Webmaster Training with fun

Change of program! Tonight we will go for pictures, your pictures. Amongst the greatest publishing tools there are two which will make our lives easier when publishing photos, imges…your pictures.

We will have a look at two programs and implement them

1.  www.picnik.com: an easy to use image editor to edit your pictures fast and efficiently for use on the web.
2.  www.flickr.com: the most populat photo siyte online.

Please sign up with both programs previousely to the session. We will then go through the instructions together and work on becoming professionally looking image publishers.

We have tested Semiomantics with images and noticed that we can deliver pictures with similar effects as text. Your images will therefore become a great communication tool and the two programs will help to publish the pics in a professional way.

 Flickr.com lets you upload pictures, tag them (assign categories that you define), place them in groups called sets, and then serve them out to your blog or web site from Flickr. Sets can contain not only your own pictures, but also pictures of other users on the site, and once you have placed images and created sets in Flickr, you can link directly to the images or create an HTML- or Flash-based link to any of your sets, called a badge, that you can imbed in an article or web page. The Flickr software automatically creates RSS feeds for each of your sets and for pictures that have the same tag. Flickr accounts can also be configured to automatically blog photos to a whole bunch of blog types, including the three listed above.

In addition to serving out your pictures, Flickr also allows you to search by tags for other people’s pictures and include them in your web site or blog, and it includes your pictures in the site’s community, potentially creating publicity for you. Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is free, but the free account has limitations – you can only upload 20 MB of pictures a month, you can only have 3 photosets at a time, and flickr will store smaller resized versions of images. A pro account which removes many of these limitations costs $24.95 a year.

You can also search Flickr for royalty-free photos, if your Web site is non-commercial, to use as photo illusrations on stories or blog posts. Before republishing a photo, be sure to check the Creative Commons license of the photographer — some reserve all rights. Also be sure to provide proper attribution.

If you are looking for a tool to edit your photos, Adobe Photoshop is the leading choice, but it is quite expensive. You can do much of the simple touch-up and cropping work one can do in Photoshop using a free online tool such as Picnik.

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