
- optional- the title of the image
This info will/should be used when giving credit in your re-use of an image.
Upping Your Image Quotient
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Hints and tips for finding images you can use, it's a bit more than just keywords in a box. |
flickr Creative Commons Search
http://flickr.com/creativecommonsKeyword search on all photos in flickr that are creative commons licensed. Click the 'more...' link in each license category to seatch. You have to know which kind of license to pursue- for any exercise, where we might need to download a copy and make changes to it, use either Attribution, Attribution-Non-Commercial, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, or Attribution-ShareAlike License. If you are just going to use an image or post a blog entry directly form flickr, any category will do- i tend to use the one with the most images -- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
Let's say I was looking for an image to represent joy or being happy- I might try the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike search on the word happiness.Not bad, some images of smiling kids, etc.
flickr cc licenced photo by Stuck in Customs |
It is sometimes worth clicking the link for 'more interesting' which weights the results by how many comments a photo has and how many times it has been favorited. Now compare the results on my search for happiness by re-ordering results by interesting.
This image on the right, is very powerful! Credit goes to flickr user Stuck in Customs http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/2726218408/
compfight
http://compfight.com/Powerful and fast way to search creative commons license- with options to search on tags or text.
Behold
http://www.behold.cc/Behold claims to search only high 'quality images' from flickr, but uses an image analysis that is more than keywords and text. It offers a feature to search for similar images or ones based on the subject of the image.
Finding Photos With Flickr Slideshow
Photos For Class
http://www.photosforclass.com/Find photos suitable for classroom or student project use- they use the flickr search engine to find 'g-rated' appropriately licensed images (and it looks like they do some curating of those). The downloads provided overlay a properly cited caption onto the image that provides the attribution right in the image.
Finding Photos With Flickr Tumblr
Flickr CC Attribution Helper
Finding Photos With Flickr Camera
http://cogdog.github.io/flickr-cc-helper/Install a browser bookmarklet tool to generate proper Creative Commons attribution in both text and HTML formats when activated from any licensed flickr page.
ImageSeek
https://cogdog.makes.org/thimble/LTEzODAzODQ3Njg=/image-seekLess of a tool and more meant to demonstrate a strategy for finding images for non-literal topics, e.g. things that keywords will not necessarily find. I (Alan Levine) built this using Mozilla Thimble, so it is designed for people to remix, and edit as an interactive worksheet for developing search strategies. It has also been developed as a Teaching Kit with a full set of resources and activities- see Image Seeking for Fantastic Visual Metaphors
TinEye Labs MultiColr Search
http://labs.tineye.com/multicolrFinding Photos With Flickr Images Of
A rather creative and powerful search tool; it finds creative commons licensed images based on colors, and not only single colors, but mixtures of colors. This can be useful for finding colors to fit a theme or as just an interesting way to explore photos:This site was created by Alan Levine in October 2010, the second incarnation of the original 50+ Ways concept. A 2014 expansion for mobile apps is being co-created with Darren Kuropatwa. Everything here is open to be linked, re-used, re-mixed, re-cast, etc. This particular page was created on Oct 23, 2010 12:31 am and has been edited 7 times. The last tweak was made on Jan 19, 2015 9:34 am by - cogdog. Share freely, often, and voraciously by linking to http://50ways.cogdogblog.com/