I love Flickr. I have been using it for a few months now and purchased a Pro account just before heading to SXSW last month. Since I am on a Mac, I can export directly from iPhoto to my Flickr account thanks to a handy little plugin that someone was kind enough to write and release.
However, sending images to Flickr from a Windows computer has always seemed a bit tedious. There is the Flickr Uploadr that will let you upload images to your account and there is Flickr’s web-based interface.
Web developer Jim Rutherford has come up with a way to use Picasa, Google’s free image organization and editing application, and Gmail to send photos to his Flickr account.
The third way you can get photos to your Flickr account is by using email. Enter Picasa and Gmail. Picasa is a great free photo management tool that lets you organize and perform simple edits and manipulations to your photos.
With the recent release of Picasa 2.0, you can now email directly from this great image management software. When you email from Picasa, you can tell the application to automatically resize your photos before sending them. So uploading to Flickr has become much easier.
So there you have it. An easy way to upload photos from a PC to Flickr. Apparently the only drawback is that you can’t tag your images. You have to do that on the site.
Via Lifehacker
Whats Flickr
Flickr is a photo site that lets you tag your photos, share your photos, store your photos. It also has a sense of social networking built into it as you can add “Contacts” and see what they are posting as well.
Take The Flickr Tour
You can always send directly out of Windows Explorer with this little registry hack.
It’s good stuff and you can even add tags while still in Windows.
Hey you can also just use the Publish to Web function in Flickr as well, I’ve found that works pretty well.
If you look at the uploading tools in Flickr, it has one titled ‘Upload to Flickr via Windows XP Explorer’, all you need to do is click on publish to the web, you can upload any amount i’ve found as well.
check out my photos; http://www.flickr.com/photos/timhill/
you can tag by adding the line “tags whatever tags you want” at the end of the e-mail.