My new Flickr upload approach Jul28 '07

I've discussed my process for uploading photos to Flickr, but I've recently changed my approach.

I used to take dozens of photos and upload the entirety all at once. The amount of steps involved became too much work.

Lately I've decided it's best to only upload the photos that I wish to share. Sharing is the purpose of Flickr, anyway. It's not meant to be an online backup for all of your photos. There are far better tools to use as online backups.

Using the Finder in Mac OS X, I keep all of my recent photos in a single folder, viewable as large thumbnails:

Screenshot of Mac OS X Finder

From the camera, they go in this folder, and then I manually select the ones that get uploaded. Not all photos are "share worthy," so I'll just leave those alone, or delete them. The better photos I'll tweak in an image-editing application, and upload individually to Flickr. Once I upload the image to Flickr, I apply a color label in the Finder to indicate that it's been uploaded. In this case, I use the color green.

I find this approach much more relaxing and obtainable. It's not such a burden every time I come home with a camera full of images. I don't feel like it's work.

I also don't need to upload right away. Sometimes I'll just dump the photos in the folder, and a week later I'll finally get around to cleaning them up and uploading.

Categories: Flickr , Photos , Workflow

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