Getting started posting your pictures...

A friend of mine (at the rink) asked me how to share his pictures in the same way that I do. He does not have any current accounts (Flickr, Google Photos, Shutterfly, etc.) and so I have put together these instructions to help him and they may be useful for you too.

I am going to base these on a Flickr account. Flickr is a little complex, it takes some use to getting started, but gives you 1Tb of storage and sharing is very easy. Many of the other services are good too, I just have less experience of them.

Getting a login

The first step is to get a login and set up an account. Go to www.flickr.com and you will be greeted with the following screen,

Click the link highlighted by the red circle to sign up.

Enter your details into the form and press Continue.

Yahoo! (the owners of Flickr) want to make sure you are a real person and so they will ask you to do a Captcha test.

Complete the test and verify your email address by getting an account key.

This will send you an email to the address you have entered with a 5 digit code. When you have received the code via email, enter it into the form and press Verify.

If everything has gone well, the account should be created and you'll get a confirmation screen.

Get started by pressing the big blue button. You will be presented with your Flickr home screen.

Setting privacy

It is a personal decision on you protect your pictures, but typically I set up my Flickr account to default to private pictures and then I can choose to share just the ones I want. Before you get started, go to the camera icon on the far right of the toolbar and select Settings. Go through and set it up as you wish, but here are some examples of how I set it up...

Take some time to understand the settings and make your own choices, but this should be a decent place to start.

Uploading pictures

At the top right hand side there is Uploader button (shown in the ring below)

Click this to start uploading your pictures. You will be presented with a screen where you can drop pictures to be uploaded.

Drag and drop your pictures onto this window to select them for uploading. I have added 2 pictures as an example below.

Select the Add to albums and then create an new album in the dialog box

Enter a name for the album and press create. The pictures are linked to album but not yet uploaded.

We can now start the upload with the button in the top right hand corner.

Sharing your album

You now have created the album and added the pictures. Go to "You", "Albums" and select the album you just created. To get a sharing link, click on the Share icon (far left) and you will get a link to album.

Copy the link and then you can paste this as a hyperlink in an email and send to your friends and family to share the pictures.

When you are ready to send out another album, just repeat the upload process and go through these steps again.

Summary

Hopefully these instructions will have got you started sharing your pictures with Flickr...no we can get back to real fun of taking and processing the shots. Enjoy.