Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Let us show you why! Flickr is a way to get your photos and videos to the people who matter to you. And since basic accounts are free, there's no reason not to explore further...
Upload
Upload from your desktop, send by email, or use your cameraphone.
Edit
Get rid of red eye, crop a photo, or get creative with fonts and effects!
Organize
Use collections, sets, and tags to organize your photos and videos.
Share
Use groups and privacy controls to share your photos and videos.
Maps
Share where your photos and videos were taken, and see photos and videos taken near you.
Make Stuff
Greeting cards, photo books, framed prints, Target pick up, DVDs, etc.
Keep in Touch
Get updates from family and friends.
How to Upload Photos
There are 5 simple ways to upload your photos and videos to Flickr
*via the Flickr Uploadr (available for both PC and Mac)
*via iPhoto, Aperture, or Windows XP plugins
*via our upload web page
*via email
* via various free third-party desktop programs
And if you're not near a computer? Snap a photo or video on your mobile phone, email it to Flickr, and have it appear on the site in seconds.
Editing your photos is easy with our partner, Picnik. Get rid of red eye, crop a photo or get creative with loads of different effects! Start by clicking the "Edit Photo" button in the toolbar above your photo.
If this is the first time you've clicked on the "Edit Photos" button, you will be asked to pass through the step of authorizing Picnik to load up your photos. (You'll only have to do this once.) After you've authorized Picnik, edit your photo to your heart's content! Then just click "Save" and you're all done.
Organize
Sets are a grouping of photos and videos that you can organize around a certain theme, such as Our Hawaii Trip. You can use them to highlight your favorite photos and videos, or make an album that is only pictures of your dog, or of photos and videos you've taken with a particular camera.
Collections are a grouping of Sets (or other Collections) so you can organize around grander themes, such as People, Travels, or by year (2007, 2006, etc).
The Organizr is where both Collections and Sets are created. It also allows you to perform common tasks on large batches of photos and videos, such as tagging, changing permissions, or editing timestamps. It’s really rather handy.
Share
With millions of users, and hundreds of millions of photos and videos, Flickr is an amazing photographic community, with sharing at its heart. Groups are a way for people to come together around a common interest, be it a love of small dogs, a passion for food, a recent wedding, or an interest in exploring photographic techniques. And if you can’t find a group which interests you, it’s super-easy to start your own. Groups can either be public, public (invite only), or completely private. Every group has a pool for sharing photos and videos and a discussion board for talking.
Privacy is a common area for concern on the web, but on Flickr it’s easy to control who you share your images with. For each of your photos and videos on Flickr you can set:
*privacy level, which determines who can see your image
*usage license, so your copyrights are protected
*content type, flag your photos and videos as either photos and videos, artwork/illustrations, or screenshots
*safety level, so other members only see images within their specified comfort zones
All information in this posting came directly from: http://www.flickr.com/tour/
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