How do I upload entire folders into Flickr?

[Pie 1]

This is true. But if you've got time and the money it's worth backing things up on DVD as well... just in case.

Well yes, but they are definately not infallible either.

Just the other week I was putting together a selection of image examples for a client & a couple of the images I wanted were from about 2003/4 when I was still on film & scanned stuff onto DVD.
A few of the DVD's have started to go brownish & take ages to read & display file names & I couldn't get one of the images I wanted off in the end - wouldn't open or copy on my tower, my laptop or Mrs Pie's iMac.
They're all decent brand discs too - Fujifilm TDK etc, & had been stored in a cases & maybe accessed 1 or 2 times during the years.

 

[Refused as fuck]

What about web storage space? Is there anything free that has sufficient space?

Flickr is best value, IMO. HTH. ASAP.

 

[trashpony]

I put everything on flickr. I've been burgled twice in the last two years and if it hadn't been for flickr, I'd have lost all my photos. Worth it IMO

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

TBH, Minnie it might be worth just buying a small external HD. You'll be able to pick up a 60GB one for about £30-40.

Much more effective way of storing & accessing than CD/DVD's

I'm sure I discussed this before and various people thought I'd encounter problems. Guy at Zen I spoke to yesterday also suggested I buy one of those pen drives but he wasn't sure I'd not run into compatibility/other issues being on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with Windows 2000

As for burning onto dics, I seem to have forgotten how to do it

 

[Refused as fuck]

Oh, FFS. I'll do it for you.

 

[paolo]

Only the original size is the term flickr use? But you may be correct. Myself I am more inclined to believe that all photos are tampered with to bring them into line with flickr own standards whatever they maybe

The original is unchanged. This isn't subjective. This isn't something that varies depending on each person's 'point of view'. You can test this yourself and prove it. If you don't believe me, try it. It will take you five minutes.

 

[stowpirate]

The original is unchanged. This isn't subjective. This isn't something that varies depending on each person's 'point of view'. You can test this yourself and prove it. If you don't believe me, try it. It will take you five minutes.

I have just tried what you suggest and it was identical apart from the date. However it is not as simple as that as I have in the past had problems with colour space being modified. It appeared to be specific to some ShowFoto photo edited files saved in jpeg and uploaded to flickr. They would appear ok on my computer when displayed in either gimp or showfoto but in the browser from flickr they would have an extreme colour cast. This suggests flickr is sometimes modifying the file saved from showfoto.

 

[paolo]

I have just tried what you suggest and it was identical apart from the date. However it is not as simple as that as I have in the past had problems with colour space being modified. It appeared to be specific to some ShowFoto photo edited files saved in jpeg and uploaded to flickr. They would appear ok on my computer when displayed in either gimp or showfoto but in the browser from flickr they would have an extreme colour cast. This suggests flickr is sometimes modifying the file saved from showfoto.

Or it suggests that there is a difference in display methodology between the browser you used and those other applications. Which would be consistent with the controlled test you've just done, I've done, the flickr documentation, and indeed your recollection of previous discussions.

I'm done on debating what you believe once happened. If you can ever reproduce this reprocessing, i.e. end up with a different file, do start a thread. Lots of people, including myself, use flickr to back up originals, so if you can prove it, it would be very significant.

 

[Refused as fuck]

This happened to me once. I'd messed around with the colour space in Photoshop. I changed it back to sRGB and everything was right with the world once again.

 

[paolo]

This happened to me once. I'd messed around with the colour space in Photoshop. I changed it back to sRGB and everything was right with the world once again.

Yep, exactly the same for me.