![]() ![]() You can do this to your images after they are uploaded to Flickr. this is a nude blog, after all):Ī title and description are always nice but on the right hand side is where you can add tags for your photos along with camera information, copyright restrictions and geo-referencing. An example bears out the possibilities (and yes, this example contains nudity. if an image contains nudity a keyword can so state and allow filtering. Another neat (and essential aspect of tags) is that you can have keywords of what kind of subject matter attached to the image. A neat aspect of Flickr is the ability to geotag your images on a map for a different view of you collections and sets. Tags can also be added interactively to images after-the-fact on Flickr. info such as date the image was taken and location if geotagged. Flickr accesses (with permission) this data to tag your images and make it easier for people to search based on those tags. the metadata that is saved by your camera when you take a picture. Yeah, sure you can organize all that content into collections and sets, add descriptive titles and short descriptions but how does someone out there find an image that they might be interested in? That’s where the real power of sites like Flickr come in in their power to access a little known feature of digital images. With that in mind, a Flickr Pro account in hand and the slick Flickr Uploadr program running on my computer I can pretty much open my photos to the world and share. Lacking a viable alternative I can live with Flickr’s TOS. The new system puts the onus on the uploader to correctly categorize their photos as Safe, Moderate, or Restricted and the viewer setting a Safety Filter. I don’t like the fact that my images have to be ‘filtered’ but that’s far better than the old system of requiring all nudity to be locked up in private sets viewable upon invitation only. With images assigned Permissions and a Safety rating when I upload them, I’m pretty much assured that those who view my images are not caught off-guard by the nudity that I consider an essential part of the journey. Moderate is in-between and is fine for images of simple nudity. Restricted is for stuff that is likely to ‘offend’ and probably belongs on a porn site and not a widely-popular sevice like Flickr. Safe, of course, means no one is going to have a problem with the image. It used to be difficult to share photos containing nudity on Flickr but now you can set a Safety rating of Safe, Moderate, or Restricted and Flickr will allow access to your images depending on the visitor’s stated level of content they are willing to view and the Permissions you have assigned. the so-called Permissions and Safety Filters. I’ve been happy with Picasa (both the online and desktop interfaces that do a good job of sorting and categorizing my photos) but recently I’ve come back to Yahoo’s Flickr service as that service matures and provides better control of who sees content. Blogger (this service from Google) uses Picasa with a sizable amount of storage. Synchronization with already geo tagged images with buddy images (e.g.My experiences with online photo albums have been mixed in the past, and for me the judgment of ‘best’ is still out. ![]()
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