Flickr Tip:Adding A Blog to Flickr

No I am not really adding a blog to my Flickr account, but I kind of think that would be pretty cool. What I mean here is I want to add a blog to my list of blogs, so that I can write a post about a Flickr pic that I come upon without logging onto my blog.

Why do I want to do this?

I browse through Flickr a lot, and often I will see a picture that would be appropriate for say my Pet blog, but at the moment I am not logged in to that Wordpress account. This allows for a quick little post, which can then be edited from the blogs wysiwyg(What You See Is What You Get) editor.

How do You add a Blog to your Flickr Account?

This is a little confusing, because it is not an option that appears in any of the drop down menus at the top of the screen.

1. Click the “You” tab at the top of your Flickr homepage.
2. In the drop down menu, select “Your Account”.
3. Across from the big red words “Personal Information” click on the blue “Extending Flickr” link.
4. If you have not added any blogs yet, click the “Configure your Flickr-to-blog settings” link.
5. Click “Set up your blog” .
6. Then Choose your Blog platform.
7. Enter in your blogs login info such as login name and password. You will also need an type in the API info, which should be the url of your blog plus /xmlrpc.php. The hardest part about this is making sure your username and password are correct.
8. Flickr then asks you to make a custom posting template, which will be the format that your posts will be in when posted to your blog. There are five standard options that you can choose from. If none of these grab your fancy, clicking on one of them will bring you to the next screen where the option to either Use or customize your own layout. Only do this if you have a bit of understanding of html/css.

Posting To Your Blog from Flickr

1. Find a suitable picture for your particular blog.
2. Look for a grey “BLOG THIS” button at top of the photo. Some photos may not have this, depending upon if the person who posted it has the feature turned on or off. I believe that it is an option if you don’t wish for people to blog your photo’s. I have it enabled for all of my photos, so please feel free.
3. Keep the title of the pic as your blog post title or add a new title to your post.
4. Type in the description. You may use html, but you can also edit with your blog’s WYSIWYG editor later.
5. Click “Post Entry” and you have successfully posted to your blog from Flickr. Congratulations.

I hope this Flickr tip is useful, let me know if you have any questions or advice or other Flickr tips.

Written by Pixelhead on October 11th, 2007 with 10 comments.
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Photoshop Tip: Aligning An Object

Last week I posted several tips in my Flickr and Photoshop Tip post, which was also my first Graphics/photo Thursday post. I had quite a few good tips from readers in response to the post.

The best being the tip from Dennis of Santorini Views, a blog about the Greek Island of Santorini. Not a good blog for Lizzie and I to be looking at, since we both are itching to travel. Thanks to Dennis’s new Santorini blog, we have added the little Greek island to our travel wish list.

Anyway the Photoshop tip that Dennis left in his comment was seriously much easier to use than the one that I posted. So here it is in step by step.

Using the Measure tool to align to Horizontally or Vertically.

1. select picture by going to file, select open and navigate to the file you have your pictures stored.
2. Right click on the eye dropper in the Photoshop palette toolbar.
3. Choose the Measure Tool, which should be the last option.
4. Left Click and hold on one corner of the object you would like to align horizontally or vertically.
5. Still holding the left button down, drag the cursor to the other corner of the edge of the object. You should see a line on the objects edge.
6. Release the left mouse button.
7. Go to Image at the top of the Photoshop screen. Go down to Rotate Canvas and then choose Arbitrary in the drop down menu.
8. A little box will appear, which will rotate the picture a number of degrees clockwise or counter clockwise. The appropriate box should be automatically chosen. click OK. The Photo should now be rotated so that the object is now aligned horizontally or vertically.
9. I then crop out the desired section of the photo, but photo cropping is another photoshop tip.

Let me know if this tip has been helpful, or let me know of any tips that you use which I could add to my Photoshop tool belt. Thanks again to Dennis of Santoriniviews.com for this Photoshop tip.

Written by Pixelhead on October 11th, 2007 with 7 comments.
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