![]() ![]() Flickr is its own world and doesn’t want people leaving the reservation. In Flickr, you can’t easily provide links to your website and you can’t add links to other sites you might be on like Twitter or Facebook. They don’t even offer themes you can use to change the background color of your page. For the most part, every Flickr user page looks the same. In today’s internet world, the easiest thing to do to protect your images is to just avoid Flickr because that is the one stop shop for people who want to take them. You can put watermarks on images and you can block access to images above a certain size. SmugMug provides a great amount of control over your images and how you can protect them. You have no control over how you get attributed. #Flickr uploadr annoying sound license#Moreover, even if you did want to put your images up with a creative commons license with attribution, almost all attribution ends up going to some Flickr nickname with links pointing back to Flickr. They usually ignore creative commons notices and treat everything on Flickr as being public domain. There are many blogs which survive on using the photography of other people. If you want to have any sort of protection on your images, Flickr isn’t the place to be. Many of the people who have become really big on Flickr, like Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, have either left Flickr or seriously scaled back their involvement. Also, they don’t have any watermarking capabilities built in. Either you make every version of an image private or you make them all public. I realize that if you put photos on the internet you sort of have to live with that to a certain extent, but there are things you can do to limit it.įlickr has no option for restricting access to the original size files. It is hard to trace ownership of a photo. Even sites which steal my RSS feed don’t bother me so much because it is easy to prove I was the original author. It is pretty clear who made the video and I put my URL in every one. If I post a video, I don’t care if everyone in the world embeds it in their site. ![]() I don’t usually mind if people link to my stuff. The search engine in Flickr makes the process of finding the images you want to steal almost trivial. You get one link in your profile which is usually well hidden. In fact, Flickr is an incredibly closed system and they don’t like to link out or promote the websites of its members. That doesn’t bother me so much, but when people link back they provide the links back to Flickr, not my website. Tons of blogs and websites take images off of Flickr so they can use them. 1) Flickr is the #1 place to steal images. As I became a better photographer and had more images, however, there were several things about Flickr which began to bother me. Nonetheless, even if you don’t participate in the Flickr groups you can still get value just hosting your images there. Some groups have hundreds of photos submitted every day and most of the people who comment on your photos are only doing so because the group rules require you to comment on 2 or 3 photos for every one you post. Eventually, participating in groups grew tiresome. For a period of time, I was submitting my photos to groups and getting tons of people to look at them. There are millions of members and thousands of groups. The real power of Flickr however, is the huge community of people which use it. ![]() $20/year is honestly a great deal considering you get unlimited everything. #Flickr uploadr annoying sound pro#Facebook, like Flickr, is free and easy to use if you want to share photos with your friends.Įventually, I found it necessary to increase my storage limits on Flickr and I purchased a Pro account, which is $20/year. In fact, since I’ve started using Flickr, Facebook has surpassed Flickr in the total number of photos stored. The 100mb limit for storage each month is more than enough for most people. If you own a point and shoot camera and just take casual photos, Flickr is great. Like most people, I began using Flickr as my photo hosting solution because it was free, easy to use, and well known. However, I also understand why it wouldn’t be for everyone. The more I investigated it, SmugMug really is a no-brainer for me. So I figured I’d explain everything in as much detail as I can. I mentioned this on Twitter and I’ve gotten a lot of questions as to why I’m leaving Flickr and my self-hosted site for SmugMug. I’ve spent the last several days doing the time consuming chore of reformatting and redirecting all the old images on my site that point to Flickr and my self hosted photos, to Smugmug. ![]()
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