What is it?
Flickr is an online photo-management tool, that contains 100 million photographs. Flickr provides image sharing capabilities to a community of users.
How does this service allow you to manage your photographs and videos?
- You can Upload images from many locations (i.e, email, iPhoto, Flickr webpage, etc.)
- You can Edit your images by cropping, adding text, etc.
- You can Organize your images by creating collections or sets of similar photographs,and add timestamps to them.
- You can Share your images with others and add privacy attributes such as a Creative Commons license agreement.
- You can attach geographically Map your photos to the locations.
- You can Create digital stories,photo books, image cards, ImageKind prints.
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