Adding a little border, simple or exotic often adds a little love to even the dullest of all photos. You’ll almost immediate notice a difference when you see the same photo side by side with and without a border. Lately I have gotten on the ‘Frame my photo‘ bandwagon. And I must say the transition feels good. It feels better framed. No pun intended.
On flickr I usually put images that are of 500 pixels wide. In the past I’ve put images that are bigger but not anymore. Hence came the reason to make an action that was 500 pixels wide. I created 2 little actions for Flickr. They both scale your photos down to 500 px. One with black border and the other without.
Feel free to download the flickr 500 set (size 4kb) and put them to use on your flickr account or otherwise. They were created in PhotoShop CS4 and tested on Mac and Windows. Enjoy!
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Flickr has a somewhat secret algorithm that look at the uniqueness of photos. Its called Interestingness! Flickr describes it as follows:
Besides being a five syllable word suitable for tongue twisters, it is also an amazing new Flickr Feature.
There are lots of elements that make something ‘interesting’ (or not) on Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic content and stories are added to Flickr.
My interesting photos on Flickr are below. Enjoy.
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Tag your photos
We have talked about uploading photos & posting them to groups and searching photos. But Searching wouldn’t be half as effective if tagging photos were not done appropriately. Look at the photo below and tell me what comes to mind? The things that jump out at me are:
Green, Path, Tree so it would be good to add these tags while posting but it also helps to tag name of place, suburb, state, country and definitely map(geo-tagging) to help findability of your photos.
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Do you like taking photos? Do you have a Yahoo account? If the answer to the above are ‘yes‘ chances are you also have a Flickr account and post photos there. Yahoo lets you sign on to Flickr using your yahoo ID. My main weakness to Flickr is that there are lots of enthusiast photographers posting photos and discussions to better their skills and knowledge. Looking at other peoples photos often gives me a perspective into the photographers world of image composition, layout and execution of the process. Its very addictive and informative and caught unaware you can spend hours even before you know it. And this quest surely corroborates to heighten the photographic eye.
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If you have a flickr account you can make your own flickr galley to bring in a pool of images from your flickr.com account to a totally unrelated page on a different server(other than flickr). This will save you having to make many gallery pages. All you need is a populated flickr account. Some rudimentary HTML and CSS skills!
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Finally I decided to start a Flickr Group for Tasmanaia. I have loads of photos from my trip to Tasmania and there wasn’t another that showed much of Tasmania.
Please join the group and comment away (nicely 
and if you have photos from Tasmania by all means add ‘em to the pool. This would also be a place where I can hopefully bring about some awareness of the huge logging that goes on in Tasmania. Almost unnoticed! Maybe, just maybe, people will think twice before they go falling trees of the world heritage area down-under!
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Adding a little border, simple or exotic often adds a little love to even the dullest of all photos. You’ll almost immediate notice a difference when you see the same photo side by side with and without a border. Lately I have gotten on the ‘Frame my photo‘ bandwagon. And I must say the transition feels good. It feels better framed. No pun intended.
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