Flickr help

[Zen]

I want to upload a very large folder to Flickr but can't seem to be able to do it without selecting each photo individually.
There must be a way to do this.

I am using the godforsaken Windows Vista. I hate it.

[Cataboo]

I haven't tried this because flickr gives me hives and I hate it with a passion.

An absolute passion, I tell you.

but, this should put a flickr button in your picasa like that facebook one I sent you:
http://picasa2flickr.sourceforge.net/

[Kalidurga]

Open the folder and then either shift and highlight all, or ctrl and click 'em all. And, yes, that works in Vista.

[tulip]

Speaking of...

I want to store all of my photos on something like Snapfish/Picassa/Flickr, etc. I definitely do not want my photos to be accessible to anyone but the people to whom I give permission to view them. I also want the option to get prints made (Snapfish has a good printing service I believe). Are there major differences between these and similar services?

Your experience and opinions matter (to me!)

[Cataboo]

All of those will let you set security so that only some people can see your albums. I've never really tried snapfish, I (as said above) absolutely despise flickr, and really like picasa.

Picasa allows you to organize photos on your harddrive and select which ones you want to upload to their webalbums. When you upload photos to their album, picasa resizes them smaller and they won't be fullsize on their web albums. So it is not permanent full sized archival. I think flickr might store full size photos.

Picasa when the photos are on your harddrive, you just highlight the pics you want to print, and click order prints and it will pull up a page that will allow you to choose which photo printing service to use.

My current favorite photo printing place is adorama.com. they do have an archival function where they will store however many full sized photos indefinitely for you - I think if you pay extra you get more space. But you can also share albums from them. Adorama uses kodak endura archival quality paper - and the lustre paper is just spectacular. On thickness of the paper and quality of the print, it really just blows all the other places I've tried away. Periodically they have sales where it's $.99 cents for an 8x10 or $1.99 for an 11x14 or $5 for a 16x20 or $10 for a 20x30... usually when they have a sale, they allow you to "pre-buy" a bunch of photos, so you can print photos later at that price.

[tulip]

Thanks, Catriona, that's really helpful. I'm not sure Picassa would work for my purposes. My squeeze and I live a few hours apart and want some way to combine all of our photos of our joint adventures so that we can each view them and print them from our respective houses. We also would want to share some of them with family, but we don't want them to be pulled up by anyone googling Bike Friday in Arizona, for example. So if Picassa pulls them from your hard drive, then I wouldn't be able to pull his and he wouldn't be able to pull mine.

I will definitely look into Adorama. I have some really nice photos that I want to print photo-quality and frame and hang on my walls.

[Cataboo]

picasa only pulls them from your harddrive if you tell them to - they do upload copies to the web.

Flickr might be want you want to use, as I had a friend that just got married and made 1 flickr account, gave all the friends the name/password - and had them upload all the picks they took from the wedding to flickr. And her rational was that flickr kept full sized photos on their database.

I mentioned to her the other day that photobooks were on sale at winkflash & i'd buy her a few if she wanted - then she gave me her flickr account info and seems to expect me to go through all of those pictures and make her a photobook. Little does she know that I DESPISE FLICKR WITH A PASSION and don't have time to go through 30 of her friend's photos of a wedding I wasn't at and try to piece it together temporarily to make her photo books.

but maybe I'll decide I love her enough to brave flickr.

[Cataboo]

tulip - another thing to check out if you want to make nice prints - propicsexpress.com

They make prints that basically look like they're on canvas. They print on paper and then fuse it to canvas so that the texture shows through. THey can be really cheap $5.99 for frame 5x7 & $10 for frame 8x10's... I think it's like $40 for a 16x20 and maybe $20 for a 11x14. They run specials periodically.


I've done a bunch of prints like this, sometimes I keep the original frame, and sometimse I replace them. Zen's seen some, so you can get her independent opinion of them.

Here's some pics I took in spain - the heavy wood frames are ones that I replaced the frames the prints came with:
http://picasaweb.google.com/EyeofCatriona/PropicsSpain#

Other random ones:
http://picasaweb.google.com/EyeofCatriona/CanvasPrints#
http://picasaweb.google.com/EyeofCatriona/Canvas#

cpq.com is propicsexpress parent company, and they do large framed prints. At some point they had a $50 special on like 20x20's and a $50 off coupon for new photographers, so then I ordered this - it's up at annapolis rocks:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_qnxyEZuNEmk/SRfmayygjII/AAAAAAAABv8/OMXQ-aAVikA/s800/IMGP1830.JPG

[Kalidurga]

I don't do any printing, but I like Photobucket's options for archiving and displaying images. You can create nested folders and password protect them at any level, and when you click on an image it can be zoomed to the actual image size. That's the thing I really dislike about Flickr, that they dictate image size. I also like that I can set different backgrounds in Photobucket, because I prefer to see my images against black rather than the white background at Flickr.

The one thing that I really like about Flickr that Photobucket doesn't seem to offer, though, is the ability to set a Creative Commons copyright for your images.

[Zen]

Open the folder and then either shift and highlight all,

Ah, the magic shift bar.
That was the missing ingredient.
Thank you

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I don't know if it still does this, but the TE forum will not show my Picasa pictures if I insert them into my posts. It recognizes Flicker photos, though. It's a pain in the butt! Every time I want to include a photo on my TE posts, I have to post it on Flicker instead of my usual Picasa. :mad:

[Cataboo]

I don't know if it still does this, but the TE forum will not show my Picasa pictures if I insert them into my posts. It recognizes Flicker photos, though. It's a pain in the butt! Every time I want to include a photo on my TE posts, I have to post it on Flicker instead of my usual Picasa. :mad:

Picasa's annoying about this, but I've found 2 workarounds

You either need to be logged out of your picasaweb account - then while in your album and looking at your photo, you can right click the photo and hit copy image location... and then paste that into team estrogen.

I don't know why that doesn't work if you are logged in.

But if you are logged in and looking at your photo on the right hand side of the screen, there's something like "link to this photo" and then there's an "embed html"

if you copy the embed html code, there's a sequence in there that is what you actually want to post on picasa. Actually, I see a new option there, so everyone tell me if you can see the below image - i clicked on embed image and then told it size 400, and then clicked on the button that said image only, (no link) and then copied that text to get this:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BTaSD6AsAt8/Sev5pNUPK-I/AAAAAAAATGY/s37QQ-jW1sE/s400/IMGP3353.JPG

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BTaSD6AsAt8/Sev5pNUPK-I/AAAAAAAATGY/s37QQ-jW1sE/s400/IMGP3353.JPG

[ClockworkOrange]

I use both but prefer Photobucket.com for putting a lot of photos on.

Have sent you a PM.

Clock

[Cataboo]

Speaking of...

I want to store all of my photos on something like Snapfish/Picassa/Flickr, etc. I definitely do not want my photos to be accessible to anyone but the people to whom I give permission to view them. I also want the option to get prints made (Snapfish has a good printing service I believe). Are there major differences between these and similar services?

Your experience and opinions matter (to me!)

Someone just posted their experience with snapfish:
http://forums.goingprepared.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2237&p=37969#p37969

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Actually, I see a new option there, so everyone tell me if you can see the below image - i clicked on embed image and then told it size 400, and then clicked on the button that said image only, (no link) and then copied that text to get this:

I'm seeing the bike image, but i also see the text link above it in your post. Did you intend the text link or was it automatic?

[tulip]

Thanks, Catriona. Shutterfly is the one I could not remember the name of. Y'all have given me great resources to go study. I'll let you know what I decide on, just in case someone is looking for the same thing.

[Cataboo]

I'm seeing the bike image, but i also see the text link above it in your post. Did you intend the text link or was it automatic?

I posted the text to show you what the text looked like that I was copying, and then I hit the img button above & posted that same text in.

So that option off to the right - link to the photo, and then copy what it says under embed after clicking image only is how to do it in picasa without logging out.

I didn't look at the page myself to see whether it posts, because oftentimes it just grabs the image from my internet cache and doesn't try to download it new.

[HelenOster]

I will definitely look into Adorama. I have some really nice photos that I want to print photo-quality and frame and hang on my walls.

When someone sets up a new account with AdoramaPix (which is FREE!) they get 25 free prints. Many people use these free 4x6s to order some prints on all the different paper types. We usually recommend that you print something that you have already seen in print, that way you can compare. The only paper type we don't offer in a 4x6 size is the Silk, but if you'd like to email me with your mailing address, I can pass it along and see that you get some samples.

Generally, the silk paper is very well suited for any kind of portraits, especially formal portraits like wedding shots. It delivers lovely skin tones and has a very delicate texture to it. It's more matte than our Lustre paper. The Kodak Endura Supra Lustre has a slight sheen to it, not as much as the Metallic or Glossy, but it's a good all around paper, a very fine surface texture and closest to "semi-gloss."
The Supra Matt(TM) might be a good choice also, nice rich blacks and good detail with no texture to the finish - it depends on your subject matter, and personal preference. Set up your account and order some prints for free and see for yourself.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything else you need.

[Kalidurga]

Holey instant, omniscient customer service, Batman! :eek:

[Cataboo]

Lol. I once complained about the quality of some prints I'd had made at adorama on fatwallet.com.... Then I got a PM from the director of adorama's photography service offering to reprint everything I didn't like for free. and wanting to know which photos weren't printing well so that he could fix that for the future.

While I knew they checked in on their feedback & comments on fatwallet, I didn't know that mentioning them on another forum would summon them from the depths of their printing presses to comment.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I posted the text to show you what the text looked like that I was copying, and then I hit the img button above & posted that same text in.
So that option off to the right - link to the photo, and then copy what it says under embed after clicking image only is how to do it in picasa without logging out.
I didn't look at the page myself to see whether it posts, because oftentimes it just grabs the image from my internet cache and doesn't try to download it new.

Ok, I'm doing a little test, I'll leave it up until tonight and then i'll delete this post....can you guys see both pictures below?:

Catriona's method:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9fPBEJTqGzw/SZb4tzC4-4I/AAAAAAAABZw/9Iw6vzoror0/s800/Chatham.jpg

and here the Picasa picture using the way I used to try doing it:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9fPBEJTqGzw/SZb4tzC4-4I/AAAAAAAABZw/9Iw6vzoror0/Chatham.jpg

[Cataboo]

hrm. I can see both.

[bluebug32]

I love Picassa because it's so easy to upload the photos you want, only share what you want, and edit and print them all in one program.

[Fredwina]

I like, but I'll agree that getting on forums that won't accept HTML can be a bit of challenge.
Catornia, I didn't know you could that. thanks!:)

[Cataboo]

Alright, I'v been playing with this stuff.

You can tell picasa to upload the full sized images to the web gallery. Adorama has a button where you can tell it to print images from yoru picasa web gallery, your smug mug one, and your flickr one.


I installed the adorama button for picasa to upload images straight to adorama. And I must say it's absolutely horrible and giving me conniptions. Fix it.

*grr*

[Zen]

My brain hurts.

[Irulan]

testing from picasa, right click save image as...

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hsDVR6ZLPcI/SmeZlGW8bhI/AAAAAAAAACg/6xfQEfeH8VE/s576/2873299603.jpg.

[Cataboo]

My brain hurts.

Stop straining it & trying to think. Don' worry yer purty lil head about nuttin.
;)

[Cataboo]

testing from picasa, right click save image as...


You can manually upload photos to picasa web from your browser without downloading picasa. Just go to picasaweb.google.com, log in with your gmail account if you have one, make one if you don't... and click the upload button.

[Irulan]

You can manually upload photos to picasa web from your browser without downloading picasa. Just go to picasaweb.google.com, log in with your gmail account if you have one, make one if you don't... and click the upload button.

Huh? All I did was right click on my image in my picasa account, "save image as" and then pasted the html in the image code for the forum. People said they were having a problem embedding images into their posts so I was just trying it out.
I don't have gmail, either.

[Cataboo]

If you have a google account, you probably have a gmail account.

I have a couple of gmail accounts that I just set to autoforward to my yahoo account... I keep one for craigslist, one for ebay, one for whatever...

[Irulan]

I think I know what email accounts I have.

[tulip]

I think I know what email accounts I have.

I think Catriona was offering some general advice, not telling you about your accounts. Geeze.

[Cataboo]

I think Catriona was offering some general advice, not telling you about your accounts. Geeze.

No, I'm scouring the web finding lost owners for gmail accounts. People who abandon email addresses are like people who abandon kittens and alligators and turtles in the sewer.

[tulip]

Well I just found out that I can actually have a google account for Google Docs without having to have a Google email account. It was news to me, and I'm glad that people who are far more tech-savvy than me, which isn't saying alot, share their knowledge so that I can learn this stuff.

[Kalidurga]

No, I'm scouring the web finding lost owners for gmail accounts. People who abandon email addresses are like people who abandon kittens and alligators and turtles in the sewer.

Yes, but e-mail accounts don't grow into hellish mutations looking to devour human flesh.

Or do they...?

[Cataboo]

Btw, if anyone's looking to make some photo books, if you write a review for tripadvisor, they'll give you a free photobook coupon (8x8, 20 pages) for shutterfly. Shipping's about $8

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/957723/

If you're on facebook and try the family tree application, it will also give you an 8x8 20 page coupon:
http://apps.facebook.com/familytree/shutterfly


Winkflash currently has a coupon code for a 100 page photobook for $20 (it'll be definitely listed on fatwallet)...

Winkflashes photobooks are okay, the pics are a little pixellated and maybe on the dark side... but it's sure cheap for $20 for 100 pages. Shutterfly does a much nicer job, but they are also much more expensive.

[Cataboo]

Yes, but e-mail accounts don't grow into hellish mutations looking to devour human flesh.

Or do they...?

Well, we did have the teenage mutant ninja turtles to protect us at least from the hellish mutations looking to devour human flesh.

Email accounts devour human minds, attention spans, and time management skills. As of yet a protective team of turtles has not yet been assembled to protect us from this threat.

[Cataboo]

Well I just found out that I can actually have a google account for Google Docs without having to have a Google email account. It was news to me, and I'm glad that people who are far more tech-savvy than me, which isn't saying alot, share their knowledge so that I can learn this stuff.

Excellent. Can I interest you in the multitude of uses of throw away email accounts?

[Kalidurga]

Email accounts devour human minds, attention spans, and time management skills.

All the more reason to abandon them, then. Perhaps you should let the lost remain lost.

[lph]

Well, we did have the teenage mutant ninja turtles to protect us at least from the hellish mutations looking to devour human flesh.

Email accounts devour human minds, attention spans, and time management skills. As of yet a protective team of turtles has not yet been assembled to protect us from this threat.

*SNORK* :D :D

Youse is getting all funny over here.

[tulip]

Excellent. Can I interest you in the multitude of uses of throw away email accounts?

Uh, no. ;)

[Cataboo]

All the more reason to abandon them, then. Perhaps you should let the lost remain lost.

But then I might have to actually accomplish something in my life.

[Kalidurga]

But then I might have to actually accomplish something in my life.

Well, you could always go ride your bike instead of being productive.




If, of course, our weather didn't suck right now.

[Cataboo]

Well, you could always go ride your bike instead of being productive.

If, of course, our weather didn't suck right now.

I could put on the gadzooks of rain gear that I have and pretend I'm enjoying myself, or I could do the dishes so that my house isn't quite as disgusting.

Actually, the ground looks dry outside - I'm gonna pop the 2nd set of wheels I just set up for the surly on and see if I like it more. 700x28 seemed so slow, and the 11-34 gearing was pretty far apart, so stuck some 700x23's on a spare set of wheels and got it a 12-23 cassette to see how I like that. Then one day I'm getting it a set of 650b fat wheels.

[Zen]

I left a Wells Fargo bank account in California. If you can find that let me know. It must be worth at least $250 by now.

[Cataboo]

I left a Wells Fargo bank account in California. If you can find that let me know. It must be worth at least $250 by now.


That could buy us 2-5 mixtes. Get our money!