I discovered a new-to-me tool for Flickr – SmartSetr helps you organize your Flickr photos into sets. So what’s your point? I bet you’re asking, because yes, Flickr will organize your photos in sets too.
But this does it on a grand scale – you can search all your photos (and faster too) on more criteria than Flickr does. I have this nasty habit of not tagging my pictures, so if I were going to go through and tag most of the 1,000 photos I have stored there, just to organize them better, you can see that would be a pain.
Instead, I used SmartSetr to search throguh the description and titles of photos for certain keywords, and then I grouped those pics into sets. Even for ones it accidentally grabbed, it was no biggie to go back to Flickr, use their organizer to see the photos in each set and take out the ones I didn’t want filed there.
I was never a big fan of sets till I got a pro account and really started to use my Flickr album plugin here on the blog. Now I am all about finding a set to plunk a picture in! I’m even cross-posting to sets. I am Flickr Set crazy.
And speaking of Flickr, how can I get more comments on my photos? How can I get them noticed more? Feel free to share Flickr tips in the comments.
My quick tip: when in the Organizer, you can drag n drop to rearrange photos and even change the main set picture.
So why are we not surpised you don’t tag your photos, Ms. “oops, I forgot to set the category”?
More comments? I find that joining groups and commenting on people’s comments gets you comments.
But sometimes not. LOL
That reminds me. I just listened to a really interesting show on NPR the other day (can I say that or is it too pretentious?) that talked about a few bloggers who catalog every minute of their lives, using a camera that takes pics every minute or so, plus they write down all of their day. Of course I can’t recall the name of the NPR show or the guy who does it but I so wanted to visit his site. They also discussed ways in which the camera technology helped Alzheimer’s patients and people with memory issues to recall their days by reviewing all of the pics in sequence after a special event. Now I know why I like to take so many pictures! But I thought it was interesting how something we all do for fun might create technology with perks down the line for others.
Well, I am doing Project 365 (taking a picture every day) and plan on trying A Day in the Life (taking a picture every hour for a day). Don’t think that I could do it every minute! LOL!
I have links and blogged about it here:
http://throwingmarshmallows.homeschooljournal.net/2007/01/02/256/
I agree with Maricar, joining groups helps with comments. There are quite a few that I am with that require commenting – you post one image to the pool and then you have to comment on X number before yours.
sweetie, tell your mom to pay us more. we already comment here, she needs to up her payment to have us comment on flickr, too.
seriously, though, comments breed comments. usually