Tags are like keywords or labels that you add to a photo to make it easier to find later. You can tag a photo with phrases like "catherine yosemite hiking mountain trail." Later if you look for pictures of Catherine, you can just click that tag and get all photos that have been tagged that way.
You may also have the right to add tags to your friends' photos, if you friends set that option in the privacy settings for their photos.
Here's a list of the 150 most popular tags.
One of our members, Striatic, has posted some great tips on the FlickrCentral discussion board.
Yes. It's 75 tags per photo.
If you want to add new tags to a photo that has more than 75 tags, you'll need to get the number of tags under that limit first.
If your account is new, first you need to upload at least 5 photos. After that minimum has been reached, then it shouldn't take more than a few days until your photos appear in searches, groups, etc. To make sure your photos show in searches, remember to add accurate tags and descriptions.
If your account is not new and some of your images are not showing, here are a few things you can check,
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Prior to 12/02/08, this information wasn't surfaced on Flickr, but was available through our API. After this date, mouse over the tag and tool tip will display the name of the member who added this information.
First and most importantly, machine tags are for humans too! A machine tag is just like a normal tag that you a human (hopefully), write in a special format. When a machine (like another server or website) reads it, it can automatically perform a special action.
An example is upcoming.org. If you are attending this event listed on Upcoming, all you have to do is add the tag "upcoming:event=428084" to the picture and it will automatically show on the Upcoming event page. Upcoming's servers look for tags with "upcoming:". If it says "event" they know to use it on an event page. Then you tell them which event by adding the number at the end.
Machine tags always have 3 parts just like the Upcoming example.
namespace:predicate=value
To see this in another example, you can record location information by entering latitude and longitude as geo:lat=12.345678 & geo:lon=12.345678
Some other places are using them already like last.fm. But even if you find something they are not being used for, you can just start writing them in! That's the beauty of a machine tag. Maybe you and your horticulture friends start tagging plants (i.e flora:tree=coniferous) or you want a way to categorize art in the pictures you see (i.e. medium:paint=oil). You can just write it like a normal tag and after the data is there, it's available to mix up when someone tells a machine to go fetch it.
Note: Namespaces and predicates must begin with a character between a - z; remaining characters may be a - z, 0 - 9, and underscores. Namespaces and predicates are case-insensitive.
For more info on machine tags (and more fun techy bits), check out these posts on the Flickr Developer Blog.
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