Camera Club flickr accounts on the club website

The Camera Club Website www.lintoncameraclub.org.uk

is using an image website called flickr to link members’ images to the Club website.

If you would like your pictures on your own site on the web and linked to the Camera Club website, you will need a free account on flickr and also a free yahoo e-mail account – because flickr is operated by Yahoo.

To get an account with flickr, go to the flickr website www.flickr.com

Towards the top RHS of the page, click on Create Your Account

If you do not have a yahoo e-mail account, look near the bottom RHS where it says “Don’t have a Yahoo! ID? and click on Sign UP

Fill in the yahoo questions and enter the code, shown graphically near the bottom (this is a security feature) Click in the box that you agree, and finally click Create My Account

You may have to re-enter anything that the website doesn’t like, or thinks you have omitted.

You should then be able to log into the flickr website using your Yahoo log-in details (your Yahoo ID and your chosen password).

Once you have logged-in to flickr, click on the ▼symbol to the RHS of 'You'

Go down the drop-down list and click on Upload Photos and Videos

You then go through 3 steps on the flickr page, clicking in order:-

1. Choose the pictures on your own computer – try say 5 to start with.

2. Upload them.

3. Add titles to your pictures.

You may find this process difficult, so get help if you can’t follow the flickr instructions. Ask a member who has done this before. Ask them to show you what to do, either at home, a Camera Club evening, or at the IT club in the library on a Tuesday night. Bring some of your pictures on a CD or memory stick so they can be put on flickr. There is also a help button at the top RHS of the flickr page that may assist you.

Once you have successfully uploaded your pictures onto your flickr page, let me know by e-mail what name you are using for your flickr account (or your yahoo email address), so that I can put your name in the Camera Club Gallery page with a link to your pictures in flickr.

Mike Crofts e-mail mikecrofts (at) gmail (dot) com