How to Use Flickr to Spruce up your Blog - take two

I love Flickr!  I have been using it for a while to share photos with friends, family and even total strangers.  A number of features make Flickr ideal for creating and sharing web content. The images can be (and have been) reused by anybody (the ideal learning object?).  Flickr has allowed me to incorporate images in more places than ever before.

On this page the screen shot gives some insight into the topic of discussion (in this case a website).

Getting images to your website:

1) Sign in to see your photo stream.  From here you can upload more images and look at the images of your contacts.  If you belong to a group, you can also view the images associated with the group (I have set up a group called HorizonVCOP for Horizon project related images).

2) Select an image you would like to incorporate into a webpage and click on the 'blog this picture' button.  If this is your first time blogging an image, you will be prompted to enter the details of your blog.  (The HorizonVCOP blog is a 'blogger' blog and very well supported by Flickr).

3) Select the layout for your 'photoblog' entry and enter the appropriate text.  Press post!  Give the program a minute to do its magic and then check out your blog.  My next step usually involves some tweaking - your entry may be perfect.

Getting images into Flickr:

Flickr gives a number of options to get images into your Flickr account. 

1) The images can come from your capture device. These days this can be your PDA, your cellphone, your iSight camera or your digital camera.  Mac Users have a wonderful iPhoto plug in that allows export direct to Flickr.  The good folks at Flickr distribute photo upload applications.  If you cant or wont install software, you can always mail your photo to Flickr or use the web upload tools.

2)  A bookmarklet allows you to select any image on the loaded page and send it to your flickr account. Be careful about copyright issues.

3) For greater flexibility use Screen Rip 32 to take a picture of part of a screen, save it as a JPEG and then mail it to your flickr 'post to flickr' email address. 

Once the images are in Flickr, proceed to step one (at the top of this page) and incorporate into your blog posting.  Total time for a round trip screen to blog? Under two minutes.