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 yahoo e-mail account because flickr is operated by Yahoo.

Go to the flickr website www.flickr.com

Click on ‘Sign Up’ or 'Sign up now'

A new window opens

At the top of the window, if you don't have a Yahoo account, click on ‘Create New Account’

Another new window appears - enter your details and select an ID and password

Alternate e-mail option – leave blank

Choose your secret questions 1 and 2 (used if you forget your ID etc)– keep a note of your answers

Type in the 'difficult to read' security code (or choose another code if you can't read it)

If all works ok, a new screen appears to let you check your new account details

Click on ‘Continue’

Choose your Flickr screen name (eg xyz)– you can change this later

Click 'Create my Account'

You are then welcomed with 'Hello xyz"

How to get started with your new Flickr account

Skip option 1. 'Personalise Your Profile'

Click option 2. 'Upload your first photos'

3 new choices appear

Step 1 – click on ‘choose photos and videos’

This opens a window with your computer folders listed

Navigate to where you store your pictures - such as 'My Pictures'

Click on an image file

Click on ‘open’

The details of this file will show up in the box

At the bottom is an option to ‘add more’

Set privacy (tick ‘public’ so club members will be able to see your pictures)

Click on ‘upload photos and videos’

When it has uploaded click on ‘add a description’

Type in the boxes under your picture

Click on ‘save’

Once you have successfully uploaded your pictures onto your flickr page, let me know by e-mail, either what your flickr page web address is, or 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