Monday, 5 April 2010

How to Use Flickr

Usually, when I'm linking scans in my posts which have Flickr as their host-site, there are a number of people who ask me whether there is not a way of changing the scans' size, or who are having problems with navigating through the albums. So, here is my short intro:

Let's say you click this link, after all I need something to work with. It navigates you to Combom's fascinating Flickr Archive and you see everything he uploaded on the 4th April, that's yesterday. Now, click on the first (or any other) scan and the picture will appear much larger, even though you'll might still find the font ridiculously small to read. To change this there is a bar right above the scan reading 'Favorite' and Actions. When you click the latter one, you'll see a drop-down field with the first option being 'View all sizes'. That's the one you are looking for. After clicking it you are navigated to the same scan, which already appears a lot bigger, but if it's still not enough for you, for whatever reasons, there are also various size-options at the top of the page to choose from.
To get to the next page of the article, go to the previous site. When you look at the right side there is a section with the title combomphotos' photostream which gives you a short overview of the previous and following scans in the album. Or if you choose you can go 2 steps back, to the Archive, and repeat the same steps, but I think that's too cumbersome.

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