Since finding Photoshop Express, I haven’t used it … Why not? Because I upload hundreds of photos to Flickr each month and I don’t want to have to upload them to other places too. Now, I have a reason to re-visit Photoshop Express - Flickr support!

This from DownloadSquad:

At the conference call in March, we asked Adobe about their plans for integrating Photoshop Express with other web services and they assured us Flickr support was on the way. It’s available now and we think it adds a lot of value to both services. Now you can download your Flickr photos directly into Photoshop Express for cropping, color correction, digital effects, etc. Photos edited with Photoshop Express can be immediately re-exported/uploaded to Flickr all in one seamless step.

Awesome!!

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I just found out about Photoshop Express and had to sign right up. You can see my page at http://nengard.photoshop.com.

Upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and more — add your mark to all your images. Then show them off on Adobe® Photoshop® Express or your Facebook page.

Sounds pretty handy - I’ll have to give it a whirl tomorrow.

Flickr & TechSoup have announced a great program!

The Flickr photo sharing service has teamed up with TechSoup Stock to offer premium “pro” accounts to individuals within eligible organizations. The pro accounts are available in packages of either two or five accounts. Organizations must assign these accounts to individuals over 18 years of age, and the accounts will remain assigned to those individuals even if they leave the organization. For details on eligibility requirements, see the Flickr Restrictions.

Flickr is a Web site for photo storage, sharing, and organization, designed to make photo management an easy, natural, and collaborative process. Flickr stores over two billion photos taken by members all over the world. Communication tools let users get comments, notes, and tags on their photos, post them to any blog, share them, and more. See Flickr’s FAQ for much more information.

Awesome!!!

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I taught a class on Thurs on the 2.0 Office. At the end I had some extra time so I showed some fun social tools that you can find professional uses for. One of these tools was Flickr. Well, it turns out (thanks David for pointing it out) that the Library of Congress has come up with a pretty awesome way to use Flickr.

The project is beginning somewhat modestly, but we hope to learn a lot from it. Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist.

This is a great idea!! I love it!

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Flickr is going to add editing capabilities using Picnik in the next few months:

Currently, you can rotate photos on Flickr, but the editing stops there. When the new tools launch, users will be able to edit photos more extensively using the Picnik Flash based tools

[Via TechCrunch]

I am giving a workshop on Flickr next month and I have to admit that there isn’t a conference that goes by where I don’t learn something new about Flickr (that I should have known). I’m at the NFAIS Humanities Rountable and Tim Spalding has just finished his intro to LibraryThing talk in which he showed tag clustering on Flickr - a feature introduced over 2 years ago!!! Tim used the example of the tag bow where the images are clustered based on similar tags - this is pretty darn neat and accurate (except the first row).

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To quote Richard Wallis from Talis - “Take yourself to this video of a presentation at the 2007 TED Conference. Don’t argue just take a look!”

WOW! At first it’s just neat … and then it’s gets neater … and then … WOW!!!

Favorite quote (with some editing out of ums):

What the point here really is is that we can do things with the social environment. This is now taking data from everybody, from the entire collective memory, visually, of what the earth looks like and linking that together and make something emergent that is greater than the sum of its parts.

My pictures now show up in searches. You can see my Code4Lib pics along with others by searching for the code4lib2007 tag.

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So, it looks like Flickr has decided not to show my pictures in public searches - I’m working on resolving this. For now you can see my Code4Lib pictures right here in this set. Enjoy!

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That’s right - Jenkins Law Library finally has a Flickr account. I have been uploading pictures - most of them are private, but there are still a bunch for everyone to see. Check out our page at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenkinslawlibrary.

I said before (earlier today) that I didn’t think the Flickr Camera Finder was useful, but I’ve played with it more and have changed my mind.

I did a little browsing to find pictures taken by a particular camera. I can use this to figure out which cameras take the best pictures (for me). I have added the FujiFilm E900 to my wishlist per a recommendation from a friend (and an amazing price). I did a little looking at pictures taken with this camera and it’s a huge improvement over my current camera.

Flickr now has a Camera Finder that shows you which cameras are the most popular on Flickr. It doesn’t actually show which cameras are good - just which ones the most members on Flickr use. Not terribly useful - but still interesting.

I have just paid for my Flickr account - that’s right - up til now I just stayed within my limits as a free member, but today when I couldn’t create a new set for IL2006 photos I decided it was worth it to make the leap! So now you can see my pictures at my own address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nengard/ and I can upload until my heart’s content. See my IL2006 pictures so far.

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The FlickrBlog has announced that you can now geotag your photos, browse photos by location - and view them on a map! This looks like fun, I’m going to have to go play with it.

Amiglia is an awesome looking photo sharing site. It lets you share photos with your family in a sort of family tree layout.

Confused? I was too - but then I played with the little demo on the home page and I think I get it. Basically you can link your album to your family’s albums and it makes a sort of family tree out of your ablums. I’ll have to play more if I have time - probably not this week - but soon.

I was looking at some pictures I took of these stray kittens in my backyard and I noticed that Flickr knows what kind of camera (FujiFilm) I have and what software (Photoshop CS) I used to edit the picture … and more! I did not notice that before … it's not like I mind, but it is a bit creepy.

Flickr does have a way to prevent this:

If you like, you can prevent the link to your EXIF data from displaying on the photo page. Set this in your privacy options.

Keep that in mind if you don't want me to know what camera you're using