Instructions for Flickr uploadin

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Instructions for Flickr
	We have a large collection of photos at Flickr, and we'll need more this season. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sherwoodfriends/
	The Flickr photos are used for several purposes. All good photos should go first to Flickr. · fed to the website, e.g. the photos on this page are actually links to the small (240px) photos at Flickr. · fed to the blog (see Blogging, below) · news releases. Instead of sending photos to news media as attachments, we send links to individual Flickr photos. · blast mails. They sometimes contain links to captioned Flickr photos.
	Public views
	Photo page	Example: this is the link to a photo from the training session: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sherwoodfriends/4568958524/ All sizes: Anyone can click Actions > View All sizes above the photo for selection of sizes for downloading. Especially useful for the news media.
	Photostream	This home page shows photos as they are uploaded. It is messy page not useful for public viewing. We don't provide links to the photostream. We do provide links to individual photos and sets.
	Finding pix	Search box in upper right corner searches the Photostream for any word in titles or captions. Example: Search for Annie brings up four pictures of Annie. Tag search for interns brings up 23 photos of interns, including Annie. Archives. Photos by date taken and date uploaded. We don't use Galleries or People or Favorites.
	Tags	Tags are like keywords. There's no limit to how many tags there can be, and almost no limit on the number tags per photo (75), but it's confusing to have too many. This page shows all the current tags. Every photo should have one or more tags. Use a current tag unless there's a good reason to create a new one.
	Tags & Sets	In real-life households, family photos can be found in albums and shoe boxes. The best pictures are in the albums. All the rest are in the shoe boxes. In Flickr, the sets are the albums, the tags sort of like shoe boxes. In real households, guests might sit down and thumb through albums, but not through the shoe boxes. At Flickr, guests can thumb through sets as slide shows.
	Sets (albums)	Unless it's a special occasion, photos taken on any particular day don't warrant a set of their own. Our special occasions have included the 70th anniversary and the 2010 birthday party. Birdhouse day wasn't a special occasion, but it got a set anyway because the pictures are so special. There is a link on the website Nature Center 2009 page to a slide show and individual photos have been used here and there. Other sets have been created because it seemed like a good idea at the time. I think it's a good idea to have a set for every season, as well as Favorites, but some other sets could be removed.
	Captions	On a photo page, hover over titles and captions to write or change them.
	Dates	Flickr shows dates taken and dates uploaded. The date taken is embodied in the photo.
	Management
	Log in	A login ID and password will be provided.
	File naming	Please rename photos with a sortable date prefix. E.g. 5/7/10 = 100507-filename.jpg
	Uploading	Click one of the links on the home page to "Upload photos and video."
	Searching	When we're logged in, additional search options are available, like searching multiple tags.
	Resolution	The best resolution for uploading is about 2048x1536. At that size, cropped photos are still big enough for our purposes. Larger sizes can be uploaded, but they waste space and bandwidth.
	Editing	The built-in Picnic photo editor is very good, especially for cropping.
	Blogging	On any photo page, click "blog this" to send the photo to the Wordpress blog. This way it's not necessary to upload photos to the Wordpress media library. Your account > Sharing and extending allows editing of the blog layout.