This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Creating Sets
Suppose you want to group a number of photos into a Flickr set (for example, a set of red flower photos).
To get started, click the Sets tab in Organizr to open the tab shown in Figure 3.5.
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Figure 3.5 The Sets tab.
Doing so creates a new set in a new tab, as you can see in Figure 3.6.
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Figure 3.6 A new set.
You can see the set options at the top of the tab page:
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Arrange
Arrange by Date Taken (Oldest First)
Arrange by Date Taken (Newest First)
Arrange by Date Uploaded (Oldest First)
Arrange by Date Uploaded (Newest First)
Alphabetically
Randomly
Reverse Current Order
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Batch Edit
Titles, Tags, and Descriptions
Change Permissions
Change Licensing
Set Safety Filter
Set Content Type Hide/Show in Public Searches
Add Tags
Change Dates to Same Day
Time Shift Dates
Rotate
Send to Group
Change Geoprivacy
Add Items to the Map
Remove Items from the Map
Delete This Set
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The two text boxes on the left hold the set's title and description. You can add your own name and description, as shown in Figure 3.7.
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Figure 3.7 Setting a set's title and description.
To save the set, click the Save button. When you do, the set closes, and it's represented by one of the photos in the set (see Figure 3.8).
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Figure 3.8 A closed set.
The new set appears in your photostream, as you can see in Figure 3.9.
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Figure 3.9 A new set in the photostream.
To open the set from your photostream, double-click it. The set opens, as shown in Figure 3.10.
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Figure 3.10 Opening a set.
Editing a Set
Editing a set is easy with Organizr. Just click the Organize link in any Flickr page, click the Sets tab, and double-click the set you want to edit, opening that set for editing, as shown in Figure 3.11.
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Figure 3.11 Editing a set.
To add a new image to the set, drag that new image from the Findr bar to the set.
To delete an image from the set, drag the image to the Findr bar and release it. That doesn't delete the actual image; it just deletes the image from the set.
You can use the menus in the Organizr to edit the set as well. The Arrange menu lets you arrange photos by date or name and so on, and the Batch Edit menu lets you edit all the set photos' titles, descriptions, and tags simultaneously.
Want to create a new set? Click the Set tab, and then click the Create a New Set link.
You can even specify what set you want photos and/or videos added to when you upload them with Uploadr.
Take a look at Figure 3.12, for example. That's Uploadr preparing to upload an image for us. Note that at bottom right, it's got a heading Add to Sets, and underneath, our Red Flowers set is listed—Uploadr knows all about our set already.
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Figure 3.12 Specifying a set with Uploadr.
To add the photos and/or videos you're uploading to a set, select that set in Uploadr before uploading them. Easy.
Setting a Set's Image
All sets are represented by one of the photos in the set. As you can see in Figure 3.11, one of the red flowers stands for the whole set when the set is closed.
You might want to substitute the photo that Flickr chose to represent the set.
Doing that is easy: Just click the Sets tab, and then double-click the set you want to work on to open it in its own tab. You'll see all the photos in the set lined up, available for you to work with.
The image that Flickr uses to represent the set is larger than the other images, and it's off to the left. To use another photo instead, drag that photo over the image that Flickr uses to represent the set, as shown in Figure 3.13.
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Figure 3.13 Changing the image that represents a set.
When you're satisfied with the photo that will represent the set, click the Save button. Flickr will close the set, and the set will be represented by the new photo from now on.
Who Can See the Photos in a Set?
The photos in a set work just like any Flickr photos—each has its own set of permissions, and the people who can see those photos are the people you've given permission to. For example, everyone can see the public photos in a set. But if you've marked some photos as private, not even for friends or family, then only you can see those photos. The photos you've marked for friends and family can be seen by those groups.
Sets are great to let you create "minialbums" in Flickr. You can organize your photos into sets showing your business trip to San Francisco, your Arctic expedition, or your family barbeque.
Organizing your photos into sets is a great idea because then visitors to your photostream won't have to sift through all your photos to find the ones they came for.
Note that if you're a big-time Flickr user, however, just using sets might not be enough. You might want an additional level of organization—something that can display multiple sets, letting others select which set they want to see. Does such a thing exist?
It certainly does! You can create Flickr collections.