What is the purpose of Flickr?

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. It allows you to upload photos and share, edit, organize, and geotag them, as well as create your own galleries and develop image-based projects.

Can I use Flickr photos for free?

Skip Flickr and use the internet’s largest collection of beautiful, free to use photos. Unlike Flickr photos, every image is high quality, free to use, and easy to download.

Does Flickr own my photos?

According to Flickr’s terms and conditions page, even after uploading photos to the site, the user retains all intellectual property rights to their content, including the copyright on their photos and videos. …

Is Flickr a good way to share photos?

Flickr groups are a great place to share your ideas and photos with other like-minded members and, who knows, you might make some friends! It’s easy to proudly share the photos you love. Flickr offers a variety of ways to share images from your computer, including sending them to social media…

Can you see who viewed your Flickr photos?

So no, there’s no way to know who is viewing your images on Flickr, unless the viewer interacts with the photo in some way (comment, fave, tag, note, add to gallery, invite to group, etc.), or personally tells you they visited it.

What are the benefits of Flickr Pro?

Perks of a Flickr Pro subscription

Unlimited Storage.
Ad-Free Browsing.
Advanced Stats.
Partner Discounts.
Stats on your photo views.
Ad-free browsing and sharing on Flickr.
Desktop Uploadr for automatically backing-up images.
Ability to use specific commercial activity to promote your business and products.

Does anyone still use Flickr?

No, but really there is still a place for Flickr but without a vision and parent company that wants to make it something it’ll never do much more than being the digital cardboard box for us and our grandkids will see it as the digital equivalent to photos in a box in the attic.

How much does a Flickr account cost?

Flickr offers a free photo/video cloud storage plan and paid plans for $5.99 (USD) a month or $49.99 (USD) a year which averages $4.17 (USD) a month.

Why is Flickr dead?

A few months after their acquisition of Flickr, SmugMug is officially restricting the upload capacity of all free Flickr accounts. Instead of continuing to offer the astounding terabyte of storage like they have since 2013, the new limit will be slashed to a mere 1,000 photos per free account.

Do professional photographers use Flickr?

The last harsh reality is that Flickr is associated with amateurs. While some professional photographers do post to the site, the overwhelming majority of users are amateurs. Flickr is a great photo sharing tool and the web “home” of many camera wielders around the world.

Can you contact someone on Flickr?

Click on a photo published by the person you want to contact. Click on the person’s name. Click the FlickrMail icon. Compose your message and click Send This.

How do I find someone’s Flickr account?

The default is “Search everyone’s photos.” But you can click ‘more search types’ and choose “Flickr members”. So type the person’s user name there. If they’ve set their account to be searchable, you should be able to find it.