twt Flickr Storm
Jun 24th, 2009 by writingwithtechnology
Using Flickr Storm for locating imagery for digital storytelling projects
David Jakes, dave@jakesonline.org
David Jakes has given me permission to use this information.
To begin, create a folder on your computer where you will store images.
1. Login to Flickr Storm at:
http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
2. Click on the advanced button and use the pull-down and select “Photos you can
use commercially (attribution):
3. Enter a single word search term in the window. In this example, we’ll enter
barns.
4. Click the Search button. The little ball starts bouncing up and down to the right
of the search button.
Click advanced search here.
Pull down the menu and
select photos you can use
commercially (Attribution).
You may also use Photos for
non-commercial use.
5. Images are returned in two windows, one upper window and a lower window.
The top window displays 40 images, the bottom window displays 80. In addition,
the lower scrollable window enables you to refine your search by selecting
suggested keywords.
6. Click on any image that you are interested in and it will load into a larger preview
window. Note that the image loads into a tray on the left side of the interface.
7. Three options to the user are presented:
a.
Open on Flickr
: launches that photograph from the photographers
Flickr.com account.
b.
Add to tray
: selects the picture and places it into a vertical tray on the left
side of the Web page. When photos are added to the tray, the tray turns
yellow. Use the tray to collect the images that you will use in your digital
story.
c.
Download
: enables you to download the photograph to be stored on your
computer.
8. To collect images, select the Add to Tray link. You will see the image appear in
the tray on the left side of the site. Other images already in the tray will disappear
(since they were not placed there by clicking on Add to Tray) and the tray will
turn yellow.
Click on the thumbnail to
enlarge the photo
Collection
tray
Top Window
Bottom Window
9. Once you have collected the images you need, you can do one of two things:
a. Search for additional images on a different topic, and add those to your
tray.
b. Download your tray
10. Downloading the Tray: Click on the download button. Doing so opens another
browser window entitled FlickrStorm-Photo Set
11. Be sure to copy the link provided into a Word document. This is a link to a
personally-created page at FlickrStorm. You can always recapture your original
search by inputting the URL (Web address).
Images in tray. You must click on
Add to
Tray
to get the images in the tray, ready for
download. When this is done properly, the
download icon will appear.
12. Below each photograph is the original photographer’s Flickr username (you will
use this name to provide attribution to your use) and a link to the original link in
the user’s Flickr account.
Click on that link.
13. The photograph launches in Flickr. Click on the All Sizes button between the
photograph name and the image itself.
14. Flickr defaults to the large size photograph. Generally, you are looking for a
photograph of around 1024X768 in size (these are pixel sizes) or vice versa.
Be sure to copy this link and
save it in a Word document.
This launches the photo in Flickr
This is the Flickr
username you use for
attribution.
15. Click on the Download the large size link.
16. A File Download box appears. Click Save.
17. A Save As box appears. Be sure to change the file name, which at this point is
meaningless. Name the file with a more descriptive name, then use and
underscore and add the Flickr user’s screen name. This will enable us to record
the attribution information directly in the file name.
18. Close that window and return to the Flickr Storm Photoset page and repeat steps
12-17.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No
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