Welcome to the session on Flickr, the popular photo hosting service. In the next hour, we will set up an account on flickr and look at some of the interesting features on this service

Step 1: Go to the flickr site

Step 2: Sign up for an account.

Note: Not that Flickr belongs to Yahoo!, you can use your yahoo username to sign up to Flickr.

Step 3: Once you are registered you can use the upload tool to bring in some pictures to you flickr account. Click on the “Upload Photos” link.

Step 4: This is the upload page. You can select upto six pictures at a time.

From Flickr’s FAQs

When you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 20MB worth of photos each calendar month. This is not a storage limit, but a bandwidth (or throughput) limit. At the end of each calendar month, your bandwidth allowance is reset to zero again.

Step 5: Once Flickr uploads the pictures, it will give you this page. Here you can add titles and descriptions to you photos. You can also add tags. Tags are helpful in locating a picture. For example here you see a picture of some people looking at a safety exhibition. Check out the tags I am using.

Step 6: After you are done, flickr shows you the recent uloaded pictures. Now you click on any picture here.

Step 7: Once you select a picture, you will see some tools on the right hand side. Click on the “ADD NOTE” icon. You select an area of the photo and some description. If some one else comes to your picture, whenever they move the mouse over the highlighted area, they will see the description you put in.