Thing 6: Part 2 - Flickr Mashups

Thing 6 is definitely wicked! It was way more fun than I should probably be having at work! Yay NEFLIN! Can you tell I enjoyed it?

Anwho - my last post was just one of the Flickr mashups I tried out. I also toyed with the Flickr Color Pickr (which is not just fun to play with, but fun to say - go ahead - say it out loud), and really enjoyed it. I'm an artist though, and color mesmerizes me. I'm not sure how I could practically apply it, but fun nonetheless.

I also tried out Spell with Flickr. Below are the results. Again - practical application? Probably none, but half the things I do online have no purpose, so what's one more? One of the apps that would actually be of use to me would probably be the jigsaw puzzle creator. I don't know if you could print that out or not, but we made puzzles for a Harry Potter party celebrating release of the Deathly Hallows, and boy could we have used that app! We made puzzles by hand to use as part of one of our games, and it took awhile.

I have no problem with sharing pictures online. Flickr has the ability to let you put privacy settings on the ones you don't want made public, so no biggie, right? Though it would kinda suck if someone stole one of your pics, submitted it to a contest, and won - you being left out in the cold without even getting any credit.

Thing 5: Flickr

Mad Tea Party
Originally uploaded by TheNonLibrarian

I've actually been signed up for my Flickr account for awhile, but only today did I have the time to upload some photos. Since I'm at work, I actually had to download them to the computer from my other account at Photobucket, then upload them onto Flickr. Time consuming to say the least, but not difficult.

However I didn't waste my time - I had done some exploring on Flickr when I first opened the account. I did some searches, looked around, and found some things that I liked. The one that stands out (that I don't think Photobucket has) is the option to add a note to the photo. You can highlight a small section of the photo you wish to comment on, and add a message. Brilliant!

The photo to the right is of a painting based on the Mad Hatter's tea party from Alice in Wonderland I did for a Family Literacy Day program a couple of years ago. We had an indoor mini-golf game, and the kids had to answer a question about each book before making the putt. I painted about 8 different backgrounds based on books, and this is one. The others I won't post here (partly for fear of copyright infringement), but are up on my Flickr account.

This was definitely different as far as posting using Photobucket. There, you can click on a single (or multiple) pics, and just copy and paste the html code into the post you are writing (or even one already written). I had already started writing this post and had it saved as a draft. I thought I could do the same thing with Flickr, but that's not what I found. They posted it to the blog for me, and I had to go back to my original post and copy and paste the script into this one. Not hard, just strange - and now I know better.

To be fair to Flickr though, I was actually able to get my slideshow over on the side here up and running with them, whereas my one with Photobucket was having trouble. And no, it wasn't because I didn't know what I was doing. I was the one who helped a coworker set hers up!

I have yet to actually upload any photos of my library and tag them "neflins23things", but that will be my next task. At least I have gotten a taste of the site.