We provide a range of uploading tools for both Windows and Mac that will help you get your photos on Flickr.
You can also email your photos to your Flickr account. You have your own unique email address that you can use to add your photos to your Flickr photostream or to upload photos to your Flickr photostream AND automatically post them to your blog. Configure your email upload settings here.
If you'd rather not install our tools, you can use a web form to upload on the upload page. To use this form, look in the navigation menu at the top of the page under "You."
Note: The Windows Uploader will be available in all the languages that Flickr offers very soon -- only the Korean and Traditional Chinese versions to go (at June 12, 2007) -- though the Mac version is only available in English. More languages coming soon!
No, there's no limit to the number of photos you can have. But if you have a free account, you'll only see the most recent 200 photos displayed.
With a free account, you can upload up to 100MB per month. You can see how much you've uploaded on the upload page.
If you upgrade to a Pro account, all the photos you add to Flickr will always be available to your friends and family.
With a free account, you can upload files up to 10MB in size. If you have a Pro account, you can upload files up to 20MB. Video sizes are limited to 150MB. For more on video files and types supported, please visit the Video FAQ
Flickr officially supports JPEGs, non-animated GIFs, and PNGs. You can also upload TIFFs and some other file types, but they will automatically be converted to and stored in JPEG format.
As you publish photos, they're compressed and resized by Flickr (if necessary) in the following sizes:
To access all of these sizes for a photo, click the "All Sizes" link below on the individual photo page or the "See different sizes" link below the Additional Information heading.
If you have a pro account, we also store your high-resolution originals, which you (and your friends with Pro accounts) can download at anytime. All Pro account holders can access public photos and download the high-resolution (original) size, unless you limit access to the downloadable image.
We resize your photos to more web-friendly dimensions. Each image has a 75x75 pixel thumbnail and 100-, 240-, 500-, and 1024-pixel versions (that's the length of the longest side), as well as your original file.
When you view an individual photo page, click the "All Sizes" link below the photo title to view or download each of the sizes.
If you have a free account, no one (including you) can access your original file. If you upgrade to a pro account, your original files are available for download. You can use the global setting in your account to specify who can download originals: Only you; your friends and/or family; your contacts; any Flickr user; or anyone.
Also, if you've attached a Creative Commons license to your photo indicating you're OK with sharing the photo, the original is available to anyone.
Most of the time, yes, unless you say you don't want them to. We recommend that you allow any Flickr member to comment on your photos, but it's up to you.
In your account area, you can specify default settings for comments.
When you're looking at a single photo, you can also click the "Privacy" link under Additional Information.
Use the Organizr to change permissions on one or more photos by dragging photos from Findr into your workspace, and clicking the "Permissions" button on the toolbar.
If someone leaves a comment that you don't like, you can delete it. You can also block a person from commenting on any of your photos.
Anytime someone leaves a comment about one of your photos, you'll see a little flag on your home page ("You have new comments!"), which points you to a summary page of new activity. To go to this page, you can also click a link on the "You" menu at the top of the page or the "Activity" link in the footer of every page.
To see all the comments you made on other people's photos, go here.
Flickr is built upon trust and it's important to our community that everyone understand and abides by our Community Guidelines and the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
There are a variety of reasons why your photos might not be showing up, but in most instances the issue should resolve itself within 24 - 48 hours.
Click on it! It opens up a little widget where you can change the filters you're applying to each of your images: Content Type and Safety Level.
Review our Community Guidelines for more tips on playing nice, and check out more info about filtering in the Filter FAQ.
There are loads of photos on Flickr, so you may come across photos that you don't like or that offend you in some way. Click the "Flag this photo" link to mark photos that you think require review by Flickr staff. If enough members agree with you by clicking the link, the photo will be hidden from the main public pages, such as Explore, Everyone's Photos, pages like photos tagged with pink, and search results pages like this.
Easy! You can specify a privacy level as you upload photos using the form or Uploadr or by email). You can choose: Public, Visible to friends, Visible to family, or Private.
You can also set a default privacy level for all your uploads.
To change the privacy levels on photos you've already uploaded, batch them in Organizr, then click "Permissions" and select "Who can see, comment, tag?"
As of April 20, 2007, changing the privacy level of any photo ("public" --> "friends", or "friends" --> "family") will change the image file name. This ensures that any photo truly becomes private.
Please note that this will "break" any photo that has been blogged elsewhere as the image file will have a new URL.
Privacy Uploading by Email
With our upload system, you can add a little bit of text (the pink bits below) to your Flickr email address (the green bits below) to set privacy levels as you upload. These permissions will override the default upload permissions you set here.
Let's say your magic email address is foo13bar@photos.flickr.com. Then you could use:
foo13bar+friends@photos.flickr.com - Visible to friends
foo13bar+family@photos.flickr.com - Visible to family
foo13bar+ff@photos.flickr.com - Visible to friends and family
foo13bar+private@photos.flickr.com - Only visible to you
foo13bar+public@photos.flickr.com - Visible to everyone
Tip: Save the addresses you use frequently to your address book so you can email on the fly.
Your photostream is a visual history of everything you've ever uploaded to Flickr. Everyone who sees your photostream enjoys a different view, depending on their relationship to you and your privacy settings. For example, your family may see images in your photostream that only they can view.
If you have a free account, your photostream will only display the last 200 photos you uploaded, 10 per page. If you have a Pro account, everything is displayed.
It's really easy to collect your favorite shots together using Organizr. You can make a set of photos and display them in a certain order. You can also choose one photo in the set to use as the primary photo (this will be displayed anywhere on Flickr that there's a link to your set). Each set can have a name and description too.
If you have a free account, you can have up to three sets. If you upgrade to a Pro account, you can have many sets as you want.
Your photostream always shows your most recently uploaded photos first. If you want to change the order, you can edit the posting dates for photos.
On each photo page, you'll see an Additional Information section on the right that includes the date the photo was taken. Click the "edit" link to change the date the photo was taken or posted.
We've introduced a layout preference for your main photos page. You can choose what you want to appear in the right column of the Your Photos page: sets, collections, or neither.
In addition, the layout setting lets you choose to display the standard small sized images, or, if you're feeling crazy, 5 medium sized images. To adjust your page layout preferences at any time, visit Your Account or give it a whirl right here.
At the moment, you will always see the most recently uploaded photo at the top of your page. If you want to change this photo, edit the date you posted it. (We know this is a bit sucky.)
Yes, you can. But be warned: This is permanent.
If you want to delete more than one photo at a time, gather them into a batch (photos tagged with "x," photos from a certain date, etc.) and perform a batch deletion.
Also, bear in mind that if you have blogged a public photo that is later deleted, that photo will appear as a broken link in your blog.
You can remove photos one-by-one on each individual photo page. Or you can open up Organizr and find the set you want, then drag the photos you want to delete to the Findr bar below.
You can also use Organizr to delete a whole set. This doesn't delete the actual photos in the set.
Yes, you can. Just visit m.flickr.com to access your photos and read recent comments.
Note: We're sorry, but m.flickr.com is only available in English at the moment. We're working on getting this localized right now, for delivery as soon as possible!
Absolutely! You can upload photos to Flickr from your camera using your unique email upload address. Set it up here.
When you upload photos via email, the subject line is used as the title of your photo, and the body of the email is used as the description.
You can also upload your camera phone photos to an outside blog. First, set up the blog (see the Blogs FAQ section for help). Then register a unique email upload address to post to your blog. Photos emailed to that address will be blogged automatically. When you're auto-blogging, the subject line of the email is used as the title, and the body is posted as the photo description.
Just type "tags:" in the subject line or body of the email followed by the list of tags you want added to the photo(s). (The rest of the subject line in is converted to the photo's title and the body of the email becomes the photo's description.)
Here's an example of adding tags in action.
| Subject: | Lucy, my new cat tags: cute "black cat" |
| Body: |
Lucy does the funniest dance moves! Isn't she cute? |
Or you could send them in the body:
| Subject: | Lucy, my new cat |
| Body: |
Lucy does the funniest dance moves! Isn't she cute? tags: cute "black cat" |
(If you include tags in the email body, they must be at the beginning of a new line.)
Note: Tags sent via email are used in addition to any default tags you set up.
There's no set limit, but this feature was designed to upload single images from camera phones. You can send multiple photos through your regular email client, but you may have problems uploading some of them.
You may encounter problems if you email large numbers of photos at one time or send very high-resolution or large-size images. You may also have problems due to weird message formatting caused by different mail programs or mail server/transit problems outside of our control.
Since these issues vary, we suggest emailing fewer images at a time. You may have to experiment to find out what works best for you.
If you upload photos but they don’t' appear right away, give it some time. If your mail server doesn't connect with ours on the first attempt, it may take awhile before it tries again.
Yes! You can create a dynamic badge of public Flickr photos to add to your web site (outside of Flickr).
Use the wizard to set up your badge and show: your photos, group photos, or photos from everyone. You can also filter images by a certain tag.
Simply choose the display options (which photos, how many, what size) and specify if you want to display your screen name and buddy icon. Then choose either a styled version of the badge (photos appear in a column with a colored background) or one that you can design yourself.
Note: If you choose to customize the badge yourself, you need to know we hold all the photos in an enclosing DIV with the class 'flickrimg.' The images within it are also assigned IDs: flickrimg1, flickrimg2, etc.
Yahoo! 360° is a separate service, but we do have some basic instructions to get you started.
If you're a new Yahoo! 360° user, go through the process to set up your page. When you're done, go to your My Page and click "Share Photos." You'll find a link to share images from your Flickr photostream.
Note: It may take several hours or longer for Yahoo! 360° to update your Flickr photos. Also, when you delete a photo from Flickr, it will show as unavailable on 360° until the content on your page is refreshed. If you're having trouble using 360° or if your Flickr photos aren't updating there, contact the 360° support team. (Choose the "Ask Other Yahoo! 360° Users" to start the contact process.)
At the moment, the slideshows you see around Flickr are created automatically. Anytime there's a group of more than a few photos, chances are a slideshow is available. Keep your eyes peeled for "View as Slideshow" links on tag pages, set pages, and group pool pages.
We are planning on adding some different slideshow options in the future.
When you're in a slideshow, move your mouse over the top or bottom of the frame. Use the top bar to pause or play the slideshow, go forward or backward, or change the length of time each slide is displayed. Use the bottom bar to select a specific photo to focus on and pause the slideshow automatically.
In most parts of the world, including the U.S., Canada, EU countries, and Japan, you are automatically granted copyrights to your photos.
However, the nonprofit Creative Commons offers six default licenses as an alternative to full copyright so you can choose the one that best suits your needs.
Remember that you can only copyright images that you own. This means you can't copyright images that you've taken from somewhere else! Additionally, just because an image does not have a Creative Commons license attached to it, doesn't mean that it is public domain.
You can select a default license for your photos here.
To add a license for a specific picture, click the "Change" link next to your current photo license (usually set to "All rights reserved") near the bottom of your photo page. On the Privacy and Permissions settings page, click the "Add a license to your photo" link on the right side of the page, near the bottom. On the next page, select one of the Creative Commons licenses.
You can set a global preference that controls who can download all the versions of your photos. Just select a setting — from "Only Me" to "Anyone." This setting applies to all your photos and is combined with your privacy settings.
Say you publish a photo of ice cream. If you're sharing that photo with only friends, they are the only people who can see it. Even if you set it so "Anyone" can download the photo, your friends are still the only people who can see it and thus download it.
If you applied a Creative Commons license to your photos, they can be downloaded by anyone. If you don't want others to download your photos, remove the Creative Commons license here.
If you applied a Creative Commons license to your images, then by default your images can be downloaded. If you don't want your images to be downloaded, don't apply a Creative Commons license to your images.
If your photo is in a group pool, people can leave comments and add notes and tags to it, despite your setting.
Go to Your Account and specify who sees the "Blog This" button on your photos. Removing this button makes it more difficult for people to blog your photos, but remember that anyone can copy and blog a public photo. If you'd rather this didn't happen, change your settings to make your photos private.
Select the photo and click the '"All Sizes" button above it. On the next page, choose the size you want to download.
Bear in mind, you may not have permission to download the original file. Please read "I'd like to use a photo I found on Flickr. How do I do that?"
Yes! If you have a pro account, you can replace a single photo at a time. On the individual photo page, click the "Replace this photo" link below the Additional Information heading on the right side. The title, description, comments, notes, tags, and favorites associated with the original photo will be kept.
Note: If the new photo is larger than the original, the difference in bandwidth will count towards your monthly limit.
As of April 20, 2007, replacing an image will change the image file name. Please note that this will "break" any photo that has been blogged elsewhere as the image file will have a new URL.
To rotate a photo, select "Rotate" from the menu above the photo. A menu will pop up and you'll be able to rotate the photo left and right until you reach the correct orientation.
Please note that rotating a photo will change the image file name. If you've blogged the photo before rotating it, the image may not display.
Yes, but only in some cases.
A lot of digital cameras store information about the orientation of the camera when the photo was taken. If your camera uses EXIF, this information is stored as "EXIF orientation" in the EXIF data, which is uploaded to Flickr with your photo. We can use this data to rotate your photos as they're uploaded.
If you want us to rotate your photos, set your preference here.
Note: We won't rotate the original photo file. To preserve photo quality, we never modify the original.
This problem occasionally occurs on very large images. In general, you may see this for images that are approximately 500MB or more in total size when decompressed. (This may vary depending on the image and/or the software you use.) This happens on these large files because the Flickr image tools must be able to both read the image and allocate resources for scaling and enhancing it. Try scaling your image a bit from it's original size — often that works. (If you have a Pro account, you can replace the black image using the Replace Photo function.)
To use the URL of a photo (like when you add a photo to your Blogger profile), you must provide the web address (URL) of the image itself, not the address of the web page where the image is displayed.
Here's an example of a correct URL for a photo. Note the .jpg at the end:
» http://www.flickr.com/photos/132375_0ca82ae31e.jpg
Here's an example of an incorrect URL for a photo. It points to the web page where the image is displayed, not the image file itself. Notice there's no .jpg at the end.
» http://www.flickr.com/photos/eric/132375/
(Click both of these links to see the difference.)
To get the URL of the actual image file, find the photo you want to use. Click the "All Sizes" button above it and select the size you want. If the photo is yours, two text fields appear below the photo. The first contains a snippet of HTML that will produce the photo on your web site, with a link back to the photo page on Flickr. The second contains the URL of the image itself. Simply copy and paste the one you want into your web site.
If the photo isn't yours, you may not be able to access the Different Sizes page (if the owner doesn't allow downloads of the photo).
Note: Per our Terms of Use, whenever you place an image you're storing on Flickr on an external web site, you must also include a link back to Flickr.
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