A Big List of Flickr Tools

These days, it takes a really great or a really big list to catch my eye and this one from mentalaxis is a really great big list of tools for Flickr. Worth browsing for any Flickr user.

Flickr tools (mentalaxis)

Compfight: Flickr search tool

compfight / a flickr™ search tool is a powerful search tool for Flickr that allows you to search by tag or text. Compfight is especially useful for searching for Creative Commons photos on Flickr for use on blog posts or websites.

A nice tool, worth bookmarking for photo searches.

blackr: flickr photos on black

blackr does just one thing - it displays Flickr photos on black without any extra Flickr stuff around it. blackr works via a bookmarklet. When on a Flickr photo page, simply click the bookmarklet to display the photo on black. Click it again to return to normal display.

Update: Also check out On Black, which allows the option to view photos on Black or White, also via bookmarklets. (Thanks John :)

How to Get Paid for your Flickr Photos

How to Get Paid for your Flickr Photos | Make Money Selling Your Photos details how using Flickr can lead to photo sales. A good read for any Flickr user who might want to make their photo hobby a profitable one.

10 Really Useful Flickr Userscripts

10 Really Useful Flickr Userscripts is a great round-up of greasemonkey scripts (for Firefox) that will make anyone's Flickr experience a better one. There's something there for everyone!

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Flickr Related Tag Browser is a very cool, new tool for browsing Flickr photos and related tags. Just enter a tag to search and enjoy!

Flickr Foldr Monitr

Foldr Monitr is a free tool that runs in the background and watches a selected folder (and optionally subfolders) waiting for you to add photos to it. When photos appear in the folder, Foldr Monitr automatically uploads them to your Flickr account for you.

A great tool for Flickr users!

Flickr Foldr Monitr

Get the most out of Flickr

From Wired, a nice "how to" - Get the Most Out of Flickr. Even if you're already a flickr user, it's worth a read to explore all the ways to use it.

Photo sharing site Flickr is much more than just a website to put your vacation snaps. It also hosts a vibrant community of photo-lovers, camera geeks, Photoshop wizards and generally creative, outgoing people. Whether you're a Flickr old-schooler or just getting your toes wet, here are some tips to help you get the most out of your photo sharing experience.

Unobtrusive Flickr Badge

New unobtrusive dynamic flickr badge

All you have to provide is a link to the flickr stream or the tagged images in your stream as a text link with a DIV with the class “flickrbadge” around it. The script is a single include and loads the style sheet and the YUI help files on demand when they are needed. Visitors can see your photos on the page and click the thumbnails to see the larger preview. You can style the badge any way you like by changing the supplied CSS file. The script is licensed Creative Commons attribution and is free for use.

One of the nicer Flickr badges I've seen.

A couple of flickr tools

FlickrSync is a photo synchronization tool for flickr users. It displays your local folders and your flickr sets and it can establish synchronization rules between them. This way you can manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr. Synchronization is only done one way: Your local folders or images are never changed; Everything is updated in flickr to match your local information.

SlideFlickr will help you create and embed Flickr slideshows in less than 10 seconds.

Mosaicr: create mosaics from flickr pictures

Welcome to mosaickr - Create mosaics from flickr pictures - take any of your flickr photos and turn it in to a mosaic. A low res mosaic image is free and high res and printed posters are available for a small fee.

flickriver: a new way to view Flickr photos

Flickriver - A new way to view Flickr photos and more... - explore Flickr photos in a nice, clean interface. View by recent, interesting today or interesting yesterday, or use the top bar to search by user, group or tags. Be sure to check out there "tools" (top right corner menu) for more things to do with flickriver.

The site also features a handy, dandy Flickr Badge Creator.

Slickr: Flickr Screensaver

Slickr is a free, opensource program that brings Flickr to your desktop screen saver. The Slickr control panel allows you to specify which photos to display by user, tag, favourites, contacts, recent, interestingness etc. It uses OpenGL fading and zooming to be "easy on the eyes" as well.

Slickr requires a (free) Flickr application key. (Thanks Jeton!)

Slide Flickr: another tool to quickly create and embed a Flickr slideshow

SlideFlickr.com, another tool that will quickly generate a slideshow from any Flickr source and create the code needed to embed it in your website. Advanced options allow for customizing the size of the slideshow and fliter the photos from within the group.

More Ways to Embed a Flickr Slideshow on your Site

I posted recently about flickrSLiDR, a quick and easy way to embed a slideshow of flickr photos on your website.

Reader Steve suggests another option - PictoBrowser, which is really nice. Just click on the "Info" button in the bottom right to find out how to make a similar display with your Flickr photos. (Thanks Steve!)

And a third option, flickrshow, a javascript slideshow script that is simple to install, completely free and doesn't require Flash or any server side programming knowledge.

flickrSLiDR: quick and easy way to embed flickr slideshows on your website

flickrSLiDR - Embed Flickr Slideshows within Your Site.

Just fill in the url of the flickr user, set or group, optionally add some tags, set the slideshow width and height and grab your code. Insert the supplied iframe code onto your site and enjoy. Nice!

Teacher Tube: learning through videos

TeacherTube: Teach the World is, in a nutshell, YouTube for learning. Learning all kinds of things - a new language, science, software and much, much more.

A worthy bookmark for anyone with a thirst for learning.

a Newbie's Guide to Flickr

Website Webware offers up a really nice Newbie's Guide to Flickr, which would serve as an excellent primer for anyone looking to start sharing photos on Flickr.

Monoslideshow: another way to display your Flickr photos

How To: Flickr Slideshow Badge Monoslideshow is an alternate way for showing your Flickr photos on your website. The article also details how to install and customize it to your liking.

"Monoslideshow is configured by an XML file where you usually tell it the location of the images to be displayed. Instead of using images on your server, you can give the slideshow your flickr RSS feed. The idea behind this flickr slideshow badge is that it a) won’t slow down page loading since the flash loads first, then it dynamically grabs photos from your flickr feed and b) will be something that can be placed in a blog sidebar and when hovered over, display the title and details of each particular image."

Note that Monoslideshow is not free though. It will cost $20 to download the required files.

FSViewr: A simple Javascript Flickr photo set gallery

FSViewr is a "flickr-powered javascript gallery script that is very flexible in configuration and display, but also very easy to use ."

The downloadable script contains three example galleries, from a thumbnail-sized view, to a medium-sized inline gallery to a larger portfolio style gallery.

The medium inline version is shown above.

Guide to Flickr Tools

Guide to Flickr Tools is not a comprehensive guide but does highlight 5 nice Flickr tools you may or may not have heard of. Worth a look.

Top 10 Hacks for Flickr

Top 10 Hacks on Flickr is a great article for anyone wanting to make the most of photo sharing side Flickr.

A number of the hacks involve Greasemonkey scripts, which don't work on Internet Explorer but who uses that anyway? :)

Worthwhile read for any Flickr user.

Create SmartSets for your flickr photos with SmartSetr

Flickr: SmartSetr

"SmartSets are sets on Flickr that are updated for you in an automated way. For example, if you have a SmartSet based on the tag "flower", anytime you add photos to flickr tagged with "flower" they will automatically be added to your flower set for you (after you click refresh on SmartSetr).<"/em>

Create SmartSets including tags, text, date taken, and date uploaded and more. You may also filter the SmartSets by privacy level, and you may sort the SmartSets by a variety of criteria including interestingness, etc. Link has more information on SmartSets for Flickr, how to get started and some example SmartSets.

January 7, 2007 in Flickr

Javascript Flickr Slideshow

Javascript Flickr Slideshow "A javascript slideshow that shows images from Flickr.com. Specify tags and/or users to limit the slideshow. Uses the "canvas" object, works in firefox and internet explorer using the excanvas.js library. Easily integrate into any web page."

Very nice way to display Flickr photos on your website.

January 1, 2007 in Flickr

Gifts for the Flickr Fanatic

Gift Ideas for the Flickr Fanatic - some of the ideas include US Stamps with their own pictures on them, upgrading them to a Flickr Pro account, calendars, cards, mugs etc. and more! A great place to get ideas for Flickr related gifts for others or just for yourself.

December 13, 2006 in Flickr

Flickr Light: gallery of current Flickr favourites

If you enjoy checking out the current Flickr "interestingness" photos, check out Flickr Light Image Gallery - Interesting photos. Photo gallery will show the current top 100 interesting photos as favourites or most recent.

December 11, 2006 in Flickr

Popular Flickr Cameras

It's hard to find a larger collection of photographers than at Flickr and as such, a look at the popular cameras used by Flickr photographers is interesting and useful. Flickr: Camera Finder outlines some of the popular cameras from a variety of makers. As evident from the screencap inset, the Canon Rebel XT is way out in from of other contenders in the Digital SLR range (my camera of choice as well!).

I think this is particularly useful for anyone researching cameras by seeing not only what's popular, but by being able to search photos by camera and see the results first hand.

November 21, 2006 in Flickr

Satellite: PHP script to display your Flickr Photos on your own site

Satellite: Design for a better internet :: Open Source by Ted Forbes ::

"Satellite™ is an online application for displaying a gallery of images remotely from your flickr.com account. It can be used as an off the shelf website that uses the Flickr API to make calls to your Flickr account so you can take full advantage of Flickr's Organizr and keyword capabilities which are then mirrored on your personal site.

When you upload images to Flickr, your website is automatically updated!

Satellite™ is CSS based, so you may customize its look and feel by downloading themes or creating your own."

You can see a sample here.

Satellite 1.0 has support for PHP4 and PHP5, depending on your server's set-up.

Seriously cool!

November 9, 2006 in Flickr

An unobtrusive, navigable flickr badge

Displaying your flickr photos in an unobtrusive manner - a simple, customizable and navigable way to display Flickr photos on your site.

November 7, 2006 in Flickr

Flickr and Webimager

flickr and WEBIMAGER is a downloadable program that runs on Windows and streamlines the process of taking screenshots and then uploading them to your Flickr account .

October 17, 2006 in Flickr

A couple more Flickr tools

Flickr set manager - "allows you to automatically create new sets on flickr based on various criteria such as interestingness, date posted and tags, or even from a random set of photographs."

Flickr Most Interesting Picture by ... - type in a username and see their most interesting photos on Flickr.

Bonus ... if you scroll down the page of this link, you'll see links to two Flickr Greasemonkey scripts to use on Flickr. One adds the interestingness link to a user's photo page and the other adds a toolbar beside the user's name that lists links to their email, profile, interestingness, archive, favorites, change relationship.

October 13, 2006 in Flickr

FlickrViewer

FlickrViewer is a program that will allow you to view a Flickr photo set in SimpleViewer.

October 8, 2006 in Flickr

Flickr MiniCards

moo | we love to print have introduced Flickr MiniCards, business card sized prints to share offline.

Moo is offering some introductory freebies (see bottom paragraph of linked page) as well so if you're interested, head on over there asap.

September 19, 2006 in Flickr

Flickr Large Slideshow Viewer

Annoyed by the lack of a large slideshow viewer in Flickr, this user built his own! And then made it available for everyone to use. Check it out. tinou.com - flickr large slideshow

September 19, 2006 in Flickr

Flickr adds geotagging photos

FlickrBlog announces today photo geotagging natively in Flickr, along with a lot of tools to import geotags from 3rd party tools etc. A nice addition and sure to be popular.

August 28, 2006 in Flickr

Flickr Profile Widget

Flickr Profile Widget - "this nifty little gadget will create a customized image that you can paste into your profile page (or any other web page) that will automatically update itself every hour. It shows a selection of ten of your photos and some statistics about your Flickr usage."

August 27, 2006 in Flickr

badgr2.0 Flash based Flickr badge

badgr - a very cool Flash-based badge that allows you to display your Flickr photo stream on your website.

badgr features a badge "generator" right on their page, so there is nothing to download or install. Customize to match your site, generate, copy, paste and go. (Requires Flash 9).

August 20, 2006 in Flickr

A couple of Flickr Tools

Elliot Swan | Custom Flickr Badge API Documentation, so you can "seriously customize the way your photos are being displayed."

Flickrshow - "the simplest way of displaying your Flickr photosets on your own website. It is simple to install, free and doesn't require Flash or any server side programming knowledge.

August 9, 2006 in Flickr

Flickr Slide Show

FlickrShow › The simple Flickr slide-show - a hosted slideshow of your Flickr photos. All that's needed is to slip a small javascript into your templates to display the slideshow on your own website.

July 25, 2006 in Flickr