Getting started with Flickr involves 9 steps: 1) Creating a Flickr account, 2) Personalizing your profile, 3) Uploading photos, 4) Organizing photos into sets, 5) Finding friends on Flickr, 6) Adding notes to photos, 7) Posting comments on photos, 8) Adding photos to a map with locations, 9) Customizing privacy and sharing settings for your content. The document provides detailed instructions for completing each of these setup and customization steps on the Flickr platform.

1. GETTING STARTED WITH FLICKR PROF. DR. MOHAMED AMIN EMBI CENTRE FOR ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT

2. STEP 1

3. Go to:http://www.flickr.com/

4. STEP 2 Sign In/Creating flickr Account

5. Click ‘Create Your Account’ to start creating Yahoo account or log in using ‘Facebook’ or ‘Google’. 1 Sign in using Yahoo ID. 2 Click ‘Create New Account’ if you don’t have Yahoo ID.

6. After you have login, insert your flickr screen name. You can also change it later. 3 4 Then, click ‘CREATES MY ACCOUNT’.

7. 5 You flickr account is created when you see this greeting. 6 Now, you can personalize your profile or you can do it later.

8. STEP 3 Personalizing Profile

9. 1 Click ‘Personalize your profile’. 2 Upload image from your computer to create your buddy icon.

10. 3 Customize your flickr URL.

11. Personalize your profile. Then click ‘Save’. 4

12. STEP 4 Uploading Photos

13. Go to your flickr ‘Home’ page. 1 2 Click ‘Upload Photos & Video’. Click ‘Choose photos & videos’. 3

14. 4 Open your file picture from your computer.

15. 6 Click ‘Upload Photos & Videos’. 5 Choose your privacy setting. 7 After your have uploaded, insert ‘Title’, ‘Description’ and insert ‘Tags’ of your photos. 8 Then, click ‘SAVE’.

16. STEP 5 Organizing Photos

17. 1 At your flickr Home page, click ‘Organize & Create’. 2 To start organizing, click ‘Sets’ tab. A set is like a folder that contains photos. 3 Drag the photos into this area to create the set.

18. 4 Name the ‘Set’ and click ‘Save’. 5 Now you have organized one set of pictures. 6 To leave the organizer, click your photostream.

19. STEP 6 Finding Friends

20. 1 Go to your flickr Home page and click ‘Find your friends on Flickr’. 2 Add contacts by searching for your email contacts or Facebook address or search by a person’s name.

21. STEP 7 Adding Notes

22. 1 Go to ‘Actions’ and click ‘Add a note’. 2 Click on the picture you want to add a note. 3 Click at the area you want to add note. 4 Write your note here. 5 Click ‘Save’.

23. STEP 8 Posting Comments

24. 1 To post a comment, go to the bottom of the picture you want to comment. 2 Write your comment here. 3 ‘Preview’ or ‘Post Comment’.

25. STEP 9 Adding Pictures to Map

26. 1 Go to ‘Actions’ and click ‘Add to your map’. Insert the name of the location. 2

27. 3 You can drag-and-drop at the location you like. 4 Customize the visibility options, then click ‘Save Location’.

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