Photos:  Flickr, Irfan, and Creative Commons

 

Introduction

 

          Upload, share, and organize your photos OR just search for an image on Flickr which claims to be “the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.”   You can tag your photos, create a private group of friends to share them with or share them with the world.

  

            Irfan is a free photo editing program which is downloaded to the Digital Classroom and the Computer Lab.  It’s a powerful program, but the one feature we’re focusing on here is how to resize a photo.  When you print a photo you want a high resolution image to get the best print you can.  If a photo is being saved on the shared drive or displayed on a computer in a presentation, on a blog or a wiki, or sent as an attachment to an email, you want to compress the original photo into a smaller size that takes up less space.

  

            Creative Commons is a non-profit which “provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."— from http://creativecommons.org .  Creative commons give ‘creators’ 6 alternatives to full copyright. 

  

Definitions/New Vocabulary

  

Flickr Vocabulary:

        Photostream—“Your photostream is a visual history of everything you've ever uploaded to Flickr. Everyone who sees your photostream enjoys a different view, depending on their relationship to you and your privacy settings. For example, your family may see images in your photostream that only they can view.

If you have a free account, your photostream will only display the last 200 photos you uploaded, 10 per page. If you have a Pro account, everything is displayed.”

 

Irfan Vocabulary:

        .jpg – definition from Wikipedia. 

 

Creative Commons Vocabulary:

        Attribution—Acknowledging or crediting the author or creator of work

 

Quick Start Guide

 

Flickr

  

Wesley Fryer’s Quick Start Guide to Flickr

  

Irfan

 

Go to Apps folder

1.        Click on Irfan

2.        Click on file, then Open

3.        Browse through your folders to find a photo and open it

4.        From the menu bar, click on ‘image’, then ‘resize/resample’

5.        In the new box that opens, you have a choice from several standard choices OR you can type over the pixel sizes

6.        Keep the “Preserve Aspect” ratio checked

7.        Click OK to resize

8.        Rename the resized photo and save as a .jpeg

  

Multimedia Resources

  

Irfan Tutorial (Flash)

Wikis in Plain English (Commoncraft video)

Creative Commons Presentation (presentation)

  

Assignment

  

Flickr

       

Searching and Saving

  

1. Take 10 minutes to Search Flickr.  Use the Advanced Search Feature and be sure to click “Only Search Within Creative Commons”
2. Find a photo you would like to upload to your blog.
3. Save it to your flash drive.
4. Extra Credit:  Upload the photo to your blog and be sure to add attribution.

    

Uploading a Photo

 

1. Log in to Flickr with your account.
2. Select one of your own photos or one provided on the shared drive.
3. Upload it to Flickr, add a description, tag it.
4. Extra Credit:  Try Editing the photo using Picnic.
5. Overachievers:  go to http://bighugelabs.com  and try one of the applications

 

Irfan

 

1. Open Irfan, and use one of your digital photos or one from the shared drive and compress the photo to 640 x 480.
2. Rename it and save it to your flash drive as a .jpeg.