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Image Posting from Flickr : HowTo

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Flickr is a little bitch. They offer a ridiculous amount of free space to host photos (1TB), but they make you jump through a godawful interface to use them.

 

This is how I do it. I'm on a mac, but I'm certain you can do the same with a PC. I've done it from an iPad as well with a few modifications.

 

 

  • Locate the photo you'd like to use here. In this case, I found this one.

 

 

 

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  • Next, navigate to the download symbol in the bottom right corner and select "View all sizes."

 

 

 

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  • That will take you to a page that looks like this;

 

 

 

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  • Flickr will display a default size, in this case 1024x683, rather than the smallest or largest it has. Flickr has multiple versions pre-sized for you. I'm going to use the image that's being displayed now as that's big enough for a posting.

  • You'll want to right click, or command+click (mac), or control+click(pc) ON THE DISPLAYED IMAGE and select "Copy Image URL" (I'm using Chrome. Other browsers may have slightly different wording.

 

 

 

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  • At this point, you have the image URL in your copy/paste buffer. Now it's time to head back to RWG.

 

 

 

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  • Follow the red arrow, and click the Insert picture button. It looks like a picture. A box will pop up that looks like this...

 

 

 

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  • Remember that time, a few steps back, when you copied that image URL and put it in your copy/paste buffer. This is where you paste it. (Cmd+V or Ctrl+V). There it is.

 

 

 

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  • And this is what it looks like when you're done;

 

 

 

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There are other ways to do this. Some even easier. This one though, has stood up to the constant interface mangling that flickr seems always to be up to.

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dingle

Nicely done. I have been meaning to do this same thread for a while

 

Stickied :D

 

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reximda
Nicely done. I have been meaning to do this same thread for a while

 

Stickied :D

 

Thanks Dingle. There's been some grumbling lately, and Flickr does suck. Except for the free part.

 

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macdaddy14

thanks for the advice, having issues with photo bucket atm

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repvar

personally I just use imgur it's a lot less restrictive

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Sam007

good and helpful Thread! :-)

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JJayet

Thank you this finaly worked for me after a long week trying to figure it out!

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yowhitemomma

Picture posting success!!!! Thanks

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sissi

Thank you!!! Finally successful picture posting after flickr changed!!!

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