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How do I share my photos?

Anyone who pops by Flickr can see your public photos. Here are some other ways to share:

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How do I share a slideshow?

Easy! Just start a slideshow and click the Share link in the upper right of the screen. From there just grab the URL or even get the code to embed your slideshow on another site.

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What is Guest Pass?

You can share public photos in your photostream by copying the URL in your browser's address bar and pasting it an email. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not.

But! If you want to share private photos with people, use a Guest Pass. You can grant anyone access to the entire contents of one of your sets, including any private photos it contains. A Guest Pass is actually just that URL. This means that whoever sees that URL can access the set and all the photos inside it.

Go to the set you want to share and click the "Share this" button. Then we'll help you either send an email to friends via Flickr or make a special web address (URL) that you can share.

Or if you want to give someone a link to see everything in your photostream including friends and family photos...

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Can I choose who can see “Share this”?

While the default setting is “everyone” you can choose who sees “Share this” and “Send to a friend” via your account page. The options are:

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Is there a way to share my whole photostream including Friends and Family photos?

Yes! First we should mention that the best way to share your photostream is to invite them to create a Flickr account. When they have an account you can mark them as a Friend or Family and they can see any photos that you have marked as such. (This will also let them comment and favourite, which is even more fun.)

But if you know someone that doesn't want to create an account you can still share your Friends and Family photos with them. Just go to your photostream and click on the "Share this" button. When you share the stream or grab the link you will have the option to create a Guest Pass. This will let people see any photos in your photostream that you made available for friends or family. That means that until you expire the pass, people who use your Guest Pass can see all the photos in your whole account that are marked visible for friends or family, even if they aren't members.

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How do I share my photos with *just* my friends and family?

  1. Set your photos to be visible to only your friends or family (that is, not public). You can choose this option as you upload your photos, for individual photos already uploaded, by using the Organizr, or as the default setting for all your uploads.

  2. Mark people as friends and family on Flickr. You can do this when you invite them or make an existing contact a friend or family by mousing over their buddy icon, using the arrow that appears, and changing their status. (If only it was that easy in real life. :P )

After you mark your family and friends and set the appropriate privacy level on your photos, your family and/or friends can see your photos under the "Contacts" link at the top of each page.

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What has changed about Guest Pass?

We have made a few changes to Guest Pass which we think will make it a little more intuitive. We moved the option to share your entire photosteam, to the Share this button on your photostream. When you share a set or a photo with a Guest Pass you will only be able to share that set or photo. But we have also added permission levels on the set Guest Pass. You can choose to share your private photos or choose to keep them private.

Don't worry! all of the Guest Passes that you created in the past allowing people to see private photos in a set and in your stream will still work. In fact, when you view the Guest Pass history page you can see what permissions each Guest Pass has.

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How do I Twitter my Flickr photos?

You can upload directly to Flickr and Twitter simultaneously, or tweet a photo already on Flickr, using a special short Flic.kr URL.

To set it up:

  1. Choose Twitter from the add a blog page and follow the steps to authorize posting to Twitter.
  2. Save the address in your mobile device or email address book - it looks just like your regular unique email address, only it contains "2twitter". If you forget it, you can always see it in your Email settings.

After it's setup:

From your mobile device, just send a photo or video to the 2Twitter address. The Subject line of the message will be both the Flickr title and the tweet. You have 116 characters to tweet, the rest will be the URL.

From Flickr, just use the "Blog this" button on a photo page when available. Flickr members can chose to turn off "Blog this" on their photos, so you may not always see it.

Geotagging:

If your photos are geotagged you can also choose to include that in your tweet.

That's it!

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Can I geotag my updates to Twitter?

If you enable geotagging on Twitter, set your Flickr geoprivacy to "Anyone", and geotag your photo, the photo location will show on your tweet.

If you don't want a location shown in your tweet you can disable geotagging on Twitter or change the geoprivacy on Flickr before sending the photo to Twitter. Changing the geoprivacy on Flickr after a photo is sent will not take the location info off the tweet.

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Can I share more than one set in a Guest Pass?

No, you can share only one set in a single set Guest Pass. However, you can create a Guest Pass for your whole photostream.

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How do I share my Flickr photos on Yahoo! Messenger or Yahoo! Mail?

Go to Your Account to turn on sharing your Flickr photos via Yahoo! Updates.

When you upload public photos and videos, they will show anywhere someone can see your updates. By default your Yahoo! updates are public.

You may wish to further manage who can see your updates on Yahoo!

Please note: This service may not be available on all Yahoo! properties worldwide.

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Why aren't my new uploads showing on Yahoo! Updates?

Only photos that are public and safe will show in your Yahoo! Updates. So If you have turned on updates from Flickr at Yahoo! Updates make sure that your photos are set to safe to ensure they appear in Yahoo! Updates.

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How do I prevent my new uploads from showing on Yahoo! Updates?

You can opt-in/out from having your photos be shared on Yahoo! Updates from the Yahoo! Updates Manage my Updates page or here on Flickr.

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