How To Get The Most Out of Flickr
If you’re here to learn about or show off your photography, you’ll want to:
Customize Your Profile
You can fill in some profile information and a short bio to let people know what your photography (aka life) are all about. You can also update where you live and other information. You can create a customized URL once for your account. If you do photography as a business or want your URL to match other social media handles you have you can a customized web address (if the address is not being used by another account). This cannot be changed later so create wisely.
Copyright
Flickr offers 11 Copyright designations a photographer can assign to his or her account or to individual photos. Using someone’s work without respecting their copyright settings can result in legal action and Flickr is not responsible for how you use a photographer’s images. You can view an image’s copyright on the individual photopage under the Date Taken. All institution accounts in the Flickr Commons are free-use and public domain images, as are verified government account.
Explore
There are many ways to discover great work out of the tens of billions of photos on Flickr. Explore is the best of the best from the day. This typically means the best quality but also can mean most viewed or engaged with. Another way to find great new photography is on your feed, which shows new photos in Groups or from People you follow.
If you really want to get sucked down the beautiful Flickr rabbit hole, we recommend Favorites. When you come across a photo or a photographer you really love view the photos he or she has favorited. This is an easy and fast way to find a curated selection of great work that you are sure to love and respond to.
Flickr is an all-organic platform. To get engagement on your photos you need to engage with other photographers. So get to work building your Flickr Family!
Organize Your Photos
Some photographers organize their photos by albums, shot types, or chronologically. The Flickr Photostream automatically displays your photos by the date they were uploaded to the site. You can organize and distribute your photos the fastest with the Flickr CameraRoll. Select multiple photos, edit, add tags, add to groups, and adjust privacy here.
Join Groups
Groups are the lifeblood and backbone of Flickr. This is where you can find other photographers that are interested in the same styles, subjects, locations that you are! There are millions of groups out there and each is independently organized with different rules as to how they operate. Search your interests and join groups to add to their photo pool and get visibility for your photography.